laughing, walking, wandering, playing Boggle, snowboarding, reading, yoga, climbing mountains (and molehills), tree-hugging (and earth-kissing when nobody's looking), learning to speak german (sort of), philosophy, drinking beer (IPAs), sleeping, listening to music, staying up all night, chatting it up with the sea lions at the pier before the tourists come out, listening to the rain, dancing my ass off around my apartment, watching movies and history channel documentaries, singing in the shower and car, learning, thinking up and supporting ridiculous theories, sea kayaking, ayurveda, making curry, soaking in hot springs, playing with my cat Silly
I'd like to meet:
Buddha and Jesus Christ or their look-alikes.
Music:
My Morning Jacket, Okkervil River, Elton John, Supersuckers, Phish, Uncle Tupelo, Jawbox, Gillian Welch, Neil Young, Mason Jennings, The Mountain Goats, Steve Earle, Jai Uttal, Krishna Das, Rumbleseat, The Silver Jews, Ween, Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, Death Cab for Cutie, Hot Water Music, Joni Mitchell, Cat Power, Belle and Sebastien, Wilco, Iron and Wine, The Kinks, Texas is the Reason, Rilo Kiley, Crooked Fingers, Cake, Bright Eyes, Jets to Brazil, The Promise Ring, Bad Religion, The Postal Service, The Killers, The Grateful Dead, Seu Jorge, Richard Cheese, Gram Parsons, Pavement, Thievery Corporation, Regina Spektor, ratatat, M. Ward
Movies:
Harold and Maude, The Goonies, Fight Club, Basquiat, Motorcycle Diaries, Hair, Pumpkin, The Big Lebowski, Lost in Translation, Rushmore, Royal Tennenbaums, Life Aquatic, Zoolander, Microcosmos, Frida, John Denver and the Muppets Christmas Together
Television:
The Colbert Report. I watch a lot of Scrubs.
Books:
Everything Milan Kundera has ever written, but Immortality and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (if you can't judge a book by its cover you should be able to judge by its name) are my favorite two, I'd say. Close second: Tom Robbins. I've liked books by- Tolstoy, Salman Rushdie, Christopher Isherwood, Hemmingway, huxley, Edward Abbey, Margaret Atwood, Ram Dass, Natalie Goldberg, Joseph Campbell, Thich Naht Hanh, The Life of Pi by Yann Martel was a GREAT story, George Orwell, Robert Thurman, Kerouac, The Dalai Lama, Jean-Dominic Crossan, Rainer Maria Rilke, ee cummings, TS Elliot, Rumi, Hafiz, Bukowski, I spend almost all my free time devouring novels, but in my finer moments I also like to readlearnabout world religions, ethics, metaphysics, meditation, yoga, writing, education, non-violence, politics, war, ayurveda... a whole lotta things are pretty interesting to me.
Heroes:
I aspire to be a cross between Kudra, Amanda Ziller, and to stand on my hands for as long as I want to. I like good, smart, courageous, non-judgmental, adventurous, mentally-physically-emotionally strong persons; fighting the good fight and big-smiling-heart through and through... anyone who can have their heart torn apart and turn around and open it up wide, scars and all, to love again. I admire Thich Naht Hanh, Daniel and Phillip Berrigan, Paul Wellstone, my brother for his incredible motivation, determination and good work, my mom and dad who were at Woodstock in the 60's and didn't vote for Reagan in the 80's, Boyd for being a good kind of bad ass, and Gandhi and King, duh.
