ambience, meditation/contemplation, religion, creation,transformation, playstation, personal relations, claymation, animation, concert going, movies, hiking, frisbee, listening to, writing and recording music, writing stuff, reading stuff, collecting stuff, wonder, grace, mercy, mystery, ambiguity, metaphor, beauty, digging below the surface of things, and discovering daily, more and more, my true face in Christ and just what it is we should be up to in God's world and what it truly means to be 'human'.(Klaymen in Skullmonkeys: Beans Beans the Musical Fruit)
my doppelganger - he's got a lot to answer for!
mixing it up with no order of preference:
Eyeless in Gaza, Brian Eno, David Toop, Anthony Braxton, Can, David Sylvian, Peter Himmelman, Mark Heard, Bill Mallonee, VoL, Sam Phillips, T-Bone Burnett, Tonio K, Greg Brown, King Crimson, Terry Taylor, Daniel Amos, Mike Roe, 77's, Adam Again, Lost Dogs,LSU, Mike Knott, The Choir, Bob Dylan, Wilco, Jayhawks, Ron Sexmith, Penderecki, Czukay,Can, Dixie Dregs, Steve Morse, Dave Beegle/Fourth Estate, Eric Johnson, Holdsworth,Jeff Beck, Steve Hackett, Hamm, Verheyan, Albert Lee, Cockburn, Hiatt, Ribot, Michael Manring, Patitucci, Tom Waits, ,Bernard Herrmann, Elfman, Ligeti, Messian, Takemitsu, Elliott Carter, George Crumb, Harold Budd, Roland Kirk, Pink Floyd, Rundgren, Radiohead, The Call, The Alarm, Fleming and John, Javina Magness, Michael Mcdermott, Over the Rhine, Maria Mckee, The Innocence Mission, Sufjan Stevens, Jonathan Rundman,John Austin, Tom Prasado Rao, Mingus, Deeble, Lanois, Professor and MaryAnn, Brooks Williams,Greg Brown, Peter Mulvey, Steve Earle, Steve Goodman, Johnny Cash, Ashley Cleveland, Emmylou Harris, Julie/Buddy Miller, Victoria Williams, Gillian Welch, Joni Mitchell, Madeline Peryoux, Eva Cassidy, Beki Hemingway, Rory Block, Carole King, Jonatha Brooke, Aimee Mann, Rickie Lee Jones, Focus, Gentle Giant, Tull, Kansas,Klaatu, Floyd, Genesis, Hendrix, Joplin, Spirit, Kings X, Galactic Cowboys, Two Pound Planet, Rez, Alice Cooper, Dream Theatre, Chroma key, Kevin Prosch, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Monk, Hot Tuna, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Caravan, Egg, Camel,Genesis with Gabriel, Gabriel, Nektar, Kansas/Livgren, most any genre of music from Ambient to Zydeco but still not convinced basic rap is music..----------------(the amazing Eva Cassidy performing Over the Rainbow:
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Michael Mcdermott - West Of EdenMichael McDermott WEST OF EDEN Dir. Michael Kahn
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Princess Bride, Brazil, Time Bandits, Mysterymen, Terminator, Bride of Frankenstein, Wonderful Life, Benny and Joon, Metropolis, Tank Girl, Buckaroo Banzai, Serenity, Big Trouble In Little China, Fisher King, The Holy Grail, Blade Runner, Forbidden Planet, War of the Worlds, Wings of Desire, Werewolf In London, Dr. Strangelove, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Lord of the Rings, Edward Scissorhands, Harryhausen flics, Lang Flics, a little Pabst, Capra, Universal Monsters and Val Lewton horror. Last but not least, the last couple years I've really been enjoying silents, which include not only Lang but thanks to a friend I've been finding the movies of Pola Negri amazing and also been trying find all the extant team up movies of director Tod Browning and the inimitable Lon Chaney Sr.
Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Red Dwarf, Firefly, Outer Limits, Farscape, X-Files, Doctor Who, Lost in Space, the original Twilight Zone, The Dead Zone, American Gothic, Monk, Freaks and Geeks, Addam's Family, Andy Griffith Show, Family Guy, The Tick.
John Crowley/Little Big, Tolkien/Lord of the Rings, C.S.Lewis/Narnia books, Larry Niven/Ringworld, Fredric Brown/What Mad Universe, Charles de Lint/Moonheart, Stephen King/The Stand, Jonathan Carroll/ Bones of the Moon, Ray Bradbury/Dandelion Wine, Helprin/Winters Tale, Adams, Watership Down. Annie Dillard/Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,Donald Mccullough/The Trivialization of God, Daniel Taylor/The Myth Of Certainty, Francis Schaeffer/ He Is There and He Is Not Silent, Leland Ryken/Culture In Christian Perspective, Steve Turner/Hungry For Heaven, Calvin Seerveld/Rainbows For A Fallen World, Rodney Clapp/Tortured Wonders,Buechner/The Alphabet of Grace, Rupert Loydell/Fill These Days, Anne Lamott/Traveling Mercies, Wolterstorff/Art In Action, David Dark/Everyday apocalypse
anyone who finds time to truly love their neighbor whether through physical or financial help or just being kind. Anyone who helps bring beauty and laughter into the world by creating healing art with honesty and integrity. My favorite Bruce Cockburn line is "gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight" - anyone who does that is a hero.