Psychology, Music, Creativity, Meditation, Laughter, Honesty, Art, Change, Travel, The Good Life.
People who rock, people who roll. People with creative pursuits, interested in the odd and unusual and who are curious about themselves and others.
Patti Smith, Jeff Buckley, Kinski, Shiner, Wolfmother, Burning Brides, Freedy Johnston, The Supersuckers, Motorhead, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Gene Pitney, Donna Summer, The Who, Death Cab for Cutie, Turbonegro, Leonard Cohen, Janes Addiction, Elliott Smith, Led Zeppelin, Robert Johnson, Baden Powell, AC/DC, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, The Velvet Underground, Susanna Baca, The Pretenders, Bob Dylan, Love and Rockets, Bauhaus, Einstuzende Neubauten, David Bowie, Moreno, The Shocker, My dad Kenny Rankin and my step-dad, Jorge Calderon and many many more.
Goodfellas, Blade Runner
Kill Your Television, but if you choose not to, watch: HBO stuff and My Name is Earl, The Office, Lost, House. But really people...turn off your TV.
Currently reading: "The Tibetan Book of the Dead," "The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music 1972-1995," and "Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death." Favorites are...Dracula, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Lovely Bones, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Chollera, Wuthering Heights, Charlotte's Web, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk.
You at your best and worst.