TRAVEL, spirituality, snowboarding, x-country skiing, hiking/ backpacking, camping, fishing, cooking, FRIENDS and FAMILY, good books, gardening, music, parties, ecology, philosophy, community service.
Good People
Allman Brothers, String Cheese, Groundation, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Bonobo, DJ Shadow, DJ Cam, Warren Haynes, Phil and friends, Les Claypool (and primus, and esp. oysterhead) Cake, Ratdog, Old g'n'r, Lynrd, steve miller, GFE, fleetwood before their "yoko" showed up, Phish, trey...Gorillaz, Blur, Talking Heads, Ween, Widespread, Grateful Dead, Theivery Corps, Mark Farina, Jerry Jeff Walker, all the outlaws, Buddy Guy, Kool Keith, Blind Melon, Deltron, De La soul, Talib Kweli, Dan the Automater, Kid Koala, Portishead, White Stripes, Orbital, Peter Gabriel, Bob M and Bob D, Tribe Called Quest, Total Devastaion, Spin Junkies, My boy Chris De Jesus, Leonard cohen, Tom waits, Muddy Waters, Slayer, Deicide, Dirty Dozen, Slam, and so many, many more.
David Lynch, Peter Greenway, Kurosawa, old SNL crew flicks like Trading Places, Indiana Jones, Blade Runner, Terry Gilliam flicks, esp Time Bandits, Brazil, Fisher King, Cohen brothers movies- all of them, The Princess Bride. I'm forgetting a bunch, oh yeah- What the Bleep, Flash Gordon, Clash of the Titans, old Hitchcock, Noir, Mel Brooks, Leslie Nielson, The Life Aquatic, Dead Alive, Sean of the Dead, Sean Bond, blah blah blah.
Killed It.
Salman Rushdie, Conrad, Wade Davis, Peter Matthieson,, Roald Dahl, Kahlil Gibhran (sp?!), OLD Stephen King, Lovecraft, Zen and The Art..., The Life of Pi, Henry Miller, Herge, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kerouac, Kesey, Brian Greene, The Illuminatus! Trlogy, Hemingway, Philip Dick, Abbey, Sand County Almanac, and most of the thousands of oher books and authors I could never name here.
The Dalai Lama, Jefferson, Zapata, Charlie Brown, Hoffman, Shulgin, my folks,Che ,my brother, the random people whose acts of kindness and generosity reaffirm the goodness of things, anyone chasing a dream.