Learning, doing new things, travel, independent films, Art,humor,interesting friends, making music/recording/production, rising over assumptions, Hawaii(where i was born), people with ability to laugh, new discoveries, synchronicity, reading/literature, live music,used book stores, music equipment, outdoor California coast and mountains, the Mediterranian (and its cooking), learning foreign languages(I speak multiple).And of course, this huge shimmering planet where I've just begun to scratch the surface.....
The intelligent. The funky. Artistic ones of all sorts. The musical. The humorous. The Refusers-of-Mediocrity. People everywhere: Old souls, young spirits, the good and the questionable,creative thinkers,idealists, the vigorous, the readers, gregarious ones, hermits, social- butterflies, absinthe-loving poets, mad scientists, travelers ,the sarcastic, creators, teachers, learners,people that put energy into the world, ...surprise me.
The Whole universe. New, Old, Traditional, Experimental, world of Rock, Blues, Classical, Electronic, Soundtracks, House Music, Brazilian music, Worldwide music, Real Hip-Hop(Non-Materialist..Non-Shite),various Blues Masters, 60's+70's rock (i.e. the classic rock + Soul+ Mowtown), Dylan, Cash, Jeff Buckley, Doors, David Bowie,T-Rex(et al), the Police, Talking Heads, the Pixies, Joy Division, Cure, the Clash(!), Belle and Sebastian, Chopin, Mozart, Tschaikovsky, Muse , Krafwerk, the Smiths, LCD Sounsystem, Stone Roses, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Mos Def, the Shins, the Beatles, Beck, Dead Can Dance, Madvillain/MF Doom, Buckminster Fuzeboard, the Stills, Black Swan Lane....on .and..on.. and ON..!
Stanley Kubrick, Jim Jarmusch, Guillermo del Toro,Steven Soderbergh, Tim Burton, James Cameron, Robert Altman, Ridley Scott, Wes Anderson, Akira Kurosawa, George Lucas, Cohen Brothers,Jack Nicholson, Christopher Walken, Steve Martin, Donnie Darko, Blade Runner, Caddyshack, Borat, Reservoir Dogs, Snatch, Alien, Nightwatch, Daywatch, Lord of the Rings , Young Frankenstein, International Festival of Animation, Road Warrior, O Brother Where Art Thou, Triplets of Belleville, Blues Bros, and on and on goes the list.....
John Stewart Show, Colbert,Comedy Central,Robot Chicken{+"Adult Swim" comedy oddness}, Reno 911, Discovery Channel, PBS,....But usually don't get too into TV....
So many. History, humor, centuries and Continents of Literature, Biographies, art, humor, political, etc. Issac Asimov, Dante, Balzac, Carl Jung, Shakespeare, Emerson, Thoreau, Issac Bashevis Singer, Garcia Lorca, Tolkien, Jack Dann,LE Modesitt Jr., George RR Martin, "Yo-Mama" jokebooks, Jon Stewart, Ayn Rand, Tolstoy, Mark Twain(Sam Clemens), Virgil, Ovid, Tacitus, Marcus Aurelius, Homer, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Keats, Gogol, David Halberstam, Bucky Fuller, Stephen Hawking, Mabinogion (and other Celtic Literature) and on and on......
THE BRAVERY OF GENIUS, AND ANYONE WHO BRINGS LIGHT IN DARKNESS