Sleep. SWIMMING! Reading. Movies. Hiking. Fires. Dressing friends and myself in blood. Sitting. Swinging. Swing jumping. High Hat tournaments (sombraros only, please.)Ice packed snow ball fights. Reading. Burrowing into warm places. Being really happy. Kites! Listening. Music. Being alone. Being with friends. Food. Food. Um, food. Mmm food hehe! My family. Yahzie. Watching trains. Coloring. Writing. Sledding. Fantasy art. Railroad pennies. Lichen (ooh, Alectoria!!) Singing in the woods with my girlfriends. Stupid stunts. Hot showers. Drinking water. Tea. Cartoons. Chocolate. Synaptic gaps & strengthening neural networks. Reading. Talking (sometimes). Saying hello to people who are obviously uncomfortable with someone they dont know saying hello to them. Cooking. Orange soda. Cheddar and sour cream Ruffles. The moon. Deep ecology. Warm bags of sterile blood. Taking pictures. Large groups, gaming, chatting, hanging merriily. Thinking. Looking at plants. Playing with plants. Neuroplasticity. Clouds. Playing. Animals- not on my plate. Skipping. Chalk. Night walks. Night hikes. Night. Stars. Dark nebulas. Supernovas! Matter. Formation of matter. Watching boys hoolahoop for the first time in years or ever. Music. Cellular division. Candy. Photosynthesis. Piano. Nitrogen fixation & mychorrizae. Turntables. Organ. Climbing into bed. Reading. Dreams, pillows. I love you, buddy! :)
Contagiously creative, happy people. Confident, whole women. Tea drinkers. People who make me laugh. Open minded folk. Hoolahoopers. Aspiring anythings. Old happy couples. Old, wise people in general. Forest runners. Lichen lovers! Lake divers. People who have no one in the world to give a shit about them. The torn-hearted. The misunderstood. Horticulturalists. Sun lovers. Moon obsessors. Heart sleeve wearers. Astronauts. Aspiring astronauts. People who snort when they laugh really hard. Adventurers. Road trippers. Illusion shatterers. Those who are willing to jump, when they're not too sure the ground's solid, or the water's deep enough. Those who are willing to endure, when it's far past convenience.
Hip Hop (*NOT* radio shit rap)(MF Doom, Madvillian, Madlib, Yesterday's New Quintet, Quasimoto, Fugees, Peanut Butter Wolf, all Stones Throw stuff, DJ Rels, Jel, Sub Roc, Mos Def, Aesop, Krush, Mz Hill, Alias, Subtle, Tricky, Massive Attack, King Geedorah, Viktor Vaughn, Immortal Tech, KRS One, Wu, Rza, Gza, Prefuse 73, Edan, Badu, Q-Bert, Jedi Mind Tricks, Sugar Hill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, Z-Trip, Nightmares on Wax, Aphex Twin, Zero 7, Oh No!, Diplo, Louis Logic, DJ Shadow, RJD2 (before he renounced us all) Mystic, El-P, DJ Kicks: Erlend Oye, Annie, Daddy G, Blockhead, KMD, Saul Williams, Mr Lif, Akrobatik, Perceptionists ...) Indi rock (LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire, The Go! Team, New Pornographers, Of Montreal, Neutral milk Hotel, TV on the Radio, Devendra Banhart, Shins, Gorillaz, Death From Above 1979, Unicorns, Islands, Magnetic Fields, Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Bright Eyes (hey-fuck you.) Animal Collective, Lightning Bolt, Don Cab, Battles, Bjork, Brian Eno, Bowie, Sufjan Stevens, The Books, Modern Lovers, Comets on Fire, Stereolab, !!!, Daft Punk, Ted Leo, Broken Social Scene, Radiohead, MIA, Legends, the Zombies...) Epic instrumentals (Godspeed! Do Make Say Think, Explosions, Silver mt zion, Red Sparrows, Octopus Project, Eluvium...) Jazz (Billy Holiday, Nina Simone, Sherley Horn, Besse) Sappy soul (Otis!! Ray Charles, Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, Roy Ayers, Al Green, Bill Withers, Aretha, Diana Ross, Jamie Lidell) Classic rock (thanks dad)- Nirvana, Clash, Oz, Zepp, Petty, old RHCP, Steppenwolf, Bad Co, Boston, etc, etc. Cheers for Two for Tuesdays on WONE, and cheers to my dad for our music trivia games. *sOmE* metal (Zero Hour, Converge, Tragedy, Daughters, Isis ...) Tropicalia+other (Jorge Ben! Os Mutantes, Buena Vista Social Club) ALL MY FRIENDS, WHEN THEY PLAY.
DIRTY WORK!! Labyrinth, Miyazaki: Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Nausicaa, Howels Moving Castle, Castle In the Sky, etc, Nightmare Before Christmas, Goonies, Hook, Sandlot, Muppets Take Manhattan, Corpse Bride, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, A Fish Called Wanda, Throw Mama from the Train, Dragonheart (oh, you know it, sucka!) Rocky Horror, Beetlejuice, City of God, Space Balls, WaterWorld, Rescuers Down Under, Fival Goes West, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Bear (yes, the old one.), Shawn of the Dead, Never Ending Story, Style Wars, Emperor's New Groove, Fern Gully, nearly all corny cartoons, fireplaces on screens, your mom on public access... PRECAUTIONS: Never watch a Divine film, you'll barf. **WORST MOVIE EVER: Cannibal Holocaust** (even my gore-loving metal head friends cant take this one, for real- it's FUCKED up!)
a foul, repulsive epidemic...
!!! Sorry, but Harry Potter got me back on reading, years ago, so must give credit where credit is due, The Kite Runner, The Shadow of the Wind, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Guests of the Sheik, Mists of Avalon, The Alchemist, His Dark Materials Trilogy, The Hobbit, LOTR, Vascular Plants of North America, Lao Tzu's The Way of Life, The Four Agreements, Medicine Cards, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The LORAX, Cant Stop Wont Stop, Tibetan Portrait, God of Small Things, 1984, Brave New World, Choke, Lullaby, Invisible Monsters, HAUNTED (a MuST read for all Akronites!!) Live From Death Row, Executing Justice, Things Fall Apart, Swallows of Kabul, Robert Jordan's first few, Dragons of Autumn Twilight- Winter Night- Spring Dawning, Biology of Plants (ugh.), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Hip Hop Files, Subway Art, Spraycan Art, To Kill a Mockingbird, Devil in the White City...
my mother. My grandmother Mary Ann, and my mamelle Angela. Rachel Corrie. Martha Cooper. Jane Addams. Anyone working for the bigger collective picture. EVERY PERSON WHO LIVES A LIFE OF PAIN AND STRESS THAT MOST OF US ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO NOT EVEN IMAGINE. The children of Palestine, and other areas where there is no such thing as childhood.