I'm very interested in the human condition right now. What it is that has made some of the most prevalent ailments of American society anxiety and depression, and what that means for the future and what the roots of all this is. How agriculture, technology, some kind of collective consiciousness, the need for mentally organizing a world that exists outside of our means, and I guess the fact that our physical senses can't keep up with what we've created.More generally: the metaphysical (even when it scares me), religion, psychology, politics, science! in general, philosophy, U.S. foreign policy, conceptual math/ physics, playing/ listening to music, PBS, ANIMALS, the 80's, why people are the way they are, writing ideas down- putting them in a box- and never looking at them again, culture, developmental disorders, linguistics, speech pathology, writing after a long haitus, how fundementally fucked up the U.S. is from the roots, a cultural and spiritual renaissance
Bea Arthur, Jane Goodall (oh yeah I did!), Thich Nhat Hanh, my future child, your mom, locate my cat's mother and have them meet on Oprah for the first time after 4 years, Tori for tea in a barn.
Mariee Sioux Anything by Eat The People, Sally Strobelight, Art Lessing and the Flower Vato, White Jazz, Butch vs. Femme, Travis and the Plastiks, Little Teeth, Spires that in the Sunset Rise, Agent Ribbons, the Feathers, Afterbirth, Dead Western, Opal/Mazzy Star/Hope Sandoval/Rain Parade/Kendra Smith, Sybil Baier [my new favorite], ABBA, Radiohead, Gillian Welch, PJ Harvey, Outkast, Erasure, Dolly Parton, Dead Can Dance, T-Rex, Bjork, Joy Division, Peter Schilling, Pixies, Velvet Underground(finally), Chieftains, Sonic Youth, Tori Amos, OMD, Postishead/ Beth Gibbons, Coco Rosie, Mamas & Papas, Ladytron, John Williams, Anything Box, Bauhaus, Simon & Garfunkel, Siouxsie, Cat Power, Dungen, Arcade Fire, Medeival music, Rosemary's Baby S/T, Broadcast, Sing-Sing, little boy choirs that sing in Latin, Jewish/ Mid Eastern music, Irish stuff and that leads us into Blue Grass and old timey American shit... anything with any type of strings when I think about it.
Rain, Dancer in the Dark, Why We Fight, the Corporation, Wet Hot American Summer, Saved, Soapdish, Rosemary's Baby, Super Troopers, Citizen Ruth, Anchorman, AIRPLANE!, Bridges of Madison County, Through the Eyes of Tammy Faye, the Graduate, Bubble Boy, the Piano, Napoleon Dynamite, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lord of the Rings series, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Akeisha, Heathers, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring, Erasure videos- they're the worst, Hideous Kinky, Off the Charts, Baraka, Home for the Holidays, Cement Garden, most movies from the 80's involving Goldie Hawn, Steve Martin, and the likes.
Golden Girls, on time- all the time
The Well of Loneliness, The Secret Garden, A Wrinkle in Time series, Never Ending Story, Momo, Flutes of Fire, The Last Time I Wore a Dress, The Four Agreements, Jane Goodall, Lewis Caroll, Joseph Campbell, Thich Nhat Hanh, David Sedaris, Chartre: Cathedral of the Black Madonna, Templar Revelations, The Gnostic Gospels, anything on conceptual math/ physics, anything about correlations between religion and science, religious texts, Diet for a Small Planet, shit on Linguistics, Chomsky when I have time soon. The Hobbit and then on to the Lord of the Rings.
Heretics, the Magdalene, Jessica, the Naked Preacher Lady, Jane Goodall, anyone who's ever given up the materialistic life, truly loved themselves or turned the other cheek, oh and sometimes I surprise myself.