I've been here and there. I'm slowly learning how to be nowhere.
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Honest people more interested in truth than bullshit, who have both a sense of humor and a capacity to be serious. People with loving and compassionate hearts but a realistic view devoid of evasive sentimentality. Intense people with a great capacity for feeling who are unafraid to explore the darker corners of life and the mind.
13th floor elevators, beethoven, bjork, blackalicious, bluegrass, blues, butthole surfers, classical music, early pink floyd, electronica, funk, gamelan music, hip-hop, howlin' wolf, indian classical music, johnny cash, kula shaker, leonard cohen, mark lanegan, meat puppets, monster magnet, mozart, neko case, nick cave, nine inch nails, nusrat fateh ali khan, orbital, outkast, parliament funkadelic, patti smith, patty griffin, pj harvey, psychedelia, punk rock, queens of the stone age, sonic youth, southern culture on the skids, spiritualized, the gutter twins, the handsome family, the twilight singers, tom waits, tool, tori amos, vivaldi
12 monkeys, 2001: a space odyssey, 28 days later, about schmidt, a clockwork orange, american beauty, blade runner, clerks, dolores claiborne, donnie darko, edward scissorhands, everything is illuminated, factotum, gerry, hedwig and the angry inch, i heart huckabees, interview with the vampire, japón, kill bill, lost highway, memento, natural born killers, princess mononoke, rivers and tides: andy goldsworthy working with time, schultze gets the blues, spirited away, spring summer fall winter... and spring, the big lebowski, the fisher king, the last samurai, the neverending story, the shawshank redemption, the shining, the thirteenth floor, v for vendetta, whale rider, winged migration, wings of desire, young adam
csi, deadliest catch, law and order, law and order: criminal intent, man vs. wild, mythbusters, nature documentaries, no reservations with anthony bourdain, roseanne, six feet under, the dog whisperer, the golden girls, the sopranos, the tudors, the x-files
a canticle for leibowitz by walter miller, a history of god by karen armstrong, a long way gone by ishmael beah, a lover's discourse: fragments by roland barthes, arctic dreams by barry lopez, bad dog! a memoir of love beauty and redemption in dark places by lin jensen, being nobody going nowhere by ayya khema, beowulf, blue highways by william least-heat moon, cutting through spiritual materialism by chogyam trungpa, do androids dream of electric sheep? by philip k dick, even cowgirls get the blues by tom robbins, everyday zen by charlotte joko beck, factotum by charles bukowski, in the dark places of wisdom by peter kingsley, infinite life by robert thurman, jitterbug perfume by tom robbins, leaves of grass by walt whitman, love is a dog from hell by charles bukowski, luminous emptiness by francesca fremantle, master dogen's shobogenzo, mindfulness bliss and beyond by ajahn brahm, notes of a dirty old man by charles bukowski, nothing special: living zen by charlotte joko beck, on the heights of despair by emil cioran, opening the hand of thought by kosho uchiyama, oryx and crake by margaret atwood, pilgrim at tinker creek by annie dillard, random family by adrian nicole leblanc, reality by peter kingsley, regulating the poor by richard cloward and frances fox piven, songs of innocence and experience by william blake, skinny legs and all by tom robbins, solaris by stanislaw lem, st mawr by d h lawrence, straw dogs by john gray, surfacing by margaret atwood, tao te ching by lao tzu, tears and saints by emil cioran, the bacchae by euripides, the best of roald dahl, the canterbury tales, the compass of zen by seung sahn, the complete illuminated books of william blake, the days run away like wild horses over the hills by charles bukowski, the death of ivan ilych by leo tolstoy, the elegant universe by brian greene, the essential rumi, the great transformation by karen armstrong, the handmaid's tale by margaret atwood, the heart of being by john daido loori, the kingdom of god is within you by leo tolstoy, the light inside the dark by john tarrant, the marriage of heaven and hell by william blake, the myth of sisyphus by albert camus, the oresteia by aeschylus, the perfect crime by jean baudrillard, the spiral staircase by karen armstrong, the three stigmata of palmer eldritch by philip k dick, the selected poems of po chu-i, the wisdom of solitude by jane dobisz, transformation at the base by thich nhat hanh, ubik by philip k dick, walden by henry david thoreau, what men live by by leo tolstoy, when things fall apart by pema chodron, you get so alone at times it just makes sense by charles bukowksi, zen mind beginner's mind by shunryu suzuki
albert camus, ayya khema, cesar millan, charlotte joko beck, chogyam trungpa, emil cioran, henry david thoreau, irvin yalom, jane addams, john daido loori, karen armstrong, leo tolstoy, leonard cohen, margaret atwood, pema chodron, philip k. dick, robert thurman, rumi, shunryu suzuki, taizan maezumi, teresa of avila, the buddha, vimalakirti, walt whitman, william blake