I long to overcome the opposition of distance and free myself from internal contradiction of feeling...
Kuiper Belt
Oort Cloud
Old fabric
Hot tea (the art of tea)
Fire places
Rocks
Red bricks
Winter hats
Moss and ferns
Cold weather or rain
Backgammon
Maps
The taste of scotch
Bees
Space
Treetops
Weather instruments
Nautical twilight
Language barriers
Astronauts
And sometimes-
Gardening
Bird watching
Beer drinking
Crime fighting
Music
The Wii is pretty amazing
World currency(money is the root of most evil)
Being alive in general...can you believe that we are here on this planet?
If you don't believe we are real...hide and watch.
Vinyl records & microscopes...
Far far away places.
I want to meet strong beings...an integration of quiescence and insight. The nice and the quiet. The bold and the funny. Scholars and woodsmen/women. You know who you are.
13th Floor Elevators, 16 Horsepower, 90 Day Men,Abner Trio, Acetone, Ryan Adams, Adem, Afghan Whigs, Alaska!, Aloha, Amalgamated Sons Of Rest, American Analog Set, Animal Collective, Apostle Of Hustle, Nick Armstrong, A Wonderful, B.R.M.C, Johann Sebastian Bach, Band of Horses, Lou Barlow, Syd Barrett, Barzin, The Bats, Beatles, Bedroom Heros, Bee and Flower, Beta Band, Bettie Serveert, Black Eyed Snakes, Black Heart Procession, Black Keys, Blonde Redhead, Blues Explosion, Boards of Canada, Bonnie Prince Billy, The Books, David Bowie, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Brimijoin, British Sea Power, Broadcast, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Built To Spill, Burning Rain,Calexico, Califone, Can, The Cancer Conspiracy, Caribou, Caseworker, Neko Case, Johnny Cash, Cinerama, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clean, Patsy Cline, Clinic, Comet Gain, Comets On Fire, Concretes, Sam Cooke, Cornelius, Mike Coykendale, Cricket in Time's Square,Ben Davis, Miles Davis, Dead Meadow, Deerhoof, Destroyer, Digable Planets, Dinosaur Jr., Dirty Projectors, Dirty on Purpose, Dirty Three, Dismemberment Plan, Dntel, Do Make Say Think, Doves, Nick Drake, Dungen, Bob Dylan,Earlimart, Eels, Elbow, Electrelane, Duke Ellington, Engineers, Brian Eno, EPO-555, Exhaust, Explosions In The Sky,John Fahey, The Fall, Faraway Places, Faust, Fire Theft, The Flaming Lips, Flying Burrito Brothers, Flying Saucer Attack, Folk Implosion, Frames, The Fruit Bats, Fugazi,Galaxie 500, Gang Gang Dance, Get The Hell Out of the Way of the Volcano, Benjamin Gibbard, God Speed! You Black Emperor, The Golliwogs, Grandaddy, Grant Green, John Guilt, Woody Guthrie,Hang-Ups, Hayden, Heavy Trash, Jimi Hendrix, Her Space Holiday, Buddy Holly, Holopaw, John Lee Hooker, Horns of Happiness, Mississippi John Hurt,I Love You, But I have Chosen Darkness, Impossible Shapes, Iron&Wine, Islands, IU,Jazz June, Jets To Brazil, JFJO, Jim Yoshii Pile-up, June of 44,K*OS, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Kings of Convenience, The Kinks, Chris Knox,Lali Puna, Lone Pigeon, Love and Rockets, Low, Low Flying Owls, Jason Lowenstein, Lucky Bishops,Macha, Stephen Malkmus, Manitoba, Martin Newell, Mates Of State, Medicine, Mercury Rev, Mice Parade, The Microphones, Charles Mingus, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Mojave 3, Jason Molina, Mouse on Mars, Ms. John Soda, Mt. Egypt, My Bloody Valentine, Nada Surf, Nassau, National, Neutral Milk Hotel, A.C. Newman, Norfolk&Western, Notwist,O'DEATH, Okkervil River, Will Oldham, Roy Orbison,Pale Saints, Pavement, Pedro The Lion, Pengo, The Pernice Brothers, Edith Piaf, Pinback, Pink Mountaintops, Pixies, The Plastic Constellations, Poem Rocket, Sam Prekop, Preston School on Industry,The Ramones, Red House Painters, Otis Redding, Reindeer Section, Robots Ate Me, Rollerskate Skinny, Rouge Wave, Roxy Music,Savath & Savalas, Seafood, Seam, Sebadoh, Shearwater, Shins, Wayne Shorter, Shout Out Louds, Silver Apples, Silver Jews, Silver Mt Zion, Six Parts Seven, Slint, Slowdive, Snailhouse, Sofa, Soltero, Son Volt, Songs:Ohia, Sonic Youth, Spacemen 3, Sparklehorse, Frankie Sparow, Spectrum, Spoon, Stanley Brothers, Stars as Eyes, Stereolab, The Stooges, Storm+Stress, Sufjan Stevens, Sun Kil Moon, Super Furry Animals, Sunny Day Real Estate, Super Love Attack, Supergrass, Swervedriver, Swirlies, Sword, Systems Officer,T Rex, Tall Dwarfs, Tapes 'n Tapes, Television, Television Personalities, Three Mile Pilot, Tortoise, Tribe Called Quest, TV On The Radio, Two Guys,Uncle Tupelo, The Undertones, The Unicorns, CHAD VANGAALEN, Sarah Vaughn, Velvet Underground, Verna Cannon, Verve,Tom Waits, M. Ward, The Warlocks, Muddy Waters, Wedding Present, Ween, Whiskeytown, Wilco, The Winter Blanket, With Throats As Fine As Needles, Wolf Parade, Edison Woods, Wovenhand, Wow&Flutter, The Wrens,Xiu Xiu,Yo La Tengo,Zombi,and many many more.You know, they say music is a direct reflection of what we feel... start to listen...begin to unlearn.
American Astronaut & Seven Swords. Oh yeah, Japanese animations and horror films. urrr ehh...Tide Land.
With the imagination I have I like to think for myself...
I have not owned a television in my adult life. I plan to keep it that way.
SARMAD, THE UNIVERSE IN 365 DAYS, HEART OF DARKNESS, WORLD'S GREATEST LETTERS, DIVINE LOVER, SULTAN BAHU, TIBETAN BOOK OF THE LIVING AND DYING, NASA, RUMI, SILMARILLION, CONNECTIONS, LIFE IS FAIR, HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE, RAIHAI TOKUZUI, ZHONGYONG, GENJI MONOGATARI, any travel guide, but mainly LONELY PLANET...I love all non-fiction books. I love reading three books at one time. You know, it keeps my mind moving and makes sitting in one place easier. I am a busy body with a busy mind.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt.
Most of my heroes are dead, but if I had to pick...
Andy Goldsworthy.