Writing, reading, wine, fairy tales, music, art, comparative religion, psychology, sociology, environmentalism, ecology, philosophy, alternative medicine, buddhism, vintage books, thunderstorms, bourbon
People who are down with the cause. And, if you don't know what the cause is, you're not down with it.
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Sufjan Stevens, The Weepies, Greg Laswell, The Beatles, Tori Amos, Ben Taylor, Elton John, R.E.M., Bela Fleck, James Taylor, Amos Lee, Johnny Irion, Damien Rice, Cat Stevens, CocoRosie, The Decemberists, Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Frou Frou, Imogen Heap, The Bridges, My Brightest Diamond, Portishead, Elton John, The Police, Genesis, Neutral Milk Hotel, Fleetwood Mac, Head Automatica,Rufus Wainwright, Indigo Girls, Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, Mozart, Vivaldi, Chopin, Paul Simon, Ravi Shankar, Martha Wainwright, Regina Spektor, The Shins, Willie Nelson, Iron and Wine, Ani DiFranco, Ben Folds, Blind Melon, The Books
Amadeus, Big Fish, The Constant Gardener, Howl's Moving Castle, Melinda and Melinda, Me, You, and Everyone We Know, Ram Dass: Fierce Grace, My Neighbor Totoro, Robot Carnival, Nine Lives, Spirited Away, Fucking Amal, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Pan's Labyrinth, The Chumscrubber, Chocolat, Secretary, Thirteen, Junebug
Six Feet Under, Lost
Joan Didion, David Sedaris, Billy Collins, Wally Lamb, Karen Russell, Willa Cather, Alice Munro, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Elizabeth Bishop, Augusten Burroughs, Gita Mehta, Chaim Potok, Ken Wilber
Mahatma Gandhi; Timothy Leary; Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; my brother, Alex; Baba Ram Dass; Ali and Jenna Stafford; my pug, Lucy; and Clementine Tangerine, the magic cat.