Languages and the way people communicate. Facial expressions. Music and the noises people and machines make. I'm currently mildly obsessed with rearranging the flags of the world and changing their colors...we'll see what happens
I'd like to meet:
Everyone.
Music:
A wet (ok damp) dream of mine is to cast Bjork and Tom Waits in Annie Get Your Gun, other than that I'll go through my iPod: Alice in Chains, Beethoven, Bjork, Cornelius, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Dvorak, Fear Factory, Jamiroquai, Jethro Tull, Kate Bush, Ethel Merman, NIN, Pop Will Eat Itself, Primus, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Smiths, Tom Waits, Tool, Type O Negative, U2
Movies:
IFC when they were good. (Sorry but the channel has gone downhill): Jarmush, Woo, Fishing With John, Spalding Grey Films, Soderberg, Kirusawa, etc. Of course, there's all the Hollywood trash that I'm too smug to admit to.
Television:
Really crappy crime dramas...you know the drill...if you wanna watch Law & Order there's one on either TNT, TBS, USA, NBC, Bravo, etc. Food Network, West Wing, Twilight Zone, X-Files, Alias (before it sucked), House and whatever's on the Discovery, History and Science Channels
Books:
The Bible, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, The Scepter of Egypt, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, The Quran, Survival by Hunting, The Cave of John the Baptist, After the Ice, Stealing History, Collapse, Guns Germs and Steel, The Fate of Africa, Fingerprints of the Gods, When the Sky Fell, Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings, Paths of the Pole, Secrets of the Great Pyramid, Orientalism, Power Politics, Arundhati Roy, Dry, The Seeds of Speech, The Mother Tongue, How Soccer Explains the World, Fever Pitch, Among the Thugs, Why is Sex Fun?, The Codebook, Fast Food Nation, The Rise of Totalatarianism, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Memoirs of a Race Traitor, Ethical Realism,The Great Transformation, Suicide Academy, Who Shall Live Who Shall Die, Oracle Bones, The Human Condition, and tomes concerning linguistic studies of other languages.
Heroes:
Elijah, Moses, David, Jesus, Sidhartha Gautama, Augustine, Mohammed, Pamahastambhva, Leif Eriksson, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Ghandi, Hannah Arendht, Martin Luther King Jr., Jimmy Carter, Lech Walesa, Kofi Annan, His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
