I have massive CD collection that's a never ending source of enjoyment and discovery for me. I love sharing music with friends. Hiking, traveling and the feeling of exploration are always exciting – I try to get out whenever I can. I rollerblade sometimes and love to see the landscape passing by. River-rafting and snowshoeing are both lots of fun. Dining out - I'm partial to ethnic and locally owned places (Indian, Thai, New Mexican, Vietnamese, etc.) ...and sushi. I go to cultural events sometimes and keep up with what's going on around town. Occasionally I'll go out to salsa or contra dance. I like coffee shops, some live music and film festivals. I also love playing guitar, writing, great films, great books, shibari, kinbaku, exercise, caffeine, shortwave radio, the feeling of connection that comes with good conversation, the sound of rainstorms, taking pictures, time with family, not dating, the feel of falling snow, vistas and landscapes that amaze, laying in parks in the cool grass with nothing to do, the sound of children playing, the changing of the seasons, wondering what it’s like to live somewhere else...
I may not know till I meet you. . .
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~Max Roach~ 1924-2007 *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Some all-time faves: Bob Dylan * Siouxsie & The Banshees * Lou Reed * Miles Davis * Smog * Grateful Dead * Robert Earl Keen * Drive-By Truckers * Bill Monroe * Hüsker Dü * John Coltrane * New Order * Lucinda Williams * Lee Morgan * REM * Pernice Brothers * Loudon Wainwright * Ani DiFranco * Neil Young * T Rex * Josh Rouse * Fugazi * XTC * Beach Boys * Dave Brubeck * David Bowie * Manitas de Plata * Velvet Underground * Wille Nelson * Ornette Coleman * Tom Petty * Joni Mitchell * Duke Ellington * Jesus & Mary Chain * Emmylou Harris * The Byrds * The Clash * Chris Isaak * Johnny Cash * Jonathan Richman * Patti Smith * Wes Montgomenry * Lynyrd Skynyrd * Cocteau Twins * Lloyd Cole * Ramones * Love * Prince * Bobbie Gentry * Radiohead * Steve Wynn * Sun Ra * Jimi Hendrix * Billy Bragg * Carlos Gardel * Billy Joe Shaver * Joy Division * Tom Verlaine * Buddy Holly * Aimee Mann * Minutemen * Dolly Parton * Pere Ubu * Astor Piazzolla * Lydia Lunch * Thelonious Monk * Cranes * Steve Forbert * Charlie Parker * Bow Wow Wow * James Brown * Robyn Hitchcock * Joe Ely * Los Lobos * Björk * The Smiths * Flaming Lips * Van Morrison * Iggy Pop * Jackie McLean * My Bloody Valentine * Big Star * Meat Puppets * The Beatles * Stereolab * Matthew Sweet * Los Van Van * Kate Bush * Fountains Of Wayne * Radney Foster * The Marhsall Tucker Band * Tom Russell * Charles Mingus * Wilco * Bauhaus * Serge Gainsbourg * Paul Westerberg * The Band * Tori Amos * Doc Boggs * The Feelies * Sonic Youth * Bruce Springsteen * Nick Drake * Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers * Maria McKee * The Residnets * Townes Van Zandt * Massive Attack * John Lennon * George Harrison * They Might Be Giants * Merle Haggard * Eric Dolphy * Mink DeVille * Steve Earle * Tito Puente * Dar Williams * The Cure * My Morning Jacket * Bob Marley * Alejandro Escovedo * Led Zeppelin * Son Volt * Steve Reich * Lynn Miles * OMD * Jayhawks * Skid Row * Joni Mitchell * Cecil Taylor * Ride * Alison Kraus & Union Station * The Kinks * Daniel Johnston * The Jam * Neil Diamond * Metallica * Everything But The Girl * Freedy Johnston * X * Billie Holiday * Gram Parsons * Ennio Morricone * Caberet Voltaire * Rolling Stones * Caetano Veloso * Everly Brothers * Flat Duo Jets * Tom Waits * Frank Sinatra * Slint * Eagles * Camper Van Beethoven * Marianne Faithfull . . . and the list goes on . . . . . . Recent faves include Iron & Wine * Delays * Tift Merritt * Dogs Die In Hot Cars * Devandra Banhart * Cat Power * Stars * Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter * !!! * The Hold Steady * M.I.A. * The Go! Team * Richard Hawley * Bloc Party . . . . . . . . . *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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.... .... Andy Warhol Documentary *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ~~~ Feasting on Asphalt ~~~ *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Best Week Ever, Man vs. Wild, Project Runway, Six Feet Under. . . I like VH1, National Geographic, History and Travel channels. I also love TMC. I still laugh at Seinfeld. I also enjoy documentaries (a lot), clips programs, countdown shows, small amounts of news, New Wave Theatre, bizarre public access programming...
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I wish I had more time to read! Favorite authors include: Willa Cather * Ford Madox Ford * Milos Kundera * Raymond Chandler * Pablo Neruda * Fyodor Dostoevsky * Jane Austen * Herman Melville * Nathaniel West * Henry Miller * Plato * Virginia Woolf * Ernest Hemingway * Garcia Lorca * Dylan Thomas * Eudora Welty * Søren Kierkegaard * William S Burroughs * Paul Horgan * Wendell Berry * Thomas Hardy * Jorge Luis Borges * Edgar Allan Poe * Jean-Paul Sartre * Arthur Rimbaud * Delmore Schwartz * Emily Bontë * Phillip K. Dick * Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez * Langston Hughes * John Steinbeck * Jersey Kosinski * Kurt Vonnegut Jr. * Zane Grey * Friedrich Nietzsche * Edward Abbey * Anton Chekhov * D.H. Lawrence * Mark Twain * Albert Camus * Noam Chomsky * John Keats * Henry James * Nathaniel Hawthorn * Louis-Ferdinand Céline * Theodore Dreiser * Charles Dickens * Herman Hesse * Iris Murdoch * Jack Kerouac * Georges Perec * Simone de Beauvoir * Saul Bellow * Frank Norris * Howard Zinn * Miguel de Cervantes * José López-Gastón * Neal Cassady * Vladimir Nabokov George Orwell * William Shakespeare * J.D. Salinger * Jorge Amado * Rainer Maria Rilke * William Faulkner * Camilo José Cela * John Dos Passos. I am reading more non-fiction than ever before. For pictorial literature, I love Neil Gaiman and Los Hermanos Hernandez. I read the Weekly Alibi and some magazines: Paste, Magnet, Rolling Stone, National Geographic and I admit I have a weakness for EW (don't judge me). *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
I like to take pictures. . .
Albuquerque and the Sandia Mountains.
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