Healing. Rock Climbing: Boldering, sport, trad .... Art: painting, lithography, photography, film and MUSIC... other: great food, DESSERT, driving my '88 nissan sentra like a bimmer, crashing the pools at expensive hotels, hating hipsters, BURNINATING the countryside.
rock climbers, artists (of all disciplines),or really whomever wants to meet me. Also, recently I've become excited by the idea of getting back in touch with people from yeeears gone by, such as the six summers I spent going to Idyllwild Arts for summer camp between the ages of 11 and 16. that being said ...DO NOT ADD ME IF YOU DON'T KNOW ME OR MESSAGE ME PRIOR.
Led Zeppelin, The Refused, A Silver Mt Zion, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Album Leaf, Sigur Ros, Frances, Mice Parade, Fugazi, Gatsby's American Dream, Annum Ford, Mogwai, Radiohead, The Reindeer Section, Old Crow Medicine Show, Atmosphere, Sage Francis, Soul Position, RJD2, Cunninlinguists, Felt, Weezer, Phantom Planet, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The New Pornographers, Wilco, Rilo Kiley, Ben Kweller, Ben Folds, Thelonious Monk, Satie, Korsakov, Mahler, etc. nostalgia finds me rockin out to The Bouncing Souls, NoFX, The Vandals, Bad Religion, X, Minor Threat, Seven Seconds, [old] Anti-Flag, The Unseen, Circle Jerks, etc etc etc. i listen to everything: jazz, post-rock, punk, hip-hop, indie rock, ambient, metal, opera, classical ... i'd like to say that, generally speaking, i enjoy all music that is good for what it is, but i really, really enjoy things that are multifaceted and well composed.
Favorites include: The City of Lost Children (yes, Amelie and Delicatessen too), In America, Stranger than Fiction, Three ... Extremes, other asian horror, Casablanca, Key Largo, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep (you get the idea ... Bogey flicks), Sunset Boulevard, Office Space, CQ, Trois Couleurs, The Pianist, Detroit Rock City, Dummy, Waking Life, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, anything with Jean Reno, Kurosawa's Dreams, Seven Samurai, The Crime of Padre Amaro, and many many many more.
There isn't much worth watching on TV these days, to be sure. Entourage, Extras, Lucky Louie, and Curb Your Enthusiasm are all fucking brilliant. Arrested Development. I also like cartoons. I own every episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? on DVD, if that says anything about my impeccable taste.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass; The Complete Works of Robinson Jeffers; Slaughterhouse Five; Cat's Cradle; Catcher in the Rye (and everything else by Salinger); Paul Auster's novels, which I've read most of; Riddly Walker; Rant; On the Road; Dave Hickey's Air Guitar; various other books related to art and art criticism, which are necessary for my bookshelf to look as if it belongs to a legitimate painter. pfft. some others. Currently reading: The Audacity of Hope
People who have overcome adversity. Lance Armstrong (after reading his book, wow); Wolfgang Gullich; Kathe Kollwitz; and my grandfathers, Max Palatt and Wes Sanderson