"A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down" - Buddha.
Music, books, music, travel, music, thinkers, music. Patience, kindness, and understanding. But above all, honesty. And music.
I hadn't seen this video of the Toiling Midgets with Ricky at the IBeam in 1982 yet! Neat. I love you, Ricky!
The EMT who saved my life when I was two years old.
.. Punk fuckin' rawk. My Holy Trinity: Punk, Blues & Jazz. A whole bunch of stuff, really. Anything that tears out my heart and mashes it like a spent cigarette. Polysics, Devo, Guitar Wolf, Tom Waits, Can, Snakefinger, Residents, Rudimentary Peni, Public Enemy, Butthole Surfers, B-52's, X, Howlin' Wolf, Stranglers, Pere Ubu, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Brian Eno, The Fall, Billy Nayer Show, Flux of Pink Indians, Amebix, Flaco Jiminez, Omega Tribe, Los Lobos, Nina Simone, Scott Joplin, David Bowie, Black Sabbath, Fats Waller, Iggy and the Stooges, Jim White, Serge Gainsbourg, Captain Beefheart, Aphex Twin, Mr. Bungle, Beck, Christian Death, Bowie, Patti Smith, Chopin, MC5, The Cure, The Smiths (I love that whiny biatch, bugger off), Crass, Satie, My Bloody Valentine, Swans, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Gary Numan, Bauhaus, Beastie Boys, Hank Williams Sr., Bill Monroe, Willie Bobo, Willie Nelson, all my son's pop's stuff-The Sleepers, Crime, Toiling Midgets, etc.
M, Man Bites Dog, Touch of Evil, True Romance, Big Lebowski, La Strada (E arrivato, Zampano!!!!), Smoke Signals, Wild at Heart, Freeway, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dead Man, Being There, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Buffalo 66, The Devils, Down By Law, Orphans, Requiem for a Dream, A Clockwork Orange, Blue Velvet, The River's Edge, Deliverance, The Suicide Club, Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Shanks, Old Weird-Fucker Art Flicks...
I'm not above it, I used to have one of those "Kill Your Television" stickers, too....Jeopardy, Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, House, Forensic Files, Trailer Park Boys, Oz, Little Britain, Little House on the Prairie (no, seriously), Kids in the Hall, Family Guy, Futurama, King of the Hill, Simpsons, South Park, Trivia and True Crime programs.
Nietzsche, Foucault, Bukowski, John Irving, Icebeg Slim, Donald Goines, Chester Himes, Hunter S. Thompson, Dorothy Allison, Jerzy Kosinski, Sylvia Plath, Poe, Dickinson. Man's Search for Meaning, the Dictionary, Love is a Dog from Hell, Geek Love, Confederacy of Dunces, Baron in the Trees, The Souls of Black Folk, In Cold Blood, Body (anything by Harry Crews), Norton Anthology of African-American Literature, Dictionary of American Slang, Primate Adaptation and Evolution, The Dhammapada, Speak Bird Speak Again, Folktales, Myths and Legends, especially Celtic, Nordic or Native American.
My son, my sister, my grandma, The Dalai Lama, Ellie Nessler.