FLASHMOBS! treating people like people, everything beautiful and sublime, the great mysteries of existence which are more numerous than the stars in the sky, writing and appreciating music, appreciating film and the various visual arts, zen buddhism, christianity pre-westernization, philosophy, religious studies, nature, photography, travel, dreams, surrealism, thunderstorms, rainy days, spring, stormy summer weather in general, reading, old and new fantasy movies, old sci-fi, old-school nintendo, etc.
people who think, feel and have strong opinions based on compassion and the sublime.
Classic Rock: Bob Dylan, Captain Beefhart and His Magic Band, This Heat, The Beatles, Nick Drake, Jim Croce, Jethro Tull, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Norman Greenbaum, Cream, Love, MC5, Iggy and the Stooges, Zeppelin, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, Nina Simone, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Simon and Garfunkle, The Zombies, The Who, The Guess Who, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, the Allman Brothers, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, and the Kansas song "Magnum Opus"; Indie/Art--recent: Low, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, My Bloody Valentine, Fugazi, The Pogues, Deerhoof, Drive Like Jehu, Jolie Holland, Sunny Day Real Estate, Red House Painters, Yo La Tengo, Hella!, Nirvana, Blonde Redhead, Rachel‘s, Bjork, Antony and the Johnsons, Braid, Black Flag, The Minutemen, Husker Du, Rites of Spring, The Suburbs, The Shins, Don Caballero, Tori Amos, Tortoise, Iron and Wine, the Mars Volta, The Cure, Beck, Refused, Dillinger Escape Plan, Extol (Synergy), Mum; Blues: Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter (Progressive Blues Experiment), Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Stevie Ray Vaughan; Free Improv/Noise/Jazz: Miles Davis, Nels Cline Singers, Jim O' Rourke, Arab on Radar, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Zappa, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Weather report, Nervous Cop, Fred Frith; Composition: Claude Debussy, Alexandre Scriabin, Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms, Franz Lizst, Sergei Rachmaninov, Eric Whitacre, Steve Reich
the neverending story, waking life, the cruise, pan's labyrinth, the fountain, the darjeeling limited, i heart huckabees, the baxter, triplets of belleville, the original star wars trilogy, star wars: episode III, lord of the rings trilogy, the chronicles of narnia: the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe; the matrix, legend, princess mononoke, perfect blue, spirited away, donnie darko, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the science of sleep, edward scissorhands, american history X, seven, the wall, this is spinal tap, almost famous, the pianist, amelie, shine, pi, a beautiful mind, willow, teenage mutant ninja turtles I and II, hmm..that's all i remember off hand..
i despise almost everything currently on television. most of it causes a severe drop in i.q. points and really does rot your brain. but there are/were a few good shows: the office (british only), arrested development, kids in the hall, strangers with candy, the x-files, star trek, the twilight zone, conan o' brien, the simpsons, adventures of pete and pete, heroes, battlestar galactica, kung fu, kung fu: the legend continues, the super mario super show, captain n, inuyasha, flcl, fullmetal alchemist. by the way mtv is the antithesis to artfulness, authenticity and intelligence. and there's hardly any good music at all on it anymore.
zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance by robert m. pirsig, soren kierkegaard: the sickness unto death, the concept of anxiety, fear and trembling; i and thou by martin buber; dostoevsky: notes from underground; vine deloria's "God is Red"; house of leaves by mark k. danielewski; zen flesh, zen bones: compiled by paul reps and nyogen senzaki; ramesh menon's ramayana; lame deer, seeker of visions by by john (fire) lame deer and richard erdoes; meditations on first philosophy by rene descartes; kant's critique of pure reason; treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge by george berkeley; the bible; something wicked this way comes by ray bradbury; c.s. lewis: the problem of pain, chronicles of narnia; the hobbit by tolkien; journey to the center of the earth by jules verne; war of the worlds by h.g. wells; shadows of the empire by steve perry. philosophy, religion, fantasy and science fiction.
the master clocksmith, spomer the henchman and my little bro