Insatiably curious and restless but relatively content people. The young at heart. Sincere animal lovers. Fellow artists. Absurdists. Troublemakers. Lollygaggers. Informed anarchists. People with interesting guilt complexes. People who recycle their shopping or plastic bags. Quirkyalones. Non-haters (as in people who are not "haters"). Cute Brazilian girls who are fluent in Spanish. Vegetarians. Vegetarians who like to ride bicycles. Simpsons, Portishead, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Nick Drake aficionados. Fellow cynical humanists, pessimistic optimists, and active pessimists. Charleston enthusiasts! People who think humbleness is sexy but don't confuse it with a lack of self-confidence. Individuals who think public transportation is inherently sexy. People who at some level really believe and understand what John Lennon was getting at when he sang in "Strawberry Fields" that "nothing is real." Those who feel music is like oxygen.
Radiohead, 80's pop and dance, Fela Kuti, classic Motown, Grupo Alturas, Lhasa, Lucha Reyes, Fuga, The Beatles, Howlin' Wolf, Dengue Fever, The Doors, Rolling Stones, AC/DC, The Phenomenauts, The Arcade Fire, Cat Power, Tin Hat, Dick Dale and his Deltones, Curtis Mayfield, Nada Surf, Nirvana, Mulatu Astataque, Talking Heads, The B-52s, Robert Johnson, The Cramps, Bob Marley and the Wailers, The Ramones, Tool, Portishead, Neil Diamond, Artur Rubinstein's interpretations of Chopin, Antonin Dvorak, Brahms' Hungarian dances, The Ventures, Chow Nasty, James Brown, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, Bill Evans, New Order, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Air, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jorge Bem, Pateando Tu Kara (a Peruvian punk band), Los Kipus, Susana Baca, The Vanishing, Nick Drake, Cholo Berrocal, Bob Dylan, Thievery Corporation, Rage Against The Machine, Franz Ferdinand, The Deftones, Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66, Muddy Waters, Art Tatum, Sonny Rollins, Jose Jose (yes!)
A Clockwork Orange, Night and Fog, Hearts and Minds, The Corporation, Fight Club, March of the Penguins, When the Levees Broke, Harold and Maude, Waking Life, Pan's Labyrinth, The Bridge, C.S.A. (Confederate States of America), Good Night, and Good Luck, Before Sunset & Before Sunrise, Annie Hall, La Jetee, Lost in Translation, Double Indemnity, Betrayed, Requiem For A Dream, I Am A Sex Addict, Phantom Limb (and other movies by Jay Rosenblatt, while I'm at), Capote, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Stranglelove (see a pattern here!?), anything by Frederick Wiseman and almost anything by Satyajit Ray, Chinatown, City of God, The Maltese Falcon, The Bicycle Thief, Sunset Boulevard, Mulholland Drive, Amelie, Ghost World, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Happiness, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Sideways, Sin City, The Motorcycle Diaries, Talk to Her, The Dreamers, Amadeus, Dawn of the Dead (the remake), Stranger Than Paradise, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Donnie Darko, A History of Violence, Boyz In the Hood, Spellbound (the documentary)...I could go on and on!
I'm reading "The Transformation" by Juliana Spahr, "Selected Poems" by Pablo Neruda, translated by Ben Belitt and "Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto" by Anneli Rufus
Bill Hicks. Frida Kahlo. Tahir Shah. Charles Bukowski. John Coltrane. Fela Kuti. Joseph Campbell. Emma Goldman. Ralph Nader. Mis papas.