Horses, talk radio, mandolins, vegan fun, the Student/Farmworker Alliance, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, dancin', revolucionari@s, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, dirt and water, medicinal herbs and all things growing, journaling, whisky, train conductors, maritime novellas, opening adoption records/reclaiming the word "bastard"...yes...speaking Spanish or trying to, indigenous peoples, power in the hands of those people, collective movements and uprisings, mountaintop removal issues, cacao con chile y honey, canning and fermenting, thought and philosophy, haikus, spicy foods, port, great silence.
"It is no measure of health to be adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
-- Krishnamurti
"Why does it infuriate you if I paint with my screams on your so-called wall while the rich, with their military, have stained with blood our history?" - HIJOS (Guatemala)
I'd like to meet:
Those who wanna educate and be educated. Compassionate, hardcore scrappers. Folks who take matters into their own hands. The appreciative, and the humble.
Any new potential friends who are down with the cause.
Music:
Bluegrass, folk and roots music, the Himalaya soundtrack, many random dance hits, Olmeca, Rebel Diaz, revolutionary hip-hop, Las Krudas, Sleater-Kinney, son jarocho...Son del Centro. Woods, Will Oldham, David Bowie, Iggy, A Silver Mt Zion, Tom Waits, Nellie McKay, the Cure, Animal Collective, Man Man! (but really, the Extraordinaires). My Morning Jacket (dondante...whoa), Arabic music, Manu Chao, Naupa Taky, Inti Illimani, Kjarkas, Bachata rhythms. Pete Burns. And Rammstein who, as we know, beats on the left.
Movies:
Maria Full of Grace, Rosetta, Newsies!, Beyond Rangoon, On The Outs, Himalaya, el enemigo común, Lagaan, Some Like It Hot, National Velvet, Frida, Matewan, Lost in Translation, Fried Green Tomatoes, Mystery Science Theater 3000, the documentary section at Wild and Woolly Video. the world of Hayao Miyazaki.
Television:
M*A*S*H, the Mighty Boosh!, PBS, nature programs, Britcoms, and yes, the Golden Girls
Books:
Demian and everything else by Hesse, Wendell Berry, Jim Carroll, Ojibway Warrior, La Frontera/Borderlands, Lakota Woman, Lost Mountain, Night Flying Woman, David Sedaris stories, The Red Tent, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the Mutts comics
Heroes:
Rena Babbitt Lane, Zena Lane, hard workers, small farmers. people with a strong and comforting influence in the face of what's up in this world.
folks who dream big, think hard, and then put it all into action...
and people who like ducks.
