Travelling, camping, music, making art, puppetry, skiing, knitting, photography, swimming, beaches, galleries & museums, reading, curling, hockey, bending time, the great outdoors, canoeing, cooking, outdoor festivals, gardening, breaking computers, insects, natures oddities, hot springs, tornadoes, coulrophobia, learning about my roots (like how to speak Yiddish from my Baba).
Salvador Dali. Wayne Coyne. Nice people. Creative types. Whoever stole my shoes from my back door welcome mat (I'll find you one day). And everyone on my music list.
In Ye Olde iPod:
Neil Young
Nina Simone
Tom Waits
Feist
Neko Case
The Sadies
Gogol Bordello
David Bowie
Digable Planets
Beck
Matisyahu
Amadou and Mariam
Tim Buckley
Fela Kuti
Gomez
Lou Reed
Rheostatics
My Morning Jacket
Beth Orton
Arcade Fire
Nino Moschello
Santana
Sol Hoopii
Wolfmother
Etta James
Del McCoury
Cream
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Devendra Banhart
Aretha Franklin
James Brown
Gladys Knight
Sam Roberts
The New Pornographers
Van Morrison
Thelonious Monk
Oscar Peterson
Miles Davis
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Charlie Byrd
Ornette Coleman
Ron Sexsmith
Dan Reeder
Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity
Joanna Newsom
M. Ward
John Prine
Jim White
Boom Pam
The Flaming Lips
Bob Dylan
Joni Mitchell
Leonard Cohen
Stevie Wonder
Marvin Gaye
Eagles of Death Metal
The Dandy Warhols
AC/DC
Robert Johnson
Badly Drawn Boy
The Shins
John Mayall
Beta Band
Johnny Winter
Blossom Dearie
Peggy Lee
Calexico
Dry and Heavy
Paulo Conte
Cake
Cheb I Sabbah
Dinah Washington
Gillian Welch
Oh Susanna
Hawksley Workman
Ike and Tina Turner
Iggy Pop
The Clash
Koko Taylor
Martha Wainwright
Leningrad
Manu Chao
Sloan
Loretta Lynn
Seu Jorge
The Pixies
Frank Zappa
David Krakauer
Bob Marley
Delroy Wilson
Boris Gardner Happening
Sly and The Family Stone
Blondie
Jimi Hendrix
Band of Gypsies
Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter
Anne Peebles
Dan Frechette
Amy Winehouse
Moloch
'Fishing with John', 'Super Troopers' (easily the funniest movie-intro EVER), 'The Dark Crystal', 'Labyrinth', 'Atarnajuat (The Fast Runner)', 'c.r.a.z.y.', 'The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover', 'Being John Malkovich', 'Best in Show', 'Down By Law', 'The Shining', 'Ewoks Take Endor', 'Edward Scissorhands', 'Everything Is Illuminated', 'The Cell', 'Office Space', 'The Saddest Music In The World', 'The Triplets of Belleville', 'Little Miss Sunshine', 'Pan's Labyrinth', 'It's All Gone Pete Tong', 'Last Night'
Project Runway, The Colbert Report, Arrested Development.
Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut), Whale Music, Galveston, The Spirit Cabinet (Paul Quarrington), The Cairo Trilogy (Naguib Mahfouz), Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad), Alligator Pie (Dennis Lee), The Diaries of Anais Nin (Anais Nin), The Sheltering Sky (Paul Bowles), The Red Tent (Anita Diamant), The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien), The Stone Angel, The Diviners (Margaret Laurence), The Sacrifice (Adele Wiseman), Wicked (Gregory Maguire), My Uncle Oswald (Roald Dahl), Types of Canadian Women Vol.2 (K.I. Press), Green Eggs & Ham (Dr. Seuss).
My Zaida. My Baba Ida. There's something majestic about Shatner...but I wouldn't call him a hero.