intriguing people, books, music, film, damn good food with damn good friends, strong coffee, belgian beer, black licorice, 24-hour diners, writing, arting, urban tomfoolery, thrift stores, hiking and camping, being a bad boy scout, botany, myth/folklore/mysticism, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, converse chuck taylors
people who aren't afraid to live authentically. people who have stepped sideways out of the mainstream. people who have sensitivity chips. drama-free people.
pj harvey, johnny cash, kristin hersh, patty griffin, scout niblett, will oldham, bonnie prince billy, manu chao, au revoir simone, susanna and the magical orchestra, natacha atlas, black rebel motorcycle club, pigeonhed, cocteau twins, this mortal coil, love+rockets, juno reactor, apoptygma berzerk, ministry, the white stripes, new order, t. rex, led zepplin, lisa gerrard, dead can dance, dead or alive, death cab, depeche mode, siouxsie, strawberry switchblade, the cure, the glove, the stone roses, the smiths, cassandra wilson, bedhead, rosie thomas, the innocence mission, sisters of mercy, nitzer ebb, NIN, kmfdm, mlwttkk, gravity kills, download, tricky, erasure, yaz, underworld, anything box, moby, chapterhouse, the october project, the octopus project, sebadoh, folk implosion, circle of dust, the echoing green, massivivid, deitiphobia, massive attack, iron+wine, carissa's weird, peggy lee, billie holiday, cassandra wilson, culture club, kraftwerk, shudder to think, moev, nickel creek, chris thile, yoshida brothers, jennifer knapp, naked raygun, eurythmics, annie lennox, harrod and funck, aterciopelados, caedmon's call, peter gabriel, the tallis scholars, anonymous 4, morcheeba, gossip, beth ditto, peaches, spank rock, von sudenfed, the magnetic fields, bic runga, goldfrapp, bjork, ben harper, violent femmes, leona naess, the postal service, mavis staples, M.I.A., feist, santogold
bagdad cafe, akira kurosawa's dreams, secrets+lies, robot carnival, whale rider, the neverending story, raising arizona, the world of henry orient, saved, big night, wings of desire, donnie darko, the secret of nimh, goonies, watership down, jacob's ladder, my own private idaho, shadowlands, watcher in the woods, jawbreaker, northfork, dune(director's cut), heathers, unzipped, hackers, legend(director's cut), the dark crystal, the living end, the doom generation, totally f*cked up, mysterious skin, chopstick bloody chopstick, the royal tenenbaums, the fisher king, burnt by the sun, ghost in the shell, night of the lepus, angels+insects, the fifth element, what's eating gilbert grape?, returner, pieces of april, faster pussycat kill! kill!, cold comfort farm, serenity, finding neverland, a history of violence, the beaver trilogy, palindromes, transamerica, grindhouse, stardust, the fountain, sunshine, control, juno
Buffy. Supernatural. Six Feet Under. Battlestar Galactica (new).
Authors: keri hulme, anita desai, neal stephenson, iain m. banks, madeleine l'engle, a.s. byatt, c.s. lewis, charles williams, wendell berry, mary oliver, michael ondaatje, antoine de sainte-exupery, sharon olds, flannery o'connor, adrienne rich, douglas coupland, william gibson, ursula k. le guin, susan cooper, david sedaris, lynda barry, dylan thomas, umberto eco, salman rushdie, ray bradbury, eduardo galeano, isabel allende, kief hillsbery, raymond carver, annie dillard, thomas merton, frank herbert, anne lamott, jeanette winterson, wendy + richard pini, francesca lia block, neil gaiman, tad williams, naomi shihab nye, andre norton, rainer maria rilke, michael dorris, carolyn forche, denise levertov, george macdonald, louisa luna, kathleen norris, michael ende, isobelle carmody, garth nix, scott westerfeld, irshad manji, henri nouwen, audrey niffenegger, margaret wander bonanno, elizabeth kostova