Music! Graphic design and fine art, astronomy, astrology, philosophy, quantum physics, web surfing, tai chi,
and singing loud in my car with the windows shut
Musicians, Music Lovers, Artists, Creative People, People with a sense of HUMOR or HUMOUR - either way you spell it, myspace coders, Ron and Russell Mael, and My Great-Great-Grandparents, Saint Francis of Assisi, Jesus, Lao Tzu, George Harrison, John Lennon, Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Edward Leedskalnin, Helen Keller, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Tom Brown Jr. I would say Brian Wilson, but I think I would scare him.
Oh yea, and Adam and Eve before the apple incident...
Especially indie, alternative, folk rock, rock, acoustic, pop, celtic, experimental, electronic...most anything melodic. So many artists and styles to name, but nothing in the top 10.
Favorite indie artists
Erik Cerame (my dear friend and incredibly talented musician - no myspace place yet, but I have uploaded a video I took of a live performance. CDs are available through CD Baby:
In The Light of the Morning -(folk/acoustic)
The Groves of Clandestyne -(symphonic/intricate)
Ten Feet From Murder (Heavy! Check out their myspace)
Will Rogers (Beautiful! A close friend, guitar teacher, and ultra-talented musician! Watch for streaming music on his web site soon!)
Love=Imagination/Intelligence (I am so addicted to this GREAT music! - check out his myspace)
Fredo Viola (Wow incredible talent!) Check out his web site and myspace place.
Fizzle Like a Flood (Great stuff! Check out his myspace)
Butch Young makes some of the most happy sounding dark songs I've ever heard!
Ugochill (LOVE it! Check out their myspace)
Mark 5 (Chillin' in the desert. Check out his myspace)
Dewanatron (cool electronics with spaghetti guts - check out their outerspace sounds)
El Sr. Gonzalez Progresivo (Wow! muy talentoso - de México)
A few favorite widely known artists in my CD shelves:
ABBA
Alice in Chains
Barclay James Harvest
Beck
Beulah
Bille Myers
Bjork
Brewer and Shipley
Brian Wilson
Bruce Cockburn
Buckingham Nicks (before they joined Fleetwood Mac)
Ceili Rain
Cocteau Twins
Circulatory System
Crystal Method
Dan Fogelberg
Eagles
-most Elephant 6 bands
Elf Power
ELO
Erasure
Foo Fighters
Fruit Bats
Grandaddy
Greentrials
Iron & Wine
Jan Hammer
Jay Farrar
Jeff Beck
Jesus Jones
John Denver
John Lennon
John Michael Talbot
Jon Anderson (Olias of Sunhillow-a Masterpiece)
Jonathan Edwards
Joni Mitchell
Kate Bush
Leo Kottke
Lothar and the Hand People
Magnetic Fields
Mason Proffit
Matthew Sweet
Michael Hedges
Neil Young
Nick Drake
Pearl Jam
Peter Gabriel
Peter Murphy
Pink Floyd
Primus
Radiohead
Richard Barone
Rob Balducci
Roy Wood
Rush
Ryan Adams
Sigur Ros
Soundgarden
Sparks
Steve Burns
Steve Hillage
Steve Vai
Sufjan Stevens
Sun Kil Moon
Tangerine Dream
Telepathic Butterflies
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
The Byrds
The Cassidys
The Flaming Lips
The Heavy Blinkers
The Move
The Reindeer Section
The Shins
The Sun
The Wondermints
Tripping Daisy
Wilco
XTC
Yes
Zebra
Still working on this list...
The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Southpark, Orange County Choppers, Six Feet Under, The Simpsons, anything interesting on Discovery, The Learning Channel and The History Channel
Tesla - Man Out of Time (Margaret Cheney), Cosmos (Carl Sagan), Awakening Spirits (Tom Brown Jr.), Illusions (Richard Bach), The Man Who Tasted Shapes (Richard E. Cytowic), The Magus of Java (Kosta Danaos), The Way of the Wizard & Return of Merlin (Deepak Chopra), The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), The Secret Life of Plants (Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird), The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield), The Fundamentals of Pa Kua Chang (Master Bok Nam Park), Edgar Allan Poe, and lots of internet reading.
Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Theodore Roosevelt, Steve Jobs, Dean Kamen (DEKA), Mother Teresa, Salvador DalÃ, Peter Gabriel, Ghandi, Ron and Russell Mael, Mike Edwards (Jesus Jones), Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Greenpeace, Dalai Lama