Making stuff, Radio Art, Indie Rock, Indie Film, Social Justice, Right Action, Good Vegan Food, Traveling, happy post modernists, Abolishing Hierarchies, Liberating myself from myself, Avoiding Corporate Influences, The Situationist Internationale, Fluxus, Karaoke Nights at the Suicide Shack, The Friendly Toast, Movies, Photographs, People who take photographs and do things with them, FOUND magazine, Tasting Exotic Cola, art museums, poetry readings (but usually not poetry slams), thunderstorms, home sewing, vegan recipes, recreational night time college classes, Moxie, metaphors, semiotics, regional slang, conversations that make walking long distances seem like short ones, bird watching, fantasizing about how I'll give my money away when I am rich, listening to people talk on the phone while I am falling asleep, listening to the radio while I am falling asleep, interpreting dreams. Giving back rubs. Thai Food. Vegan Sushi. Bad jokes. NPR! Especially "This American Life" and, god forgive me, "Market Place."
Alienated smart kids in recovery.
"If there’s something in the deli aisle that makes you cry / You know I’ll put my arm around you and walk you outside / through the sliding doors / Why would I mind?"
I 3 Huckabees, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rushmore, Lost in Translation, Amelie, Hal Hartley Movies, Woody Allen Movies, David Lynch Movies, Wings of Desire- too many to name. I heart Netflix.
Less and Less of it every day. But, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and "The West Wing" used to be must see.
Artists
They really need an artists section for us phoneys. Here, and some of them have links because they are all contemporary: Jenny Holzer , JODI , Andy Warhol, Vuk Cosic , Edward Burtynsky , The Critical Art Ensemble , Fluxus .
JD Salinger, Douglas Coupland, Milan Kundera, "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand, "The Proud Highway" by Hunter S Thompson, Cat and Girl . Poetry: Bukowski, Rilke, Brautigan, Atwood, Issa, Hafiz. Raoul Vaneigem.