mental health, Fine art, live music, festivals, sustainability, mysticism, art and healing, art therapy, paganism, shamanism, DIY, peace punk, (fnord), heart centered culture, community activism, Goddess spirituality, natural living, sexual minority issues, multiculturalism, human rights, chaos, not taking things too seriously.
people. For things.
Jah Wobble, Ozomatli, Santana, Boogie Shoes, Outkast, Barry White, Digital Underground, G. Love & Special Sauce, The Sea and Cake, Archer Prewitt, DJ Spooky, DJ Krush, Talvin Singh, T. Rex, Jethro Tull, Gorillaz, Rasputina, Love and Rockets, Nitzer Ebb, Skunk Anansie, Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle, Rape and Honey, Dahlia, System of a Down, Gwar, Siouxie and the Banshees, NoMeansNo, Fugazi, Leonard Cohen, Ani DiFranco, Edward Ka-Spel, Venus Beads, Type O Negative, Danzig, Sevendust, Chris Cornell, Christian Death, Diamanda Galas, Front 242, KMFDM, Einsturzende Neibauten, Coil, Current 93, Marc Almond, My Bloody Valentine, Lush, Slowdive, Sonic Youth, Tool, A Perfect Circle, King Crimson, Bauhaus, Stabbing Westward, Spiritualized, Spacemen 3, The Fixx, Xymox, Blur, Ride, Happy Mondays, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, Tom Waits, Meat Beat Manifesto, PJ Harvey, Portishead, Patricia Barber, Tori Amos, Pet, Poe, Rose Polenzani, Green Circles, King Black Acid, the Sensualists, Surrounded by Ninjas, Artis the Spoonman, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Dead Can Dance, Lisa Gerard, Brendan Perry, Wesley Willis, Lard, Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, Dead Milkmen, Kitchens of Distinction, John Lee Hooker, Ella Fitzgerald, Coltrane, B.B. King, Branford Marsalis, Charlie Parker, Sun Ra, Art Blakey, Bootsy Collins, George Clinton & the P-Funk All Stars, Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, Missy Elliott, Wu-Tang Clan, Common, Biz Markie, Cypress Hill, Living Colour, Digable Planets, Gil-Scott Heron, Plastikman, Dan Bell, The Orb, Crash Worship, Hardfloor, Rob Gee, Beastie Boys, Luscious Jackson, Orbital, Spicelab, Kenny Larkin, Harthouse, Future Sound of London...to name just a few.
too many to list at the moment. Most recent: Delicatessen
The Simpsons.
Chuck Palahniuk, Ursula K. LeGuin, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, Peter Straub, Jemiah Jefferson, Harlan Ellison, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Neal Gaiman, Jeff Landis, Roger Zelazny, Stanislaw Lem, Poul Anderson, Neal Stephenson, Philip K. Dick, Richard Matheson, David Brin, Robert Heinlein, J.G. Ballard, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Anne Waldman, Lawrence Ferlenghetti, Diane di Prima, Alen Ginsberg, d.a. levy, Jack Kerouac, Janet Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Sapphire, bell hooks, Kathy Acker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, e.e. cummings, T.S. Eliot, Rilke, Maggie Estep, Justin Chin, Hunter S. Thompson, Nick Bantock, Susan Faludi, Lillian Faderman, Upton Sinclair, Studs Terkel, William Upski Wimsatt, Peanuts, Lynda Barry, The Onion, Barbara Ganim, Cathy Malchiodi, SARK, Thomas Moore, Ram Dass, C.G. Jung, Irvin Yalom, Viktor Frankl, A. Crowley, Dion Fortune, Nigel Pennick, Piers Vitebsky, Michael Harner, Daniel Pinchbeck, Mircea Eliade, Joseph Campbell, Madeline L'Engle, Ursula K. LeGuin, Edward Morris, Dan Raphael, Hazel Dodge, Alice Olds, Walt Curtis, Benjamin Fisher, Luke Warm Water, Terri Lynne Hudson, Leanne Grabel, Chas. S. Bernstein, Noam Paco Gaster, James Gautier, Naomi Seraphina, Zoe Trope, Turiya Autry, Maria McCray, Godhaven Ink, Lunch, The Fence, any other friends &/or their zines I didn't mention, me. ;)
the only real heroes are people who did what needed to be done in the moment.