film, art, love me some outsider art (check out AVAM.org), modern dance, NPR, growing orchids, tibetan buddhism, sushi, thai food, yummy food, yummier desserts, traveling, car shows and rockabilly weekenders knitting, roller coasters, modern primitive, tattoos and nice people (who don't get caught up in local bar gossip). sleeping is nice too...my feather pillows and down comforter rock.
People who aren't mean or terrified of responsibility. People who do what they say they are going to do. Dharma Punx. Terry Gross. Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Visionary Artists. Lovers of good food, wine and cinema!...People who like to go to shows...especially Irish/Punk, Rockabilly and Psychobilly ...and David Belle
listening to irish punk, rockabilly, honky tonk and cellos makes me happy. kt tunstall, neko case, flogging molly, the tossers, straight 8's, leonard cohen,edith piaf, serge gainsbourg, pj harveyreverend horton heat, devics, portishead, mojave 3, gram parsons, lucero, elliott smith, johnny cash, hank williams sr., wayne hancock, nina simone, charles mingus, nick drake, townes van zandt, rahsaan roland kirk, thelonious monk, horrorpops pogues, david gray, patti smith, fugazi, stone roses, murder by death, marianne faithful, nick cave, django, social distortion, mike nessoperation ivy, rocket 350, david bowie
freeze frame (dark, dark, dark irish independent film), girl on the bridgesecretaryhimalaya, battle royale, baraka, motorcycle diaries, donnie darko, ghost world, thumbsucker, crumb, charles bukowski:born into this, rivers and tides, evil dead 2, shaun of the dead, alien, aliens, mean streets, the bicycle thief. all things tom twykerpedro almodovar, woody allen, jean-pierre jeunet, kurosawa, jim jarmusch, wes anderson, david lynch, errol morris and jan svankmejer. old samurai/martial arts flicks, stop-action, documentaries, zombie flicks, spaghetti westerns and italian neorealism.
"…they will there find recorded in black and white, and in color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live. We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable, and complacent. We have a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us then television and those who finance it, those who look at it and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late…But even if they are right, what have they got to lose? Because if they are right and this instrument is good for nothing but to entertain, amuse and insulate then the tube is flickering now and we will soon see that the whole struggle is lost. This instrument can teach. It can illuminate and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it towards those ends. Otherwise, it is merely wires and lights in a box. Good night, and good luck."--Edward R. Morrow"TV is a medium that allows millions of people to watch the same show...while still leaving them lonesome" --T.S. Elliott
1984, the unbearable lightness of being, dharma punxsoft maniacs, diary of an emotional idiot, the lover, dharma bums, on the road, "I dare you, if it is something that you want, to make it come true". - days of war nights of love, fistful of gitanes, if you're afraid of the dark remember the night rainbow. all things jeanette winterson and kurt vonnegut.
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safter in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing". - Helen Keller