Art, yoga, filmmaking, photography, collages, soccer, intense workouts, hiking, backpacking, piercings, motorcylces, whitewater rafting, tattoos, adrenaline rushes, adventures, hardcore backpacks, star-filled skies, thunderstorms, long drives, cooking, sushi, exotic teas, scotch, wine, pillows, poetry, Monica Vitti, music, zen, Super8 film, walking, talking with my hands, painting, raw vocals, giving and getting massages, Hellerwork, fireplaces, warm sand between my toes, the sound of a projector, the feeling of different textures in my hands, dancing spastically for hours, pole vaulting, meditation, wearing scrubs, cuddling, good conversation, real people, hanging with friends, moments. . . moments. . . moments, oh and of course penguins . . . they're just the most amazing things ever
I'd like to meet:
Fun, laid back people. Maybe you...
In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,
but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art.
Music:
Nirvana, Pixies, The Breeders, Radiohead, NIN, Madonna, Kid Loco, Portishead, Skeletonbreath, Mazzy Star, Sneaker Pimps, Prodigy, Joy Division, Mogwai, The Books, Bush, Tricky, DJ Krush, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Nightmares on Wax, Afrirampo, Broken Social Scene, Velvet Underground, gregory & the hawk, Wilco, Cinematic Orchestra, Infected Mushroom, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Smiths, Lake Trout, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Violent Femmes, The Album Leaf, Autour de Lucie, Blondie, Tool, Bjork, The Dresden Dolls, Fiona Apple, Elliot Smith, Mono, Bonobo, Mr. Bungle, Hooverphonic, DJ Shadow, Muse, Murder By Death, Beck, Boards of Canada, Chemical Brothers, Juno Reactor, Swans, Aimee Mann, Rammstein, Gorillaz, Lightning Bolt, Moondog, Arab on Radar, Nick Cave, The Cure, Aphex Twin, Movietone, Mum, Tom Waits, James Brown, Etta James, Marley, B.B. King, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Explosions in the Sky, Depeche Mode, Happy Apple, Unkle, Zero7, Razed in Black, The Notwist, Todd Buckler, Massive Attack, Le Tigre, Badly Drawn Boy, Flight Crew, Dntel, Japanese pop/rock, hard house, hardstyle techno, jungle, a lil' jazz, some metal, 80's, classical indian, new-wave/synth pop, I like the funk, I feel the trip-hop, etc etc etc, (eclectic taste)
Movies:
Touch the Sound, The Science of Sleep, Murderball, 2046, Edward Scissorhands, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, I Heart Huckabees, Donnie Darko, bout de souffle, Fargo, Clo de 5 7, Amiele, The Celebration, Il Deserto Rosso, Koyaanisqatsi, Life in Translation, The Birds, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Les Bonnes Femmes, Grizzly Man, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Winged Migration, Tokyo Olympiad, L'Avventura, Born Into Brothels, Brick, Promises, The Killer Must Kill Again, Amores Perros, Clue, Blood Simple, Grosse Point Blank, The Deer Hunter, Dancer in the Dark, Jaws, Rejected, Drugstore Cowboy, Dr. Strangelove, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, On the Waterfront, the 400 Blows, Psycho, Trois couleurs: Bleu, When We Were Kings, City of God, Thicker Than Water (Jack Johnson film), Wait Until Dark, Coffee and Ciggerettes, the Fog of War, The Stephord Wives, Bright Leaves, Fast Cheap and Out of Control, Cowboy Beebop, anything with Katherine Hepburn, works by Bruce Baily and Stan Brakhage, Antonioni, Michel Gondry Werner Herzog, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wong Kar-Wai, . . etc etc etc. . . .how can you ask me this question?
Television:
6 Feet Under, Planet Earth, Top Chef, Scrubs, Daily Show & Colbert Report, Friends, Sopranos, Real Time w/ Bill Maher, Project Runway, Going Tribal
Books:
A random few....
The Memory Artists, Autograph Man, I Am Legend, 7 Steps to Midnight, (Just about anything by Richard Matheson), The Soul of Rumi, Siddhartha, Imperial Ambitions, Digital Babylon, Awakening the Spine, Peace Like A River, Visionary Film, Bodywise, The Artist's Way, Anatomy Trains, Neuromancer, Battle Royale, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, (any book that I pick up and has a strong voice)
Magazines: National Geographic, Planet, Paste, Seed, FitnessRx, Yoga Journal, Natural Health, International Documentary, Food & Wine, The Wine Spectator
Heroes:
"Guruji" Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
Joseph HellerNoam Chomsky
Monica VittiKatherine Hepburn
Michel Gondry
