FOOD! SILLINESS! TEA! AND THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS!Conceptual art, sound art, Modern and industrial and weird architecture, quantum physics, human potential, great choreography and dance companies, animals and their cultures.
Dolphins and human dolphins. Happy, funny, silly, eccentric, creative people, especially if they're in L.A. and I might actually meet them.
DJ Cheb i Sabbah. Karsh Kale. Runa Laila. The Knife. Pre -1960s jazz. Fred Astaire (yes- recordings of his singing in movies are great!) Chopin, Debussy, Dvorak, Ravel, Prokofiev, sometimes Mahler. Muslimgauze, C Cat Trance, Sartre's Lobster, Loop Guru, Bollywood music and Indian pop I don't even understand. Morricone. Rota. Talking Heads. Severed Heads. Brian Eno. Soviet France. Swell Maps. Inflatable Boy Clams. Early Cabaret Voltaire. Thom Willems. Crystal Method, Underworld, Massive Attack, Zero 7, Morcheeba, Asian Dub Foundation, Ann Magnuson, Paik, This Heat, Fred Lane, Fibonaccis, Tom Waits, early Negativland.
Carnival of Souls; Monsoon Wedding; Henry and June; Ghost World; Amelie; Gas, Food, Lodging; Orlando; The Piano; The Red Violin; La Strada; Amarcord; Donnie Darko; Blue Velvet; Rear Window; Diva; Lost in Translation; The Tingler, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living; The Black and White Ballets; Etoiles; Black Narcissus; The Haunting (original); Stop Making Sense; Brothers Quay animation; Defending Your Life
CURRENT MOON about the moon
Paint it Black by Janet Fitch, because I know these characters. Joan Didion non-fiction, especially Where I Was From. Anais Nin. Isabel Allende. Bukowski. Dorothy Allison. Good short stories: Flannery O'Connor, Roald Dahl, Mona Simpson, Dorothy Parker. David Sedaris. Ruth Reichl. Edith Wharton. John Berendt. Donald Barthelme. Dr. Seuss
Francis of Assisi, immigrants