depends on the day, the weather...what mask i'm wearing or who i'm talking to.things that i've stayed interested in...or that are newfound interests? : birding, nature, wildlife, observation and analysis, social/economic/racial justice...sensualism and artistry. experimentation...revolution and suberversiveness. plants. farming. madagascar. lemurs. existentialism...meditation. and, last but not least, insanity, absurdism, resistance, acceptance, empowerment, overthrow, redistribution of power and resources...kindness, compassion, peace, joy, and sharing. contradiction and paradox.god, i AM a sap. but a lovely one, at that.
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In no particular order (that's not a band): Neutral Milk Hotel, Will Oldham, Cerebrus shoal, Death Vessel, manu chao, The Shins, The Extraordinaires, micah blue smaldone, Fire on Fire (Threads), Tom Waits, lots of stuff that I don't know who it is or what it's called, our poor neighbors,.. beck, bob dylan, ween, Jimi Hendrix, The Roots, David Bowie, Fela Kuti, Tribe Called Quest, johnny cash, Miles Davis, Jon Coltrane, Led zepplin, Stevie wonder, the pogues,The ramones, the kinks, Ray Charles, Billy Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, guns and roses, sly and the family stone, Talking Heads, herbie hancock, the pogues, ella fitzgerald, Bach, the band, John Prine, Prince, Billy Bragg, Wilco, Gillian Welch,ween, iron & wine, the guthries,lee dorsey etc. etc. etc.
Harold and Maude, Dead Man, Delicatesan, The City of Lost Children, Donnie Darko, I ♥ huckabees, Princess Mononoke, Barton Fink, Amelie, Ran, The Big Lebowski, The Panama Deception, Shawshank Redemption, Before Night Falls, Edward Scissorhands, The 40 Year old Virgin, The Karate Kid
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Heavily influenced by Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground...Nine Stories-Salinger (amazing.especially Teddy and For Esme...) Franny & Zooey, Tortilla Flat-Steinbeck, James Baldwin, Steppenwolf, Demian-- Herman Hesse, Pirx the Pilot--Stansislaw Lem, Phillip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, David Sedaris , Lord of the Rings, Captain's Verses--Pablo Neruda, Tom Robbins, Hunter S. Thompson, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak, Dr. Seuss, Desert Solitaire-Edward Abbey
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