It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to meet your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have shriveled and closed from fear of further pain! I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine and your own, without moving to hide it or fix it. I want to know if you can be with JOY, mine and your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being a human. It doesn't interest me if the story you're telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your soul. I want to know if you can be faithless and therefore be trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty every day, and if you can source your life from ITS presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver moon, "YES!" It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn't interest me who you are, how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments. - Oriah Mountain Dreamer, "The Invitation"
kindred spirits, long lost loves and long sought loves, from this time and from all time
chemical brothers, benny benassi, jonathan peters, seb fontaine, ferry corsten, roger sanchez, rauhofer, coldplay, sex pistols, black sabbath, black flag, dead kennedys, sisters of mercy, septic shock, billy idol, flock of seagulls, DAF, Doors, velvet underground, johnny cash, jerry lee lewis, james brown, the cramps, steppenwolf, hendrix, deep purple, the monkees, pink floyd, fatboy slim, danzig, donovan, darude, janis joplin, james gang, emmylou harris, moby, YOB
Wings of Desire, In the Realm of the Senses, What the Bleep Do We Know?, Betty Blue, Islands in the Stream, Easy Rider, Lords of Flatbush, 2001: Space Odyssey, American Grafitti, the original Planet of the Apes, Lina Wertmiller's Swept Away
captyn zodiak, northern exposure, beavis and butthead, survivor, amazing race, mr ed, flintstones, blind date, yankees baseball, jets football, the news, meet the press
anything by Milan Kundera, Richard Bach, Jack Kerouac or Hemmingway.
thomas jefferson, henry rollins, joe frank (the radio joe frank), richard bach, hugh hefner, john lennon, neal cassady, wayne dyer, cher, al gore,