Music (see below), art (especially surrealism, german and austrian expressionism, cubism, sculpture), favorite artists include Duchamp, Dali, Rodin, Schiele, Grosz, Man Ray, Beardsley, Giacometti, Brancusi, Kahlo, Kokoschka, Dix, Kandinksy, and most of all, my grandfather's paintings/drawings, I love to work with charcoal and pastels and am now learning oil painting, I also like photography, graphic design, love love love traveling (next stop? Australia!), playing guitar and the piano, dancing, great food/wine, cooking, being outside, movies, yoga, meditation, jogging, vegetarianism, reading, animals, plants/gardening, restoring furniture, genealogy (ancestry includes french, german, swiss and native american), sewing, exploring life, ahimsa, making everyday count, challenging myself, meeting people, laughter, laughing and being a goofball, energy of all living things, and awareness. Life is way too short...play hard. Make everyday count. Smile. Laugh. Love. xo
Laughing babies...they've got the right idea...
...more people who dance like this...
...French guys like these two...
...and little speed freaks!
And look: my Pop is in cyberspace!
Too much to list here but my favorites are Underworld, Jamiroquai, Alpha, David Sylvian, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Koop, Zero 7, Air, The Sundays, Telepopmusik, St. Germain, Basement Jaxx, Aqualung, Erykah Badu, Joy Division, Radiohead, Cinematic Orchestra, Eighty Mile Beach, Federico Aubele, Stereophonics, Curve, Happy Mondays, Dead Can Dance, Leftfield, Lo Fidelity Allstars, Portishead, Starseeds, Sia, Bebel Gilberto, Prince, Oasis, My Bloody Valentine, Pailhead, Ruby, Social Distortion, Love and Rockets, Tones on Tail, The Doors, Tindersticks, Johnny Cash, Djivan Gasparyan, X-Ray Spex, Siouxsie, Killing Joke, Esthero, Weekend Players, Skinny Puppy, Cab Voltaire, The Stranglers, Adam and the Ants, Death in Vegas, Iron and Wine, Arvo Part, The Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Cocteau Twins, Hem, Revolting Cocks, Yello, Thievery Corporation, D and K, Jill Scott, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Mazzy Star, Hope Sandoval, Opal, Massive Attack, Camper Van Beethoven, Everything But the Girl, Fatboy Slim, Keoki, DJ Shadow, BT, The Killers, Ida, Blonde Redhead, Jimi Hendrix, Blue Six, The Verve, Jane's Addiction (early stuff), Pixies, early punk, The Fall, Rolling Stones, PJ Harvey, Beastie Boys, Elvis Costello, ambient, house, techno, tribal, trance and electronic grooves, music that moves my soul or shakes my bootie, old Blue Note jazz, the vocals of Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin and Abbey Lincoln, Miles Davis, Lee Morgan, Thad Jones, Charlie Parker, Jimmy Giuffre, BB King, John Lee Hooker, Wynton Kelly, Chopin, Schubert, Beethoven, Satie, Cole Porter, John Lurie, Laurie Anderson, Tom Waits, Joe Frank spoken word, KCRW, deephousepage.com, radiolab, and on and on and on. What ever happened to Brave New Wave? Check out my friends on this site...they have great taste in tunes and have turned me on to some amazing stuff!
Betty Blue, Run Lola Run, Wings of Desire, The Shining, Psycho, Some Like it Hot, The Apartment, Trainspotting, Gegen die Wand, The Hunger, Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory (original version), Jubilee, Until the End of the World, Breathless, A Fish Called Wanda, Dr. Strangelove, Mars Attacks, Signs, The Others, Dancer in the Dark, Shaun of the Dead, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Jaws, Cinema Paradiso, A Room with a View, Planet of the Apes (original), Island of Dr. Moreau (original), Delicatessen, The Cook, The Thief, Wife and Her Lover, American Werewolf in London, La Femme Nikita, Meaning of Life, Nosferatu, In the Name of the Father, Sliding Doors, Killing Zoe, Grease, Tous les matins du monde, Blow-Up, Backbeat, Diva, The Sheltering Sky, Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Buena Vista Social Club, Singing in the Rain, Moulin Rouge, Down by Law, Stranger Than Paradise, Spinal Tap, Best in Show, Unbearable Lightness of Being, House of Flying Daggers, Henry and June, Braveheart, The Pianist, old black/white flicks, horror movies, cheesy alien sci-fi...
BBC's The Office, Ren and Stimpy, Monty Python, Land of the Lost, Twilight Zone, AbFab, Arrested Development, Sex and the City, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Flight of the Conchords
Mad Love - Andre Breton; Maldoror - Lautreamont; Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller; Lord of the Flies - William Golding; Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby, Jr.; Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson; Hamlet - Shakespeare; A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess; Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll; Bodymind - Ken Dychtwald; Why I Am Not a Christian - Bertrand Russell; Sign-Talker - James Alexander Thom; the poetry of Robert Desnos, the love letters of Paul Eluard to Gala; and way too many art, design and music books/mags.
You.
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