Smelling flowers, growing flowers, not killing the flowers I try to grow, raising the next generation, patchouli, exploring kindness, sometimes getting kindness right, loving people, urban living, eating pies and cakes.
Alan Pierson
Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, The Floating Men, Todd Rundgren, Steve Earl, The Doors, Johnny Cash, Todd Snider, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Lucinda Williams, kd Lang, David Crowder Band, Lyle Lovett, Zeppelin, XTC, Flaming Lips, Janis Joplin, Roger Miller. Do I HAVE to say The Beatles? Is it required? Well, of course, The Beatles. There, I've said it. Happy?
Eyes of Tammy Fay, Marjoe, Trekkies, Crumb, Chances: The Women of Magdalene. Magnolia (who can argue with raining frogs?)
Lost (Who the hell's in that casket?)
Southern fiction, bios, kid-raising books.
Anyone who has ever been genuinely nice to anyone. People who are nice to me. People who are easy to be nice to. Nazz, Shane, Jen, Dana, the Magdalene girls, peace-loving groovies everywhere...