The 60s/Vietnam War era, biology, cats, cosmology, comparative religion, crickets, epic poetry, feminisms, film, Gewurtztraminer, history, humanism, imaginary people and places, innovative fiction, intuition, laughing at inappropriate moments, liberal politics, live music (especially post-rock, jazz, and blues), marionettes, mysticism, myths, Native American religion and culture, New Orleans, nonsense, painting, pesco-vegetarian cooking, pottery, prehistory, puppets, RPGs, semiotics, signs and symbols, stars, subversive literary and mythical retellings, teaching, travel, trees, wine, and writing.
Old friends, new friends, writers, readers, students, teachers, seekers, poets, painters, artists, local musicians. Honest people. Compassionate people. The nine Muses. The tenth. Ts’its’tsi’nako. Other denizens of the underworld.
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Lately? Caribou, Calexico, Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts. Always? Brian Eno, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar, psychedelic Beatles (esp. Revolver), the Stones, blues, early Pink Floyd (esp. Saucerful of Secrets), Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, Laurie Anderson, David Bowie, Mogwai, Sigur Ros, Animal Collective, David Byrne, Loreena McKennitt, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sha'aban Yahya, Nina Simone, Tom Waits, Ray Lynch, David Lanz, Eric Satie, Chopin, Stravinsky, Charles Mingus, early and instrumental Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, and Television.
top 10
Adaptation, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harold and Maude, I [heart] Huckabees, Metropolis, Rashomon, The Science of Sleep, Waking Life
others...
Across the Universe, Akira, Big Fish, Broken Flowers, The Brothers Grimm, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (dir. Tim Burton), Dracula (dir. Tod Browning), Galaxyquest, Grizzly Man, High Art, The Hours, The House of Flying Daggers, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, Labyrinth, The Last Temptation of Christ, Lost in Translation, Mirror Mask, Pan's Labyrinth, Paprika, Pumpkin, The Saddest Music in the World, The Seventh Seal, Stardust, Star Wars, Sweeney Todd, V for Vendetta, Wild Strawberries, Zoolander...
I wouldn't turn it on if not for Netflix - we haven't had cable in years - but I have enjoyed watching Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Twin Peaks, Firefly, Stargate, Doctor Who,and Star Trek: The Next Generation via recording. And I never turn down an opportunity to watch The Daily Show!
Anything by: Paula Gunn Allen, Donald Barthelme, Richard Brautigan, Kevin Brockmeier, Joseph Campbell, Raymond Carver, e. e. cummings, Michael Cunningham, Philip K. Dick, Albert Einstein, William Faulkner, Seamus Haney, Ernest Hemingway, Anselm Hollo, Homer, Janette Turner Hospital, Galway Kinnell, Milan Kundera, Thomas Malory, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov, Anais Nin, Alice Notley, Tim O'Brien, Shakespeare, Carole Shields, Leslie Mormon Silko, Josef Skvorecky, Wallace Stegner, Hunter S. Thompson, Chuck Wachtel, Tennessee Williams, Jeanette Winterson, and Virginia Woolf. Anything by my friends (check out The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue!) The first half of Riane Eisler's The Chalice and the Blade. Tain bo Cuailgne (tr. Kinsella).
My late mother and father.