studying things, inventing theories about philosophical and spiritual things based on the everyday mundane. turning the ordinary to extraordinary, so that it is transcendental. Seeing the hidden meaning in all things, and realizing the interconnectedness of everything from the seemingly minor to the obviously major and applying it to my personal inner growth as a spiritual being. I love the idea of living in the spiritual world, coming to earth to grow together, and going back when the lesson is over. I love the idea of leaving all sorrow and pain behind each day, freeing up the mental and spiritual space to grow some more. I also like M*A*S*H reruns.Just started Stellan's Ribs, and Equine Relief Fund! We rescue and rehab abused horses and ponies. All non-profit, volunteer and donations needed! serenitybaumer.com click on Equine Relief Fund.
musicians who show up on time.geniuses who aren't tortured.art history teachers who aren't insane.a bureaucrat who isn't a zombie, dripping with maggots and looking to feed off of brains, brains!my guardian angel, my imaginary friend, and the Baby Jesus.
I think it may be futile to name all of the bands I love here, it may be more sensible to say the common thread is that I love stuff by people who seem to be old souls...by that I mean folks who seem like they have come from a thousand years ago and are looking a thousand years into the future. and these people aren't necessarily thrilled about this idea, but they aren't hopeless either. hopefully from that you can either infer what i like, or hopefully turn me on to stuff i haven't heard yet. i especially am into stuff that is really obscure, bands that play out and 10 people show up but they happen to be one of the bext bands in the state. it is intriguing, somehow, isn't it?
Lord of the Rings (duh) Master and Commander, Gladiator, What the Bleep Do We Know? Stardust Memories, Contact, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Baraka, Wings of Desire, A Beautiful Mind, Naked, Shaun of the Dead, Dead Alive, Evil Dead, Dead Poet's Society, Annie Hall, Star Wars 3-6, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, An Angel at My Table, Gosford Park, Amadeus, Shanghai Noon, Casablanca, Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Neverending Story, Beetlejuice, The Black Stallion, The Secret of NIMH, Love and Death on Long Island, Dune, Blue Velvet, Fire Walk With Me, Wild at Heart, The Warriors, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Harold and Maude, Imagine:John Lennon, Harry Potter, Slingblade, Everyone Says I Love You, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Ed Wood, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Apollo 13, 2001, Dr. Strangelove, Apocalypse Now, O Brother Where Art Thou? Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar, Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, and so very very many more...
I like shows where people help other people have emotionally healthy lives. Oh wait, do they make those? I guess we only get Dr. Phil and Queer Eye for a Straight Guy. But Dr. Phil is the devil, or at least his producers are, so that cancels that out... But then there's always The Daily Show. Mr. Rogers is pretty cool. And Reading Rainbow. I have pop culture fetish, and will always have a small place in my heart for cable, but please i'm really just trying to wait out this trend of giving houses makeovers. I miss the sharks and the hyenas and the surgery and the serial killers. At exactly what point did the Learning Channel become, well, not the Learning Channel? They need to call it the Shut Up Channel. Weddings, weddings, having babies in hospitals with wires and forceps, home makeovers????
Joseph Campbell, Don Miguel Ruiz, Winnie-ther-Pooh, Catch-22, Anais Nin, Alice Walker, Charles Darwin, Karen Armstrong, Ina May Gaskin, Susun Weed, Henci Goer, Patrick O'Brian, Dannion Brinkley, Douglas Adams, Mark Twain, Birthing from Within... I like Bertholt Brecht, Oscar Wilde, kurt vonny-gut...most of my books are "Learn Japanese in 3 Months" or "Reincarnation is Your Friend" or "Latin, second year." The bottom row of one of my bookshelves: Leaves of Grass, 101 mistakes Managers Make, Anatomy and Drawing, Modern European Social History, Dictionary of Word Origins, Brueder Grimm, H.Bosch, The Brothers Karamazov, a dictionary, Einstein: Ideas and Origins, The Punk Diary, Sprachkurs Deutsch 2, Latin Made Simple, Art History, Herbal for the Childbearing Year, and Algebra first year. YEAH BABY!!! This is why I allow my kids to watch Cartoon Network. They'll be alright....
Ferris Beuller, you're my hero.