My dude ,
music, cooking, wine, traveling, reading, science, BBC, NPS, PBS, anime, art deco and mid-century modern, ebay, snowboarding, animals, laughing, charities, volunteering, Los Angeles Lakers, Naked Chef, politics, Pilates.
Places I've been: Italy, Spain, England, Scotland, Ireland, Costa Rica, Mexico, Vancouver. Places I want to go: Japan, Croatia, Argentina, Bali, Thailand, Morroco, Corsica.
I also dig clothes so check out Karmaloop.com and use my rep code: MR943 to get a 20% discount!
Artists, Musicians, Poets, Dreamers, Dancers, Chefs, Rabble-Rousers, Gunslingers, Ex-Catholics, Revolutionaries...
Just a few that come to mind..... PSYKICK GIRL , Soundgarden, Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, DJ Sasha, Peter Gabriel, Garbage, Meat Beat Manifesto, David Bowie, Massive Attack, SELF, Annie Lennox, Cocteau Twins, Frou Frou, Beatles, Butterfly Boucher, David Sylvian, Siouxie Sioux, Danielle Dax, Happy Rhodes, Jill Scott, Bahamdia, High Contrast, led zeppelin, Bjork, system of a down, nickelcreek, nellie mckay, St Vincent, Wired all Wrong, Moloko, Kate Nash, SIA, anything on green linnet records, kurt elling, siouxie sioux, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Morphine, Sisters of Mercy, King Crimson, The Dust Brothers, NIN, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Go Betty Go, SELF, Beastie Boys, Mozart, Bach, Cornelius, Keane,Joy Division, MC 900 Foot Jesus, DJ Shadow, Dj Kaskade, ANYTHING ON EMPEROR NORTON RECORDS, Lamb, Lords of Acid, Kate Bush, Orbital, Nitzer Ebb, My Bloody Valentine, Vast, Tenacious D, Sneaker Pimps, Primus, Depeche Mode, Skinny Puppy, David Bowie, U2, STP, Radiohead, Prince, Earth Wind and Fire, KRS One, Blondie, Flaming Lips, Aesop Rock, Marilyn Manson, Harvey, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Nina Simone, Howlin' Wolf, John Coltrane, Gangstarr, Erik B and Rakim, The Beatles,NIN, Jeff Buckley, the Like, Chris Whitley, Imogen Heap, Queens of the Stone Age, Sound Team, Camera Obscura, Aesop Rock, Wax Tailor, Brightblack Morning Light, Lake Trout, Kinky, Editors, Avril (not Lavigne the french guy) most celtic music!
Blade Runner, City of Lost Children, Eraserhead, Fifth Element, The Matrix, The Big Lebowski, Rushmore, Heat, Harold and Maude, Political Documentaries, anything with Clint Eastwood, Ghost in the Shell, Y Tu Mama Tambien...FAV DIRECTORS: Lynch, Linklater, Jeunet, Besson, Michael Mann, Gregg Araki, Spike Jonze, Cohen Bros, Wes Anderson, Darren Aronofsky
food network and PBS
how about authors: TOM ROBBINS, neal stephenson, flannery o'connor, rosemary mahoney, tolkein, barry paris, margaret atwood, ursula k leguin, umberto eco, catherine neville, phillip pullman, paramhansa yogananda...I'm a 1920s-1940's era biographies addict, also like political books: Jim Hightower, Molly Irvin, etc
my parents, my wonderfully talented friends, h1ghway, peter gabriel, bill clinton, studs terkel, Zainab Salbi, louise brooks, dave chappelle, tom robbins, stephen colbert, EVERYONE at KPFK PACIFICA RADIO (thank GOD we have that station!) and KCRW