Guitar, music, literature, strange words, Criminal psychology, autism. Fractals and fractal music, serial killers, chess, crossword puzzles, box turtles, music, grammar, felines, selves, normal psychology, streams-of-consciousness, streams-of-subconsciousness, deserts, middle-eastern food, dark hair, extremely bright eyes, string instruments (cello, guitar, violine, violla(sp?))
People who remind me of my idols, influences, and absent loved ones....And new idols, influences, and loved ones.
Bach, Beethoven, Motzart, Pink Floyd, Tool, NiN, Loreena Mckennet. Genres: Folk, Industrial, Rock, Classical, Jazz, old time country, conceptualscores from old and new movies: casablanca, many hitchcock films, braveheart, lost highway etc.
House on Haunted Hill- Casablanca- Rope, Rear View, Vertigo, Psycho- West Side Story- Mildred Pierce- Rebel Without a Cause- The Haunting- The Day the Earth Stood Still- Gone with the Wind- The Little Princess- Plan Nine from Outer Space (thank you mom for opening me up to the world of grade B horror films). Lost Highway, Cry Baby, Sleepy Hollow, The Ring, Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail, A Fish Called Wanda, Twins, Ground Hog Day, Dark City, The Lord of the Rings movies, and the cartoon version of the Hobbit. The Labyrinth, the Neverending Story, Burnt Offerings, Big Lebowski, The Wedding Singer, Something About Mary, A Beautiful Mind, Pretty Woman, Little Man Tate, Silence of the Lambs, Ghost, The Witches of Eastwick, The Shining, Searching for Bobby Fisher. The Fisher King....SAVED! Waking Life, Twelve Monkies.
give me the strength to overcome
Most recently: Siddhartha, Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse, and A play by Beckett called Waiting for Gadot. Extremely Loud and Incredibly close was pretty good also. Kafka's 'The Castle', Frost's entire body of work, Plaith's 'The Bell Jar', Khalil Gibran's 'The Prophet', Bukowski's 'Ham on Rye', Daniel Quin's 'Ishmael', Norman's entire Gor series (holla!) Neruda (various works), Toni Morrison's 'Song of Solomon' and 'The bluest Eye', F Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'. Orson Wells' 'War of the Worlds' (correct me if I'm wrong on that one)Homer's 'The Illiad', The Canterbury Tales and Beowulf (both I've only read exerpts from, but wow) Rumi, some Whitman, Crane, 'Lord of the Flies', 'The Giver', 'A Wrinkle in Time', 'The Time Machine', 'War of the World's, 'Call of the Wild', Much of Poe and Shakespier, including 'Telltale Heart', 'The Raven', 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Midsummer Night's Dream' ---- Short Stories: A Rose for Emily, The Metamorphisis, Araby, A Child's Christmas in Wales, Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, The Gift of the Magi, Lamb to the Slaughter (Roald Dahl), The Monkey's Paw, Sredni Vashtar, The Use of Force, Isabella Eberhardt's entire collection. Text books: Massive change, World Music Volumes I and II.
Hesse, Frost, my pigeon, Janet and Tony Howser, Nidaal Jubran, Khalil Gibran, Isabella Eberhardt, Maynard James Keenan