not cynicism or calculus.
jim henson and YOU!
PORNADO!, DAWN IULG, DETHOLZ!, BABY TEETH, iron and wine, animal collective, steve reich, terry reilley, george crumb, , over the rhine, ryan adams, graham parsons, gillian welch, lucinda williams,the sea and cake, sigur ros, godspeed! you black emperor, billy joel, jim o'rourke, wilco, anoushka shankar, red red meat, journey, whitney houston, Musicals!-- esp Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Into the Woods, and Wicked; Roger Hoover and the Whiskeyhounds, hank williams sr., johnny cash, fruitbats, Caliphone, calexico, laurie anderson,Pat Benetar. joan jett, the cranberries, john denver, the muppets, sufjan stevens, Cat Power, rufus wainwright, The White Stripes
My Dinner with Andre, The Sacrifice- Tarkovsky, the muppet movie. the princess bride. Indiana Jones, koyaanisquatsi, the stalker, The Color Trilogy, muriel's wedding, disney's robin hood.
sex and the city. arrested development.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (annie dillard), Foul Perfection (mike kelley), Sculpture in Time (tarkovsky), Man's Search for Meaning(viktor frankel),Iron John (robert bly), Air Guitar (dave hickey), One hundred years of Solitude, Audio Culture, The Neverending Story, The Hobbit, The Prydain Chronicles, Til We Have Faces, the unbearable lightness of being, man and his symbols, a natural history of the senses, still life with woodpecker, jitterbug perfume, the importance of being earnest,collections of grimm's and anderson's fairie tales, for the time being, traveling mercies, the cloister walk, The Lord of the Rings.
all of the above