Reading. Singing. Writing. Poetry. Reading. Yoga. Going for walks. Driving on the Blueridge Parkway. Ruminating over the origins, point and purpose of the universe and existence. Camping. Reading. Veganism. Painting. Spending lots of time with friends and family. Hiking. Sitting outside. Big long involved discussions of things. Romance. Watching movies. Reading. Alchemy. Rock climbing. Cooking. Theatre/Drama. Museums. Some Video Games-(Zelda!). Reading. Pets. A good hug. Love. Peace. Zen. Alternative Medicine. Creativity. Astrology. Reading. Personality tests and quizzes and psychological evaluations. Sledding. Philosophizing. Herbs. Physics. Quantumn Theories. Social/Political Sciences. Making music with other people (I want to be in a band again damn it!). Tattoos. Tribal drumming. Reading. Cultural studies. Sacred Geometry. Organic gardening. Dogs. Reading. Environmental study. Playing Didjeridoo. Studying the connections between ancient cultures and their mysteries. Reading. Astronomy. Riding roller coasters. Photography. Road Trips. Self-sustaining/sufficient living and natural/green home building. Passion. Reading. Playing paint-ball war games. Counter-culture. Reading. Concerts. Judaism. Tea ceremony. Folklore. Health. Activism. Nutrition. Learning. Animal Rights. History. Reading. Environmental conservation. Native American culture/history. Traveling. Pottery. Day-dreaming. Irony. Crop Circles and other mysterious phenomenon. Activism. Watching/observing people. Decorating. Nature. Watercolors. Animals. Oh, and did I mention reading? ...I'm sure I'll think of more to add.
I'd like to meet:
People who like to laugh. People who can still see and find the beauty in the world. People as consciously aware and in control of themselves, and as consciously aware of human interactions and the world, as I am, (if not more so... which I could then learn from). People who know when to play, when to roll down grassy hills and dance in the rain and make me lighten up on myself... but also know when its best to be serious and focused. People full to the brim with compassion. Steadfastly loyal people. Social critics. People honest to their core. Creative Individuals. Poets, Romantics, Visionaries and Dreamers.
Music:
16 Horsepower, A Perfect Circle, AFI, Against Me, Air, Alan Parson's Project, Alexi Murdoch, Alice in Chains, Alison Krauss, Anathema, Android Lust, Aphex Twin, Art Garfunkle, Ash Devine, Assemblage 23, At The Drive In, The Beatles, Beck, Ben Folds Five, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Billy Corgan, Billy Joel, Bjork, Blue Oyster Cult, Bob Marley, Bobby McFerrin, Bright Eyes, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Bush, Chesapeake, Coldplay, Counting Crows, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, The Cure, Damien Rice, Das Ich, Dave Matthews Band, Death Cab For Cutie, The Deftones, Depeche Mode, Diane Cluck, Dieselboy, The Doors, Dredg, Duncan Sheik, The Eels, Einstrzende Neubauten, Ellen Allien, Enya, Erika Badu, Fear Factory, Filter, Fiona Apple, Foo Fighters, Frank Sinatra, Funker Vogt, The Get Up Kids, Girlyman, Goo goo Dolls, Gorillaz, Guster, The Gypsy Kings, Haujobb, Hawksley Workman, The Indigo Girls, James Taylor, Jars of Clay, Jeremy Enigk, Jewel, Jim Croce, John Lennon, Kate Bush, Kenna, Killing Joke, The Kovenant, Led Zeppelin, Live, Lost Prophets, Luna Sea, Matisyahu, Moby, Modest Mouse, Mortiis, Muslimgauze, Nine Inch Nails, OhGr, Okkervil River, Opeth, Opera IX, Peccatum, Pink Floyd, Poe, The Police, Primus, Queen, R.E.M., Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Rasputina, Regina Spektor, Reupt/(Naturemaschine), Sarah McLachlan, The Shins, The Sins of Thy Beloved, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Skinny Puppy, The Smashing Pumpkins, Something For Kate, Soul Coughing, Spin Doctors, Stephan Smith, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Sting, The Strokes, Sublime, Sugizo/Yasuhiro Sugihara, Sunny Day Real Estate, System of a Down, Talking Heads, Theatre of Tragedy, They Might Be Giants, Third Eye Blind, Thought Riot, Tom Waits, Tool, Tricky, Tristania, VAST, VNV Nation, Willie Dodson, Wumpscut, X Japan, Yanni, Yes, Yoshiki Hayashi, Zack de la Rocha... (Some Bluegrass, Chant, Classical, Celtic music, and other kinds of world music), Whatever I make up... And much much more... (In my head, my life is a musical.)
