If you are using Internet Explorer 6, you may not have the best Bebo experience. Please consider upgrading.
Paul Matsumoto
- Male
- from United States
- I am Single
- Last active: 1/11/10
- www.bebo.com/PaulM46357
Advertisement
close About Me
- Me, Myself, and I
- Artist, songwriter, former backup guitarist, grade school teacher, minister, human rights activist, investment banker, fruit picker, truck driver, rancher, counselor, poet, screenwriter.
- Music
- A FINE FRENZY, AMY WINEHOUSE, ANI DIFRANCO, ANNA NALICK, THE ARCADE FIRE, AUTOMATIC LOVELETTER, BECK, BEN FOLDS FIVE,
BLACK RAIN, THE CARDIGANS, CAT POWER, CHANTAL KREVIAZUK, CHICK COREA, COHEED AND CAMBRIA, CORRINE BAILEY RAE, THE CURE, DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, DEATHCAB FOR CUTIE, ELLIOT SMITH, EVANESCENCE, FALLOUT BOY, FEIST, FIONA APPLE, FIVE FOR FIGHTING, FOO FIGHTERS, THE FRAY, FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND, GOOD CHARLOTTE, GOO GOO DOLLS, GREEN DAY,
GUNS N' ROSES, IMOGEN HEAP, INCUBUS, ISAAC HAYES, JANIS IAN, JANIS JOPLIN,
JEFF BUCKLEY, JIMI HENDRIX, JOSS STONE, KATE BUSH, KINGS OF LEON, KT TUNSTALL, LED ZEPPELIN, LEONARD COHEN, LILY ALLEN, LINKIN PARK, LISA MARIE PRESLEY,
LIZ PHAIR, LOU REED, MAXIMO PARK, MAZZY STAR, MY
CHEMICAL ROMANCE, NICK DRAKE, NINA SIMONE, OCEAN COLOUR
SCENE, NINE INCH NAILS, NIRVANA, NORAH JONES, PATTI SMITH, PEARL JAM, PINK, PJ HARVEY, THE POSTAL SERVICE, RACHAEL YAMAGATA, RADIOHEAD... - Films
- 21 Grams, Across the Universe, Amadeus, Amelie, Atonement, August Rush, Becoming Jane, Being John Malkovich, Being There, Big Fish, Blade Runner, Braveheart, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bridge to Terabithia, Casablanca, Children of Men, Chocolat, Closer, City of God, Crash, Cries and Whispers, Dangerous Liaisons, Defending Your Life, Finding Neverland, Garden State, Groundhog Day, Harold and Maude, Hotel Rwanda, Into the Wild, Juno, Kill Bill, LA Confidential, Leaving Las Vegas, Lions for Lambs, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Lost In Translation, Love Actually, Moulin Rouge, Mulholland Drive, Pan's Labyrinth, Pay It Forward, Phenomenon, Pride and Prejudice, Pulp Fiction, Raging Bull, Reservoir Dogs, Running on Empty, Say Anything, Sense and Sensibilty, Serendipity, Seven Samurai, Shakespeare in Love, Sideways, Sliding Doors, Taxi Driver, Tender Mercies, The Constant Gardener, The Departed, The Piano, The Princess Bride, The Last Samurai, The Matrix, The Seventh Seal, The Shawshank Redemption..
- Books
- T.S. Eliot, Ayn Rand, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Heinlein, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, Ralph Ellison, Dan Brown, ee cummings, Malcolm X, Ernest Hemingway, Ken Kesey, C.S. Lewis, Oscar Wilde, L.Ron Hubbard, Harper Lee, Farley Mowat, William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Aldous Huxley, William S. Burroughs, J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen Hawking, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Charles Bukowski.
- Quote
- "EVERYBODY HAS A SECRET WORLD INSIDE OF THEM. ALL OF THE
PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, I MEAN EVERYBODY. NO MATTER HOW DULL
AND BORING THEY ARE ON THE OUTSIDE, INSIDE THEM THEY'VE
ALL GOT UNIMAGINABLE, MAGNIFICENT, WONDERFUL, STUPID,
AMAZING WORLDS. NOT JUST ONE WORLD. HUNDREDS OF THEM.
THOUSANDS MAYBE."
-NEIL GAIMAN - Blog
- http:///www.paulmatsumoto.com
- My Links
- http://www.ArtistsSolutions.com
http://www.myspace.com/raulkono
https://twitter.com/paulmatsumoto
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pr...
http://www.last.fm/user/raulkono
close Blog
-
Has Anybody Seen My Good Friend Isaac?
I have to say I haven't found a way to say goodbye to my good friend, Isaac.
David Porter, his long time friend and songwriting partner, would say,
"...it's hard to really tell you what's in my heart."
Yes...it is.
The world knew Isaac as a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, a Grammy and Academy Award winning
composer and musician, an icon of innovative soul and funk, a truly creative force as songwriter,
singer, producer, and actor.
Black Moses, to many.
To many others and myself he was affectionately, Bubba Lee.
To everyone, whether it was the first time you met or a lifelong relationship, he was a friend.
A man truly beloved by everyone.
And the one fact which eclipsed this, was the genuine caring and love he expressed
for each individual he met that carried far beyond the initial encounter.
For myself, to say Isaac was also a tremendous humanitarian would not begin to touch
what was in his heart and what he expressed with his work.
As a spokesman for the World Literacy Crusade, he more than campaigned for literacy and change,
he directly helped create it, opening dozens of literacy centers throughout the world.
(Indeed, he was made an honorary King in Ghana for his work in opening schools
and literacy centers in that country). His tireless work in the field of human rights
with the One Campaign, Youth for Human Rights International, The Shepherd Foundation,
and his own Isaac Hayes Foundation would be just a glimpse of this soul who gave so much.
I lived ten years in his hometown Memphis, a town I grew to love in an immense way.
Memphis. The Home of the Blues. The Birthplace of Rock & Roll. Beale Street.
Graceland. Stax. Sun. The finest barbeque in the world!
And sadly, where Dr. King passed from this world-- a fact which
has never left the city's collective consciousness.
Where streets of extreme poverty and extreme wealth still run side by side.
Where those with bright futures mingle with those without, with each group always
keenly aware of the other.
Despite all this, it was easily understood raising literacy was key to effective change.
With literacy true ability could be gained. Without it endless despair,
drugs and criminality were a simple fact of life.
I had the privilege of working with Isaac in building literacy centers in Memphis and
in introducing groundbreaking techniques to its school system. When you begin to
understand the heartbreak of high school students struggling to read at second
grade level, by rule, not the exception, then you can also begin to understand and share the
joy of completely changed individuals, by rule, not the exception, when given the tools of
how to study and learn. Multiply this by hundreds, no, thousands of kids of all ages
who have learned to read and study for the first time and you will begin to understand
what this meant to their dreams. And Isaac's dream. And indeed, all are our dreams.
They say the measure of a man can be seen by his effect on those around him.
Over the years after meeting with, talking with, walking with, laughing with his
family members, his hundreds of musician friends, business friends,
mayors and ministers, society's finest and society's forgotten,
all who were touched by this man,
I can say also, it's really hard to tell you what's in my heart.
There is simply no way to say goodbye, my friend.
You've never left us.0 Comments 187 weeks
close Games
close Education and Work
Education Info
- College:
- University of California at Davis
Political Science/ Philosophy - College:
- American Saint Hill Organization
Class VI Case Supervisor
Work Info
- Employer:
- Artists Solutions
- Position:
- Owner & President
- City / Town:
- San Francisco, New York, London
close The Wall
close Comments
start a conversation