Filmmaking, philosophy, poetry, art, film (especially Wes Anderson, David Lynch, Scorsese, Tim Burton, Fellini, Kurasowa) comics (or sequential art if you want to get high falutin'), classical music (but generally anything but rap, and rap only if it's Wu Tang Clan, Saul Williams or Public Enemy), Integral Theory, Spirituality, Vipassana meditation, weight lifting, Tai Chi Chuan, Kundalini Yoga, jogging, biking, writing, eating Twizzlers (come on, it's the greatest snack ever and fun to pick out of your teeth! ok maybe not THAT fun, but pretty fun), exercise physiology, partial non-differential equations and their real world applications to free verse poetry, strange loops, behavioral science...blah blah blah
I'd like to meet:
I guess if I could meet anyone (living or dead) it would have to be Ken Wilber, Buddha, Nietzsche, Joseph Campbell, Beethoven, Larry and Andy Wachowski, William Blake, Wes Anderson, T. S. Eliot, Alex Grey, Bob Dylan, Orson Welles, Johnny Cash, David Lynch, Forrest J Ackerman, Marlon Brando, Cornel West, Robert Bly, J.D. Salinger, Ray Bradbury, Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, Charlie Parker, Sly Stallone, Stuart Davis, Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Richard Linklater, Stephen King, Andy Kaufman, Francis Bacon (the painter of course), and Charlie Brown.
Music:
Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and of course The Highwaymen, Queen, David Bowie, The Eagles, The Who, nearly all adagios and requiems!, George Michael, Pink Floyd, Pat Benatar, Loudon Wainright III, Stuart Davis, Sinead O'Connor, Crash Test Dummies, Talking Heads, Enya, Mark Mothersbough, Coldplay, Nick Drake, Daniel Johnston, John Lennon, ELO, Iris Dement, Cat Stevens, The New Radicals, Polyphonic Spree, The Cramps, Bert Jansch, Billy Bragg, The Shins, Clint Eastwood, Louis Armstrong, The Ramones, Peter Gabriel, Elliot Smith, Judy Collins, The Doors, Gordon Lightfoot, DeVotchka, Gorillaz, The Band, Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen, Simon and Garfunkel, Moby, Rolling Stones, Bird (Charlie Parker), Ennio Morricone, The Cure, Frank Sinatra, Sam Cooke, Bob Dylan, Queen, Duke Ellington, Bruce Springsteen, Nina Simone, Wynton Marsalis, Arvo Part, Neil Diamond, Beethoven, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, REM, Chopin, Andrew Lloyd Weber, Sarah Brightman, The Editors, Charles Ives, Henryk Gorecki, Norah Jones, Billie Holiday, David Gray, John Denver, Sufjan Stevens, Bach, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Nirvana, Andrea Boccelli, Led Zeppelin, Beatles (of course), Miles Davis, Feist, Cat Power, Neil Young, and on and on and on...
Movies:
Alright here goes...The Fountain, Pi, The Matrix Films, anything by Kevin Smith, anything by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Fearless (Jeff Bridges), anything by David Lynch, Bill Condon, Fearless (Jet Li), vampire films, Sophie Coppola, 300, anything by Ridley Scott, Batman Begins, anything by Quentin Tarantino, Kundun, anything with Daniel Day-Lewis in it, La Dolce Vita, anything by John Waters, El Topo, anything by Terry Gilliam, Platoon, anything with Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Peter Cushing, and of course Vincent Price, The Count of Monte Cristo, Spirited Away, Harold and Maude, The Elegant Universe, The Deer Hunter, anything by Ingmar Bergman, Ikiru, Unbreakable, Lady in the Water, Children of Men, Superman, Superman II, and the scene from Superman IV: The Quest For Peace when Superman addresses the United Nations, Superman Returns, Hulk, The Cruise, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, A Brief History of Time, Z Channel, Cosmos, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou...ok anything by Wes Anderson, Stephen Hawking's Universe, Cape Fear (Scorsese remake), Philadelphia, Manhunter, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, The Graduate, The Prince of Tides, Waking Life, It's Impossible To Learn To Plow By Reading Books, Slacker, A Scanner Darkly, Awakenings, Lorenzo's Oil, Amelie, the Highlander films (yes, even the second one, I've made my peace with all of them), What Dreams May Come, The Seventh Seal, The Seven Samurai, Seven, The Bone Collector, Copycat, Taxi Driver, The Third Man, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Starman, F For Fake, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Wild Strawberries, Gladiator, Comic Book: The Movie, Crumb, American Splendor, Hellboy, The Star Wars films, Lord of the Rings films, What About Bob?, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Jaws, The Natural, Jeremiah Johnson, The Wild Bunch, anything by Clint Eastwood, Fiddler on the Roof, Stuart Saves His Family, The Godfather films, A River Runs Through It, Legends of the Fall, Legend of Bagger Vance, anything by Sergio Leone, Midnight Cowboy, Altered States, Citizen Kane, Little Miss Sunshine, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Dracula (original), Bram