academia, acrylic paint, aesthetics, american sign language, astrophysics, bike riding, butter chicken, camping, campus radio stations, celluloid, cheese, cheeze, computer music, cooking, curry, dadeo, dervish, digging in dirt, dim sum, discourse analysis, doing my taxes (sick!), dreams, electroacoustic music, farmer's markets, feather pillows, filmmaking, films, finnish, finnish bread, food, french, gardening (tomatoes and herbs), geek boys, geekin' out, golden spiral (3d), green, green tea ice cream, hallowe'en, heavy duvets, helsinki, hiking, honesty (good/bad/ugly), how things work, interpretation, italian paninis, kisses and hugs, language, linguistics, live improvistion, love, mac laptops (mmmmmmac), magic, magnetic fields, mangos, math, math math, math math math, max/msp/jitter, my family, my friends, needles (california), old skool star trek, olives, p.e.i., padmanadi, paris, pb and j, pd/gem, pencil crayons, performative media art, phi, photography, photoshop, pi (flick and number), pinhole cameras, pretty things, printmaking, quantum chromodynamics, recycling, romance, sci-fi sci-fi sci-fi, searchlight (nevada), seventh seal, shooting hoops, skiing very fast, snow, spacetime, stopmotion animation, super 8, sushi, symbolism, symbols, television, ten dimensions, the desert, the maritimes, the ocean, the prairies, the river valley, the third wave, the west coast, time, tradition, translation, travel, typography, walking, winter, words, x words, trivia, yogurt, zed words ... and this is the short list.
my maternal grandparents, they died before I was born, anne-marie mieville, derrida, noam chomsky, fritz lang, goran dukic, godard, ingmar bergman, the brothers quay, stephen hawking, douglas coupland (remember to bring lego), the inventor of lego, theano, fibonacci, all the amazing artists out there doing amazing work but their name is not yet on the lips of all (I want to meet every single one of you)
oy, the list is long, can’t put them all down … shawn pinchbeck, edith piaf, jazzbutcher conspiracy, lederhosen lucil, david bowie, ziggy stardust, neutral milk hotel, the mountain goats, tool, feist, television, men of science, the james t. kirks, shout out out out, m. ward, do make say think, (smog), aphex twin, uszme domo (sp?), tom waits, magnetic fields, 80’s music, sugar cubes, sunset rubdown, kurt weil, the refused, jets to brazil, ramones, no hands, danny michel, hayden, bob wiseman, selina martin, les cowboys fringants, the agnostic mountain gospel choir, hawksley workman, chad van gaalen, little baby cupcakes, all things karaoke, the swifties, holzkopf …
are you kidding? I’m a cinephile .. ok here is the abridged version … abbas kiarostami flicks, aAron munson flicks, the secret adventures of tom thumb, alfred hitchcock, all things star trek, all things star wars, harry potters, andrei tarkovsky flicks, anne-marie mieville flicks, les quatre cents coups, solyaris, M, metropolis, bollywood, david lynch, deepa mehta, fellini, wristcutters: a love story, a bout de souffle, dancer in the dark, labyrinth, the man who fell to earth, doktor mabuse der spieler, la dolce vita, a clockwork orange, stan brakhage, blade runner, dr. Strangelove, citizen kane, brazil, close encounters of the third kind, underground (serbo-croatian) hairspray, box of moonlight, der himmel uber berlin (wings of desire), the seventh seal, I could go on and on …
I am a tv-aholic .. didn’t have cable .. recovered, got on the wagon .. now you can rent them on dvd .. fell off the wagon .. aahhh .. so begineth the list .. all things star trek, simpsons (no brainer there), angel, buffy, full metal alchemist, smallville (guilty pleasure), my so called life, v the final battle, dead like me, alias, the prisoner, stargate: sg1, stargate atlantis, square pegs …
aleksandr isayevich solzhenitsyn, boris and arkady strugatsky, any kurt vonnegut jr., marshall mcluhan, Russian black comedy – stalin era, tom robbins, stanislaw lem, penguin paperbacks (I have a million of them), on and on …
ok, so it’s cheeze, and I’m talkin’ old age cheddar fo’ sho’, but it’s true ‘nuff. All people are heroes, well, the people I meet are. The list is infinite, especially when it’s the people I meet haphazardly who may not be famous, they just happen to be amazing in their own right.