my mountain, art, sculpture, painting, creating something, hard dirty work, kicking around in the woods......especially when the animals follow me, found bones, bugs and odd collections from the land, watching TV.....Turkey Vultures, the view, trees, climbing trees, tree houses, cooking, slow food, wine, color, sunlight, being outside, getting up early, musica, swinging in the hammock, home projects, rocks....like boulders and climbing around on them, shooting my bb gun, slack lining, hang gliding, paragliding, canoeing, kayaking, adventures, exploring, watching my own idiot animals for my entertainment, getting dirty, getting clean, tiny dirt-bikes, trucks, tools, cleaning/clearing debris from the land, chain-saws, tractors, scrap-yards.......just got one right off the mountain, looking for junk, peculiar southern realities, rain on my tin roof, my little wood stove, all the creatures that live on this mountain, loose horses and goats that appear from out of no where, quiet, the fall light, watching the leaves change, spiders, honky tonk and ballroom dancing, travel......it's been a long time, El Dia De Los Muertos.......best one in the world right here in Alabama at Bare Hands Gallery.....November 2, 2007 Cinco de Muertos 5th Anniversary.....BE THERE!
Lucinda Williams, Johnny and June, Frida y Diego, Robert Rauschenberg, Joan Miro, Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Schiele, Niki de Saint Phalle and Tinguely, Anthony Caro, Robert Smith, Manuel Neri, Chavella Vargas, Tina Modotti, ballroom instructor, computer instructor, personal organizer, Julia Child, Jamie Oliver, Viola Luizzo, The Marchers beaten on Bloody Sunday, The protesters that marched from Selma to Montgomery, MLK, Rosa Parks, more scrappy metal chicks.....steel and iron - not music, The Von Trapp Family, another lonely goatherd.
Hank Williams Sr., Conjunto, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou, Bruce Springsteen - Seeger Sessions.....dance your ass off, Louis and Ella, Standards, Opera, Cajun, Little Willies, Willie Nelson, Al Green, John Legend, INXS, Polka, Old Elton John, Klezmer, Alejandro Escovedo, Lila Downs, Johnny Cash, Bo Butler and The Nice Boys, CCR, Neil Diamond, The Sound of Music Soundtrack, Elvis, Chavella Vargas, Cat Stevens, Jamie Cullum, I'm a 70's kid, World, Edith Piaf, Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Flaco Jimanez, Los Lobos, Del Castillo, Los Super Seven, Bluegrass, Virginia Rodrigues, Israel Kamakawiwo, Paul Simon, Henri Salvador, Burt Bacharach
Out of Africa, Whale rider, Elvira Maddigan, The Tempest, The Sound of Music, Frida, Big Fish, Aimee and Jaguar, Greystoke - Lord of the Jungle
Dancing With The Stars.....yes, that's what I said!, World News, Gallery Channel, Cooking Channel, HG Channel, Weeds, Californication, THE L WORD!!!
Art, Home, Food and Wine.......mags and books
My daddy www.spidermartin.com , champion athletes including ballroom dancers..... civil, environmental, human, women's, gay and animal rights activists.... champions of all genres......music, literature, art, science, beauty, exploration, earth, peace, love...