cheese fries, polydactyl cats, terrariums, living beyond my means, sky burials, sacred/profane, SHARKS, tonic immobility, collective effervescence, masculinity studies, not heterosexist gender binaries that cost people their lives everyday, ocean metaphor, switchblade combs, anchors, dia de los muertos, pink cadillacs, frida kahlo, sailor jerry, public interest anthropology, tibet things.
perhaps my own blues band.
gillian welch, peaches, the kills, the beta band, yeah yeah yeahs, ladytron, dandy warhols, the smiths, fiery furnaces, gravy train!!!, depeche mode, tears for fears, black rebel motorcycle club, goldfrapp, betty carter, abbey lincoln, miles davis, john coltrane, reverend horton heat, big sandy + his fly-rite boys, andrew bird, freddie king, johnny cash, delmore brothers, muddy waters, jamie lidell, amy winehouse, le tigre, ratatat, lcd soundsystem, the knife, new young pony club, cansei de ser sexy, old crow medicine show, howlin' wolf, big mama thornton, bo diddley, john lee hooker, lightnin' hopkins, willie dixon, NEW RADIOHEAD.
koyaanisqatsi, quick and the dead, donnie darko, oh brother where art thou?, silent tongue, eternal sunshine, the red violin, magnolia, air jaws/air jaws II, dead man walking, 21 grams, grosse pointe blank, to kill a mockingbird, the piano, empire of the sun, fried green tomatoes, kundun, babel, whale rider, the fog of war, children of men, paris is burning, little monsters, death becomes her.
carnivale, PBS american experience, six feet under, strangers with candy, battlestar galactica, weeds, heroes, SHARK WEEK.
the bardo tödrül. the encyclopedia of tibetan symbols and motifs, by robert beer. also: michelle tea, adrienne rich, foucault, judith butler, bourdieu, michael taussig, david sedaris, bell hooks, r.w. connell, susan sontag, haruki murakami, anne fausto-sterling, michael kimmel, audre lorde, patricia hill collins, jackson katz, margaret meade, h.h. dalai lama, émile durkheim, dave eggers, jonathan safran foer, jeffrey eugenides, clifford geertz, michael ondaatje, caroline mytinger, rohinton mistry, jim fergus, joanne harris, tom stoppard, augusten burroughs, paul farmer, samantha power, robert thurman, sogyal rinpoche.
avalokiteshvara.