Music (makin' + listenin'); road trips; history; weird movies; fringe science; art; counterculture; philology, linguistics, & etymology; cog sci; discovering new restaurants; exploration; Buddhism (Theravada); leftism (Bakunin, etc.); reading; mantids; Fortean phenomena & hidden history; NLP; botany; memetics; philosophy; planted aquaria...
...and the smell of frying onions and rosemary.
First & Foremost-
- know thyself
- own your shit
- love your life
Almost anything else is negotiable.
Now - specific people I'd like to meet?
LIVING:
Brian Eno, Hakim Bey, Steve Albini, Christopher Guest, Mel Brooks, Lemmy, Jack Herer, Mick Harris, yr mom (just kidding - I already know her).
OTHER THAN LIVING: Buddha, Mark Twain, Sun-Tzu, Robert Anton Wilson, William Burroughs, Jorge Luis Borges, Solon, Bill Hicks, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philip K. Dick, John Coltrane, Genghis Khan, Plato, Terence McKenna, Max Stirner, Curtis Mayfield, John Dee, Mikhail Bakunin, Jimi Hendrix, Carl Sagan, Kurt Vonnegut, Le Comte St. Germain, Thomas Jefferson, Lycurgus, William Blake, Lester Bangs, Erik the Red, Mitch Hedberg, Syd Barrett, Alan Watts...
Jungle/DnB, Dubstep, Breaks, Bossa Nova, Dub, Classical, Jazz, Breakcore, classic Country, Electro, Psychedelic Rock (like Hawkwind, not the Dead), Experimental, oldskool RnB, Krautrock (I ? Neu!), Roots Reggae, older Punk/Hardcore (mostly '77-'83), some Indie, Rocksteady, Blues, Samba (especially Batucada!), Electro-Acoustic & Soundscape, IDM, Dancehall, UK-G/2step, Broken Beat, Ambient, Tropicália, Oldskool Hip Hop (conscious... bored with & sick of Gangsta bumbaclot negativity), Glitch, Music Concréte, Indian/Pakistani (Bhangra, Raga, etc.), 'ethnic' percussion (Taiko, Burundi, etc.)... + Syd Barrett, the Stooges, Sonic Youth, Claude Debussy, old Roxy & Bowie, Louis Armstrong, Godflesh, Jesu, the MC5, Flying Saucer Attack, Erik Satie, Led Zeppelin, Brian Eno, St. John Coltrane, Polvo, J.S. Bach, & the Velvet Underground...
Marx Bros., the Thin Man movies, Waiting For Guffman, Blade Runner, any Sonny Chiba movies (but esp. Street Fighter!), Clockwork Orange, Spinal Tap, 2001, Decline of Western Civilization, Big Lebowski, Adaptation, Buena Vista Social Club, The Naked City, Apocalypse Now, City of God, Young Frankenstein, Dr. Strangelove, Office Space, The Jerk, The Party, Best In Show, City of God, Modulations, Rockers, The Harder They Come, I Love You Alice B. Toklas, Dark City, Akira, O Brother Where Art Thou, Blazing Saddles, Fight Club, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, the Star Wars movies, Buckaroo Banzai, Run Ronnie Run, Vampire Hunter 'D', anything starring Weng Weng...
Movie Quote:
"You live in a dream. You're a sleepwalker, blind. How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know, if you rip off the fronts of houses, you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it? Wake up, Charlie. Use your wits. Learn something."
- from Shadow Of A Doubt, 1943/Hitchcock
Nature shows, PBS docs, AFV*.
* Yes - I said AFV. I'm not too proud to admit it. Screw you if you're too effete to admit that you enjoy watching other people get hit in the nuts.
Hakim Bey, Lester Bangs, William Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, Alan Watts, John Cage, The Buddha, Allen Ginsberg, Terence McKenna, H.P. Lovecraft, Ed Rosenthal... history, philosophy, musicology, science, hidden history, semiotics, conspiracy theory, ethnobotany, well-written fiction, & more.
My wife, parents, sister, and grandparents; Brian Eno, the Buddha, Louis Armstrong, Ed Rosenthal, Steve Martin, John Coltrane, Noam Chomsky, Harpo Marx, and anybody making a living - no matter how meager - out of what they love to do.