Yoga, Music, Skiing, Hiking, hanging out with my friends, Live Music!!!, Snowboarding, Skateboarding, Guitar, Drums, Singing, Reading, Poetry, Prayer, Meditation, Reiki, Anything that involves snow, the Stumbling Monk, Cooking, The Stares, Road Trips, Sunday Morning Diner Action, Perusing Bookstores, Good Coffee, Movies, Good Theater (even musicals!), Opera, Languages, Mysticism, Asian and Latin American Culture, Spain, India, Canada, Hare Krishna, Hare Rama, Hare Hare!!
My Higher Self!
The Stares, Bob Dylan, Bhagavan Das, Mono (from Japan), The Eternal Pause, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Smiths, Radiohead, Krishna Das, Modest Mouse, Jai Uttal, Nikhil Banerjee, Low, My Bloody Valentine, Blonde Redhead, Pearl Jam, Loop Guru, The Shins, Bright Eyes, MDC, The Skyflakes, Mogwai, Tamarind, Deerhoof, Led Zeppelin, Built to Spill, Alice in Chains, The Vines, Frank Zappa, Fugazi, Sigur Ros, Nirvana, m Ward, Jeff Buckley, Anoushka Shankar, Cat Power, DRI, Flaming Lips, Travis, Elliot Smith, Mazzy Star, The Eels, Tom Waits, Marvin Gaye, The Doves, Neko Case, Ramones, The Black Watch, Cream, The Crystal Skulls, Velvet Underground, Guided By Voices, Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Who, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Pelican, Johnny Cash, Subhumans, The Stone Roses, JFA, Yo La Tengo, Bob Marley, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sonic Youth, Buddy Holly, Misfits, The Youngs, Stereolab, Jimi Hendrix, Jesse Sykes, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, The Grateful Dead, Fire Theft, Arctic Monkeys, Badly Drawn Boy, Woody Guthrie, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Arcade Fire, Phish, Jimmy Eat World, Bill Monroe, Kinski, Richard Hawley, Dandy Warhols, transPacific, Pink Floyd, Mission of Burma, Morrissey, Chris Whitley, Bad Brains, Apples In Stereo, The Clash, Tim Buckley, Pavement, Television, Olivia Tremor Control, George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Beck, These Arms Are Snakes, Decemberists, Pedro The Lion, John Lennon, The New Pornographers, Minus the Bear, Death Cab For Cutie, J Tillman, Dinosaur Jr, Math & Physics Club, Explosions in the Sky, George Harrison, Widespread Panic, Regina Spektor, Dead Kennedys, Mercury Rev, Franz Ferdinand, John Vanderslice, Beatles, Carrie Clark, The Go! Team, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Sufjan Stevens, Sant-Saenz, Spoon, Broken Social Scene, James Whiton, Red Sparowes, Petracovich, Nada Surf, Cursive, Claude Debussey, Igor Stravinsky, Ryan Adams, Aaron Copeland, Maurice Ravel, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Kelley Stoltz, etc.
The Big Lebowski, A Shortcut to Nirvana-Kumbh Mela, Spinal Tap, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind, The Straight Story, Finding Neverland, The Royal Tenenbaums, Capote, Rockers, The Breakfast Club, Sideways, Pink Floyd-Live at Pompeii, Led Zeppelin-the Song Remains the Same, Don't Look Back, Amelie, Young Frankenstein, Fear of a Black Hat, American Beauty, The Princess Bride, Little Big Man, Koyaanisquatsi, Decline of Western Civilization, No Direction Home, Walk the Line, U.S. vs. John Lennon, any Akira Kurasawa, etc.
Less and less of this illusion, but in general: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Roswell, The Practice, Angel, Family Guy, Mash, Simpsons, Ghost Whisperer, Close to Home, That 70's Show, Lost, Meet the Press (go Tim Russert!), Numbers, etc.
The Monkey Wrench Gang-Edward Abbey, St. Francis of Assisi-Nikos Kazantzakis, It's Here Now(Are You?): A Spiritual Memoir-Bhagavan Das, Finnegans Wake-James Joyce, Kokoro-Soseki Endo, The Da Vinci Code-Dan Brown, The Oz books-L. Frank Baum, Into Thin Air-Jon Krakauer, Autobiography of a Yogi-Paramahansa Yogananda, Knulp, Narcissus and Goldmund, Siddhartha-Hermann Hesse, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions-Richard Bach, In Our Time-Ernest Hemingway, The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac, A Separate Reality-Carlos Castaneda, Be Here Now-Ram Dass, Brave New World-Aldous Huxley, Tilopa's Song of the Mahamudra, The Bhagavad Gita, Peace Pilgrim, Being Peace-Thich Nhat Hanh, Be Here Now-Ram Das, Maharaj-Sriman Tapasviji Maharaj-T.S. Anantha Murthy, The Riddle of this World-Sri Aurobindo POETRY-W.B. Yeats, John Keats, Rumi, Walt Whitman, Lawrence Ferlingetti (thanks, Dijih!), Robert Hunter, Erica Jong (thanks again, Dijih!), Allen Ginsberg, Rabindranath Tagore, etc.
Mom, Bhagavan Das, Ram Das, Neem Karoli Baba, Jesus Christ, Lama Thubten Yeshe, Tenzin Gyatzo-His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Mata Amritanandamayi-Ammachi, Sri Shiva Bala Yogi Maharaaj, Sri Karunamayi--Amma