words, images, sounds, my kids, spirituality, nature, hiking, backpacking, camping, daytrips, walks, classical greek, meditation, neuroscience, pacifism, yamaha c3 scooters, vintage magazines and advertising. satire, especially '70's national lampoons. irony, paradoxes and contradictions. laughing. i don't eat animals, well usually.
someone who knows the answer to the meaning of life. someone with no flaws. somebody who's a nobody. a nobody who's become somebody. people who look under rocks just to see what's there. my bizzaro world self. someone who's over a eighty years old, but their hippocampus is fried, so they can't remember anything longer than 15 seconds, and have been this way since the early 1940's.
Prudence, Caution, Deliberation.
The Hermit points to all things hidden, such as knowledge and inspiration,hidden enemies. The illumination is from within, and retirement from participation in current events.
The Hermit is a card of introspection and analysis. You do not desire to socialize; the card indicates, instead, a desire for peace and solitude. You prefer to take the time to think, organize, ruminate, take stock. There may be feelings of frustration and discontent but these feelings eventually lead to enlightenment, illumination, clarity.
The Hermit represents a wise, inspirational person, friend, teacher, therapist. This a person who can shine a light on things that were previously mysterious and confusing.
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Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, 801, Roxy Music, King Crimson, Harry Nilsson, David Byrne, Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson, Adrian Belew, League of Crafty Guitarists, PJ Harvey, The Flaming Lips, Broadcast, Hooverphonic, Cornelius, Ladytron, T-Rex, Iggy Pop, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Tin Machine, Lisa Germano, Bjork, Ann Magnuson, Tori Amos, Daniel Lanois, Beck, Alice Cooper, The Cramps, The B-52's, Fred Schneider, The Muffs, Dead Can Dance, The Damned, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, PIL, Gary Numan, Kate Bush, Siouxie and the Banshees, Agent Orange, Greg Sage and The Wipers, Blondie, Kinks, Who, Led Zep, Stones, Hendrix, Eric Burdon and the Animals, WAR, Lush, Luscious Jackson, My Bloody Valentine, DEEE-Lite, Bob Marley, Pete Krebs, Peter Gabriel, Pre-'77 Elton John, Jocelyn Montgomery, Ravi Shankar, Phillip Glass, Foday Musa Suso, Kronos Quartet, Henryk Gorecki, John Hassell, Wojciech Kilar, Karol Szymanowski, Grazyna Bacewicz, Shastakovitch, Rachmaninoff, Lizst, Satie, Dvorak, Saint-Saens, Chopin, Schumann, Schubert, Mahler, Cecelia Bartoli, Bartok, Beethoven, Mozart, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Jelly Roll Morton, Sonny Boy Williamson, Willie Dixon, Robert Johnson, Sunnyland Slim, Robert Nighthawk, Roy Buchannon. Torch singers, esp. Jo Stafford, Kay Starr, Anita O'Day, Sheila Jordan, Abbey Lincoln; Dave Brubeck, Henri Mancini, Doris Day, Glenn Miller, Stan Getz, Dean Martin. NOTE: No Beatles! Sorry, Chris...
Anything Kubrick, esp. Barry Lyndon, 2001, Dr. Strangelove, Lolita, The Shining. Anything Hitchcock, esp. Rear Window, Vertigo, The Trouble with Harry, Strangers on a Train. Anything with Humphrey Bogart, esp. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Dark Passage, Chain Lightning, Maltese Falcon, To Have and Have Not. Orson Welles: Citizen Kane, Magnificent Ambersons. Grumpy Old Men 1&;2, Catch-22, M*A*S*H, Dead Poets Society, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Neighbors, Vacation, X-mas Vacation,To Die For, The Royal Tenanbaums, The Life Aquatic, Dumb and Dumber, The Burbs, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Most of Woody Allen's work, The Killers, Flight of the Phoenix (original), Silent Running, Desire Under the Elms, Being There, Pink Panther movies, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World; The Russians are Coming, Mildred Pierce, The Postman Always Rings Twice (original). Clint Eastwood westerns, Monty Python stuff, esp. Holy Grail. Old Harold Lloyd silents. Old James Bond flicks. Anything with Ava Gardner in it. What a Goddess!
Try not to watch it. When I do, it's: Mythbusters, Man vs. Wild, Survivorman, Dirty Jobs, Charlie Rose, News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Monty Python, Matlock, Perry Mason, M*A*S*H, Northern Exposure re-runs. Old movies and Looney Tunes cartoons.
Classics, ancient to modern. Favorite authors include: Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Menander, Homer, Plato, Plutarch, Sappho, Herodotus, Epictetus, Ovid, Apollonius Rhodius. The Golden Ass by Apuleius. The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius. Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais. Benvenuto Cellini's bio. Boccaccio's Decameron. Candide by Voltaire. Don Quixote. Scarlet Letter. Thoreau's Walden and The Maine Woods. Leo Tolstoy, esp. Ivan the Fool, The Kingdom of God is Within You, Confessions. Anything by John Steinbeck. Aldous Huxley, especially Heaven and Hell, Doors of Perception, Moksha, Island. Joseph Heller (Catch-22, No Laughing Matter), Erica Jong, James Thurber, Albert Camus: The Plague, The Fall. Sarte: No Exit. Arthur Miller, Edward Albee (Who's Afraid, Zoo story, etc), Dorothy Parker, Anything by Joseph Conrad, James M. Caine, Flannery O'Connor, Ivan Turgenev (Fathers and Sons), New Seeds of Contemplation/Thomas Merton. Green Mansions,The Bell Jar/Sylvia Plath. Ursula LeGuinn/Lathe of Heaven. Confessions of an English Opium Eater by De Quincey. Balzac. W. Sommerset Maugham. Hunter Thompson/ Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. POETS: Mostly French Surrealist, i.e, Apollinaire, Eluard, Superveille, Breton, Desnos, Cocteau, others. Baudelaire, Rimbaud, William Carlos Williams, Howard Nemerov, e.e. cummings, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Dylan Thomas, W.H. Auden, Jim Carroll, Anne Sexton, William Blake, Ray Davies, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg.
Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, Gandhi, Jimmy Carter, Boethius, Socrates, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Aldous Huxley, Man Ray, Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton, James Rosenquist, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, Ferris Bueller, Yossarian.