exploring this beautiful earth, hiking, camping, yoga, meditation, firsts, listening to the wind, drinking sunsets, dreaming, teaching, learning, common sense, quick wit, uncontrollable laughter, intense late night conversations, road trips, dusk, staying up all night until the weeee hours when sleepiness begins to consume me and the world takes on an unusual hazy, dream-like quality, reading great literature and poetry, classical mythology, writing beautiful music, poetry and fiction, the Beat generation, Native American spirituality, philosophy, wine by candlelight, sensual exploration, humane education, environmental and animal awareness, deep ecology, playing make-believe, performance art, taiko drumming, butoh, jazz, and modern avant-garde dance, theatre, spontaneous spoken word, drumming with my beautiful friends in the night by firelight, self-realization in an active and passionate search for Truth.
I'd like to meet:
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..."People who embrace the world with child-like wonder, are adventurous, curious, stand up for what they believe in regardless of judgements, yet listen to others with humility knowing that there is always more to learn about the world and ourselves. Those who confront fears and seek to evolve, smile with their eyes and love to look at the stars without the distraction of artificial light.
Music:
Ali Farka Toure, Ry Cooder, Ravi Shankar, Coltrane, Miles, Billie, Peter Gabriel, Elvis Costello, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Danny Elfman, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Bob Marley, Hendrix, Wilco, Jeff Buckley!, Philip Glass, Tom Waits, Bright Eyes, Built to Spill, Neo, Death Cab, Radiohead, Delerium, Dead Can Dance, Grant-lee Phillips, Hawksley Workman, Mutual Admiration Society, Nick Drake, Jim White, Wierd Al, They Might Be Giants, Oingo Boingo, U2, Tool, Sisters of Mercy, My Dying Bride, Cirque du Soleil, Iron and Wine, Howie Day, Ben Folds, Mozart, Debussy, Wagner, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Orff...Ahhhhh! there is so much beautiful music!
Movies:
Dark comedies, crazy fun, rolling on the ground, tom hanks in the money pit when the tub crashes through the floor comedies, witty dialogue, beautiful cinematography, movies that make you think and feel intensely, fantastic and imaginative movies that really push the boundaries of reality, Labyrinth, Legend, Life is Beautiful...La Vita E' Bella, LOTR, Star Wars, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Monty Python period!, The Neverending Story, The Princess Bride, Batman, The Lorax, the Hudsucker Proxy, I Heart Huckabees, The Three Amigos, Shanghai Noon, Fear and Loathing..., Jacob's Ladder, Blade Runner, Amelie, Fight Club, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, A Clockwork Orange, 2001, Swing Kids, Natural Born Killers, Moulin Rouge, Heathers, Serendipity, Harold and Maude, the Red Violin, Leaving Las Vegas, The Shawshank Redemption, Baraka, The Yes Men, Documentaries!!!... Almost everything with Gary Oldman, Ralph Fiennes, Meryl Streep, Kubrick, Cohen Bros, Tarantino, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Aronofsky, Woo, Lucas, Benigni, Bergman...and sooo many more!
Television:
I have glow-in-the-dark eyeball stickers on my TV! And I think my remote is covered in dust. Though I do occasionally enjoy GOOD programs like Free Speech TV, World Link, Bill Maher, Whose line is it Anyway, Seinfeld and, of course...The Simpsons. Do'h! And Im a crazy movie freak, quoting lines to all the greats and gettin' silly with friends who can quote back! But really, turn off your tv and go play in the woods. See: Adbusters.org
Books:
Ezra Pound said that "great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree." Sigh...how true that is. I think that we learn so much about who we are and what we want to create for ourselves in the literature that we choose to read...and re-read. Hermann Hesse is brilliant! Tom Robbins has such a deep understanding of language, C.S. Lewis, Shel Silverstein, T.S. Eliot, Shakespeare, Hemingway, Bradbury, Coelho, Richard Bach, SARK, Joseph Campbell, A. Huxley, Ovid, Aldo Leopold, Thoreau, Teilhard de Chardin, Kahlil Gibran, Sri Aurobindo, Rumi, Samuel Beckett, Kafka, Thoreau, Rand, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Rachel Carson, Lovecraft, Borges, Baudelaire, Bukowski, Artaud, Tagore, Ezra Pound, Gary Snyder, Whitman, Rilke, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Black Elk, James Baldwin, and for fun, philosophy and visuals: Sandman comics, Batman, Spiderman, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac ;-), Faust, Swamp Thing...and honestly, soooo much more."When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before." ~Clifton Fadiman
Heroes:
All beautiful souls, who come from compassion and live their ideals. On my coffee list: Leonardo da Vinci, Oscar Wilde, Gandhi, Mandela, Einstein, Danny Elfman, Peter Gabriel, Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers, Swami Sivananda and Dr Suess! (this list is constantly evolving and always incomplete, because there are so many people I admire! So stay tuned for updates. ;-))
