Writing screenplays and novels, reading, drawing, listening to music, singing, playing guitar and flute, photography, anthropology, social and peace activism, spending lots of time with my family and friends, hanging out on the Oregon coast, in the Four Corners, Santa Fe or in coffeeshops; also promoting research for Muscular Dystrophy, and training service animals, and anything to do with Speech Language Pathology.
all of my creative friends, anyone who is concerned, honest, and willing to improve this campsite we're on.
My music tastes are eclectic (no surprise). Basically I love strong voices with original lyrics that speak truth instead of just meeting a rhyme requirement. Check out my blog or friends and you'll find many of the classics, as well as many newer voices, including many blends of traditional and contemporary such as Dan May, Jack Williams, Keb'Mo, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, indigenous XIT, Gipsy Kings, Los Lonely Boys, James McMurtry, and The Elders for starters! If you would like for me to listen to your music just send it on over! I update my profile song and top friends frequently to feature my favorite musicians, so keep checking in!
Isaac Johnson
Just about any Johnny Depp movie, especially Chocolat. Milagro Beanfield War, Spinal Tap, Pow Wow Highway, Smoke Signals, Dreamkeeper, Doe Boy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, What Dreams May Come, Prairie Home Companion, Goodnight-Good Luck, Harvey, It's a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night, Bringing Up Baby, Princess Bride, Monty Python's Holy Grail, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Color Purple, Star Wars, Crash, all of Charlie Chaplin's movies, Philadelphia Story, Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, Pride and Prejudice (BBC), Sense and Sensibility, Fargo, Raising Arizona, The Great Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou?,....The Last Waltz and more
The Simpsons, Dark Shadows, Animaniacs, Keeping Up Appearances, As Time Goes By, Mr. Bean, Dr. Who, Monty Python, Mulberry, PBS, The History Channel, The Dog Whisperer, Austin City Limits, Mystery Science Theatre, Conan O'Brien, Craig Ferguson, and Jon Stewart's The Daily Show and....The Muppet Show!
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Anything by Shakespeare. Ceremony, Fools Crow, Sherman Alexie's books, The Faerie Queene, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chocolat, Ishmael, all of Joseph Campbell's and Octavia Butler's books, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, Catch 22, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Joy Luck Club, Housekeeping, Frankenstein, anything by Keats, Shelley, most of the WWI poets especially W.Owen, Ann Petry's books...and of course anything by my lovely and talented family member Kat Richardson (Greywalker series)
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The short list in no particular order: The young Chinese man who stood ALONE against the tanks in Tienanmen Square; independent thinkers and honest lovers, everyone who makes a positive difference in the world; Jesse, Jared, Alex, Djinn, Josh and Josh, Stephen, the Jennifers, Hebah, and siempre toda mi familia y amigos... and Abby Ebbers the Wonder Dog (my son's service dog), Nelson Mandela, Joan Baez, Sidney Poitier, Leonard Peltier, John Trudell, Don Cheadle, John Prendergast,Gov. Bill Richardson, Sen. Obama, Aphra Behn, Oprah, Bono, Sting, Sir Paul, Zora Neale Hurston, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, Lincoln, Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Alice Walker, Galileo,Immaculee Ilibagiza, my mentors, and probably you too because you're taking the time to read this! Thanks! Now go and be great!