PHISH! Oh how I miss those boys.. *JAMCRUISE *the summer time *basking in the sun *clouds *sunsets *starry nights *being mesmerized by the moon *fireflies *festival hopping *all things funk *all things flair *creativity *conjuring up costumes *the process of turning a vision into reality *fairy wings *wigs *glitter *powertools *running wire *the smell of sawdust *the smell after it rains *smelling yummy *devouring books *sharing knowledge *sharing moments *possessing hopeless adoration for my fabulous friends and family *people watching while pigeon feeding *putting myself in other's shoes *compassion *empathy *acceptance *epiphanies *learning to embrace the quirks and idiosyncrasies of others, and myself *whistling *my kittycats * animals *not eating animals *furry-eared animal hats *politics *(far)left leaning liberalism *volunteering my time & energy to good causes *pushin' the good vibe *spreadin' the love *smiling, laughing and/or giggling *music that tickles my soul *maintaining amazement at the magic that is
The dreamers, the doers, the shakers & the groovers. Those who keep me on my toes. Those who keep me cracking the f* up. And of course, Angelina Jolie, just so I can gawk at her.Yup.
*In no particular order*..Phish, The Dead, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, moe., The Disco Biscuits, Particle, Umphrey's McGee, Bob Marley, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Greyboy Allstars, Sublime, Animal Liberation Orchestra,Tea Leaf Green, The Velvet Underground, Talking Heads,David Bowie,Scarecrow Collection, Old Crow Medicine Show, Frank Zappa, The Black Crowes, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, The Band, The Allman Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, Galactic, Garage a Trois, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Lotus, The Benevento/Russo Duo, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, MMW, Martin Sexton,Ray LaMontagne,The Spam Allstars,Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Toubab Krewe,Eric Clapton, The New Deal, Perpetual Groove, Deep Banana Blackout, The Postal Service, Brothers Past,Juggling Suns,The Motet, Magic Gravy,Soulive, anything with Les Claypool, Jaco Pastorius, Steve Kimock, George Clinton & P-Funk, The Meters, Dumpstaphunk,The Ominous Seapods, Donovan,MOFRO, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings,North Mississippi Allstars, Col. Bruce Hampton and the Codetalkers/ Aquarium Rescue Unit, Railroad Earth, Robert Walter's 20th Congress, the Jazz Mandolin Project, Gov't Mule, Toots,Steel Pulse, Barrington Levy, Damian Marley, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Fantastic 4, Critters Buggin,The Big Wu, Addison Groove Project, Rusted Root, Simple Kid, Bob Dylan, Neil Young,Laura Nyro, Aerosmith,Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, the Counting Crows, Coldplay, Pearl Jam, Jane's Addiction,Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Audioslave, System of a Down, Blind Melon, Tom Petty, Fiona Apple, Scissor Sisters,The Shins, Modest Mouse, Ryan Adams, Dispatch, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince, Guns n Roses, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Blackalicious, J5, The Roots, Talib Kweli, Mos Def,a Tribe Called Quest, Del tha Funky Homosapien, Digable Planets, KRS-ONE, Eazy E, Snoop Dogg, De La Soul, Gang Star, Lost Boys, Aesop Rock, Lyrics Born, Al Howard, the Beastie Boys,Brazillian Girls, the Chemical Brothers, Ozric Tentacles,RJD2, DJ Venom, Bad Boy Bill, Bassnectar,Sasha, Aphex Twin, Prodigy, Ben Harper, Queen, Gorillaz, DJ Harry, Ozomatli, Zilla, Keller Williams, Brett Dennen, Moonshine Still, Herbie Hancock, The Who, and the list goes on and on and on...Anything that inspires me to bliss out and boogie, sport a ginormous perma-grin and shake my ass. :-)
The Big Lebowski, The Princess Bride, The Neverending Story, Willow, The Sandlot, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Dazed & Confused, To Wong Fu Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar, Almost Famous, Napoleon Dynamite, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Igby Goes Down, Gandhi, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Requiem for a Dream, Empire Records, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Drop Dead Fred, Being John Malcovich, Finding Nemo, Gia, The Sultan Sea, Wayne's World, 40 Year Old Virgin, Old School, Anchorman, Meet the Parents/Fockers, Zoolander, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, BioDome, Son in Law etc..Documentaries such as An Inconvenient Truth, Bush's Brain, McLibel, Paragraph 175, Born into Brothels, Jesus Camp, The Corporation, The US vs John Lennon, Sicko, The Yes Men, Enron:The Smartest Guys in the Room...
FOX news.............Psyche!! Gotcha, just kidding, but really the BBC world news on PBS, CSPAN, the Simpsons, Family Guy, Aquateen Hungerforce, Seinfeld, animal planet, the discovery channel, the history channel, comedy central.. I guess a good chunk of this list is theoretical, I would watch this if I had it- but alas I don't have a television, so 'fuck it Dude, let's go bowling.'
Mutant Message Down Under, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, ...and a hard rain fell, Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern Day Jordan, All Quiet on the Western Front, Lakota Woman, Black Elk Speaks, Walking with Grandfather, Nisa:The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, Hiroshima, 1984, Fast Food Nation, The Wal-Mart Effect, You Got Nothing Coming: Notes from a Prison Fish, Slaughterhouse-Five,The Rape of Nanking, Murder of a Gentle Land: The Untold Story of Communist Genocide in Cambodia,The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi, We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda, Darfur Diaries, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Nazi Officer's Wife, The Essential Ghandi, Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad, A Child Called It, The Color Purple, The Prince of Tides, Kafka on the Shore, Stolen Lives:20 Years in a Desert Jail, The Phish Companion Vol. 1 and 2, Love is in the Earth:A Kaliedescope of Crystals, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, The Autobiography of Malcom X, No One Here Gets Out Alive,The Mists of Avalon, Interpreter of Maladies, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Tuesdays with Morrie.. and mainly anything about different cultures, current events, crimes to humanity, wars and government, and memoirs dealing with those issues.
My Mom, peaceful revolutionaries, and anyone who dares to defy the confines of convention to march to the beat of their own damn drum.