I love poetry, art, philosophy, biology, history, politics, religions of the world, raindancers, diversity, meditation, optimism, comedy, asking questions, trees, and existence, among other things.
1. Someone with six fingers on each hand2. A nun with a motorcycle3. A nun with a firearm4. A nun/priest who enjoys heavy metal music5. A busboy with a Phd (I work with him)6. A gang member/police officer (know him)7. A vegetarian butcher8. The guy who invented the pet rock9. A gay, Jewish, Black person10. A Buddhist clown (know him)11. Someone from East Timor12. A sublimely intelligent, redheaded creative female musician who speaks at least three languages, believes in aliens, and thinks I'm sexy.13. Someone with three nipples14. A man who converted to Judaism to use Kabbalah for ceremonial witchcraft, and who got married in a trailer park behind two porno stores (I was in the wedding)15. An accordion player/pirate impersonator (good friends with him)16. A southern girl who speaks arabic and is converting to Judaism (know her VERY well)17. Ben or Jerry from Ben and Jerry's18. Mr. T19. William Shatner20. A clown with a Phd21. An anorexic Sumo wrestler22. An Amish belly-dancer23. Someone with no first name. (his last name is sunshine, i swear, he has trouble booking flights)
In no particular order: Ray Charles, James Taylor, The Beatles, Jars of Clay, Three Dog Night, the Temptations, Queen, Badfinger, George Harrison, Cat Stevens, Barenaked Ladies, Buffalo Springfield, The Band, Cake, Iron and Wine, Allison Krauss, Nickel Creek, Jim Croce, Rufus Wainwright, Harry Nilsson, Joe Cocker, Peter Gabriel, Arlo Guthrie, Tom Lehrer, Don McLean, Billy Joel, Janis Ian, Janis Joplin, Van Morrison, John Prine, Willie Dixon, Fats Domino, Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, The Who, The Guess Who, Rusted Root, Yes, Elliott Smith, Ben Folds Five, Tracy Chapman, Gordon Lightfoot, Beck, Train, Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Five for Fighting, Blind Willie McTell, CSN& sometimes Y, the Mamas and the Papas, Mac Macanally, Muddy Waters, Jet, The Byrds, Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin, Joni Mitchell, Sting, Goo Goo Dolls, Fastball, Sarah McLachlin, Akron/Family, Devendra Banhart, Bonnie Prince Billy, The Duhks, Polyphonic Spree, Marc Cohn, Jackie Wilson, James Brown, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder,Keb Mo, Saul Williams, Sheryl Crow, Tom Lehrer, Randy Newman, Ray Stevens,
in no particular order: The Shawshank Redemption, The Princess Bride, What the Bleep do We Know, Supersize Me, Michael, The Fisher King, With Honors, Six-String Samurai, Bubba Ho-Tep, Garden State, Mindwalk, The Graduate, Being There, Man Facing Southeast, K-Pax, Love Actually, Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail, The Terminal, Forrest Gump, I *heart* Huckabees, Edward Scissorhands, Dogma, Big Fish, The Science of Sleep, Rain Man, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Rudy, Dead Poet's Society, The Mountain, The Old Man and the Sea, The African Queen, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Field of Dreams, In the Heat of the Night, Philadelphia, Miracle on 34th Street, It's a Wonderful Life, Life is Beautiful
House, Heroes, Star Trek (TOS and Next-Gen), Scrubs, C-SPAN, The Daily Show, Jeopardy, The Simpsons
philosophy books of any kind. The Little Prince, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Lost Christianities, Misquoting Jesus, The Laughing Jesus, Life is So Good, The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and the 4 other books in the trilogy)
.................Visual Arts:
Basquiat,
Rene Magritte,
Salvador Dali,
Vincent Van Gogh,
Michelangelo Buonarotti,
Leonardo DaVinci,
Claude Monet,
Tom Tomorrow,
..........................Music:
John Lennon,
George Harrison,
Ani DiFranco,
Rufus Wainwright,
Tom Lehrer,
Brian Wilson,
Paul Simon,
Harry Nilsson,
Bono,
Sheryl Crow,
Don McLean,
Elton John,
.................Literature:
Barbara Kingsolver,
Douglas Adams,
Maya Angelou,
Robert Frost,
T.S. Elliot,
Elie Wiesel,
Emily Dickenson,
Walt Whitman,
Henry David Thoreau,
Charles Darwin,
Antoine DeSaint Exupery,
J.M. Barrie,
Rachel Carson,
Edgar Allen Poe,
William Shakespeare,
.....................Philosophy:
The Dalai Lama,
Thich Nhat Hanh,
Robert Pirsig,
Siddhartha Gautama,
Lao Tsu,
Socrates,
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Bahaullah,
The Bab,
King of Bhutan,
Jesus,
Jean Paul Sartre,
Studs Terkel,
...........Peace/Human Rights:
Jimmy Carter,
Nelson Mandela,
Martin Luther King,
Oprah Winfrey,
Chief Seattle,
Robt. Kennedy Jr.,
Cesar Chavez,
Stephen Biko,
Medger Evers,
.........................Politics:
Ralph Nader,
David Cobb,
Paul Wellstone,
Benito Juarez,
Thomas Jefferson,
Abraham Lincoln,
Hugo Chavez,
Jon Stewart,
...............General Virtue:
John Nash,
Flower the Clown,
Robin Williams,
William Shatner,
Emperor Joshua A. Norton I,
Albert Einstein,
Mel Brooks,
Rene Descartes,