Stoker's Dracula (Coppola remake), Ugetsu, 8 1/2, Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, Eraserhead, the Rocky films, Ed Wood (basically anything by Tim Burton), Gods and Monsters, Man on Fire, Dr. Strangelove..., 2001: A Space Odyssey, Vanilla Sky, Donnie Darko, Brazil, Tombstone, Wyatt Earp, Quigley Down Under, Hud, The Thin Red Line (remake), Razors Edge, Red Beard, The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, 400 Blows, Last Tango in Paris, Instinct, Beowulf and Grendel, Big Fish, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Before Night Falls, Forrest Gump, He Got Game, Groundhog Day, Raging Bull, anything by Woody Allen, Harold and Maude, The Fugitive Kind, Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, For Love of the Game, The Last Temptation of Christ, Stay Hungry, Tin Cup, anything by the Coen Brothers, Angels in America, A. I., Blade Runner, Minority Report, THX 1138, The Crying Game, Finding Forrester, Bang the Drum Slowly, Phantom of the Opera (Claude rains and Gerard Butler versions), Beauty and the Beast (Disney and Cocteau versions), anything with Bill Murray, Adaptation, Northfork, Zoolander, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Peaceful Warrior, Kiss the Girls, Il Postino, Cinema Paradiso, I Heart Huckabees, Conan the Barbarian, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Romeo is Bleeding, Irreversible, Shortbus, Plan 9 From Outer Space, To Kill A Mockingbird, V For Vendetta, The 36th Chamber of Shoulin, anything with John Wayne, Fried Green Tomatoes, Meet Joe Black, Cop Land, Peter Pan, The Power of Myth, Jazz, Baseball, Game Over, The Sword of Doom, Rashomon, The Tin Drum, Sophie's Choice, The Producers, Troy, The Trial, Anchorman, Bubba Ho-Tep, Freaks, Collateral, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Thumbsucker, Junebug, Hammer films, Napoleon Dynamite, The Last of the Mohicans, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, The Others, The Lost Boys, The Lion King, Reality Bites...
Television:
Northern Exposure, The Twilight Zone (original of course), Monk, New Morning w/Timberly Whitfield, CSI(original), House M.D., The FBI Files, The Body Fantastic, The New Detectives, The X Files, anything on The Science Channel or the History Channel, Dave Chappelle, The Stuart Davis Show (on www.youtube.com), Foamy The Squirrel (www.illwillpress.com), Southpark, Samurai Jack, Twin Peaks, Penn and Teller's Bullshit, Columbo, Magnum P.I., Highlander, Family Guy, Forever Knight, Batman: the Animated Series, Superman: the Animated Series, Justice League (and Justice League Unlimited), Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Incredible Hulk (original), Most Evil, Life, Good vs. Evil (the fantastic short-lived show on the sci-fi channel), IFC, The Henry Rollins Show (and Janeane Garofalo of course), Heroes...
Books:
Ken Wilber, Robert Thurman, Joseph Campbell, Heidegger, Ken Kesey, Nietzsche, Truman Capote, Walt Whitman, Alexander Dumas, Sharon Olds, Douglas Adams, Anne Rice, Steven King, Philip K. Dick, Dracula, Frankenstein, Robert Bly, Steven Pressfield, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Ernest Becker, Abraham Maslow, Clare Graves, Thomas Harris, Epictetus, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Albert Camus, Carl Jung, Charles Bukowski, Michael Murphy, Elaine Pagels, Dylan Thomas, W. Somerset Maugham, Karen Armstrong, J. D. Salinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kornfield, James Joyce, Meister Eckhart, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Douglas Hofstadter, Chogyam Trungpa, Norman Mailer, Cornel West, Harper Lee, Harvey Pekar, Ovid, Ray Bradbury, Ken Kesey, Daniel Keyes...
Heroes:
My parents, Ken Wilber and all my fellow members at Integral Institute, Batman, Zorro, Superman, the Lone Ranger, the Spirit, the Shadow, V, the Phantom of the Opera, the Count of Monte Cristo, Conan the Barbarian, Joseph Campbell, Rocky Balboa, John Rambo, Kermit the Frog, Friedrich Nietzsche, Cool Hand Luke, Leonardo Da Vinci, Dr. Manhattan, Rorschach, The Question, Lestat, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ingmar Bergman, Stephen King, Duke Ellington, T.S. Eliot, The Flash (Barry Allen), Walt Whitman, Louis Armstrong, Timothy "Speed" Levitch, Chogyam Trungpa, Soren Kierkegaard, my Uncle Herman, Dracula, John Coltrane, Roy Batty, Mike Mentzer, Carl Jung, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Bob Kane and Bill Finger, Frank Miller, Dave Chapelle, Dick Sprang, David Lynch, Franco Columbu, Hannibal Lecter, Sherlock Holmes, Spock, Captain Kirk, Captain Picard, Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Joyce, Siddhartha, Evey Hammond, Neo, Trinity, Morpheus, B166ER, Bruce Lee, Robert Thurman, Sly Stallone, the Wachowski Brothers, Albert Einstein, Edward Hubble, Steven Hawking, Max Planck, Rudolf Otto, Carl Sagan, Forrest J Ackerman, Roy Hobbs (from the movie), Charlie Parker, and of course, Christopher Reeve (Superman)...
