learning, restless invention, dialogue, theatre/paratheatre/art as vehicle, film, playing the bass, song-writing, sacred harp (congregational singing), myths and tales, geometry, alchemical manuscripts, wandering in the hills, martial arts, wolves, synesthesia, centers of gravity, cross-country driving, trains, really old people, swimming holes, the ocean, dress-up, tags, murals, waking dreams, thunderstorms, the new-mexican desert, Sicily, southern folk, folk and junk art, getting lost in new cities, homeless shelters, silence, talking to the silence, making up things in the kitchen, sweat, farming ; committing poems, speeches, and songs to the back-ward; writing, translation, etymologies, oil, watercolor, ink, amber, rocks, physics, telling stories, bass fishing, tutoring mathematics with my 7th and 8th-graders, making light sculptures, e bebere le tutto
maenads, long lost etairoi
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Prison songs, field hollers, ring shouts, hymns, shapenote and old modal gospel, son house, Charley Patton, Bukka White, Blind Willie Johnson, Fred McDowell, Leadbelly, Geeshie Wiley,... on and on; gunslinger ballads, Appalachian oldtime, Mingus, Nina Simone, Bessie Smith, Gram Parsons, OTIS, miles davis, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Talking Heads, Joy Division, Wire, My Bloody Valentine, Tom Waits, Dino Jr., Brian Eno; Neutral Milk Hotel, Palace Music/ Will Oldham, My Morning Jacket, Joanna Newsome, Broken Social Scene, Wolf Parade, Dan Sartain, Taylor Hollingsworth, 13 Ghosts, Duquette Johnston;;;; Arvo Part, Ligeti, Palestrina, Debussy, Sviridov, Beethoven
Chaplin; Harold Lloyd; Keaton; Tarkovsky (andrei rublev's probably my favorite movie); Herzog; Kosinisev; Kurusowa; Cocteau; Fellini; Le Passion de Jeanne d'Arc; anything Amoldovar; anything Hitchcock; Raising Arizona; The Big Lebowski; Dead Man; King of Hearts; Fight Club; Amores Perros; A Clockwork Orange; Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead; My Dinner with Andre; Koyaanisqatsi; Black Cat/ White Cat; Marx Brothers; pasgetti westerns
"I fell into the aaarms, of Venus de MILO!!"
At the moment: the Nag Hammadi Library; Elaine Pagels' histories of early christianity; Beelzebub's Tales; various tales involving Mullah Nas Reddin; Typee by Melville; The Unvanquished by Faulkner; Salvation on Sand Mountain; various Borges, Brecht
children all over