The life of the mind, dreams, astral projection, art in every form, tree hugging, concerts, festivals, celebration,making music around a fire beneath the stars, people, travel, protests, exploring the terrain of the imagination, and the depths of the soul.
Franz Kafka, Bjork, Peter Sellers, William Burroughs (and that whole party gang,) Elliott Smith, Dali, Goya, Thom York, Ira Glass, Baz Lurhmann, Agatha Christie, Isabelle Allende, Alfred Hitchcock, Rod Serling, John Cage, Stephen Hawking, Billy Bob Thornton, and other insane visionaries who enjoy collaborating.
..Yes to music. All kinds of music. Oh, you want names... Rain Fur Rent Project, Radiohead, Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley, Damien Rice, Sondre Lerche, Jolie Holland, Pete Yorn, Tracy Chapman, Portishead, Coldplay, Ugly Casanova, Allison Kraus, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Leo Koettke, Kraftwerk, Cibo Matto, Soul Coughing, Johnny Cash, Ben Harper, Tennessee Tuckness, Lyle Lovett, Doves, Bjork, Poe, India Arie, Natalie Merchant, Liz Phair, Mazzy Star, Sarah MacLachlan, Cowboy Junkies, ..Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Eleni Mandell, PJ Harvey, Live, Jane Siberry, Lori Anderson, Ry Cooder, Talking Heads, Cranberries, Tom Waits, Richard Thompson, Broken Social Scene, Modest Mouse, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Sisters of Mercy, Stone Temple Pilots, Pinback, Menomena, Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, Stephen Lynch, Chet Baker, Ella, Sarah, and Billie, jazz standards, missippi blues, 80s industrial, folk, punk, electronica, IDM, bluegrass, anything but sugarpop.
Harold and Maude still ranks number 1 thirty years later. I love anything dark, especially humor. Brazil, King of Hearts, Birdy, Eraserhead, Ed Wood, Being There, Stranger Than Paradise, Dead Man, Barton Fink, Donnie Darko, Igby Goes Down, Fargo, Chicago, Delicatessan, Memento, Pi, Psycho, Serial Mom, Usual Suspects, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Waking Life, Spirited Away, Time Bandits, The Life of Brian, Man Facing Southeast, Amores Perros, The Illustrated Man, Streetcar Named Desire, Clockwork Orange, Henry Fool, (the original) Vanishing, Swimming To Cambodia, Mosquito Coast, Eating Raul, American Splendor, Masked and Anonymous, Frida, Spun, Superguy, Triplets of Belville, What the Bleep do we Know? and Secretary.
You mean that big black thing? I thought it was a paperweight.
Fortune's Bastard, Running with Scissors, I Am Not Myself These Days, Frida Kahlo's diary, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, You Can't Catch Death, When Angels Rest by Donald Harington... He wrote a classic favorite of mine The Cockroaches of Staymore. You've really gotta be there... Not Fade Away, I Was Howard Hughes, Reqiem for a Dream, Still Life with Woodpecker, Anything by Thomas Berger, Margaret Atwood, Evelyn Waugh, Franz Kafka, Milan Kundera, Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, Robert Heinlein, Philip Roth, Krishnamurti, Bastard out of Carolina, Tales of the City, Paradise Fever... Fup!!! Any Fup fans?Harold and Maude still ranks number 1 thirty years later. I love anything dark, especially humor. Brazil, King of Hearts, Birdy, Eraserhead, Ed Wood, Being There, Stranger Than Paradise, Dead Man, Barton Fink, Donnie Darko, Igby Goes Down, Fargo, Chicago, Delicatessan, Memento, Pi, Psycho, Serial Mom, Usual Suspects, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Waking Life, Spirited Away, Time Bandits, The Life of Brian, Man Facing Southeast, Amores Perros, The Illustrated Man, Streetcar Named Desire, Clockwork Orange, Henry Fool, (the original) Vanishing, Swimming To Cambodia, Mosquito Coast, Eating Raul, American Splendor, Masked and Anonymous, Frida, Spun, Superguy, Triplets of Belville, What the Bleep do we Know? and Secretary.
Joseph Campbell, Krishnamurti, Richard Brautigan, Spalding Gray, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, Harvey Pekar, the Dalai Lama, Angelica Houston, Judy Davis, Tom Paxton, Otto Dix, Van Gogh, the Cohen Brothers, Jim Jarmusch, Gustav Klimt. My son Nathan, gay radical poet visionary, forgiving all my pecularities. My sis Kdee. You, me, everybody who braves to be unique in this melting pot of conformity.