Art, writing, reading, music, trees, rocks, air, water, birds, monkeys, baboons, and lists.
I'd like to meet:
Funny people who dig art, music, words, and nature...and have a open mind. People who can disengage from complicated from time to time, and occasionally be present.
Music:
Dylan, Radiohead, Beatles, Arvo Part, Zappa, Miles Davis, Tom Waits, JS Bach, Byrds, Kinks, U2, The Band, Husker Du, John Adams, The Clash, Stravinsky, Lucinda Williams, Mahler, Elvis Costello, Neil Young, Mozart, Wilco, Leonard Cohen, Talking Heads, Sibelius, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Wagner, Kenny Burrell, Elliott Smith, Buddy Holly, John Lee Hooker, Diana Krall, Jimi Hendrix, Debussy, Van Morrison, Ella Fitzgerald, Brahms, Arnold Bax, Vaughn Williams, Velvet Underground, Jonathon Richman, Ornette Coleman, Chopin, Bartok, Beefheart
Movies:
Baraka, Brazil, The Shining, Apollo 13, Office Space, Elephant Man, Death at a Funeral. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Little Big Man, Almost Famous, Wristcutters: A Love Story, Young Frankenstein, Orlando, The Big Lebowski, The Deep End, The Graduate, Spellbound, As Good as it Gets, Fiddler on the Roof, The Jerk, Magnolia, American Beauty, The Godfather, Sleeper, The Razor’s Edge, Lost in Translation, Apocolypse Now, Modern Times, Dances With Wolves, Sideways, House of Sand and Fog, Contact, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, Crash, West Side Story, Wizard of Oz, The Trouble With Harry, Some Like it Hot, Rear Window, Twelve Monkeys, Monkey Business, The Bank Dick, Search for the Holy Grail, Housekeeping, Leaving Normal, Raising Arizona, Ginger Ale Afternoon, The Edge, The English Patient, Bridges of Madison County, The Hours
Books:
Hanta Yo – Ruth Ann Bee
Zuleika Dobson – Max Beerbohm
Turnaway – Jesse Browner
The Watch – Dennis Danvers
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
The Island of the Day Before - Umberto Eco
Time After Time – Jack Finney
The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
Cold Mountain – Michael Frazure
Wild Life – Molly Gloss
Replay – Ken Grimwood
The End of Faith - Sam Harris
Plainsong - Kent Haruf
The Old Man and the Sea – Hemingway
Dune – Frank Herbert
Aztec – Gary Jennings
The Razor’s Edge - W. Somerset Maugham
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Covenant, The Source – James Mitchener
Shipping News – Annie Proulx
Contact – Carl Sagan
The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbit and David Bohm
Stillness Speaks - Eckhart Tolle
Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist – Anne Tyler
Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonigut Jr.
Venus on the Halfshell – Killgore Trout
Saqajawea – Anna Lee Waldo
Islandia – Austin Tappan Wright
A Scientific Romance – Ronald Wright
Heroes:
Mother Teresa, Albert Einstein, Charlie Chaplan, Eckhart Tolle, Pablo Picasso, J. Krishnamurti
