travel, music, languages, theories of existence (religion, philosophy and science),sexual relationships with interesting intelligent women, risk taking, playing piano/keyboards, adventure, fishing, tennis, basketball, salsa dancing, hitch hiking, off trail hiking, poker, scuba diving! Peru, Germany, Southeast Asia, Nepal, reading, camping, writing, Inca, Maya and North American Indian civilizations, mountain villages, oceanfront fishing communities, experimentation, homemade brandy and whiskey, shamans/psychics/spiritual readers, melodicas/harmoniums/harmonicas/accordions (any keyboard type instrument I can play outdoors!), creativity, grease and alcohol powered cars, wind and solar power systems, spicy ethnic foods, NYC, Richmond Va., Lima Peru, curiosity, inventiveness instead of consumerism, Mac computers, fire pit parties, humor, cooking, wine, good times, and my family, friends, and lovers past, present and future!
Anyone who is ready for the fifth world.....
Interesting, witty, open minded, free spirited folks of all types, shapes and sizes that transcend "dull witted society categorization"....I also thank all of my current friends, for making my life so damned interesting just by being interesting themselves...you all rule!!!
The Doors, Thelonious Monk(learned to play piano/keyboards from those guys), Bob Marley, Weather Report, Sublime, Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa, Augustus Pablo, KRS-1, Curtis Mayfield, Ornette Coleman, Aesop Rock, Celia Cruz, Johnny Cash, Zea, Sly and the Family Stone, Muddy Waters, Talking Heads, Marvin Gaye, Charlie Parker, The Police, Cymande, Modest Mouse, Sam Cooke, The Meters, Prince, Public Enemy, Bob Dylan, Huayno-Saya-Festejo(folk music of Peru), Mohad Rafi, Aventura, Duke Ellington, Rage Against the Machine, Sex Mob, Stravinsky, The Hives, Buckwheat Zydeco, Al Green, The Replacements, David Bowie, Run DMC, Buju Baton, Fela Kuti, Mars Volta, Flogging Molly, Rev. Horton Heat, The Pixies, 6-7, Janes Addiction, John Coltrane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, A Tribe Called Quest, Eddie Santiago, Radiohead, The Beatles, Scott and Robbie Hardkiss, Peter Gabriel, Charles Mingus, Patsy Cline, Willie Dixon, Nine Inch Nails, Ravi Shankar, Queen, De La Soul, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, various gospel, various bluegrass, Big Mama Thornton, Pantera, Murphys Law, They Might Be Giants, Blur, Stella Star, Pat Metheny, Los Destellos, Herbie Hancock, Hall and Oates, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Howlin Wolf, Big Lazy, Stevie Wonder, Tenacious D, Brahms, Bartok, Leonard Bernstein, Steve Reich, Otis Redding, various African, Coldplay, Quincy Jones, Branford Marsalis, Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas, various zydeco, The Clash, Sex Pistols, The Ramones. Allman Brothers, World Inferno Friendship Society, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Squeeze, The Dandy Warhols, Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Kronos String Quartet, Elliot Smith, Ohio Players, James Brown, Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Can, Captain Beefhart, The Pretty Things, T-Rex, Beck, The Buzzcocks, Youssou NDour, Dizzy Gillespie, Elvis Costello, Bud Powell, Gil Scott Heron, Isley Brothers, Tom Waits, Mobius Band, Kings of Leone, Destroyer....
Recent movies in caps: PANS LABYRINTH, THE PRESTIGE, IMMORTAL, AMERICAN SPLENDOR, 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE,A SCANNER DARKLY, LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE PEOPLE'S TEMPLE,THE DEPARTED, STAY, BRICK, Match Point, The Libertine, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Inside Man, V for Vendetta, The Constant Gardner, ....Cohen Brothers rule!! My favorites being Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink, Fargo, O Brother Where Art Thou..I have seen all of their movies, and there aren't any that I don't like. Outlaw Josey Wales, Matrix 1, Glen Gary Glen Ross, The Sentinel (70s horror), Jaws, Crumb, Basquiat, Tommy Boy, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Cronicas, City of Ghosts, City of God, Donnie Darko, The Poseidan Adventure (original version), The Weather Underground, Night of the Living Dead (black and white), La Ley de Herodes, Dumb and Dumber, Groundhog Day, The Man Who Would Be King, The Jungle Book (cartoon), Pee Wees Big Adventure, Rio Bravo, American Beauty, The Grapes of Wrath, The Shawshank Redemption, Woodstock, The Fellowship of the Ring, Airplane, any Monty Python, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Adaptation, Hable Con Ella, Pie, Uncle Buck, March of the Wooden Soldiers, Do the Right Thing, Malcom X, House of Flying Daggers, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the original), What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Vacation, Xmas Vacation, Joe Goulds Secret, Friday, Slingblade,Seven Years in Tibet, Austin Powers (all of em), Memento, Easy Rider, The Motorcycle Diaries, Westworld, Roger and Me, Blade Runner, Leap of Faith, The Out of Towners (original version), The In Laws (original version), The Grizzly Man, The Birdcage, Geronimo, Man on the Moon, Misery, Magnolia, Pleasantville, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (original), Rounders, The Edge...
Currently reading (too much..)-2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Tree of Life, The Caste War of Yucatan...Recently read in caps: A SCANNER DARKLY, WATCHMEN, DEAD ON TOWN LINE, TIMETRIPPERS, A PEOPLES HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, DELANO, CONQUEST OF THE INCAS, V For Vendetta, Wild Ducks Flying Backwards, Reservation Blues, Lullaby, Another Roadside Attraction, You Got Nothin Comin, The Essential Alan Watts, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, poems by Langston Hughes, Song of Solomon, poems by Fredrico Garcia Lorca, How to Build a Time Machine, The Monkeywrench Gang, Jitterbug Perfume, Journey to Ixtlan, Fight Club, Indian Killer, What is Zen, What is Tao, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Rotten, The Real Frank Zappa Book, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Wealth of Nations, The Communist Manifesto, Steal This Book, Miles Davis autobiography, Travels in Nepal (probably way outdated now), Downsize This, Fatalism and Development, The World According to Garp, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, The Power of Myth (Joseph Campbells final interviews, in book form and in a Bill Moyer PBS series), Lucky Luke (German comic book used as a language study aid lol), Condorito (Chilean comic book to brush up on my Spanish), Cats Cradle, Slaughterhouse 5, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Doyle Brunsons Super System for Power Poker, The Zen of Poker, The Black Sun, Ten Little Indians, Listening Woman, Joe Goulds Secret, Up In the Old Hotel....
Blankman, Spiderman, Wolverine.....wait...you mean...real people????