California. India. Religion and Politics. Literature, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, and the Arts. Physics and Geology. Cooking. Bikram Yoga, Paramahansa Yogananda and the SRF. Web technology and trends, library and information industries. Rec sports, slide guitar, holistic health, out of body experiences, domesticity, self-absorbtion, mimicry, the path.
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Wilco, Radiohead, Nina Simone, Islands, Arcade Fire, Belle and Sebastien, The Shins, Pavement, Beck, Clap Your Hands, the Kinks, the Beatles, Mayhem String Band, Nick Drake, Devendra Banhart, White Stripes, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, the Stones, Velvet Underground, Eliott Smith, Ys., Wild Mountain Nation, Rock, Blues, etc.
Amelie, The Namesake, The Wedding Singer, Wizard of Oz, Donnie Darko, The Dark Crystal, Fire, Water, Pirates of the Caribbean, Garden State, Harold and Maude, American Splendor, Rules of the Game, Fiddler on the Roof, Waiting for Gufman, Talladega Nights, One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, and anything with Johnny Depp.
Jack Bauer, Samurai Jack, South Park, Arrested Development, the Office, Flight of the Conchords.
yes please. . anything by salman rushdie, phillip k. dick, anton checkov, nietzsche, hanif kureishi, arundati roy, dostoyevsky, elaine pagels, kahlil gibran, empedocles, jonathan safran foer, wallace stevens..always taking recommendations for magical realism, comparative religion, or books that have anything to do with south asia or england or preferably both...And I sure do love Lorraine Hansberry.
Albert Einstein, the folks whose pseudonym is Ramacharaka, Stephen Ball, Arthur Young...and Flight of the Conchords are up there, too.