gardening, permaculture, the silence of snow, persimmons, procrastination, medicinal plants, owls, native/indigenous folk and the preservation of their cultures, primitivism, herbal remedies, living off the land(off-grid), workings of the human brain, new music, compost!, climbing of rocks and trees, playing dress up every day, hats, beach combing, harvest moons, the smell of crisp fall nights, mushrooms, garage sales, the wonderful things which silly people throw away, cycling, india, bats, dancing, yoga, cutting my hair, making jewlery, crochet, living in harmony with the rest of the planet
mystical forest creatures, fun musical people to frolic and dance with me,especially in corvallis, honest folk, farmers, people with land, those who want to make a difference oh and mostly old friends of coarse
The Nodding Tree Remedies, Apheliotropic Orchestra, Bjork, CocoRosie, The Dandy Warhols, BJM, Taarka, Trillian Green, Tom Waits, Keller Williams, Grateful Dead, some Phish, Mazzy Star, Kate Bush, Velvet Underground, Electrelane, Beck, Air, Devendra Banhart, Indigo Girls, Joules Graves, Tori Amos, Railroad Earth, The Flaming Lips, TalkDemonic, Ugly Casanova, Radiohead, Johnny Cash, Jazz Mandolin Project, Boards of Canada, The Warlocks, moe., P.J. Harvey, Neil Young, The String Cheese Incident, TchKung, Bob Dylan, and random Irish and Bluegrass tunes...variety is necessity
Harold & Maude, The Real Dirt on Farmer John, The Motorcycle Diaries, Frida, Amelie, Benny & Joon, Gabbeh, Parents, Dark Crystal, Being There, Dead Man, Picnic on Hanging Rock Buffalo 66, Gandhi, You Me and Everyone We Know, Baraka, Cannibal The Musical, Toxic Zombies, Dreams, anything with Kathrine Hepurn and or sexy Carey Grant
One drug I'd rather avoid. Well.... except nature shows.. and Bob Ross is great
Endgame: The Problems of Civilization, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Edible Forsest Gardens, Siddartha, Be Here Now, Many Mansions, I Rigoberta Menchu, Anis Nin, Edward Abbey, Tom Robbins, Leslie Marmon Silko.... also most Books about Native Cultures, Plants, Animals, Ecology, etc.
Uncle Dave for raising happy cows, Rigoberta Menchu, and Mom for doing what she loves and gettin paid, Winona LaDuke