quantum physics... the shape of seeds... Thai food... hot springs under the stars... orcas... art that makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up... great beer... campfires that burn on wet days...a great kiss... museums... the audacious things children say... twilight in Maui... mushrooms... the spark of inspiration that comes out of nowhere, and departs the same way... a song that sounds as great the 150th time as it did the 2nd... pomegranates... people who understand the concept of friendship... gin & tonics on tropical beaches...absurdly expensive pens... swimming pools at night, (especially if you had to climb a fence to get there.)... horses, dogs, most four legged folks...glossy art magazines...bumper stickers that make me go, "huh?"...the moments at my easel when everything else falls away except hand/brush/paint.
This what's on my ipod right now, and only a sample of the screwy stuff I love to listen to...John Doe. Ani DiFranco. Catpower. Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Tom Waits. Moloko. Modest Mouse. Spearhead. Of Montreal. Portishead. Smashing Pumpkins. This Mortal Coil. The Unicorns. The Eels. Old school David Bowie, The Pouges. The White Stripes. Interpol, John Butler Trio. Frank Zappa, The Flaming Lips. Beck. Big Bud...Seu Jorge. Ben Harper. The Shins. Death Cab. Jeff Buckley. X. Adrian Belew. Dali's Car. and Massive Attack
Apocolypto,Fur, Children of Men, Little Miss Sunshine, Betty Blue, Harold and Maude, Life Aquatic, Amelie, Delicatessen, Triplets of Belville, Life is Beautiful, Run Lola Run, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Seven Samurai, Ran,(Akira Kurosawa; genius!) Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, Rivers and Tides, Blue Velvet, Sliding Doors, Brother from Another Planet...Down by Law, Mystery Train, Ghost Dog, Dead Man, Stranger than Paradise...(Yes, I am still waiting for Jim Jarmusch to ask me to marry him...)Trainspotting,
Mating by Norman Rush, Valdamir Nabokov, James Joyce, Balzac. Kerouac and Bukowski. White Oleander, by Janet Fitch,I worship every word ever pounded out by Henry Miller's typewriter.( the things he was thinking in the '40s are just occurring to the rest of us!) Walker and Lamont and dont forget, Hunter S.Thompson. Ruth Bebe Hill's epic "Hanta Yo". Lone Wolf and Cub (Thanks Vox)Chuck Palahniuk (thanks Julio)Edward Abbey, Langston Hughes.