Sliding down wave faces and building the equipment to do so. Sitting on the porch when the sun is low with guitar in hand. Slow food.
A day spent with Zorba in Greece would be interesting... Busking with Henry Thomas on the street corner in the 30's... Getting drunk with Noam Chomsky in a college bar... Longboarding a long point break with Phil Edwards sometime in the early 70's after the short board revolution was in swing... Walking in Yosemite with John Muir... Having an informal dinner in the backyard with Goethe, CG Jung, and Nietzche. Watching Fox News in the Bush household with Hugo Chavez, Fidel, and a drunken Barbara Bush...
Right now Keith Jarret's recording of Shostakovich's 24 Preludes is getting under my skin.. Also Daniel Lanois's Acadie, Rainer Ptacek, Nick Lowe, Tim Hardin, Mose Allison, the Neville Brothers... And some good raw delta blues music from RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Bo Carter, and the little Buddha of the south, Mississippi John Hurt. But Richard Thompson's 'Beeswing' and Dylan's "Lay down your weary tune' are the songs of the moment.
Just watched two great movies about the human condition. The Italian, a movie about Russia strangely enough... And Gloomy Sunday. No man is impervious to the beauty of that leading woman in Gloomy Sunday.. My lord, praise the regional geography that mixed that couldron of female charms... She's worth a trip to Budapest alone.. Nice movie and soundtrack too...
Youtube baby... I will reassess the drawbacks of continued technological development, our compounding dependency upon it, and the feeling that it makes each of us a little dummer every day... If, and only if, they allow us to have YouTube straight to our BoobTube's with zero restrictions...
Right now it's Herman Hesse's The Glass Bead Game, but starting slowly. Tom Robbins short writings and Bukowski for toilet reading, and preparing myself to enter the world of Dostoevsky as far as I dare..
Preston "Pete" Peterson, George Greenough