In no particular order: people, stories, art, music, camera, photography, light, travel, water, waves, walking, rhythm, pattern, piano, books, reading, conversation, connection, things that provoke thought, colour, design, culture(s), a sustainable environment, anatomy and physiology, touch, dance, dancing, things that feel, friends, film, language(s), laughter, imagination, ideas, gateways, entrances...
"Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down
on it"
E.E.Cummings
Aimee Mann . Neil Finn . Radiohead . New Pornographers . Arcade Fire . Anna Ternheim . Aphex Twin . Astrid Gilberto . David Bowie . JS Bach . The Beatles . Massive Attack . Ben Harper . Brian Eno . Billie Holiday . Max Avery Lichtenstein . Stereophonics . Silversun Pickups . French Kicks . Sigur Ros . Bjork . The Breeders . Gogol Bordello . Black Rebel Motorcycle Club . Cole Porter . Nick Cave . KT Tunstall . Juana Molina . Muse . Art of Noise . Debussy . Simon Jeffes . Penguin Cafe Orchestra . Django Rheinhardt . Republic Tigers . Elliott Smith . Patti Smith . Erik Satie . Built To Spill . The Fall . NMA . Johnny Cash . Poe . Feist . Foo Fighters . Sonic Youth . PJ Harvey . Glenn Gould . Guster . John Coltrane . Tom Waits . Toots . XTC . Kings of Leon . Patsy Cline . Pixies . Phillip Glass . Manu Chao . Kip Keino . Wilco . Schubert . Schumann, Steve Reich . Nina Simone . Noir Desir . Tangerine Dream . Avalanches . Band of Horses . Roxy Music . Rufus Wainright . Lou Reed . Kirsty MacColl . Talking Heads . Modest Mouse . The Shins
American Beauty, Wings of Desire, Cabaret, Lost in Translation, La Dolce Vita, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Station Agent, La Double Vie de Veronique,, Almodovar films, Amelie, Being There, 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, Il Postino, Roman Holiday, A Room with a View, City of God, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Magnolia, Amorres Perros, Y tu Mama Tambien, My Life as a Dog, The Crying Game, Cinema Paradiso, Walk the Line, An American in Paris, After-Life, Blade Runner, Harold and Maude, March of the Penguins, Jesus of Montreal, The Barbarian Invasions, Trainspotting, Wit, Good Night and Good Luck, Le Dernier Metro, The 400 Blows, Au Revoir les Enfants, Spirited Away, The Remains of the Day, Being John Malkovich, Brazil, Memento, Orlando, Mrs. Dalloway, Color of Paradise, Junebug, Prick Up Your Ears, Kurosawa's Dreams,Buena Vista Social Club, Bergman Films, Traffic, Before Sunrise, Lawrence of Arabia, Blood Simple, Run Lola Run, The Big Blue, Eric Rohmer Films, Merry Xmas Mr. Lawrence, My Brilliant Career, The Tin Drum, Transamerica, Babel, The Lives of Others, MindWalk, Persepolis
I'm very busy channel surfing.
Fan of fiction, non-fiction and of course, picture books. Have also been on essays, poetry (and a few choice instructional manuals) for awhile. Recent reading : The Turning Point - Fritjof Capra, Kafka on the Shore - Murakami, The History of Love - Nicole Krauss, Baudelaire - the Complete Poems, Wild Ducks Flying Backward - Tom Robbins, White Noise - Don Delillo, Decreation - Anne Carson, How I Became Stupid - Martin Page, A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby, Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers.
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