Psychology, human behavior, electricity, nonlinear dynamics, computers, music (from techno to emo to slo downtempo), mixing cds for friends, a good story, a powerful movie, a poetic justice, beauty that radiates from within a peaceful person.
Henry David Thoreau: “Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.â€
In his Letters to Milena, Kafka wrote: "One can think about someone far away and one can hold on to someone nearby; everything else is beyond human power. Writing letters, on the other hand, means exposing oneself to the ghosts, who are greedily waiting precisely for that. Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way."
"Embrace the company of those that seek the truth, and run from those who have found it".
"Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed."
- Vaclav Havel
"You say you love life but you escape from it every chance that you get!"
- John Densmore to Jim Morrison
"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."
- Willis Whitney
You hold in your mind a mental picture of yourself. The quality and substance of that picture make all the difference in the actions you take and the results you get.Make that picture brilliantly superb, and your life will follow right along.
Muse, Doves, Death Cab for Cutie, Front 242, Skinny Puppy, Bjork, Tori Amos, Sunscreem, Tricky, Beastie Boys, Heiroglyphics, The Roots, Modest Mouse, MF Doom, The Postal Service, Radiohead, Massive Attack, Sasha, Sander Kleinenberg, Goldie, Freaky Chakra, Future Sound of London, Air Liquide, Mantronik, Orbital, The Orb, Tom Petty, Swayzak, Omni Trio, Portishead, Sia, Zero 7, Mike Oldfield, Stabbing Westward, Snow Patrol, Foo Fighters, Soundgarden, Sigor Ros, Dvorak, Brak, Bassbin Twins, Dubtribe, Rabbit in the Moon, Maxwell, Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, The Doors, Mogwai, Boards of Canada, Tortoise, Timo Maas, Depeche Mode, Larvae, Lamb, Kraftwerk, Rainer Maria, Sarah Brightman, Annie Lennox, Tool, The Used, Finch, Coldplay, Keane, Gorillaz, Fear Factory, Frou Frou, Bright Eyes, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, 30 Seconds to Mars, Josh Wink, Daft Punk, Hybrid, Plump DJs, Artic Monkeys, Aqualung, Modest Mouse, Pink Floyd, Dj Spooky, UNKLE, Biosphere, Thievery Corporation, Saru, Tosca, Matthew Herbert, Four Tet, Drexciya, beatport.com (too many to list)
Amelie, True Romance, Iron Monkey, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Ghost World, Fight Club, Crouching Tiger Hidden Flask, The Corsican Brothers, City of Lost Children, Coolhand Luke, Rules of Attraction, Big Fish, Lost in Translation, The Last Emperor, Ghandi, Lawrence of Arabia, Go, American Beauty, Anything with Christopher Walken, Fifth Element, Dead Poets Society, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Akira, Sideways, Wedding Crashers, Garden State, Shaun of the Dead, David Lynch films, Stanley Kubrick films, Bond films with Sean Connery or Roger Moore, Pan's Labrynth
Ok, I admit it... I watch: Heroes, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Talk Soup, Heroes and the Colbert Report
Dharma Bums - Jack Keruoac, Adobe Pro series Logic Pro, Anthony Robbins - Awaken the Giant Within, Tom Robbins - Jitterbug Perfume Still Life with Woodpecker, Jean Paul Sartre, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", Ayn Rand, Walt Whitman, ee cummings, Ken Kesey, Jim Morrisson "An American Poet"
Stephen Hawking, Bruce Lee, Steve Jobs, Alexander the Great, Galileo, William Shakespeare, Quentin Tarentino, Robert Downey, Jr., The brothers Hartnoll, Tom Petty, David Bowie, Jack Keruoac, Ayn Rand, Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Nikola Tesla, anyone unafraid of public ridicule and willing to improve themselves despite the roaring undertow of placid consumerism.