Art.
California Golden Bears Football.
Camping.
Cooking.
Fishing.
Guitars.
Hiking.
Horticulture.
Music.
Photography(For some of mine, click here ).
Pugs.
San Francisco Forty-Niners Football.
San Francisco Giants Baseball.
The Coast.
Writing.
"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain
A.Adams, A.Bourdain, A.Brown, A.Duritz, T.McGrady, and J. Muir.
"Most people are on the world, not in it - have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching, but separate." - John Muir
"And you, liar, teller of tall tales: you trample all the Lord's commandments underfoot. You murder, steal, commit adultery, and afterward break into tears, beat your breast, take down your guitar and turn sin into a song. Shrewd devil, you know very well that God pardons singers no matter what they do, because he can simply die for a song."
- Nikos Kaztantzakis
Some of my favorites ...
AC/DC.
Alice In Chains.
And You'll Know Us By The Trail Of Dead.
A Perfect Circle.
Arcade Fire, The.
Band of Horses.
Beach Boys, The.
Beck.
Belle and Sebastian.
Ben Folds Five.
Better Than Ezra.
Bird, Andrew.
Black Crowes, The.
Bloc Party.
Broken Social Scene.
Brooks, Garth.
Buckley, Jeff.
Buckner, Richard.
Built To Spill:
"This history lesson doesn't make any sense in any less than ten thousand year increments."
Cake.
Calexico:
"Just like I found it, my world is split right down the spine."
Cat Power.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
Coheed and Cambria.
Costa, Matt.
Counting Crows:
"I dream of Michelangelo when I'm lying in my bed. Little angels hang above my head and read me like an open book, suck my blood, break my nerve, offer me their arms. Well, I will not be an enemy of anything, I'll only stand here waiting for you."
Cranberries, The.
Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Cure, The.
Dashboard Confessional.
Dave Matthews Band.
Death Cab For Cutie:
"Last night, I dreamt that I was you. I was dressed all in black with dark glasses and attitude. Such a pose I could simply not hold through days in a northern town that I had once called a home. Your studies for fringe New York streets; I was reading the pavement in every word you would speak."
Decemberists, The:
"This is the story of your red right ankle and how it came to meet your leg. And how the muscle, bone, and sinews tangled, and how the skin was softly shed. And how it whispered, 'Oh, adhere to me for we are bound by symmetry and whatever differences our lives have been, we together make a limb.' This is the story of your red right ankle."
Denver, John.
Depeche Mode.
Dire Straights.
Dylan, Bob.
Eagles, The.
Echo and the Bunnymen.
Feeney, Catherine.
Foo Fighters.
Format, The.
Get Up Kids, The.
Gill, Vince.
Gin Blossoms.
Gonzalez, Jose.
Gray, David.
Green Day.
Griffin, Patty.
Hall, Maggie.
Hendrix, Jimi.
Incubus.
Interpol.
Iron and Wine:
"So may the sunrise bring hope where it once was forgotten. Sons can be birds, taken broken up to the mountain."
Jets To Brazil.
Jewel.
Jimmy Eat World.
John Butler Trio.
Johnson, Jack.
Joplin, Janis.
Julian, Richard.
Kweller, Ben.
Lamontagne, Ray.
Led Zeppelin.
Lightfoot, Gordon.
Live.
Low, The.
Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Marcy Playground.
Mavericks, The.
Mclachlan, Sarah.
Mead, David.
Metallica:
"Hear me, and if close my mind in fear, please pry it open. See me, and if my face becomes sincere, beware. Hold me, and when I start to come undone, stitch me together. Save me, and when you see me strut, remind me of what left this outlaw torn."
Modest Mouse.
My Morning Jacket.
National, The:
"Let her treat you like a criminal so you can treat her like a priest."
Neutral Milk Hotel:
"When you were young, you were the king of carrot flowers. And how you built a tower tumbling through the trees in holy rattlesnakes that fell all around your feet."
New Order.
Oasis.
Okkervil River.
Pearl Jam:
"I don't know whether I was the boxer or the bag."
Petty, Tom.
Pixies, The.
Police, The.
Postal Service, The.
Pretty Girls Make Graves.
Radiohead.
Red West, The.
Rice, Damien.
Ritter, Josh:
"Some say that man is the root of all evil. Others say God's a drunkard for pain. Me, I believe that the Garden of Eden was burned to make way for a train."
Rolling Stones, The.
Saves The Day.
Sebadoh:
"Any thought could be the beginning of the brand new tangled web you're spinning. Anyone could be your brand new love."
Shepard, Kenny Wayne.
She Wants Revenge.
Shins, The.
Silversun Pickups.
Smashing Pumpkins, The.
Smith, Elliott.
Social Distortion.
Soul Coughing.
Spoon.
Stars.
Stevens, Cat.
Stone Temple Pilots.
Strokes, The.
Sublime.
Sun Kil Moon.
Sunny Day Real Estate:
"I dream to heal your wounds, but I bleed myself."
Swearing at Mototists.
Taylor, James.
Third Eye Blind.
Thursday.
Toad The Wet Sprocket.
Toadies, The.
Tool.
U2.
Vanderslice, John.
Vaughan, Stevie Ray.
Wallflowers, The.
We Are Scientists.
Weezer.
White Stripes, The.
Who, The.
Wilco.
Wolf Parade.
Yo La Tengo.
Young, Neil.
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A River Runs Through It.
American Graffiti.
American History X.
Big Lebowski, The.
Black Hawk Down.
Blow.
Breakfast Club, The.
Castaway.
Clear And Present Danger.
Dogma.
Dumb and Dumber.
Edward Scissorhands.
Eight Men Out.
Empire Records.
Escape From Alcatraz.
Fight Club.
French Connection, The.
Forrest Gump.
Gods Must Be Crazy, The.
Goonies.
Grizzly Man.
High Fidelity.
Jaws.
Kalifornia.
L.A. Confidential.
Napoleon Dynamite.
Natural, The.
Neverending Story, The.
Oceans Eleven.
Office Space.
Old School.
Patriot Games.
Payback.
Platoon.
Royal Tennenbaums, The.
Rushmore.
Se7en.
Silence of the Lambs, The.
Sixteen Candles.
Stand By Me.
There's Something About Mary.
Trainspotting.
Usual Suspects, The.
Village, The.
Wedding Singer, The.
And how can we forget . . . The Fish-u-mentary.
If it's not re-runs of Seinfeld, something on either the Food or the Travel Network, or Austin City Limits, I probably don't watch it.
"Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise. Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters."
- Norman Maclean
"It is remarkable that the visionary propensity I have mentioned is not confined to the native inhabitants of the valley, but is unconsciously imbibed by every one who resides there for a time. However wide awake they may have been before they entered that sleepy region, they are sure, in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative, to dream dreams, and see apparitions."
- Washington Irving
"Our relationship to Nature is primal. The emotions it evokes arose during the forgotten prehistory of mankind, and hence are deep and shadowed. Like childhood experiences lost from conscious memory, they are commonly felt but rarely articulated. Poets, at the highest level of expression, try. They know something fundamental moves beneath the surface of our conscious minds, something worth saving. It evokes some of the spirituality that you and I hold in common."
- E.O. Wilson
Hands down, my mom and my little sister. Without them, I'd certainly be lost.