my wife! , water, fire, trees, wind and rain, swells and upwells, humans, felt tips, black drip coffee, photography, anyboard, shitty beer in cans, japanese food, flight, pain, fat pencils on rag paper, potatoes (mashed or fermented), flowers in newspaper, snus, cacti, evolution, taro, licorice, tequila, kweichow moutai, closing my eyes, shiromaguro, change, palak paneer, growth, merlot, plants, orgasms, sounds and smells, blood, understanding, entropypictures of the every day,
insight to tomorrow,
realization of the past
science, space,
religion, belief,
'facts', proven and un-
buildings, bridges,
construction, the urbs,
the aspirations of mankind.
what i don't like: having to go through the trouble of asking myself, "do i know this person?" and then answering, "NO" and having to press that Deny button because you didn't try to talk to me before adding me. if there has never been a personal exchange between you and i OR if i do know you and your profile contains none of your identifying characteristics, don't add me without messaging me! i'm sorry, but the world of personal sites is not the only world, there is still communication and you can't just assemble a huge group of people into a list and think you know them or that they value you. c'mon, you're wasting both our time.
*tremor* *crack* *splinter* *crash*
oh no, my soapbox feel apart!!!
confucious... and concensus
the Masters of Huainan
coriolis and eckman
bohr and fibonacci
currently, lee perry, todd hannigan, tortoise, dire straits, tom waits, john coltrane, cream, brian eno (music for airports and pearl), stevie wonder, tin hat trio, jack johnson (but none of that curious george crap), damien rice, the specials, hot tuna and pitchfork's top 200 of the 60's
anything with the living dead, science fiction or most any drama of any sort. i'm not saying i like it all, but i watch it... oh, and a nice european influence is always a plus (or "pleu" if your prefer)
the TV entertains itself
current-
Wealth of Nations (Smith), aldous huxley biography and Meister Eckhart (very slowly on those 2) and how to make (and avoid eating) high fructose corn syrup.
recent-
the huainanzi, laughter and forgeting (kundera), Elwell's 'macrosociology', pulp, A Scanner Darkly, Suspended in Language-the illustrated life of Niels Bohr and the century he created, The Maxx, The Adventures of Kavalier and Klay (Michael Chabon), The Abarat (Clive Barker), The Dead Emcee Scrolls (Saul Williams)
authors-
charles bukowski, wordsworth, robert lasner, henry miller, bret easton ellis, marvin harris, richard dawkins, seamus heaney, jonathan lethem, robert heinlein, chuck palahniuk, thoreau, orwell, huxley, kahlil gibran, tom robbins, lao tzu (and chuang too), clive barker, berke breathed, phillip k. dick, bill waterson...
"before curiousity kills it, the cat learns more of the world than a hundred uninquisitive dogs."
-Tom Robbins