Travelin...the mountains ....snorkeling, sailing, photography, Epoxy, silver solder, a tuned rifle, an approaching squall line but not at sea, neighborhood barbecues, making elderberry wine, taverns and festivals with live music and dark beer, Mexican decor, opals moonstone green and red garnets jade ecological economics....too much damned politics, ...exploring ...road trips.
Starting in April, my favorite thing is to follow Spring up the mountain until July, about 8,000 ft.
I'm proud to have saved two creeks from being logged, and to help stop a billion dollar dam!
A few clues about me...
I've worked as a farm laborer in school, and in a precision measurement instruments lab, in a yacht harbor in Greece, and I know what it's like to dream in code. I hate wearing a suit and shopping, especially for clothes.
I'm pretty sure God wants us to be naked in body and soul, and will punish the wicked.
It seems to me as if two dimensional art, -paintings- are rather, -uhmmm...- two dimensional, - which might be why Van Gogh is my favorite painter, he sculpts with paint. I tend to prefer illustators such a Olivia and Royo, etc to "artists," except I think many illustrators are full-blown artists. I think great art is the best food, every bite different from the last, pleasuring all of the senses as well as the mind and soul. That's art.
This statue is far larger than life!
My favorite city is Rome because it's
a rootin-tooten living museum one can climb
around on. No fences ropes signs.
An understanding of place and time is why.
But I'm definitely not an artsy person, don't spend much time pursuing it, and I think a coffee cup can be great art, which pretty much confirms this.
People who help me smile and wonder with their curiosity. I seem to prefer people with far-flung but firm limits, it makes dancing on the edge so much better. I'm a sucker for gals with nice smiles. But dont get me started, I never know when to be quiet. I think Eeyore needs Pooh to remind him how totally real John Denver is.
da Blues! Also Led Zeppelin SRV Pink Floyd Willie Nelson Elvis Costello....most anything with a melody or beat. I wanna learn blues harmonica. I love Leonard Cohen, but don't wanna own any, it's too exotic, too good at other people's. I think good sax is like good sex, sometimes ya gatta get nasty just for sake of nastyness.
Fresno radio is a musical wasteland. GULP!...I never said anything like this before, but...The best music being made right now is on Kiss Country, --turn it WAY up, wall-of-sound, great lyrics-- but so much of it is so bad I can't stand it for long. Ugly, as in anti-cultural dream-killing propaganda. Sometimes there is a thin line between the high-order existential beauty of; "I love my simple country life," and the tailwagging; "God tells me I'm so very happy to get BossMan's table scraps!" [Offensive for brevity]
Sometimes there is also some great stuff on FSU's KFSR, afternoons...good wall-of-sound modern rock. But rarely. So in my car I most often listen to "Classic Rock's" top forty until I can't stand that, and my scanner may land on some happy or devastating mariachi music where I gleefully and bombastically sing along, with the tears of love or the wound streaming down my face. (Just as if I knew the words!)
I should prolly do more...stay socially relevant and all that. I like most of the "A" movies, and hate most of the "D" movies. Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clint Eastwood....I generally don't like subtitles cuz I'm a slow reader. My favorite movies include Network and Dances With Wolves, oddly, they get better every time I see them.
Little known fact: Network is NOT about being "mad as Hell...."
Tele Tubbies is pretty good. In fact, it's excellent!   ...gives me perspective.
any by Ed Abbey, Aldo Leopold, Michner, 1984 again, those gives me perspective too. But I wanna start reading just for fun again. I wanna get back into sci-fi, Robert Heinlan's my favorite. In sixth grade I read Tom Sawyer six times.
Favorite Quote: "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism,
since it is the merger of state and corporate power."
- Benito Mussolini.
Words mean something.
Batman, EO Wilson, George Washington Hayduke, David Brower, Paul Krugman, John Muir, Miyamoto Mushashi, and others or none, - depends on my mood. All of my heros are dangerous, and part-time assholes.