Environmental conservation, Jung hyun Song, ART, reality and truth and such, friends, families, education vs. schooling, class war, unions, chemical reactions, stoiciometry, thermochemistry, electrochemistry, biochemistry, alchemy, writing, reading, drawing and painting, learning in general, zen, process philosophy, urban biking, critical mass, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, blues, metal,electronica, electromagnetic spectrum, ouroboros, codexes, transautomatism, mountaineering, camping, hiking, Korea, rafting, anarchy, socialism, capitalism, weird fundamentalist anything-isms, punk rock, folk, 4 X 4s, chopper bicycles, old home repair, guns, gardening, planting trees, environmental restoration work, Oaks Bottom wetland, high school science curriculum development, tattoos, Scotland, travel, FIRE and phase changes. sXe. Spirals.
People who are strong enough to be kind to other people. People who like Hundertwasser. You. Anyone. Thinkers. Artists. Rockers. Folkers. Hikers. Scientists. Teachers. Alchemists. Inter-racial-national couples. Class warriors. Old friends. New friends. Environmentalists. Anarchists. Buddhists. Mountaineers. Wackos. Oh, and someone who can teach me how to play more songs on guitar.
Built to Spill, Neil Young, Dead Moon, Pavement, Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Against Me!, Ani Difranco, High on Fire, Bikini Kill, Beastie Boys, Bill Withers, Black Flag, The Black Keys, Billy Bragg, Bob Marley, Minor Threat, Calamity Jane, Motorhead, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Crakerbash, Celtic Frost, The Jesus Lizard, Dan Zanes, Boris, The Flaming Lips, Green Day, Tom Waits, The Halo Benders, Nirvana, Hole, Hifana, The Boredoms, Hazel, Elliot Smith, Heatmeiser, Jack Johnson, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jeff Buckley, John Fahey, Leo Kottke, Lampchop, Low, Mazzy Star, My Morning Jacket, The Bastard Fairies, Uncle Tupalo, Melvins, Napalm Beach, Poison Idea, Van Halen, AC/DC, Outkast, The Coup, El-P, Morcheeba, The Upsidedown, Old Crow Medicine Show, Oasis, Palace, Paul Oakenfold, Richard Thompson, Robert Johnson, Yo Yo Ma, Solomon Burke, The Soft Boys, Social Distortion, Ryan Adams, Steve Earle, The Streets, Them, Tom Waits, Sonic Youth, The Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop, Wilco, Woody Guthrie, Warren Zevon, Bob Dylan, The Killers, Weezer, Jet, Gern Blanston, The White Stripes. Etc.
Dead Man is the best film ever. Night on Earth is most nice. Any Jim Jarmusch film rawks. Spike Lee films. Wes Anderson films. Gus Van Sant films. Richard Linklater films. Drugstore Cowboy. Slacker. The Host. JSA. U-turn. Henry and June. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Lonesome Dove. Broken Trail. Sprited away. The Holy Land. Smoke Signals. The Life Aquatic. Miyazaki films. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Off the Map. Art School Confidential. The Journey of Man: A Genetic Oddyssey. Never Cry Wolf. Star Wars.
Sometimes you have to zone. But we should smash the TV. I will if you will. Deadwood. Lost. One Tree Hill. Gray's Anatomy. Oregon State Football. Animal documentaries. Oregon Field Guide. Oregon Art Beat. Globe Trekker. Nova.
Dropping Ashes on the Buddha. Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch. Chemistry books. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. The Monkeywrench Gang. Into the Wild. Call of the Wild. Tropic of Cancer. Tropic of Capricorn. Desert Solitude. Almanac of the Dead. Outdoor guides. More others than I want to list at the moment. Me like book. Painting and even maps can be better than books.
Jung hyun Song, Frederick Lee, Robin Lindsley, David Joseph, both the Mighty Quinns, Edward Abbey, Henry Miller, Neil Young, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Nernst, Faraday, Antoine Lavoisier, Marie-Anne Pierette Paulze, John Dewey, Alfred North Whitehead, Alister Crowley, Gautama Buddha, MLK, Malcom X, John Robert Lewis, the Steinz, El Cain, Sung hoon Oh, Billy Bragg, Gauyasamin, Emma Goldman, Steinbeck, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, Sherman Alexie, Pearl S. Buck, Zen master Seung Sahn, Jack Kerouac, Arthur Rimbaud, Kenneth Rexroth, e.e. cummings, Jim Jarmusch, Huston Smith, Leo Tolstoy, Darwin, Mendeleev, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Spencer Wells, Betty and Bob Beach, Elinore and Leo Staab, J. Prince and Sook, E. Freund, Sara Short, Linus Pauling, Marie Curie, Kip Ault, Zaher Wahab, Linda Christensen, Richard Pugh, B. Rice, McNeely, Zerba, P.W., all the zeeks. Everyone else who taught me something.