absurdity, aerosol art, music in all it's forms, cats, retro European cars, eardrum ripping tube-amp driven rock and roll, whiskey drankin', political discourse, east coast hip-hop, 60s pop melodies, bagels, spontaneous conversation, beers, reading & literature, interesting foods, detuned guitars, dwemer artifacts, good friends, occasional introspection, urban exploration, failing to be upwardly motile, photography, and masturbating while eating corn chips... you know.
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
something like: Can, The Hair & Skin Trading Company, Tom Waits, Converge, Sleep, Dead Meadow, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Opeth, Om, Faust, The Melvins, The Flaming Lips, Gong, Black Sabbath, Loop, Count Bass D, Spacemen 3, Kylesa, Quasimoto, MF DOOM, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Syd Barrett, Neurosis, Lush, Neu!, Beastie Boys, Fugazi, Mogwai, Hawkwind, Torche, Slowdive, Current 93, My Bloody Valentine, Butthole Surfers, Pelican, Tragedy, Municipal Waste, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Floor, Baroness, Refused, At the Drive In, Joy Division, Isis, (early) Pink Floyd, Earth, Bauhaus, Circle Takes the Square, Mono, Type O Negative, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Sunshine Fix, A Silver Mt. Zion, Explosions in the Sky, The Velvet Underground, The Incredible String Band, The Red Chord, Mordern Life is War, Fucked Up, Sun Ra, Noothgrush, Asschapel, Death, Slayer, Shipwreck, The Hope Conspiracy, Every Time I Die, Pg. 99, Miles Davis, G.W.A.R., Testament, Wu-Tang Clan (and all respective solo projects), Madlib, Cannibal Ox, MF Grimm, Bad Religion, Paint it Black, Cave In, Ceremony, Jedi Mind Tricks, Red Sparowes, Kraftwerk, Russian Circles, George Clinton, J. Dilla, Madvillain, Modest Mouse, Discharge, The Telescopes, The Suicide File, Gogol Bordello, Cursive, Neutral Milk Hotel, Suffocation, Jimi Hendrix, The Allman Brothers Band, The Zombies, Beck, David Bowie...I gotta stop.
William S. Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, J.G. Ballard, Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, Chuck Palahniuk, Ayn Rand, James Joyce, many graphic novels/comic books. Just too many to list.
Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.
"Confusion hath fuck his masterpiece."