Writing strange and complicated books. Birds and bird symbology. Sleeping, especially with dreams, kissing animals, wild creatures, teaching writing, alternative pedagogies, correcting misogyny, reading, looking at art and making it. Dharma talks. Experimental theater. Neuroscience and non-human intelligence. Honesty and a willingness to admit one's own fuck ups. Thanatology. Being in new places. Getting undermined by beauty. The many unnamed kinds of love. Mind blowing physical and intellectual exchanges. Grotesques. Medieval ecstatic religious poetry. Also very expensive underwear, makeup, perfume, and shoes.
I'd like to meet Pema Chodron. Wild macaws. Melinda Gates. A herd of healthy wild elephants. Nina Hagen. Aruhndati Roy. Jenny Holtzer. Helene Cixous. Owls, quail, foxes, slime molds, carnivorous plants. Tapirs, Cockatoos,Walruses, Eagles. A Dodo Bird.And, those who have gone to hell, but have come back and have a story to tell and a strangely pretty, deep-throated laughter.
X, My Invisible, Rasputina, Dog Faced Hermans, Etta James, Freakwater, Aimee Mann, The Avengers, Ravi Shankar, The Gossip, Nina Hagen, The Gotan Project, Bikini Kill, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Astor Piazzola, The Subhumans, Crass, Tribe 8, Dirt, The Slits, Stevie Wonder, Juliana Snapper, Vice Sqad, Andres Segovia, The Psychedelic Furs, Brigitte Fontaine
Fanny and Alexander, The Saddest Music in the World, The Children of Paradise, Little Otik, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, By Hook or By Crook, Suddenly Last Summer, City of Lost Children, Fantastic Planet, Antonia's Line, Liquid Sky, Charlotte's Web, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dumbo, The Host
Lost, Weeds, The L Word, Iron Chef
Cruddy by Lynda Barry, Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, The God of Small Things by Arundati Roy, Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware, The Beautifully Worthless by Ali Liebegott, Don Quixote by Kathy Acker, What Begins With Bird by Noy Holland, Cane by Jean Toomer, Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link, The Melancholy of Anatomy by Shelly Jackson, Incubation: A Space for Monsters by Bhanu Kapil, Tales of Neveryon by Samuel Delaney, The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley, The Autobiography of Red by Ann Carson, Les Guerilleres by Monique Wittig, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, Dont Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa, When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron, so so many more!
Noam Chomsky, Yoko Ono, Kathleen Hannah, Kathy Acker, Angela Davis, Enheduana, Lyn Hejinian, David Meltzer, Cybele, Carole Maso, Thalia Field, Nelson Mandela, Eileen Myles, Pema Chodron, Aruhndati Roy, the guy in Tiananmen Square in front of the tanks, Sharon Salzberg, ALF, Emma Goldman, Thich Naht Hanh, the girls at the Rubber Rose, and my beloved friends.