Poetry. Collages (completely analog - x-acto knife and magnifying glass and glue). Reading. Cats. Books. Yoda (I have 18 Yodas on top of an old TV set I hollowed out and turned into a toy cabinet). Vintage paperbacks. Big artist's notebooks with broken spines where I start in longhand and do some of my revisioning. Soulful conversation. 2012. Vintage clothes. Putting off till the day after tomorrow what I could do tomorrow. Cardigan sweaters. Listening to the wind sing.
Interesting people. Poets and painters and filmmakers and sculptors and musicians and novelists and dancers. Old Souls. Freethinkers and lightworkers and the spiritually bereft. Friends from previous lifetimes. Kindred spirits. Friends from future lifetimes. Members of my soul tribe - and members of the soul tribe just over yonder hill - and members of the soul tribe... You - yes, you! I can sense we'll be wonderful friends. Let's have some fun!
Bob Dylan, Kimya Dawson, Fursaxa, Iron and Wine, Everything But The Girl, Eric Andersen, Feist, Velvet Underground, Joan Baez, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Barb Jungr, The Cure, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Elvis Costello, Watercolor Paintings, The Smiths, Magic Gurney Ride, Your Heart Breaks, Phil Ochs, Beach House, Donovan, Emmylou Harris, The Teenage Prayers, Spiritual Family Reunion, Cat Power, Secret Crush Society, Ingrid Michaelson, Blonde Redhead, Regina Spektor
Mulholland Dr., Pan's Labyrinth, Transamerica, Blood of Dracula, Dogma, Choose Me, Masked and Anonymous, Trouble in Mind, Palindromes, Fight Club, Jesus Is Magic, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Lost in Translation, The Children's Hour, The Night of the Iguana (O Courage, could you not as well / Select a second place to dwell...?), Blade Runner, 21 Grams, Pulp Fiction, 2001: a Space Odyssey, Wings of Desire, Juno, Brewster McCloud, The Big Lebowski, Safe, Happiness, Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story, Don't Look Now, Pink Flamingos, Hellboy, Hellboy II: the Golden Army, Household Saints, The Valley of Gwangi, The Dark Knight, Dont Look Back, Harold and Maude, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Hard Boiled, Life of Brian, Hairspray, Lars and the Real Girl, The Rapture, The Pawnbroker, Dogfight, I'm Not There (an exact visual representation of a Bob Dylan song - unwieldly and troubled and disquieting, shot through with amazing beauty and humor), Capote, The Last Wave, Atonement, Bad Timing, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, The Other Side of the Mirror, From the Life of the Marionettes, Brand Upon the Brain!
Angel, Alias, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight Zone, Lost, The Office, WKRP in Cincinnati, Outer Limits, Twin Peaks, Pee-wee's Playhouse, X-Files, Wonderfalls, Thriller, Ally McBeal, Zorro, Saturday Night Live, Yancey Derringer, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Crusader Rabbit, Rocky and Bullwinkle
Nothing in This Book Is True but It's Exactly How Things Are, Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Fray, Letters to a Young Poet, Rumi (he is my Friend), At the Mountains of Madness, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Edwin Mullhouse: the Life and Death of an American Writer (1943 - 1954), Howl, Leaves of Grass, Hunger, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Jesus Christs, Magic for Beginners, Fushigi Circus, Residence on Earth, Wise Blood, License to Carry a Gun, Feeling Very Strange: the Slipstream Anthology, Labyrinths, The Catcher in the Rye, Specimen Days, Crooked Little Vein, Messages From Michael, The Fiend in You, The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories, Buffy (Season Eight), Shanna the She-Devil, Angel (Season Six), A Saucer of Loneliness (the most beautiful short story ever)
The Sword of Compassion sings in your scabbard, the Book of Forgiveness lies open on your table, the Chalice of Wisdom dances in your cupboard - be your own hero.