speaking in tongues, breath, angles of light, shadows, long walks through unfamiliar surroundings, mythological psychology, film, birds, cumulus, music, the anatomy of the day, getting lost and being found, dancing, reverb, echoes, rocks, botanical organisms, color, recycled objects, prayer, originality, eccentricity, cosmology, the various layers of consciousness, love, sex, languages, landscapes, miracles, redemption, connecting, catalysts, travels, illusions, paradigms, ghosts, tattoos, journals, synchronicity, fractals, dreams, meteorological events, string theory, internal alchemy, communication, teachers, books, travelling, challenges, fears, invisibility, creatures, storytelling, humility, honesty ..
anyone who flips the script and redirects the perspective...musicians, painters, singers, writers, sculptors, pilots, enzymes, flux capacitators, inventors, bards, story tellers, fire breathers, hermits, mentors, shadow boxers, pilgrims, pen pals, physicists, acrobats, hobos, theorists, theologists, healers, psychics, divers, carpenters, mothers, fathers, born agains, dancers, mixologists, investigators, investors, farmers, producers, shamans, monks, climbers, beekeepers, scientists,ninjas, superheroes, monsters, nomads, architects, illusionists, escape artists, alchemists, scribes, linguists, translators, weldors, protagonists, believers, skeptics, hunters, counsellors, gardeners, sailors, luminaries, diplomats, matadors, tailors, cheerleaders, prototypes, locksmiths, tricksters, geologists, navigators, engineers, pioneers, scouts, trackers, survivalists, ringleaders, guests, scholars, avatars, chameleons, discoverers, mechanics, breatharians, elders, designers...
Le Loup, Jose Gonzalez, M.I.A., Tony Allen, The Books, J Dilla, Dimlite, Jamie Lidell, DJ Vadim, Dudley Perkins, Fat Freddy's Drop, I'm Not A Gun, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Spektrum, Modeselektor, JRK, Lusine, LCD Soundsystem, My My, Planningtorock, Shawn Lee, Booka Shade, Bonobo, Radio Citizen, Tipper, Colleen, Marsen Jules, Amel Larrieux, Amon Tobin, Apparat, Marie Sioux, Brightblack Morninglight, Deru, Bjork, Edan, One Self, Blackalicious, John Vanderslice, Prefuse 73, Spacek, Midlake, Telefon Tel Aviv, Lifesavas, Stevie Wonder, Out Hud, Bent, Joni Mitchell, David Bowie, Nobody, TV On The Radio, De La Soul, MF Doom, Four Tet, Sufjan Stevens, John Tejada, Brian Eno, Count Bass D, J-Live, Roots Manuva, Aceyalone, Abstract Rude, The Strange Fruit Project, Asheru and Blue Black of the Unspoken Heard, Autolux, Beck, Caribou, Daedelus, Sister Nancy, Ammon Contact, RJD2, Mos Def, Aloe Blacc, Nino Moschella... various mixes made by me or friends...more more more!
Cabeza De Vaca, Nijinski, Touch The Sound,Off The Map, The New World, The Run Up, Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus, The Squid And The Whale, Junebug, Sucker Free City, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, Fresh, Legend of 1900, Delicatessen, Amelie, Run Lola Run, I Heart Huckabees, The Life Aquatic, Three Kings, Freestyle, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, Short Cuts, Girl On A Bridge, Riding Giants, The Corporation, Chi-Wae-Son(Painted Fire), Donnie Darko, Farinelli, High Heels, Live Flesh, The Motorcycle Diaries, City Of God, Fist Of Legend, Baraka, The Five Obstructions, Pootietang, Hate, Rivers and Tides, Ghost In The Shell 2, Shapes Of The Invisible, Winged Migration, Air Guitar Nation
epic mythological series like Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, and HBO series tend to redeem the power of this otherwise vacuous beast...and Discovery's Planet Earth should be required viewing.
Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions, A Language Older Than Words, The Shell Collecter by Anthony Doerr, The Man In My Basement by Walter Mosely, Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster, Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, Italo Calvino, Einstein's Dreams, Annie Dillard, Snow Crash and The Diamond Age(or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer) by Neal Stephenson, Herman Hesse, Carl Jung, David Whyte, Cormac McCarthy, Haruki Murakami, The Botany of Desire, The Secret Life of Plants...Poets: Rilke, Neruda, Charles Wright, Galway Kinnell, Mary Oliver, Rumi, Hafiz, Oliver Grimball, D.H. Lawrence, Dante, Saul Williams, Whitman, Antonio Machado
anyone courageous enough to be themselves