Music, laughter, love, the present moment, unity, mysticism, ineffability, distortion. Any experience that reminds me how to live more openly and to be more balanced (on the surface these two contradict, but they represent a movement that mirrors the erosion of duality). Rhythm, sound, turning, silence.
I'll meet who I am supposed to meet!
Brain Eno, Fela Kuti, Qawwali singers, Bjork, Carcass, Rick James, M.I.A., Herbie Hancock, Televison, No Security, house music all night long (say what?!), the Wedding Present, Nausea, Drop Dead, Grooverider, Municipal Waste, Beastie Boys, Generation X, Tangerine Dream, Gorilla Biscuits, the Rapture, Smith & Mighty, State of Bengal, Sacrifice, Witchcraft, the Mummies, Godflesh, Die Kreuzen, Slint, Life's Blood, Witch Hunt, Iron Maiden, Wrangler Brutes, the Pixies, Pulp, (early) Slayer, Gang of Four, Chain of Strength, Unwound, (early) Crue, Inside Out, Gauze, Groove Corporation, Ms. Thing, Eric B. & Rakim, Don Drummond, Bathory, 7 Seconds, Gris Gris, Some Girls, Lights Out, Reprazent, Trouble, Yabby You, the Velvet Underground, Riffat Sultana and party, Juan Atkins, Celtic Frost.
Windhorse, Gadjo Dilo, Dude- Where's My Car?, High Fidelity, Earth, Spirited Away, Cry of the Snow Lion, the Omen, The Princess and the Warrior, The Killer, Hero, The Exorcist (all four), Triplets of Belleville, Himalaya, Donnie Darko, Latcho Drom, River's Edge, Baraka, The Omen, Believers, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Before Sunset, Spinal Tap, Evil Dead (all three), Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, The Holy Grail, Amelie, Kundun, Fire, The Return of the King.
LIMIT YOUR TV INTAKE!!! (some faves that I watch on DVD) Six Feet Under, Dave Chappel show, Simpsons, X-Files, Talk Radio, Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Death and the Afterlife, The Power Of Now, Crime and Punishment, Absalom!Absalom!, Entering the Diamond Way, Please Kill Me, Midnight's Children, The Name of the Rose, Mystics, Offerings, Think on These Things, The Tao of Pooh, The Alchemist, A Journey In Ladakh, Iconostasis, Circling the Sacred Mountain.
So many people are heroes; we just have to know our potential to be heroic to ourselves and others!