Life ~ Art ~ Optimism ~ Birding ~ Nature ~ Camping ~ Backpacking ~ Hiking ~ Progression ~ Sitting on the Roof of my House ~ Road Trips with No Specific Destination ~ School ~ Ancestry ~ Fossils ~ Coffee ~ Books ~ Brew Pubs ~ Public Radio (I Radio Lab and Science Friday )
Some Favorites: Kate Bush, The Cure, The Knife, Dead Can Dance, Elbow, Richard Swift, Tom Waits, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Portishead, Trillian Green, Tricky, Snoop Dog, Outkast. I love that funky wah-wah sound that you sometimes hear in a lot of 70's music. And saxophones are groovy.
Annie Hall, Paper House
Waiting for Guffman, Immortal Beloved, The Secret of Roan Inish, A Young Poisoner's Handbook, Breaking the Waves, Marie Antoinette, Amadeus, Love & Death, Plague Dogs, Edward Scissorhands, Legend, Spinal Tap, Ed Wood
Desert Solitaire, A Sand County Almanac, Fire on the Mountain, Monkey Wrench Gang, Down the River, On the Road, Galapagos, The Plague Dogs, The Wood Wife, The Lord of the Rings, Poisonwood Bible, Harry Potter (I'm a dork and I'm not ashamed)
"Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you get a lot of scum on top."
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'"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government," I says, "but don't insult me poor bleedin' country."'
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"If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream."
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"You do your needed work out of love, the love that dares not speak its name, the love of spareness, beauty, open space, clear skies, and flowing streams, grizzly bear and mountain lion, wolf pack and twelve-pack, of wilderness and wanderlust and primal human freedom and so forth."
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"When a dog howls at the moon, we call it religion. When he barks at strangers, we call it patriotism."
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"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government" - Edward Abbey (1927-1989)