Movies:
Various Anime Series (Evangelion. Serial Experiments Lain. Martian Successor Nadesico. Cowboy Bebop. Magic Knights Rayearth. Vampire Princess Miyu. Fushigi Yugi. Dragon Half. Jubei-Chan. Ranma 1/2), A Beautiful Mind, A Christmas Story, A Clockwork Orange, Adaptation, Adventures of Baron Munchuasen, After Life, American Beauty, American History X, An Inconvenient Truth, The Animatrix, Arsenic and Old Lace, As Good As It Gets, Baraka, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset, Being John Malkovich, The Believer, Benny and Joon, Big Fish, The Birdcage, Bowling for Columbine, Brazil, Brick, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Bubble Boy, Cannibal The Musical, The Cat In The Hat, Cast Away, Clerks, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Cold Mountain, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Dark City, The Day After Tomorrow, Death to Smoochie, Detroit Rock City, The Devil's Advocate, The Dream of Sparrows, Donnie Darko, Dune, The Emperor's New Groove, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Everything Is Illuminated, Fast Food Nation, Farenheit 9/11, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 50 First Dates, Fight Club, Finding Nemo, The 5th Element, The Forgotten, Forrest Gump, The Game, Garden State, Ghost in the Shell, Girl Interrupted, Go Further, The Harry Potter Series, Harvey, Hero, How To Make an American Quilt, The Hours, The Hudsucker Proxy, i heart Huckabees, Igby Goes Down, In July, The Incredibles, Interview with a Vampire, Jacob's Ladder, Kill Bill, Ladyhawk, Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Madagascar, Magnolia, The Matrix trilogy, Anything by The Marx Brothers, Mirror Mask, Monsters Inc., Anything by Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Motorcycle Diaries, Moulin Rouge, MST3K episodes, My Dinner With Andre, Napoleon Dynamite, Never Cry Wolf, The Never Ending Story, Nightmare Before Christmas, Pi, Pieces of April, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pink Floyd's "The Wall", The Power Puff Girls Movie, The Princess Bride, Princess Mononoke, Pulp Fiction, The Ring, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Disney's Robin Hood, The Saint, Saved, Saving Private Ryan, Shaolin Soccer, Signs, Slingblade, Snatch, Snow Falling on Cedars, Spirited Away, Spring Summer Fall Winter And Spring, Star Wars (The originals), The Sting, Storm of The Century, The Story of the Weeping Camel, Supersize Me, Super Troopers, Swordfish, That Thing You Do, This is What Democracy Looks Like, Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion, Toy Story 1 & 2, Touch The Sound, Twelve Monkeys, 25th Hour, 28 Days Later, The Usual Suspects, The Village, Waking Life, Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit, WatershipDown, Whale Rider, What Dreams May Come, What The Bleep Do We Know, White Oleander, Winged Migration, Wonder Boys... And more...
Television:
Lost!, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Kids in the Hall, Animal Cops, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, Stargate, MST3K, The Daily Show, Sifle and Olly, Daria, Rocko's Modern Life, Trigger Happy TV, things on Animal Planet, History, Discovery, National Geographic, and Learning channels.
But I don't have cable at home...
I haven't in many years....
And I'm thankful for that.
I find commercials are seriously depressing and disturbing to behold.
The general remedy to all of that is box-set DVDs.
