There’s buzz these days on sleep cycles and waking techniques that are increasingly useful to the growing number of sleep deprived/zombified Americans. Let me throw my experience on the subject of sleep into the ring. I’ve become very, very good at falling asleep in the past six months. What is my secret, you ask?

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My brother’s new gallery opening is in a week or so. I believe it’s his third solo showing. This after being out of college like 2-3 years only. His work is amazing, much of it larger than life. Check out three examples. The two on the left are new, the one on the right is from the previous show. I keep begging him for work, but that’s kind of demeaning I think.

His show opens November 5 at Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art in Santa Monica.

1. J.R.R. Tolkien - You’re under a rock
2. Milton Erickson - unconventional therapist, father of modern clinical hypnotherapy
3. Jimi Hendrix - people love his lead work, but, it’s his rhythm work that is really the coolest. If I was fractionally that good…
4. Galileo or Copernicus (I feel bad mentioned Galileo without him) - the earth isn’t at the center. Plus he duked it out with the Catholic Church
5. Darwin or Freud - it’s a toss up, who has shaped our understanding more in the past 150 years?

1. Steve Vai - guitar virtuoso
2. Richard Bandler - NLP - co-founder/wacky guy
3. Steve Jobs - Yay Apple
4. Albert Ellis - one of the primary driving forces behind the creation of cognitive behavioral therapy
5. Derren Brown - he looks to me like a cross between David Blaine, a stage hypnotist, and an NLP student

Here are five books I’m currently reading. It’s hard to keep track, I think I’m abandoning one. I’m on a hypnosis and simple living kick right now.

1. Training Trances, John Overdurf & Julie Silverthorn
2. Monsters and Magical Sticks: Or, There’s No Such Thing As Hypnosis, Steven Heller
3. The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
4. 30 Days to a Simpler Life, Connie Cox & Cris Evatt
5. The Simple Living Guide, Janet Luhrs

I signed a 12 month lease on an apartment this week. At the end of the month, I’ll be starting my move from our rented 2000 square foot house into my 741 square foot one bedroom apartment. I’ve been preparing for the past few months by ditching all the stuff that is useless to me, dropping most of it off at Goodwill and the library. I’m getting much closer to my goal of owning a modest amount of belongings, rather than many which I rarely use. More soon about why I’m choosing to move.