Reading, writing, drawing, making/watching films, performing, watching performers, philosophy, psychology, mythology, levity, brevity, hiking, camping, making music (OVHC, ASD, Clancy's Angels), reacting, Interzone...
If we live according to the guidance of reason, we shall desire for others the good we seek for ourselves-Spinoza... Word junkies, musicians, artists, geeks, performers, comedians, filmmakers, cartoonists, Sam Shepard, the Dalai Lama. Looking for friends and keeping up with those I already have. Intelligence, a sense of humour and of your own brilliance a must. Bass players always welcome.
Colin MacDonald, The Zeds, Ensemble Sympossium, Larry Norman, Johnny Cash, Trent Reznor, Bootsy Collins, Faith No More, Michael Nyman, Michael Gordon, Frank Zappa, Nine inch Nails, Spike Jones, Canned Hamm, Chuck Dixon, Tool, Tom Waits, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, AC/DC, Public Enemy,July Fourth Toilet, The Wet Spots, Dr. Dre, Jazz, Blues, World (The RealWorld Label), Beatles, Parliament Funkadelic, Koko Taylor, Bang On A Can, Gatemouth Brown, Queen, The Police, Pink Floyd, Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel, Genesis (w/PG), Dead Can Dance, Bjork, Prince, Pixies, Bessie Smith, Big Bill Broonzy, Django Bates, Ray Charles, Henry Rollins, Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker, Boiz n th Noiz, The Smalls, Sugar, Big Sugar, Robert Johnson, The Blues Brothers Band
Federico Fellini (8 1/2), Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker), Wim Wenders(Wings of Desire ), The Marx Brothers, Akira Kurosawa,Ingmar Bergman, Terry Gilliam, Monty Python, Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, Flick Harrison, Jen Cressey, Robert Altman, David Lynch, Film Noir, Orson Welles, Alfred Hichcock, Coen Brothers, Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, 200 Motels, Francois Truffaut, Woody Allen, Mel Broooks, Conan, LOTR, Miyazaki & Studio Gibli, Brothers Quay, Eric Fenton, Jan Svankmeyer, Luis Bunuel, Jean Cocteau (Blood of the Poet Trilogy), Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, heck any of Michael McKean, Sin City, Francois Truffaut, Michael Moore I HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH: 2097, The Trailer, The Box, Marie Tyrell, The Victory Party
Mr. Show, Greg The Bunny, The Tick, The Daily Show, League of Gentlemen, The IT Crowd, Red Dwarf, Black Adder, Robot Chicken, Twin Peaks, Farscape, TV Nation, Discovery Channel RADIO: The Goon Show!! Firesign Theater!!
Spider & Jeanne Robinson (Stardance, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, http://www.spiderrobinson.com/ ), Sam Shepard, The Watchmen (Moore), On the Improvement of the Understanding (Spinoza), The Storyteller's Braid (Torin), The Magus (Fowles), The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov), Puckoon (Spike Milligan), Samuel Beckett, Kurt Vonnegut, Italo Calvino, , CS Lewis, Frank Miller, JRR Tolkien, CG Jung, William James, Kurt Vonnegut JR, William Burroughs
Benedict de Spinoza, Harpo Marx, Spike Milligan, Sam Shepard, William James, Frederico Fellini, Samuel Beckett, Sam Sheppard, Steve Martin, Christopher Walken, Peter Sellers, Jalal al-Din Rumi, Jack Kirby, Will Eisner, Windsor McCay, Theodor Geisel, Bill Watterson, Toshiro Mifune, Akira Kurosawa, The Hamms, Siobhan McCarthy, Lola del Cielo