music, music, music, motion & graphics, design, belgian beer, maracas, documentaries, director commentaries, poetic rambling, warhol, traveling, improv, beat poetry, lennon, stopmotion, falafel, galleries, camping, weird things, ugly things, being productive, videography, zen, bellydancing, independant film, quantum physics, philosophy, tantra, theology, ayurveda, fire twirling, blue guitars & karman ghias, snowboarding, the blues, puppets, passion, chance meetings, my guitars, harmonica, tai chi, tabla, textures, coffee, yoga, unusual fruit, subtlety, love, portland, chopstix, mystery ships, tattered old books, flip-flops, robots, cowboys, pagans, buddhists, disco balls, burning man..etc etc etc...
Beck. Folks who sing in the shower, wear mismatched socks, ride bicycles and are charming free spirited bohemians to make fun where fun doesn't exist. Someone who can wake me up from nightmares, create dreams, and shake up the static of everyday. Collaborators, Innovators, Mad scientists, mad musicians, mad poets, with an eccentric passion that comes out of their eyeballs and into the world...
{currently digging : lennon's anthology} BECK, MUDDY WATERS, SON HOUSE, Rodman, Jai Uttal, Psapp, BJORK, Thom Yorke, Cinematic Orchestra, VELVET UNDERGROUND, The Beatles, Radar Bros, Brian Jonestown Massacre, DONOVAN, Black Keys, ELLIOTT SMITH, pentangle, Daniel Johnston, Fantastic Plastic Machine, DYLAN, MAZZY STAR, Miles Davis, Nina Simone,The Morning After Girls, Simon & Garfunkle, TINDERSTICKS, David Axelrod, Stereolab, YO LA TENGO, LOVE, the Flaming Lips, Buffalo Springfield, COLTRANE, NICK DRAKE, Devendra Banhart, Amon Tobin, the Gotan Project, Langhorne Slim, Paula Valstein & Walk into Madness, Tom Hayes, John Luddington, Pale Face, Only Son, Toby Goodshank, DUFUS, all the antifolksters really, and anyone who can rock a mean slide geetar, escalate the room with a sitar, and bang on kettles & frying pans with rhythm...
Drowning by numbers, Broken Flowers, Eternal Sunshine, Lost in Translation, Tarnation, Dancer in the Dark, Singles, Legend, American Beauty, Waking Life, Fight Club, Virgin Suicides, Requiem for a Dream, Good Will Hunting, Je du Enfants, Harold & Maude, Before Sunrise, Yellow Submarine, The last Unicorn, Amelie, Endless Summer... Currently on a documentary obsession. US vs John Lennon, all of Bjork's docs, Dig!, Im Your Man, The Devil & Daniel Johnston..
If ever there were an evening of couch lounging in front of the box, I may be accompanied by: Carnivale, or Project Runway..but I mostly use my tv for movies and nothing else. My obsessive addiction of bad drama is the L Word.
Most of the time I'm monogamous with my collection of nonfiction, then there's always the ayurvedic philosophies, beat books & travelers handbooks... anything with some esoteric charisma, or teaching something, Ishmael comes to mind that satisfies both...Currently reading many different things but focus is on "Stumbling on Happiness" and "Nowhere Man"
I miss you Zora. John Lennon. Beck always. .. .... People who's energy shakes the world, makers of falafel, guitarists with slides & loose string, puppet makers, eccentrics, prolific writers, my friends who keep me inspired and sane, musicians with yarn, and those of you who understand what I'm sayin here. I have a not so secret crush on Michel Gondry. I admire Daniel Johnston's work..