;p
Books:
"The Black Company" Series - By Glen Cook (Hell yeah!!!), "Black Elk Speaks" - By John G. Neihardt, J.R.R. Tolkien's Books, "The Once and Future King" - By T.H. White, "Tail Chaser's Song" - By Tad Williams, "Watership Down" - By Richard Adams, Virtually Any Edgar Allan Poe, Virtually Any Shakespeare, "Nightfall" - By Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, Comics by Jhonen Vasquez, "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life" - By Jon Lee Anderson, "The Holographic Universe" - By Michael Talbot, "Secrets in the Fields: The Science and Mysticism of Crop Circles" - By Freddy Silva, "Angela's Ashes" and "Tis" - By Frank McCourt, "The Martian Chronicles" - By Ray Bradbury, "Time and The Technosphere" - By Jose Arguelles, "Lies My Teacher Told Me" - By James W. Loewen, "Lord of the Flies" - By William Gerald Golding, "Hardcore Zen" - By Brad Warner, "1984" - By George Orwell, "Cinnabar The One O'Clock Fox" - By Marguerite Henry, "The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero" - By Robert Kaplan, "The Earth Changes Survival Handbook" - By Page Bryant, "Zen in the Art of the Japanese Tea Ceremony" - By Horst Hammitzsch, "The Nature of Animal Healing: The Definitive Holistic Medicine Guide to Caring for your Dog and Cat" - By Martin Goldstein D.V.M., "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crime in Our Free Country" - By Peter McWilliams, "The Emporer Wears No Clothes: The Authoritative Historical Record of Cannabis and the Conspiracy Against Marijuana" - By Jack Herer, "The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don't Think For Themselves" - By Curtis White, "Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating" - By Erik Marcus, "The Ancient Secrets of The Flower of Life" - By Drunvalo Melchizedek, "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones" - By Paul Reps, "20,000 Secrets of Tea" - By Victoria Zak, The "Tao Te Ching" - By Lao Tse, "The Dao of Pooh" and "The Te of Piglet" - By Benjamin Hoff, "Cloud's Rider" - By C.J. Cherryh, "Planethood" - By Benjamin B. Ferencz, The "Dhammapada" - As organized by Thomas Byrom, Anything by Diane Ackerman, "Natural Cures They Don't Want You To Know About" - By Kevin Trudeau, "The Body Electric" - By Robert O. Becker M.D., "The Prophet" - By Kahlil Gibran, "The Giver" - By Lois Lowry, "The Passionate Olive" - By Carol Firenze, "The Motorcycle Diaries"- By Ernesto "Che" Guevara Del La Serna, "The Secret Life of Plants" - By Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, "The Phantom Tollbooth" - By Norton Juster, "The Vintage Bradbury" - By Ray Bradbury, "A Beginner's Guide To Constructing The Universe: Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science - By Michael S. Schneider, The "Schrodinger's Cat" series - By Robert Anton Wilson, "A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail" - By Bill Bryson, "Evasion" - Published by CrimeThinc, "Breaking the Food Seduction" - By Doctor Neal Barnard, Poems by e.e cummings and Federico Garcia Lorca, Books by the Disinformation group, "The Hidden Life of Dogs" - By Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, "Animal Liberation" - By Peter Singer, "Jewish Meditation" - By Aryeh Kaplan, "Detoxification and Healing: The Key to Optimal Health" - By Sidney Macdonald Baker M.D., "The Herbalist" - By Joseph E. Meyer, Various works by Abraham Joshua Heschel, "The Art of Amazement" - By Rabbi Alexander Seinfeld, "Ishmael" - By Daniel Quinn, "Beyond Civilization" - By Daniel Quinn, "Prescription for Nutritional Healing" and "Prescription for Herbal Healing" - By Phyllis A. Balch, "Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine" - By Dr. Michael T. Murray, "Living Green" - By Greg Horn... And plenty more!!!
Heroes:
Shouldn't everyone start by listing themselves? I mean, ...who else is going to haul you all through your life, and learn everything, thus essentially teaching everything, by having the utmost control over opening your eyes, save you yourself?
After that, I'd say some people who's words and/or actions have stirred me to the core of inspiration and hope, are: Buddha, and other mastered souls. Che Guevara, and other revolutionary people who honestly practiced what they preached as opposed to it being simply hyperbole. Billy Corgan, Maynard James Keenan, Emily Sailors and Amy Ray, and many other great lyricists. Buckminister Fuller, Albert Schweitzer, Ghandi, Albert Eienstein, and other pacifist, humanitarian, enlightened minds. My family. My friends. ...And any stranger I could meet.
