epiphytes, yeah i said epiphytes!, chromatophores, cephalopods, photophores, Octopoda , FIRE, nanotechnology, traveling, reading, the NY Times crossword puzzle, scotch, indigenous peoples, culture, motorcycles, berlin, NPR, This American Life , Texas hold 'em, beer, fast cars, music, politics, minimalism, thinking, boots, gardening, chainsaws, int'l law, law, human rights, art, Croatia, Hajduk Split, architecture, soccer, mountain climbing, Haudenosaunee, my Smith & Wesson, Ruger revolvers, tattoos, snowboarding, zen, corsets, latex, opera, punk, hardware stores, nature, goth, blues, jazz, museums, galleries, walks, hiking, bicycles, individuality, the Yuba , Brooklyn, deutsch, Republica Dominicana, snorkeling, scuba, tea, anti-fashion, zac posen, learning, orchids, going to school , being a loner, David Cross
Fellow nerds. Intellectuals. Indigenous peoples/ pueblos indigenas/ first nations. People with varied life experiences who know sumthin' 'bout sumthin'. Brown eyes. Skins/ndns. Warriors. Kanien:keha'ka/ Mohawks. Haudenosaunee. People who are dissatisfied with the way things are. Architects, engineers, painters, creators. Other outlaws. People who smile like long lost friends when they see me. Revolutionaries. Rednecks. Old beatniks. Thinkers. Bikers. Scrabble players. Black Panthers. Pilots.
Pixies, P.J. Harvey, Crakow Klezmer, Paul Brill, Gogol Bordello, Zounds, A.P.P.L.E., Johnny Cash, Two Gallants, Tricky, Neko Case, Elliot Smith, Hammerlock, Garmarna, Chat Noir Chat Blanc, Die fantastischen Vier, Current 93, Ladytron, Crisis, flamenco, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Taraif Haiduks, Anti-Sect, Nausea, Massive Attack, Crass, old UK punk, ska, Beethoven, Puccini, Mozart, Zounds, Dirt, The Mob, Flux of Pink Indians, Buddy Guy, Nina Hagen, Bauhaus, Ravi Shankar, Django Reinhart (& Stefi Grappelli), Buddha Bar, Luxt, Skinny Puppy, Umm Kulthum, Miles Davis, Nick Cave, Neurosis, KMFDM, Switchblade Symphony, Social Distortion, Madness, Fugazi, Maria Callas, Pablo Casals, Skatellites, Yo Yo Ma, Hindustani classical music, Dead Can Dance, Goran Bregovic, Kronos Quartet, Bhangra, David Bowie, Peter Schilling, Warsaw Village Band, Tiger Lillies, Gorillaz, Alex Battles and the Whisky Rebellion!, Fehlfarben, Kraftwerk, Siouxsie, Vermillion Lies
Wings of Desire, The Bandit Queen, Secretary, Dersu Uzala, Hero, Once Were Warriors, M, Metropolis, House of Flying Daggers, Winged Migration, The Whale Rider, Chat Noir Chat Blanc, City of Lost Children, Down by Law, Paris Texas, Rabbit-Proof Fence, La Femme Nikita, City of God, Latcho Drom, Baraka, nature documentaries, movies by Jim Jarmusch, Ingmar Bergman, Wim Wenders, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa (fave is probably Seven Samurai), Hitchcock, Pedro Almodóvar, Zhang Yimou, and most recently Matthew Barney.
Nature shows.
a good dictionary, history and non-fiction and Russian literature!, sailing books, God's Middle Finger, Too Loud a Solitude, The God of Small Things, Crime and Punishment, The Sailor From Gibraltor, Pearls Arms & Hashish, The Trouble With Testosterone and anything else by Robtert Sapolsky, London Fields, A Brave New World, Demian, 1984, We, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Where the Wild Things Are, The Idiot, The Master and Margarita, http://smartypants.diaryland.com/ , Black's Law Dictionary, Zola, Rilke, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nietzche, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Zamyatin, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Chehkov, Murakami, Voltaire, Moscow to the End of the Line by Venedikt Erofeev, Faust (versions by Mann, Goethe, Marlowe, "English Faust Book"), James Baldwin, Edward Said, Li Po, Under a Cruel Star - by Heda Margolius Kovaly, just to name a few...
Diogenes, mata hari, momo (read this book!), my grandmother, annie oakley, amelia earhart, joshua slocum, tristan jones, henri de monfried, arundhati roy, malcolm x, voltairine de clerye, ghandi, herman hesse, ang san suu kyi, emma goldman, john brown, my momma, nina hagen, edward gorey, edvard munch, nikola tesla, john muir, henry david thoreau, zapatistas, dalai lama, leon shenandoah, toussaint l'ouverture , emiliano zapata, francisco "pancho" villa, mililani trask, john trudell