Putting to the sword that which drips tears on the cheeks of the voiceless. Watching, from a distance, a vast column of smoke rise up from ruined monuments to arrogance and horror. I have a decided lack of interest in subjects with less than a 10,000 year history of scholarship and discussion. I enjoy wild things, places, words, and philosophies.
Fools and the lovesick. Preferably with the gift of gab. Dancers, martial artists, movers and shakers. Writers and readers. People who don't fear a little sincerity, and a healthy serving of vulnerability.
Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Escape from Witch Mountain. Sin City. Time Bandits. Papillon. Rabbit Proof Fence. Miyazaki anything. the Great Dance: a Hunter's Story. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Labyrinth. Dark Crystal.
That old Sherlock Holmes show with Jeremy Brett. Jim Henson's the Storyteller. The Muppet Show. Fraggle Rock!!! Heat Vision and Jack.
Wisdom Sits in Places by Keith Basso. Anything by Daniel Quinn. Anything by Tom Brown, Jr. Anything by Martin Prechtel. Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay. The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow. Frank Miller's Sin City books. The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. Derrick Jensen's many tirades against civilization: Culture of Make Believe, A Language Older Than Words, and more.
Fellow fools and wanderers, the lovesick, tom brown jr., Martin Prechtel, Daniel Quinn, jumping spiders, the four winds, Marv from "Sin City".