water, trees, pies, sausages, thoughtfulness and mindfulness, phases of the moon, stanky bars, warm evenings, pale mornings, insane-o connections, past conceptions of the future, the ocean under a starry sky, the smell (and the feel!) of the desert, finding solutions, the sound of the redwoods, sunday afternoons
everyone i miss. anyone with answers.
lately: karaoke, public radio, daydreaming of my records
always:organists and vibraphonists, acoustic guitar played with a shotglass-slide, beat juggles and jiggles, blood-curdling screams, blues riffs, carnival music, disco strings, distortion, field recordings of subways, funk basslines, gospel piano, jug bands, pedal steel guitars, resonators, twelve strings, washboards...
mostly ones that are either disturbing or beautiful and preferably both
MUPPETS, UCB, The Tomorrow People, Three's Company (but not the episodes with Don Knotts)
the prophet by khalil gibran; everything that eric von stenbock and oscar wilde ever wrote; most of what griel marcus had to say; carl sagan's overarchingly mindblowing wisdom; jane goodall's down to earth approach; the vertical smile; confederacy of dunces; everything that opens the mind; clifford simak & arthur c. clarke & ray bradbury's amazing visions.
bobby a., hannah marie, dirty d., and carl sagan.