Art, Altered States, Asian Food, Indian Food, Giant Squid, Buddhism, Culture, Chuck Taylors, Skinny-dipping, Coffee, Gardening, Plays, Seeing Bands, Tanqueray, Cooking, The Beach, Thrifting, Sci-fi, Enlightenment, Dimly Lit Bars, Lentils, Meditation, Utopias and Dystopias, Wine, Robots, Modernism, Crossword Puzzles, Fantasy, Cats, Bubble Baths, Unpretentious Creative People
Anyone who's real.
Everything from Screaming Jay Hawkings to Los StraightJackets? Massive Attack, Portishead, Lou Reed, The Circle Jerks, Butthole Surfers, Nina Simone, The Flaming Lips, David Bowie, Social Distortion, King Crimson, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, NewFADS, Joy Division, The Cramps, memory-jogging satellite radio stations at my favorite watering holes.
I'm a sci-fi addict... Logan's Run, AI, Twelve Monkeys, Brazil, Laputa, Fantastic Planet, Robot Carnival, Omega Man, Videodrome, Repo Man, The Nightmare Before Christmas, THX1138, A Boy and his Dog, 1984, the original version of On The Beach, Dr. Strangelove, The Day the Earth Stood Still... but other stuff too. The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Rear Window, Citizen Kane, Great Expectations, Arsenic and Old Lace, classic Frankenstein Movies. I like old romantic films, epics, cult, indie and foreign films. I like movies that makes me think. I really like wierd, trippy stuff.
Lost
Ender's Game, 1984, The Left Hand Of Darkness, Brave New World, The Dispossessed, Flatland, A Clockwork Orange, anything Ray Bradbury, Asminov, Orson Scott Card, Ursula K Le Guin, Charles Dickens, Short story sci-fi, books about Buddhism, Paganism, Philosophy... and a mountain of cookbooks.
When I was 14 I had a psychologist who told me, "One day you're going to be old enough to find a life where you surround yourself with cool, intelligent people and you can be free to be yourself. Just hang in there." Love her, cuz she was right.
Georgia O'Keefe
Marcel Duchamp
... and other minds that help expand my perception.