LOVES
:: Jamie ::
LIKES
:: the love story of Ed and Al :: Ventura, 8/05 :: sight-reading music :: anything cello-related :: my mom's Filipino cooking :: creating :: corduroy :: rice :: the clearance rack :: sushi :: awkward situations :: green tea :: clouds :: gin :: cats that warm laps :: wit :: my silver (not grey) hairs :: minds that wander :: thrift stores :: maps :: nerds :: respect :: irreverence :: aeon flux :: night owls :: geology :: people who are "down" (and i don't mean depressed) :: dusty record stores :: wine :: opening mail :: mod :: redheads :: cooking :: eating :: that moment in between sleeping and waking :: textures :: cultural ecology :: rainy days :: meeting new people :: smurfing :: nature :: mushrooms :: David Blaine :: watching my plants grow :: sharp intellect :: high desert :: whistling :: photography :: genuine people :: sarcasm :: Dali :: napping :: architecture :: self-sufficiency :: hiking :: buttons :: hats (other than baseball caps) :: bike rides :: contradiction :: meteorology :: Pootie Tang :: girls who swear (judiciously) :: learning :: cuddling :: words :: e.e. cummings :: waking up next to someone i love :: being nostalgic :: long drives with no destination :: a dry sense of humor :: a wet sense of humor :: tide pooling :: heavy accents :: the occasional good cry :: alpacas :: socks :: satire ::sexuality :: succulents :: alliteration :: listening to vinyl :: metaphysics :: winter apparel :: sitting beneath trees :: slot canyons :: bumpy dirt roads that lead to ??? :: making people laugh :: making people think ::
DISLIKES
:: intolerance :: bigotry :: stereotypes :: women who feel the need to wear too much make-up (or any whatsoever) :: guys who are assholes :: people who choose to remain ignorant :: complacency :: celebrity (and along those lines --- people who are given too many accolades and are paid wayyyyy too much $$$ for doing something that, in my opinion, doesn't merit it (i.e. pop stars, actors/actresses, "pro" athletes, etc.)) :: leaving messages on answering machines :: peeps wit' no sense of humor ::
FEARS
:: flesh-eating bacteria :: dying without having produced a substantial oeuvre :: losing a loved one before being able to tell them i love them :: going deaf and/or blind (which would be worse?) :: dying without having self-actualized ::
I ADMIRE
:: those who learn outside of school :: self-taught musicians :: those who question what they were taught as a child :: teachers who teach beyond the book :: people who have designed and built their own houses :: indie artists (all genres) :: anyone who can improvise on their instrument(s) :: people who make a living doing what they love :: people who don't care about making a living as long as they're doing what they love :: those who can freestyle :: people who are carefree :: people who don't worry :: people who know what they want to do with their life and do it :: anyone who knows the struggle ::
the girl behind the glasses...
Dmitri Shostakovich, Broadcast, Lou Harrison, Bela Bartok, Benjamin Britten, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Arvo Part, Peaches, John Tavener, Stereolab, Peteris Vasks, the blow, Tracy + the Plastics, Rasputina, Dead Kennedys, Lynn Harrell, Turtle Island String Quartet, Alexander Tcherepnin, Air, Bjork Gudmundsdottir, Erik Friedlander, Abdul Wadud, Mark Summer (TISQ cellist), George Antheil, Gunther Schuller, The Fiery Furnaces, Carlos Chavez, Silvestre Revueltas, Okay, Michael Hersch, Anna Oxygen, Maya Beiser, Darius Milhaud, Hot Chip, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Zoltan Kodaly, Alan Rawsthorne, Gang of Four, Giya Kancheli, Morton Feldman, Morton Subotnick, George Crumb, John Cage, The United States of America, Alan Hovhaness, Gyorgy Ligeti, Ella Fitzgerald, gamelan music, traditional Chinese music (especially erhu), Henryk Gorecki, Can, Virgil Thomson, Erik Satie, Maurice Ravel, Kool Keith, Heino Eller, Nicolas Bacri, Death By Chocolate, Alfred Schnittke, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Richard Danielpour, Gary Numan, Mark O'Connor, Samuel Barber, Miklos Rozsa, of montreal, Harry Partch, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Arnold Schoenberg, Roger Sessions, Milky, Olivier Messiaen, Karol Szymanowski, Igor Stravinsky, Toru Takemitsu, Veljo Tormis, Dr. Octagon, Eduard Tubin, Buddhist chant, professional whistlers, mtkj quartet, Alberto Ginastera, classical music of India, drum and bass, Thelonious Monk, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Devendra Banhart, Peter Sculthorpe, Astor Piazzolla, Kronos Quartet, Arthur Honegger, Jean Sibelius, Vincent Persichetti, Henry Cowell, f.y.p., Joaquin Nin, Maya Beiser, Elizabeth Maconchy, Subhumans, Radiohead, Blonde Redhead, bis, Digable Planets, Abstract Rude, the Grouch, Aceyalone, Blackalicious, The Nonce, Sleater-Kinney, Tricky, Das EFX, Very, Nina Simone, Astrud Gilberto, Andres Segovia, Portishead, Jacques Brel, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Apocolyptica, the pixies, PJ Harvey, Cornelius, Bonfire Madigan, Tattle Tale, traditional Japanese music (esp. shakuhachi), the Need, The Smiths, Diana Krall, Drive Like Jehu, Nirvana, Antonin Dvorak, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Gravy Train, throat singers of Tuva, Cadallaca, Ladytron, Mocket, Heavens to Betsy, Placebo, The Strokes, flamenco, Mary Timony, Make-Up, Aaron Jay Kernis, Monade, Eric Whitacre, Leonard Bernstein, Steve Reich, Glass Candy, Shulamit Ran, Earl Kim, Leon Kirchner, traditional Korean music, Witold Lutoslawski, Krzysztof Penderecki, John Adams, Sarah Vaughan, Fugazi, John Corigliano, Luciano Berio, Gyorgy Ligeti, James MacMillian, Hans Werner Henze, The Cure, Edgar Varese, Aaron Copland, Paul Hindemith, Sonic Youth, Native American music (and I don't mean that synthesized world music schtuff), Michael Tippet, Carl Orff, Federico Mompou, Andre Jolivet, Pierre Boulez, Toby Twining, Charles Ives, Rene Marie, Ernest Bloch, Henry Cowell, Manuel de Falla, Interpol, Sergei Prokofiev, Ottorino Respighi, Claude Debussy, Crass, Le Tigre...