Foreign Lands; Learning; Laughter; Languages; Love; New Mexico; The Laughter of a child; Courageousness; BICYCLES; Sexy brains & sweet smiles; Dirt Roads; Footpaths; Culinary Arts; Classic Scooters; The Feel of a Solid Rhythm; Mastery of the Keys; Jasmine/Ginger Tea, Honey and a good Book; Expansion beyond/of mind; Cirque De Soleil; The Cosmos; Loyalty; Photography; Photoshop; oh, and as much as I hate to admit it, Google-I mean, how does it know all that shit?!?; Dark Chocolate; Peanut Butter; Dark Chocolate AND Peanut Butter; Garlic; GREEN CHILE, (Yes, even when I'm in Indonesia!); Lying in my Hammock and listening to the water flow in front of my house; Integrity; A quiet, unoccupied mountain top; Falling asleep to the sound of rain on the roof; A quiet, unoccupied beach; Hotsprings; Pristine Forests; Music Festivals (Those that don't fall into the same category as Bonneroo that is....); My Friends; My Family (But, with the exception of my sister, mostly they remain a mystery); Raking Light; Being light; BEING; Strapping a board to my feet and hurling myself down a mountain; The smell of the desert after it rains; Red Wine and Microbrew (ohhhh how I miss it!); The way the world sounds after a snow storm; Riding through Yogya, getting caught in rainstorms, hiding from those rainstorms... that brings me to learning Patience & the awe I feel when I realize just how much can actually happen in such a short time; Rujak, Gudeg, Gado-Gado, Lotek: (you'll have to come out here and see for yourself); snorkeling; Scrabble; Ma Jian; GO; The sound of aspen leaves blowing in the breeze; Being with out Cheese here in Asia, I have found I have a slight addiction to it but, when I have it, I always find it hard to digest; Boys aren't so bad either, but really, I react to them in much the same way I do cheese; Overall, doing the things that make me happy and trying to avoid the things that don't. But, as was made obvious by the last thing on my list, things don't always work out this way, but I try. What else can I do?!?!
If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hope-er, a prayer, a magic bean buyer... If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. COME IN! COME IN! -S.S.
(See above dance video); I Heart Huckabees; Harold and Maude; Kung Fu Hustle; Kamikaze Girls; Donnie Darko; Amelie; La Vita Bella; Snatch; Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; Royal Tennanbaums; Rushmore; Life Aquatic; Four Rooms; Pulp Fiction; Kill Bill 1 & 2; Natural Born Killers;True Romance; Y Tu Mama Tambien; Motorcycle Diaries; Holy Grail; Life of Brian; Meaning of Life; Rosencranz and Gildenstern are Dead; Neverending Story; Labyrinth; Dark Crystal; Baraka; The 'Qatsi' Series; The Big Lebowski; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; The Princess Bride; Waking Life; Zoolander; Ghost in the Shell; Survive Style +5; A Christmas Story; My Dinner With Andre; Goonies; Ju-on, (I STILL sleep with my light on!); M. Night Shyamalan;
I'll tell you the story of Jimmy Jet - and you know what I tell you is true. He loved to watch his TV set, almost as much as you. He watched all day, he watched all night, till he grew pale and lean. From "The Early Show" to "The Late Late Show" and all the shows between. He watched till his eyes were frozen wide, and his bottom grew into his chair. And his chin turned into a tuning dial, and antennae grew out of his hair. And his brains turned into TV tubes, and his face to a TV screen. And two knobs saying "VERT." and "HORIZ." grew where his ears had been. And he grew a plug that looked like a tail so we plugged in little Jim. And now instead of him watching TV, we all sit around and watch him. -Shel Silverstein
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World, Island/ George Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm/ Sartre/ Heidegger/ Nietzsche/ Be Here Now/ Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange/ Jack Kerouac: On the Road/ Steinbeck/ Poe/ All Tom Robbins esp. Jitterbug Perfume/ Lewis Carroll/ Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot, Endgame & Act Without Words/ Richard Bach: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions/ Dr. Suess: Oh The places You'll Go, Horton Hears a Who/ Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar/ Hunter S. Thompson: The Rum Diary/ Bill Bryson: A Walk in the Woods, A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Lost Continent- Travels in Small Town America, The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid/ Joseph Campbell: The Hero With a Thousand Faces/ John Krakauer: Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, Under the Banner of Heaven/ Terence McKenna/ Barbara Kingsolver: Prodigal Summer, The Bean Trees, Pigs in Heaven, Poisonwood Bible/ Herman Hesse: Siddhartha, Steppenwolf / Ken Kesey: Sailor Song/ Edward Abbey: Fool's Progress, Monkey Wrench Gang/ Mary Doria Russell: The Sparrow, Children Of God/ Richard Brautigan: The Abortion/ Patrick Suskind: Perfume/ Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale/ Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret Life of Bees/ Dith Pran: Children of the Cambodian Killing Fields/ Asne Seierstad: Bookseller of Kabul/ Haruki Murakami: Norwegian Wood, Thailand, Sputnik Sweetheart, The Elephant Vanishes, Kafka On The Shore/ Jamie Zeppa: Beyond the Sky and Earth- A Journey Into Bhutan/ Dan Millman: The Way of the Peaceful Warrior/ Monique Truong: The Book of Salt/ Roald Dahl/ Yann Martel: Life of Pi