Writing, reading philosophy, taking photographs of the pretty, the strange, the ridged, the old, the young, but not of the self.
Music:
a sliver mt. zion, afi, aimee mann, andrew bird, ani difranco, animal collective, appleseed cast, as cities burn, at the drive-in, b.r.m.c. badly drawn boy, beck, belle & sebastian, ben folds five, between teh buired and me, bjork, boards of canada, bob dylan, bob marley, bobby mcferrin, bonnie raitt, buena vista social club, bela fleck & the fleck tones, cat power, cave in , charlie hunter, charlie parker , chikinki, chopin, les claypool, chopin, cornelius, cursive, david bowie, dead kennedys, death cab for cutie, deftones, dizzy gillespie, don nelson, duke ellington, elo, elliott smith, every time i die, fall out boy, frank zappa, g. love & special sauce, galactic, garage a trois, garrison, godspeed you black emperor, good charlotte, green day, horace silver, hot water music, isis, jeff buckley, j5, tex, john coltrane, john scofield, john sebastian, jon brion, kaki king, kool keith, louie xiv, mates of state, miles davis, modest mouse, morphine, neutral milk hotel, nick drake, nirvana, olivia tremor control, over the rhine, patti smith, pavement, pete yorn, pixies, quincy jones, radiohead, rancid, rasputina, rickie lee jones, sigur ros, sonic youth, southern culter on the skids, sparta, sublime, sum 41, sunny day real estate, the books, the clash, the dandy warhols, the dead milkmen, the decemberists, the dempseys, the eels, the firey furnaces, the hives, the mars volta, the microphones, the polyphonic spree, the postal service, the roots, the scofflaws, the seeds, the smashing pumpkins, the shins, the strokes, the transplants, the velvet underground, the willowz, thrice, tool, tori amos, travis, ugly casanova, (this is difficult because I'm discovering more new-to-me music all the time)
Movies:
Pieces of April, Garden State, Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Miss Sunshine, Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenanbaums, The Big Lebowski, King Pin, American History X, Cowboy Junkies, The Anniversary Party, Requiem for a Dream, Jackie Brown, Chasing Amy, MallRats, Blow, The Cell, Hustle and Flow, Catch Me If You Can, Clockwork Orange, High Fidelity, Donnie Darko, Office Space, The Life of David Gale, Following, Fargo, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, Go, Ghost World, Gattica, Snatch, The Green Mile, Kill Bill, Walk the Line, Ray, Lords of Dogtown, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Seven, The Last Kiss, The Illusionist, Vanilla Sky, O Brother Where Art Thou, Oceans Eleven, SLC Punk, Prey for Rock & Roll, Kalifornia, Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels, Memento, 8 Mile, The Usual Suspects, LIberty Heights,
Television:
No thank you.
Books:
Anything by Carlos Castaneda, j. Krishnamurti, David Sedaris, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, William s. Burrows, David Foster Wallace, Nagel, Henry Rollins, Shakesphere, Dante, Albert Einstein, Jim Morrison, e.e. cummings, beat poetry, etc.
Heroes:
Ani Difranco, Jennifer Hodges, J. Krishnamurti, Klarisa G., and Daniel Wright. Thank you for being such an inspiration for everything that is beautiful and poetic to me.
