Bikes, my bike, riding my bike fast, taiji, qigong, maybe gongfu soon, brewing and drinking kombucha, food, sleeping, kitties puppies turtles frogs lions tigers bears bees ants birds ladybugs and worms, music books and movies, improving myself, my life, my friends' lives, and the world around me in very very small increments (it's an eighty-year plan).
A muse.
Oh, jeez, here we go... Shallow Waters, Ididadoodie and the Skidmarks, Set of Red Things, High Plains Thunder, Seratone/Jacob Blanchette, Lolita Black, Rome is Burning, Red Squirrel, Disaster Strikes, AC/DC, Aesop Rock, Alice in Chains, Animal Collective, Aphex Twin, Aphrodite's Child, BB King, The Beatles, Chuck Berry, Big Black, Black Sabbath, Blockhead, Blue Cheer, Boards of Canada, Broadcast, Budgie, Burning Spear, Busdriver, Butthole Surfers, Buzzcocks, Can, Johnny Cash, Causey Way, Nick Cave, The Clash, cLOUDDEAD, Ornette Coleman, The Congos, Cop Shoot Cop, Jimmy Cousins, Crass, Cream, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Cure, Cypress Hill, Dick Dale, Dead Kennedys, Dead Prez, Deep Purple, Desmond Dekker, Do Make Say Think, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Explosions in the Sky, The Eyesores, False Prophets, Faust, Charlie Feathers, Bela Fleck, Football Rabbit, From Monument to Masses, Fugazi, Gang of Four, Marvin Gaye, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gogol Bordello, Guts Pie Earshot, GZA, Jimi Hendrix, Howlin Wolf, Immortal Technique, Iron and Wine, Jaco Pastorius, Joy Division, King Crimson, King Tubby, Kaki King, Kraftwerk, KRS-One, Leadbelly, Led Zeppelin, Little Richard, Love, MC5, Metallica, Charles Mingus, Ministry, Mogwai, Thelonious Monk, Ennio Morricone, Motorhead, Mr. Lif, Muddy Waters, Muslimgauze, NWA, Nirvana (UK and US), Nomeansno, The Notorious BIG, One Ring Zero, Pink Floyd, Pixies, The Pogues, Portishead, Primus, Prince Buster, Propellerheads, Radiohead, Radioactive, Rage Against the Machine, Ride, RJD2, Rudimentary Peni, Rush , RZA, Sacrilege, Joe Satriani, Scientist, Sea of Deprivation, Sepultura, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Skatalites, Slayer, Sleep, Elliot Smith, Patti Smith, The Smiths, Stereolab, The Stooges, The Sugarcubes, Suicide, Television, Tortoise, The Upsetters, Tom Waits, The White Stripes, Saul Williams, Wire, Stevie Wonder, Wu-Tang Clan, Neil Young, The Zombies, Zounds, etc. etc. Fruit'sNature'sCandy on SoulSeek. www.slsknet.org
Harakiri, The Sword of Doom, Big Lebowski, Dr Strangelove, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Quentin Tarantino, The Conversation, Monty Python, Akira Kurasawa, The Vanishing (Spoorloos), Sergio Leone, Darren Aronofsky, Stanley Kubrick, Coen Brothers, Harmony Korine, Taxi Driver, Pink Flamingos, Dog Day Afternoon, The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull, Deliverance, Naked, Christopher Guest, Young Frankenstein, Werner Herzog, Straw Dogs, The Triplets of Belleville, Vittorio de Sica, Pickpocket, The Godfather, Withnail and I, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, City of God.
Simpsons, South Park, Adult Swim, Chappelle's Show, Kids in the Hall, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mr. Show, and Flight of the Conchords.
Way too many to list....Derrick Jensen, and anyone as equally articulately pissed off, Ishmael, Steinbeck, Twain, Kafka, Lovecraft, books on bikes and martial and healing arts, and yeah much much more. Stuff from AK Press, Common Courage, Seven Stories, etc.
Those not-as-rare-as-you-think jewels buried so deep to remain unscathed by yesterday and today that can be polished only by another's hand of shared 4th dimension callouses and eye of corresponding color that we must all have-- lost, but very, very close.