Cooking. Writing. Rock climbing. Riding nice bikes. Painting. Weird smells, like coins, and the smell of rain on pavement, old books. Jumping on things. Saying Hmmmm. Downloading this American life podcasts. Dark chocolate. Learning interesting factoids, and getting inside jokes. Inner ear headphones. Using the scientific method to open old jelly jars. Gaining new skills. Intuition and intonation.
Grover. Muhammed. The guy on the quaker oats box. Dr. Science. Luca Turin. The person who designed the fragrance in off skintastic. Aspiring writers and artists. I'd like to meet people who laugh a lot to themselves. People who leave something a bit more chaotic and beautiful than they found it.
Lots. The first little that come to me are ween, tricky, portishead, thom yorke, radiohead, beth gibbons, ratatat, E*vax, supercilious, al green, one of those guys who plays buckets, cat power, rufus wainright, son volt, wilco, yoyo ma, sinatra, nat king cole, tool, perfect, circle, billie holiday, johnny cash, daft punk, buena vista social club, Air, MF Doom, Pink floyd, tom petty, handsome boy modeling school, boards of canada, Pavement, Blonde Redhead, kaada, sleepytime gorilla museum, danny elfman, postal service, blind melon, cat stevens, amy mann, styx, lovemakers, beulah, system of a down, godflesh, club 8, christine gunn, virgin whore complex, goldfrapp, del, subtle, globabl goon, harry belafonte, mazzy star, magnetic fields, aqualung, beastie boys, secret cheifs three, patsy cline, rolling stones, shins, telepopmusik, thievery corporation.
Land of the blind. ANYTHING involving tim burton, even planet of the apes was cool (although I did sleep through big fish). Mirror mask, american ninja 2, Lord of the rings (the clay/animation and the recent ones), Monsters inc. Anything with people who speak chinese and can jump 40 feet. Science of sleep! Donnie darko. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, and anything else weird. ANYTHING involving john-piere jeunet (the frenchie man who directed amelie and a very long engagement). Episodes 3-6 of star wars. Dark Crstal. Punch drunk love. The old godzillas (I don't know where they got the weird sound of his scream but it's one of the coolest things I've ever heard). Everything is illuminated. Probably a lot more but basically anything weird and sentimental is good.
I have an altar to P.B.S.
Dune, the Frank Herbert stuff. Walden pond. Edward Gorey. Anything about smell (Emperor of scent is exceptionally good). Palaniuk stuff (fight club and all the rest). Game of thrones. Edward Gorey. Robert Jordan. Oranges aren't the only fruit. I'm a big fan of creative non-fiction. the tao te ching. Kurt Vonnegut. Sedaris. Go Dog Go.
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