14 lives at last count.
i had a vision recently that i'm going to shine in my sixties, so be patient.
since richness is calculated in friends and family and love and life, than call me a billionaire and nothing less.
my wife emily.
beautiful sentences.
decoding the mystery.
learning the language of the universe.
plant knowledge.
this beautiful planet.
and the people who inhabit it.
being surprised.
learning something new.
the desert.
staying up late with friends.
wine, more wine!
to one day have the time and freedom to just write.
any patrons out there?
kurt vonnegut, again.
i guess the 'again' has no chance of happening now, at least on this earth.
writers have been the only heroes in my life, so anyone that has written a good verse or a book or even a great paragraph.
joan didion.
lou reed.
david sylvian.
r. buckminster fuller. (in heaven)
okay, i'll say it, i'm not ashamed, madonna.
i also like to meet people that are always moving forward and not getting trapped in their own drama or anyone else's. that impresses me. that form of detachment mixed with just the right amount of empathy. people that laugh and people that cry but always for the right reasons.
lullabies.
songs that stir the heart
and have the power to start a revolution.
music that makes your ass shake.
did i mention baseline?
do you remember how you used to listen to music when you were a teenager?
15 years old and alone in your room. remember what a new song stirred in your gut when you first heard it?
the movies i like best are perfect movies. movies in which i wouldn't have changed a thing, not a scene, not a word.
incorrigible movies.
like...
wings of desire. the mission. the dresser. withnail and i. the last temptation of christ. platoon. blade runner. alien. the royal tenenbaums. doctor strangelove.
(to be continued)
what's that?
so many, so many...
the ones that left a mark?
tropic of cancer. the baron in the trees. slouching toward bethlehem. g. slaughterhouse five. in cold blood. midnight's children. on the road. blood meridien. the road. geek love. one hundred years of solitude. love in the time of cholera. the time traveller's wife. middlesex. naked lunch. the fever. pages from a cold island. ask the dust. the last temptation of christ.
(to be continued)
peacemakers, winemakers, healers, writers, and above all... the great mother