spirituality, love, music, unity, friendship, enlightenment, divine wisdom, the written word, nature, solitude, laughter, quality of life, elegance, grace, peace and harmony.
Music:
Jimi, Miles, Jaco, Trane, Monk, Joni, Dylan, Bird, Zappa, Bootsy (baby bubba), Jeff Beck, Bob Marley, Steely Dan, Chris Whitley, Kevin Gilbert, Jeff Buckley, Ani Difranco, Porcupine Tree, The Tea Party, King Crimson, Be Bop Deluxe, Little Feat, The Meters, Curtis Mayfield, Ernest Ranglin, Derek Trucks, John McLaughlin, Danny Gatton, Shane Theriot, Adam Holzman, Brad Mehldau, Lady Day, Pink Floyd, The Who, Zep, The Stones, The Kinks, P-Funk, Tommy Bolin, Jellyfish, Owsley, Jason Falkner, Todd Rundgren, Alison Krauss, Peter Gabriel, Steve Tibbetts, Tonio K, Steel Pulse, Bad Brains, Sex Pistols, Iggy and the Stooges, Freddie, Albert and BB King, Johnny Winter, Robert Johnson, Son House, Skip James, Howlin' Wolf, Lightnin' Hopkins, Mississippi John Hurt, Derek And The Dominoes, Raging Slab, Eleven, Prince and on and on and on...
Movies:
Amelie, Fight Club, Betty Blue, Shawshank Redemption, Waking The Dead, Searching For Bobby Fischer, La Femme Nikita, Wings Of Desire, 12 Monkeys, Band Of Brothers, The Weather Underground, My Favorite Year, Cuckoo, Dummy, 3-Iron, Buena Vista Social Club, Shawn Of The Dead, Land Of The Dead, Idiocracy, Down By Law, Bon Voyage, Angela, Cinema Paradiso, 3 Days Of The Condor, Citizen Kane, Love Me If You Dare, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Hitch-hikers Guide To The Galaxy, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, Night Watch, Day Watch, Why We Fight, The Corporation, When The Levees Broke, Darfur Diaries, Who Killed The Electric Car, Iraq For Sale, An Inconvenient Truth, America: Freedom To Fascism, No End In Sight, Rush To War, The 11th Hour (I'm a documentary junkie) Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Drunken Angel, Stray Dog, Hidden Fortress and Red Beard (It seems I'm also a Kurosawa junkie).
Television:
I don't care much for TV!
Books:
The Master And Margarita, Tropic Of Cancer, A People's History Of The United States, An Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire, Fugitive Days, The Bhagavad Gita, Alan Watts (I think 'The BooK: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are' is the most profound book ever written), Tom Robbins (Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas, Another Roadside Attraction, Skinny Legs And All, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues), The Great Turning, Manifesto For A New World Order, Strategic Ignorance, A Problem From Hell, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Armed Madhouse...and anything written by Hunter S. Thompson starting with Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas!
Heroes:
Bill Hicks, Hunter S. Thompson, Martin Luther King, Arundhati Roy, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Alan Watts, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Bob Marley, Charlie Chaplin, Akira Kurosawa, John Henry Faulk, Gore Vidal, David Korten, George Monbiot and you!
