Eric Allen's Page

About Me/Us:

Computer/UI/graphics pro, lightly enlightened, esoteric, exoteric, at home everywhere, nowhere. Took the "B" vow, forgot about it.
Kites, kites, kites.
Words, music, art, motion. Gamelan, t'ai chi.
Leo Sun, Scorpio rising, Pisces Moon.
Earth, fire, air, water, spirit. Anthroposophy, Golden Dawn, Tibetan Buddhism.
Infinite dimensions of infinity-absolute nothing/absolute infinity. Smallest scales to largest. String theory. Pattern languages, generative sequences.
Married-awesome wife, 3 great kids, former national champion kiteflyer, live in Portland, Oregon, work for Hollywood Video doing maintenance programming-interests include gamelan, Baraka, earth-based & eastern spirituality.
What else? Just ask...

Relationship Status:

Married

Movies

Baraka, 2001, qatsi trilogy, Blue Velvet, Blade Runner, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Apocalypse Now!, Wax: or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees, La Jetee, Nightmare Before Christmas, Dark Crystal, Brazil, Baby Snakes, Solyaris

Television

Daily Show, South Park, Avatar, What's My Line, Mr. Meaty, Justice League Unlimited, Aeon Flux, Liquid TV, C-SPAN, Twin Peaks, Dead Like Me

Music

gamelan, ambient, nature sounds, north Indian classical, Passion, obscure avant-garde-Glass, Wendy Carlos, Webbed Hand, Laurie Anderson, tibetan chanting, Steve Roach, glitch, Michael Stearns, Kronos Quartet, Harold Budd, Brand X, Loren Nerell, Fripp's Soundscapes, Harry Partch; mainstream: Tool, Crimson, Rush, Pink Floyd, Zappa, Peter Gabriel, Orb, Tori Amos, Babe the Blue Ox, Hendrix, Mickey Hart, Rage, Gentle Giant

Books

Snow Crash, Sprawl trilogy, White Light, A Pattern Language/Timeless Way of Building, Shockwave Rider, Bhagavad-Gita, Tao Te Ching, Book of Thoth, Don Juan series, Dhammapada, I Ching, Knowledge of Higher Worlds, Bardo Thodol, Worldchanging, Whole Earth Catalog, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, Dune, Illusions, Be Here Now, Synergetics, Golden Dawn

Heroes

Siddhartha Gautama, Mohandas Gandhi, Padmasambhava, Lao Tzu, Albert Einstein, Nelson Mandela, Tenzin Gyatso, Rev. Martin Luther King, Aung San Suu Kyi

Website:

http://ericallen.x10hosting.com