Seattle's Reply, recited by Joseph Campbell
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Alphabetizing, Backgammon, Cultivation, Dark chocolate/beer/humor, Eating (the spicier, the better), Food (hot... Hot... HOT!!!), Gustation, "Hail Caesar"... salad, Intelligence (best measured by the sense of humor), Joviality, Kitsch, Language, Mingling, NPR, Old Leghumper porter, Pink lady apples, Quick wits, Reading/writing (though not 'rithmetic-ing), Spices, Theatre, Unexpected fireworks, Voyages, Walking home from work, Xanthum gum, Yo+ga/gurt/gi bear, Zeppelin
on here? smart/goofy people who do not send messages like, "i want to suck your toes, then read you poetry."
led zeppelin, morphine, traffic, cream, ani difranco, moody blues, portishead, cat stevens, bjork, fiona apple, csn(&y), sade, janis joplin, sondheim from the 70’s/80’s, ben folds, tragically hip
harold & maude, being there, fight club, the red violin, muriel’s wedding, bliss, being john malkovich, strictly ballroom, boogie nights, crash, supersize me, memento, bad education, dot the i, dazed and confused, run lola run, kundun, the usual suspects, trainspotting, drowning mona, priscilla queen of the desert, adaptation, spanking the monkey, bitter moon, best in show, frailty, jacob's ladder, shallow grave
dog whisperer!!!
barbara kingsolver (prodigal summer, the bean trees), bill bryson (a walk in the woods, a short history of nearly everything), flannery o’connor, michael pollan (botany of desire), jay ingram (the velocity of honey), o. henry, arundhati roy (the god of small things), ogden nash, language reference books (dictionary of cultural literacy, the superior person’s book of words, anything re: literary allusions/etymology, etc…)
anyone who performs acts of benevolence anonymously... by that definition, i don't know who my heroes are : )