honesty+++being shaken out of my comfort zone+++kissing+++why the world works the way it does---why it often seems not to work at all+++being naked (with or without you)+++bicycles+++emotional outbursts in public places+++===reading between the lines ===+++people who aren't afraid to admit that they were wrong---including myself+++children who say inappropriate things in public places+++books that won't let me stop reading them+++potlucks+++sex+++morning sex+++the first sunny days in portland+++and the rest of them+++getting used to the rain+++loving the rain+++living with a dog+++
the buddha. or for that matter, any buddha.
99 red balloons, bruce springsteen's 'nebraska', bright eyes, nina simone, bjork, stevie wonder, the pixies, ween, leonard cohen, bob dylan, johnny cash, rufus wainwright, billie holiday, nick drake, jonathan richman, coco rosie, tom waits, iris dement, the flaming lips, billie holliday, the beatles especially after they ate acid, mixed tapes from tyler, catching that song on the radio that you would never pay for but you just gotta turn up loud, peggy lee, frank sinatra, john coltrane's a love supreme saved my life one night.
INTO THE WILD, across the universe, black snake moan, star wars (there are only three), the breakfast club, ghost dog, american beauty, nine to five, the world according to garp, some kind of wonderful, amalie, the royal tannenbaums, anne of green gables, david lynch, the coen brothers and anything with Harry Dean Stanton or Bette Davis.
most television can fuck off. however...the colbert report, the daily show, twin peaks, wondershozen (SO fucked up).
NOW IS THE HOUR and the man who fell in love with the moon BY TOM SPANBAUER, song of soloman, tar baby and beloved by toni morrison, finite and infinite games by james p. carse, conversations with god, middlesex by jeffrey eugenides, biographies of inanimate objects and/or theoretical concepts, KURT fucking VONNEGUT!, to kill a mockingbird, HERMAN HESSE, you are being lied to, a people's history of the united states by howard zinn, the power of myth by joseph campbell and bill moyers,
me and you