Love the ocean.Music, travel, culture, people, and waves; ocean and sound. Common ground, honesty, people who smile with their eyes, humble souls, listeners, and hope.
Open... Musicians, music lovers, mystics, travelers, funny, fun and otherwise interesting people. Thich Nhat Hahn.
Meat Puppets, Boomtown Rats, Blonde Redhead, Buena Vista Social Club!, Bad Brains, John Doe, Xene, X, The Knitters, Bela Fleck, Mike Watt, The Minutemen, Firehose, The Vandals, The Descendants,Adolescents, Black Flag, TSOL, Dead Kennedys, The Cramps, The Damned, The Plimsouls, Chrissie Hynde, The Blasters, Dave Alvin, The Clash, The Police, The Pixies, The Pogues, Joy Division, The Housemartins, The Connels, The Shins, The Ramones, Patti Smith, Velvet Underground,Ben Kweller, Sonic Youth, Elliot Smith, Fishbone, The Specials, The Smiths, The Jam, Paul Weller, The Beatles, Radiohead, Murmer and earlier REM, earlier Peter Gabriel with Genesis, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Prince, The Near Dark, Ray's Vast Basement, Elvis Costello, Jason Mulvaney, Jack the Brave, Havalina Rail Co. , Sugar Cubes, Tom Waits, Mars Volta, Talking Heads,The Killers, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Stevie Harris, Ray Charles, The Four Tops, Billy Bragg, Bob Dylan, Woodie Guthrie, Leadbelly, Hank Williams, Robert Johnson,Son House, Lightnin Hopkins, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Carl Perkins, Elvis,Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochrane, Cab Calloway, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix, Wilson Pickett, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Bill Withers, Otis Redding, Smokey Robinson, Ken Boothe,* Lee Scratch Perry*, The Upsetters, The Melodians, Dennis Brown, Skatalites, Alpha Blondy, Ooklah the Moc, Humble Soul, Toots and the Maytals, Half Pint, King Tubby, Black Uhuru( Red and Black Sounds of Freedom), Gregory Isaacs, Mutabaruka, Cocoa Tea, Sister Carol, The Scientist, Israel Vibration, LKJ, Culture, Bob Marley, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Jurassic 5, Prince, Outkast, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Stevie Wonder, Buena Vista Social Club, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ozomatli, Kinky, Paco De Lucia, Caetano Veloso, Chaka Khan, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Nina Simone, Erykah Badu, Billie Holiday, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Mary Wells, James Brown Band, Johnny Marr of the Smiths, Jeff Buckley, White Stripes, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, early Stones, Brad Nowell and Sublime, The Ziggens, Krs-one, Boogie Down Productions, Sugar Hill Gang, Rakim, Public Enemy, Johhny Cash, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole(Bruddah Iz), Gabby Pahinui, Hui Ohana, John Cruz, Ben Harper, G.Love, Jack Johnson, BeachBoys album Pet Sounds, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Count Basie, Andre 3000, Django Reihnhardt; love that gypsy shit! silversun pickups, great northern, rodrigo and gabriela, arctic monkeys, bloc party
The Harder They Come,Kaneto Shindo's films, Akira Kurosawa film's, all of Miyazaki's animated shit, Onibaba, Usual Suspects, The Power of One, Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle, Empire of the Sun, Basquiat, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Harold and Maude, Charlie Chaplin, Three Stooges, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Bonnie and Clyde, Valley of the Dolls, It's a Wonderful Life, Big Fish, Taxi Driver, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Tombstone, Thunderheart, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Reservoir Dogs, Riding Giants, Princess Bride, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Monty Python's Holy Grail, Anchorman, Shawshank Redemption, Chariots of Fire, Almost Famous, Essential Clash,Westway to the World(The Clash), Superfly, Pootie Tang, American Graffiti, Bugsy Malone, Frida, Radio Flyer, The Outsiders, Pay It Forward, American Me, Stand and Deliver, Riding Giants, Green Iguana, Bunyip Dreaming, Endless Summer... Bridget Bardot, Twiggy, Audrey Hepburn, Anita Eckberg, Sophia Lauren, Natalie Wood, Shannyn Sossamon,Julia Ormond,Audrey Tautou, and Zhang Xi Yi.
...not a fan.
All of *Thich Nhat Hahn*, Shunyru Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginners Mind, The Stranger by Albert Camus,Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, The Log from the Sea of Cortez and anything else by Steinbeck, Dharma Bums and all the rest of Kerouac, Siddhartha and Steppenwolf; both by Hermann Hesse,Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilych, *The Wind-up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami*, Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins, Chronicles by Bob Dylan,Kierkegaard, Ginsberg, Burroughs, T.S. Eliot, Henri Nouwen,C.S. Lewis, Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway,small doses of Bukowski, all Shel Silverstein, all Dr.Seuss
Hong Kong Phooey,Inspector Clouseau , Bruce Lee, Greg Noll, Gerry Lopez, Thich Nhat Hahn, anyone who practices awareness/mindfulness or meditates for peace and understanding( counter-cultural shit like that), peacemakers, Jesus, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas,Emporer Haile Selassie, Robert Nesta Marley O.M., Mother Teresa, Thomas Merton Thich Nhat Hahn - Mindfulness
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