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Name: Marco
Country: United States
State: Nevada
Birthday: 5/11/1967
Gender: Male
Interests: Verbal car-Wrecks, Creative Uprisings, Discovery, Burning Sheets, And The Endless Drift Toward Unknowns.
Expertise: Forgetting myself. Setting things on fire. Impersonating My Dreams.
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Entertainment
Message: message me
Member Since:
11/8/2001
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| The last 2 years have been INCREDIBLE.
I suppose you can say I've been too busy living my life to sit down and write about it.
That girl I met at the Flaming Lips concert (see post below).... I am marrying her. We've been together now for 24 months and every second we spend together is a blissful eternity of no-time.
 Heather & I met under pretty unique circumstances. No need to go into details, but we were mutual healing forces and stabilizing agents. Together we've become powerful manifestors. We live in a big house with a heated pool on 1/2 acre lot 5 minutes from the strip. We enjoy a richness of friendships, fulfillment, and fun that I had not known for years. Natural partners, our lives blend in energetic ways, helping streamline the details and multiply the adventures. We will marry on April of this coming year, after a long engagement (I proposed in January). The ceremony will take place on the seaside cliffs of central California, and then I will whisk her away to a honeymoon at an undisclosed location.
Workwise, it's been an uphill challenge since the beginning of 2008. The scramble factor is now at an all-time high just to make ends meet. It's been a depressing year & 3/4 of ever-greater financial frustrations. However, as much as we've surfed the Red Line, at least I can proudly claim that I've not incurred an extra cent of debt, and that we've been able to hold on to our home, our lifestyle (minus a few extra nights out per week), and our sanity. And we are far ahead of the average American Joe, who unfortunately is $10,000 in debt, losing his house, and living in fear & frustration. So, even though my plan to build my kingdom is temporarily stymied by the economic climate, we aren't doing too badly at all.
My Cancun home finally sold this year as well! And the financial troubles wouldn't exist at all if it wasn't for the fact that the buyer (whom we financed) stopped making payments on the house. So wI sent my mother down to Cancun to deal with lawyers & real-estate sharks. Hopefully this situation will clear up soon. It will be nice to have those funds become available, so we may use part of it to pay for the wedding.
The art of manifestation is tricky. you have to do several steps in recurring fashion, do them right, do them with your full heart & intention, or else the wheel stops turning and you're back to square one. I'm learning much about my financial & business savvy these past two years; I took on Wealth-Building as a new art form through which I can express myself. The learning curve has been quite steep, but it's nothing I can't manage. It's simply another form of Magic (will-directed circumstance).
Heather & I are trying out new things. My entrepreneurial impulse has been held back a bit by the slow economy, but we are still up to the challenge of growing our business endeavors. It's just gonna take more time.
There are plans, as always, for the future. But the future seems to be ever around the next corner. Meanwhile, we enjoy every ounce of the present. When all you have is today, you make it last a while, right?
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| "My certainty overcomes your doubt." -James Ray
"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." -Bernard Meltzer
"The last thing a man wants to do is usually the last thing he does." -Buffalo Bill
"You can't break the Laws Of Nature, but you can be civilly disobedient." -Dr. Tiki | | |
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If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all your sexual wanting
will look, lift your face
and say
............"like this"
When someone mentions the gracefulness
of the nightsky, climb up on the roof
and dance and say
............"like this?"
If anyone wants to know what Spirit is
or what God's fragrance means,
lean your head toward him or her,
keep your face there close,
............"like this"
When someone quotes the old poetic image
about clouds gradually uncovering the moon,
slowly loosen knot by knot the strings
of your robe.
............"like this?"
If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead
don't try to explain the miracle,
kiss me on the lips,
............"like this. Like this"
When someone asks what it means
to die for love, point
............here
If someone asks how tall I am, frown
and measure with your finger the space
between the creases of your forehead
................this tall
The soul sometimes leaves the body, then returns.
When someone does not believe that
walk back into my house
............"like this"
When lovers moan
they are telling our story
............"like this"
I am a sky where spirits live.
Stare into this deepening blue
while the breeze tells a secret
............"like this"
When someone asks what there is to do,
light a candle in his hands
............"like this"
How did Joseph come to Jacob?
............"like this"
How did Jacob's sight return?
............"like this"
A little wind cleans the eyes
............"like this"
When I return from a faraway place,
I'll put just my head around the edge
of the door to surprise you
............"like this"
-----------------RUMI-----------------
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|  (photo courtesy of the Flaming Lips website)
... A promotion concert, believe it or not. I had to go to Speedee Mart and purchase an 18-pk of Miller Lite (YEEECCCCCH) to obtain two free tickets to what ended up being the *best*fucking*concert* I've seen here in Vegas. And since I work as a spotlight operator at many, many concerts, I must assure you I would not throw those kind of qualifiers around too flippantly.
We sang along to "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots". We rocked out to "Tangerine". We marveled at the surreal video background. We cried when Wayne Coyne played Taps on an electric bugle in honor of the fallen soldiers in Iraq. We screamed in agreement when he snubbed GW Bush. We wore silly hats and pushed giant balloons around while confetti cannons filled the air with streamers. We looked up at the balconies of the Playboy Mansion Club where everyone was peeking down at the extremely weird (and fun) concert. We smelled cannabis, patchouli, and freaky sweat in the air and avoided falling into the pool, located conveniently in the middle like a big Zen reflection garden.
Who's we? Me. And the other people at the show. I went solo, knowing that no matter the lack of company I was going to enjoy the show immensely.
But I did not stay alone for too long. I made a new friend. And we sang together into my air-microphone to their cover of "what a wonderful world" and laughed as we almost fell into the pool. She made mention of "those little messages from the universe which remind us that we aren't perfect". I replied by reminding her of "those other little messages from the universe which remind us that even if not perfect, we are just right." We were having so much fun we decided to go out for tequila and dancing afterward. I still haven't slept.
The (re)discovery of the evening: I am never alone, the whole Universe is my constant companion. So long as I keep my heart open.
But now I have an 18-pk of Miller Lite (YEEECCCCH) that I don't know what to do with. ~:o)
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