MUSIC: composing(especially), playing live, improvising, absorbing, supporting, obsessing. i like artists that push the boundaries of style and technique while still creating strong and coherent work that makes you look at everything differently. i play several instruments - so many that i don't really kick ass at any of them. but i have a knack for creating the framework and arrangement of instruments which could make me a great producer (if i could just make the time to do it). time is scarce because I own and operate a one-man business doing........ STONE MASONRY: i love to look at, study, build, and discuss anything related to this. it seems to bore most of my friends to tears, but I am somewhat fanatical about it. you can see photos of my work at www.shepherdstoneworks.com
Barack Obama Frank Lloyd Wright Harpo Marx Gautama Buddha the fearless, the empassioned, the silent, and the inspired. i think everyone is beautiful, but the ones i crave are likeminded revolutionaries - this crazy world needs more agents of happy chaos.
radiohead, fela kuti, dj shadow, !!!, sigur ros, i love just about anything spun by DJ Riz Rollins on KEXP, Lee Scratch Perry, massive attack, tv on the radio, lcd soundsystem, talk talk, david bowie(the earlier the better), the beatles, subconscious population, bob marley, baby gramps, al green, boards of canada, the clash, johnny cash, sean paul, thelonious monk, mozart, grizzly bear, bjork, amnion, bob dylan, led zeppelin, nina simone, hank sr., pistols, jobim, coltrane, yacht rock, pleeseasaur, ratatat, tim seely, the cops, the beltholes, lee hazelwood, brian wilson, sade, portishead, gnawa music, samba, son, palm wine, afrobeat, fado, qawwali, raga, tuvan, javanese, kora harp, samba-reggae drum corp, many other styles I haven't heard yet
miyazke (Spirited Away is the shit), eternal sunshine..., brazil, 8 1/2, LOTR, mosquito coast, waking life, prospero's books, you me and everyone we know, children of men, juno
curb your enthusiasm, the office (both versions), arrested development, wonder showzen, conan, daily show, rankin-bass christmas specials, chappelle (standup especially), discovery, PBS, big love, planet earth series, the rest is all a bunch o' crap!!!!!
Temporary Autonomous Zone - Hakim Bey, One Straw Revolution - Masanobu Fukuoka, Siddhartha - Herman Hesse, Tolkien (especially the Silmarillion), Illuminatus Trilogy - Robert Anton Wilson, Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke, Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut, Rumi, Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey, The Stranger - Camus, Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison, Be Here Now - Ram Dass, Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley, Lathe of Heaven - Ursula LeGuin, Post Office - Charles Bukowski, Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller, Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles (his short stories are even better), Wendell Berry
bugs bunny, buddha, edward abbey, bob marley, joseph campbell, frank lloyd wright, the unabomber, masanobu fukuoka, tan cahil, harry smith, kurt vonnegut, aleister crowley, david lynch, buckminster fuller, ron hook, fela kuti