Experiences, laughing, dreams, good times, live music, art (Justin Bua), CHESS, dominoes, nature, outer space...the planets, the stars (both shooting and stationary), anything pomegranate, hiking, the beach, Scrabble, Dodger games, family fun, Chris, coffee, OREGON, Euskal Herria (the 'Basque Country') between Northern Spain and Southern France. That's where my family is from.
Anyone that will tell me stories and listen to mine..."If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer... If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!" -"Invitation" by Shel Silverstein A lot of my pictures come from...
Chris Murray, The Expanders, Rizorkestra, The Guy Threes, and the other greatness that comes from the SoCal music scene... Hepcat, See Spot, The Aggrolites, Penny Reel Duo, LA Allstar Revue, The Debonaires... I LOVE Jamaican music (Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae)!! To name a few more of my favorites...Don Carlos (the man!), Desmond Dekker, Culture, Prince Buster, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Toots & The Maytals, Eek-a-mouse, The Slackers, Ooklah-the-moc, Burning Spear, Steel Pulse, Natural Vibrations, Gregory Issacs, Peter Tosh, Jimmy Cliff, The Ethiopians, The Skatalites, Rico Rodriguez, Alton Ellis...the list goes on and on. I like some rockabilly/psychobilly... BASQUE MUSIC (anything I can jota to). Also love Galactic, Paul Simon, The Clash, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin...and the rest of the Rat Pack, Ben Harper, Muse, Modest Mouse, Spoon, Queens of the Stone Age, Tool, Floater (Oregon Represent!), Led Zeppelin, Jurassic 5, Tribe Called Quest, E-40 and the Click, Jack Black (Tenacious D), there are so many...
Anything by Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland...What if Tim Burton put out a version of Alice??!! Little Miss Sunshine, What the Bleep Do We Know, Borat, Drop Dead Fred, Napoleon Dynamite, Monty Python, This is Spinal Tap, RIZE (an amazing documentary), What about Bob?, Donnie Darko, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Big Lebowski, Kevin Smith stuff, Wallace and Gromit, Tommy Boy, Robin Hood Men in Tights, Meet the Parents, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Fargo, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove... OH!! And I just saw SUPERBAD and it was SUPERRAD!!!
Don't watch much but I enjoy FAMILY GUY, The Office ( The British/original version), Real Time with Bill Maher, Daily Show, The Colbert Report, BBC News, anything educational (love the Discovery Channel), Scrubs, Monk cracks me up (aren't we all a tad obsessive compulsive or at least a bit disordered...). CARTOONS! And some of the MTV reality shows...sorry, I'm one of them!!
Anything by Hermann Hesse, Shel Silverstein, Jack Kerouac, Karl Marx, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson. The 'Scrabble Player's Dictionary' is a fixture on my bookshelf. I just finished "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolff and loved it! The Four Agreements, and I have to admit that I did give into the whole Harry Potter thing and dammit...they were good! There's a reason that bitch is a billionaire, ya know! Don't hate her 'cause ya ain't her!
Besides my mom...Che Guevararevolutionaires, people with integrity, and of course those who come original (especially hard to find in LA...I miss Oregon!)