Poetry, writing, reading, music, photography, art, film, computers/techie gadgetry, road trips, mondering, hiking, long-form improv, various curiosities.
"In the dark of the night, when my family is sleeping,
God talks to me... he jumps right in my body.
He says, 'You are not my friend... and you are not my son.
You're just a little space I'm using... to hide some of my silence.'" ~Jim White
Jonathan Standifird , Mom, Jim White , Beth Hart, Mississippi John Hurt, System of a Down, Maktub , Miles Davis, Dresden Dolls , Ozzy, Scratch Track , Dave Matthews, Brian Rogers, Fiona Apple, White Stripes, CCR, David Lanz, Caroline's Spine, Jason Becker, Live, Danny Elfman, Shawn Mullins, Louis Armstrong, Ani DeFranco, Alice In Chains, Kronos Quartet, Gordon Lightfoot, Candlebox, Blue Man Group, Train, Rachmaninoff, Soundgarden, Drive By Truckers, Alice In Chains, Gorillaz, Howe Gelbe, Incubus, Linkin Park, Rolling Stones, Robert Johnson, Rasputina, Beck, Roger Waters, Pearl Bailey, Charles Mingus, Audioslave, Bob Dylan, Delerium, Ben Folds, Led Zepplin, Tool, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Type O Negative, Cab Calloway, Bach, Dead Can Dance, John Coltrane, etc. and so on
Fall, Brick, Wonderful Days (Sky Blue), I Heart Huckabees, Blade Runner, Young Frankenstein, Little Miss Sunshine, Sideways, Shower, Napoleon Dynamite, Frida, Stone Reader, Bad Santa, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, Dangerous Beauty, Bottle Rocket, Mirror Mask, Grave of the Fireflies, To Kill A Mockingbird, Thank You For Smoking, The Blues Brothers, Born Into Brothels, City Of Lost Children, Cowboy Bebop, Shawshank Redemption, Pi, Cat Soup, Fight Club, Finding Neverland, Suicide Kings, The Princess Bride, SLC Punk, The Usual Suspects, A Clockwork Orange, Grave of the Fireflies, Princess Mononoke, Frequency, Powder, Dickie Roberts, Jacob's Ladder, Happiness, Il Postino, Matchstick Men, Amelie, Naked Lunch, Punch-Drunk Love, School Of Rock, Brazil, Smoke Signals, Clue, The Station Agent, Army of Darkness, Once Were Warriors, Spirited Away, Phantom of the Opera, Magnolia, The Butterfly Effect, Kill Bill, Kill Bill 2, The Prophecy, American Splendor, Memento, Northfork, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, The Nightmare Before Christmas (actually, almost anything by Tim Burton...almost), Resevoir Dogs, Rozencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Strange Days, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Everything Is Illuminated,etc!
Carnivale
Yes. I love books. The smell of books, the feel of books, the feeling of learning from books....Some favs: Anything by: Neal Stephenson, Pablo Neruda, Sandra Cisneros, China Mieville, Christopher Moore, William Hammett, Rumi, Lynda Barry, Terry Pratchett, Lucille Clifton.
A Few Favorite Books: White Noise, To Kill A Mockingbird, Lamb, There's a Wocket in My Pocket, Woman Hollering Creek, The Corrections, Driving Mr. Albert, The Art Of Looking Sideways, Cryptonomicon, Odes to Common Things, Cruddy, Blues For Cannibals, Watership Down, The Underground Man, Manifold Time, Pablo Neruda: Absence & Presence, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Fever Dreams, Quicksilver, The Chicago Manual of Style, Snow Crash, Sex, Drugs, & Cocoa Puffs, Where The Red Fern Grows, When We Were Very Young, The Scar, my dictionary
I don't know about heroes, let's go with inspirations. Mom, Luther Conant III, Isaac Newton, Lucille Clifton, Gottfried Leibniz