Amused by most things. Interested in anthropology, botany, music, West African drumming and dance (not to be confused with a "drum circle"), being outside (but realizing that “The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring thereâ€), just being, the Absolute and the relative , travel, cooking, intrigued by Parecon, Pacha Mama, hiking and camping (although I rarely get chances to do so these days), playin around with my cheap nylon string guitar, swimming with socialists, chillin with peeps, daydreaming, 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34..., “critically engaged activism†, the culture of "scientific truth," human environmental rights, photography ( photos ), exercise, spicy food, good beer, deconstructing, constructing, simple living, complex thinking, Latin dancing, red wine, cafe con leche, water, and sunshine.
I'd like to meet:
Dalai Lama, Wangari Maathai, Noam Chomsky, Manu Chao, Maya Angelo, and Subcomadante Marcos...although I don't anticipate meeting them on myspace. People who can just enjoy the moment and be open to self-reflection and self-accountability. Dissidents. Revolutionaries. Critical thinkers. Old friends and new ones. Open minded folks. Turn Around Norman.Manu Chao live in Chicago...I'm in the front!(but that's not me screaming, I promise)
Music:
Latin, African, Caribbean, Jazz, Blues, Rock, etc. Some favorites: Manu Chao, Mano Negra, Buena Vista, Afro-Cuban, Neil Young, the Doors, Pink Floyd, Tori Amos, Gillian Welch, Lucinda, Mark Kozelek (RHPs/Sun kil Moon), Calexico, Shakti , Steely Dan, Sergio Mendes, Ali Farka Toure, Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Tom Waits, Manu Chao, Macaco , Yes, MMW, Ozomatli, Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon (and all those he "borrows" from), Cabas, Coltrane, Davis, Bob Marley, Marley's children, Public Enemy, the Police, the Dead, Manu Chao ...I could go onThomas’ Myspace Editor V3.6!
Movies:
ethnographic film, documentaries (especially socio-political stuff), P. Almodovar, S. Kubrick, D. Lynch, M. Scorsese, G. Van Sant, W. Allen, Coen bros, Q. Tarantino, J. Jarmusch, JP Jeunet, A.G. Iñárritu, C. Eyre, and anything with Johnny Depp or Gael Garcia Bernal is bound to be good. Recent favorites: Diarios de Motocicleta, Huckabees, el Sexo y Lucia
Television:
not so much...
Books:
ethnographies, non-fiction, some Taoist and many Buddhist writings, Tom Robbins , James Joyce, Kerouac and all the beat folks, Alan Watts , human rights oriented/critical/activist anthropologists ( P. Farmer , Scheper-Hughs, J. Ferguson, etc), Chomsky, Zinn, Marx, Galeano, Neruda, political ecology, books on plants and plant uses...
Heroes:
Mom, Dad, and Joseph H. Rasmussen (1945-2005)
