travelling even when Im standing still, asking questions without any need for their answers, reading poems that just dont sound as good outside my head, fitting my trumpet into other people's music, making art that shows me a little bit more about the world, hugging my dog to find grounding and love, learning/teaching/reading/writing, working for social justice, making strangers laugh in passing, riding my bike without a destination, drinking whiskey just to make toasts, making toasts so that I may drink whiskey, learning how to love in a liberatory way, driving while I scream song lyrics at the top of my lungs, doing as much shit that scares me as possible while not being stupid....you know stupid's underrated. bring on the stupid. smart is for jerks.
I'd like to meet:
folks that believe in the power of belief, and people who choose wakefulness and anybody who can remind me that there is a whole lot of stuff I don't know in this world, and then can help me to know it. oh yeah and people who move through the world at a similar speed as me, and then those who know how to make me slow the fuck down.
Music:
here's whats been on my musical loop: antony & the johnsons, jay jay johanson, the moldy peaches, sufjan stevens, tunng, paul baribeau, the whomping willows, Otis Redding, spoon, coco rosie, architecture in helsinki, feist, juana molina, van morrison, Hall & Oates, Jackie Opel, the finches, Styx, Meatloaf, FOREIGNER, Lionel Richie, magnetic fields, clap your hands say yeah, etta james, the mountain goats, bobby darin, the weakerthans, JOURNEY, damien rice, the killers, O Haste Annihilation, matt & kim, Against Me!, old schoool bright eyes. emooooooooooooo...and god bless the mix tape.
Movies:
juno, little ms. sunshine, the 40 year old virgen, pan's labrinth, walking and talking, when harry met sally, amelie, knocked up, children of men, serenity, stranger than fiction, finding nemo, the sword and the stone, most things animated, especially when I can sing along...
Television:
I used to hate tv. now I find I like it. but only in big spurts of guilty pleasure, typically mixed in with family/avoidingthefamily time. here's what I'll admit to watching: Dexter and Lost. other things i think about watching/watch when i need to melt my brain: ugly betty, heros, greys anatomy...damn it. i dont even own a tv.
Books:
the golden compass trilogy, a wrinkle in time/swiftly tilting planet/all l'engle books, joseph campbell books, paulo freire, conversations with god, the tale of desperaux, rilke, gatto books, diary of frida kahlo, the god of small things, khalil gibran, aftermath, blink, tipping point
Heroes:
Tarkan Dinckan, Paulo Freire, Eleanor Duckworth, Maxine Greene, Ema Hookie Love Mutt Turtlebaum Gat, Lars Din, Bill Ayers, Desperaux, Ambrose Redmoon, The Entire Dinckan Family, Arundhati Roy, John Taylor Gatto, Abigail Mason, Jarrod Ballou, Harriet Clark, Frieda Kahlo, Kerri Ann Dick, Martin Luther King Jr., Jon Stewart, Joseph Campbell, raz, shani, golan, roman, Malcolm X, Simone Lessac Chenen, Rob Hyde, Jason Tompkins, Arthur Dove, Kimmie Turnbull, Don Quijote, mi familia, Katie DeWitt, greg & maggie, a little bit of most people I meet...
