reading... music... poetry... dancing... movies... museums... galleries... walking in the woods... stalking the city streets... climbing up hills and having my breath taken away by the power and the utter wonder of it all... sitting around a fire with my good friends as the sun comes up and the night of party becomes another sweet memory... my lovely lovely children... the patterns of the stars... the tiny worlds beneath our feet... old buildings... churches and graveyards... the light and the darkness... politics and power...wit and wordplay... wyrdness and witchery... the mystery... the magic.... the nature of things... truth... beauty... love and love and love.
I'd like to meet:
musicians... artists... poets... dreamers... magicians... angels... elementals... healers of souls... wise women and holy men... warriors... people who tread softly on the earth and honour her... people who seek to understand the dream and live within it at their highest level of consciousness... shamanic dancers with their eyes rolled back by the rhythm of the music in their blood and bones... people who understand that we are all one and that you are another myself...people who are seeking to awaken to the hidden worlds that lie beneath the skin of what passes for reality... people who know a thing or two and thus understand that we know nothing... seekers after truth... people with open hearts and minds... people who feel the LOVE... my people... you know who you are... because somewhere deep inside... you remember...
Music:
oh god so much... here goes... deep down dirty house music... hard and trancey... whatever gets me on the dancefloor with my hands up high... and at various times in my life... stephen singleton... vice versa... abc... bleep and booster... human league... gang of four... kraftwerk... the monochrome set... spandau ballet... marc bolan... david bowie... brian eno... lou reed... velvet underground... iggy pop... nico... psychedelic furs... ramones... new york dolls... television... blondie... patti smith... talking heads... marianne faithful... leonard cohen... joy division... a certain ratio... scritti politti... cabaret voltaire... wasted youth... killing joke... teardrop explodes... echo and the bunnymen... orange juice... comsat angels... dr feelgood... graham parker and the rumours... bruce springsteen... throbbing gristle... the fall... the slits... the pop group... rip rig and panic... siouxsie and the banshees... delta 5... the sex pistols... the clash... the buzzcocks... the undertones... elvis costello... joe jackson... tom waits... sinead o'connor... kd lang... bob dylan... joni mitchell... james taylor... john martyn... crosby still nash and young... the beach boys... buddy holly...glenn miller... the cure... simple minds... lloyd cole...morrissey... beatles... stones... the who... the kinks... tori amos... beth orton... kate bush... alanis morissette... the jam... the streets... damien rice... B52s... van morrison... sting... cinerama... ian brown...the mission... portishead... massive attack... faithless... basement jaxx...pink... annie lennox... p j harvey... lauryn hill... nick cave... pink floyd... steely dan... john coltrane... billie holiday... nina simone... anita o'day... frank sinatra... bryan ferry... archie shepp... thelonius monk... miles davis... stan getz... gerry mulligan... mozart... js bach... chopin... vivaldi... eric satie... schubert... puccini... wagner... janis joplin... jimi hendrix... the doors... jefferson airplane... nils lofgren... little feat... led zeppelin... petula clark... dusty springfield... the carpenters... clock dva... nick drake... rufus wainwright... jeff buckley... suzanne vega... bob marley... eminem... alison moyet... donovan... jethro tull... steeleye span... the killers... the smiths... keane... coldplay... radiohead... madonna... the specials... xtc... tracey chapman... joan armatrading... avril lavigne (courtesy of my daughter)... tenacious d (courtesy of my son)... and i think... enough already... no never enough with the music for me if the truth be told... and it keeps getting longer cos i keep remembering and adding stuff
Movies:
many... details later
Television:
there is no television... the west wing... is over... no more josh... no more donna... no more the dream that a decent educated human being of integrity and courage could be the one with the power... all gone... and my sorrow and grief is unsupportable... oh woe oh woe is me... oh hang on... the sopranos is back... good thats ok then...
Books:
see films above...
Heroes:
we can be... and in fact we are... each the hero of our own journey... the star in our own movie... so first hero is me... next is you... well done us... also... the delegates of the 1948 united nations who enacted into law the universal declaration of human rights... the hundreds of thousands of human beings who have been imprisoned tortured and killled as a consequence of fighting for the implementation and protection of those rights... peter benenson the founder of amnesty international... www.amnesty.org ... aid workers and human rights activists who risk their lives in darfur, the democratic republic of congo, iraq, lebanon, palestine, the west bank, gaza, ethiopia, eritrea and all the other places in the world where our fellow human beings suffer unimaginable pain and deprivation at the hands of other human beings just like ourselves... gandhi... nelson mandela... martin luther king... his holiness the dalai lama... tony benn... germaine greer... merchant seaman, fisher folk, and all who risk their lives upon the water on our behalf... coal miners... steelworkers... firefighters... police officers (yes because they don't just bang you up for smoking a spliff and then beat the shite out of you - as individuals they scrape what is left of you off the road, find your lost children, hold your hand as you are dying, and protect you from those who would do you harm)... oh and johnny depp.. jimmy dean.. humphrey bogart... ed harris... katherine hepburn.. lauren bacall.. marilyn monroe... audrey hepburn... fred astaire and ginger rogers... david bowie... marc bolan... jeff buckley... morrissey... patti smith... siouxsie... miss billie holliday... johann sebastian bach... stephen singleton... my family.. my good friends.
