reiki/other energy work and healing modes. astrology, yoga and kundalini energy, union of the inner god and goddess. plants, stones and good earth. organic farming/gardening, camping, australia/new zealand, india, kaballa, knights templar/priore de sion, history generally (esp. british, southern/appalachian, acw, industrial, railroad, and folk music). photography/film.
people reaching as far as they can.
rockabilly, early punk/new wave/proto-goth, some hard house/dirty hard house, ambient, synthpop, mostly the whole edinburgh 'twee rock' thing or whatever they're calling it now, old-time, country blues. some of the specifics... pastels, vaselines, buzzcocks, pavement, matt sharp-period weezer, ween, kinks, velvets, smiffs, siouxsie and the banshees, joy div/new order, bauhaus, low, mazzy star, spokane, the rentals, ladytron, apb, nurse with wound, die form, early sheila storms, the clash, the pogues, flogging molly, the handsome family, the carters, buddy holly, lonnie donegan, cisco houston, johnny horton, new lost city ramblers, iron mountain string band, doc watson, charlie poole and the north carolina ramblers, merle travis, bob wills, that damn blessed saint JC from dyer's co. arkansas, kris kristoferson, willie, anti-nowhere league, gang of four, crazy old bastard with the ghetto blaster on his bike...
a very long engagement, i heart huckabees, shadow of the vampire, nosferatu, dark city, fall of the house of usher (epstein/bunuel), spirited away, fight club, the acid house, cabinet of dr. caligari, zoolander, baxter, velvet goldmine, the princess and the warrior, empee an' the aitch gee ("it's only a model"... "shh!"), stranger than paradise, mystery train, dead man, breaker morant, gallipoli, city of lost children, my life as a dog, the reflecting skin, masculin/feminin, my own private idaho, picnic at hanging rock, kings of the road, american grafitti, the long riders, it's a wonderful life.
those wonderful nova episodes about string theory
Fiction : train whistle guitar (albert murray), journey to the end of the night (celine), blue of noon and the story of the eye (bataille), the witch of cologne (learner), the secret stream; camus, poe, zora neale hurston, shelby foote, faulkner when i have time to make a real literary commitment...Non-Fiction: most anything by colin wilson, castenada, camus' essays and cahiers; the alchemist's handbook (wm. lee randolph), lee's miserables, a brief history of time (hawking)...Quasi-Fiction: memoirs of george sherston, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, oh yeah... the holy babble.
lancelot link: secret chimp.