NDN hearts, history, culture, spirituality, music, powwows, and art. Music, nature (all right I'm an old hippie and I'm fucking proud of it, so there. I HAVE evolved, ya know..), learning, reading, dancing, sailing, travel, political activism (but I'm taking a break at the mo), helping people, planting and maintaining gardens and/or vegetables.
I DUNNO. YOU TELL ME.
(other than Dylan, not necessarily in this order) Bob Dylan, Donovan, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Peter Tosh, Madness, Bad Manners, The Specials, The Selecter, Red Thunder, Mishi Donovan, Bill Miller, Natay, Blondie, the Stones, the Kinks, the Doors, Love, Love & Rockets, Everlast, Mc 900 Ft Jesus, Led Zeppelin, Beethoven, Bizet (Carmen), Black-Eyed Peas, KRS One, Moody Blues (Lost Chord), Dire Straits, the Pogues, Elvis Costello, Otis Redding, The Coasters, The Drifters, The Mighty Sparrow, Lord Kitchener, Daddy Yankee, Pink Floyd (The Wall), Traffic, old shit from the early '60s, Ella Fitzgerald, Sinead O'Connor, Pretenders, Journey, some Styx, Beatles, John Lennon solo, George Harrison solo, Roger Waters solo, Shane McGowan solo, Mark Knopfler solo, Lightnin Hopkins, Charlie Musselwhite, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Nat King Cole, Black Crowes, old Billy Joel, Leonard Cohen, Billy Idol, Yaz, Queen Latifah, Parliament, Solomon Burke, The Equators, Roy Oribison, Edith Piaf, Francoise Hardy, Charles Aznavour, Adamo, Nappy Roots, Shabba Ranks, Dead Can Dance, Loreena McKennit, Arrested Development, Abba, Devo, Brian Ferry/Roxy Music, Peter Gabriel solo, Everly Brothers, Patsy Cline, The Clash, Beastie Boys, Eartha Kitt, old Elton John, Midnight Oil, Rush, Gerry Rafferty, Patti Smith, Warren Zevon, Cat Stevens, UB40, Public Enemy, Parliament, Jesus & Mary Chain, early Prince, Fishbone
Harold & Maude, Snatch, Dreamkeeper, Powwow Highway. Smoke Signals, The Big Lebowski, old Cary Grant movies, Koyaanisqatsi, Microcosmos, Don't Look Back, No Direction Home, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Living with Wolves (doc.), The Business of Fancydancing, Moonstruck, Big Fish, Sid & Nancy, Pump Up the Volume..... keep adding as I think of 'em...
Northern Exposure, Inside the Actors Studio, Queer Eye, Frasier, Divine Design
Alison in Wonderland, which my Father hand-made for me when I was 14 and which got lost in Switzerland or Portugal somewhere. (I'd give everything I own to have it back. So if anyone knows where it is, please contact me.) Reservation Blues, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, The Business of Fancydancing, Maya Angelou's poems, Captains and the Kings, Poems of Rabindranath Tagore, Poems of Pushkin, all Dylan Thomas, Still Life with Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, Sons & Lovers, The Electric Cool-Aid Acid Test, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The Soul of an Indian, The Lakota Way, Black Elk Speaks.
My Daughter, my Father, Anwar Sadat, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, the Chicago 7, Angela Davis, the Black Panthers, Bobby Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph, Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Qanah Parker, all of the indigenous people of this country who came before, all of those people who died trying to defend themselves against the invaders and all of the indigenous people of this country who are now working to keep language, tradition, values and spirituality alive, Tante Miek, Tante Justine.