Listening to music, learning to play the guitar, listening to other people play instruments and sing, painting things from my head, trying to paint things from real life, Wales, reading people's poetry and prose, interesting classes (art history, 3d art, zoology), good books, good looks, shimmering water, trees with and without leaves, sleeping without socks on, icicles, London England, herbal teas, dreaming in the day and night, sculpting with styrofoam and plasticine, eating candy, playing euchre, frogs, seeing live bands, dancing swing or otherwise, watering my plant.
Joni Mitchell, Hayden Desser, On Kawara, Tom Robbins, my deceased relatives, some man whose back of head I mistook for my Mum's at Sauble Amusements when I was eight or so.
Lately and always and in no particular order- Wilco, Leonard Cohen, The Tragically Hip, Iron and Wine, Sarah Harmer, Hayden, Radiohead, The Smashing Pumpkins, Joni Mitchell, Beck, Bob Dylan, The Band, Ani Difranco, Neil Young, The Constantines, Tori Amos, Broken Social Scene, Wolf Parade, Fiona Apple, Royal City, Pearl Jam, Pixies, Cuff the Duke, Neutral Milk Hotel, Ben Harper, Van Morrison, Led Zeppelin, Weeping Tile, Jason Collett, The Beatles, CocoRosie, Sarah Slean, Otis Redding, Mojave 3, Oneida, The Weakerthans, Apostle of Hustle, The Allman Brothers, Nick Drake, Frank Zappa, Metric, Clive Holden, John Coltrane, Paul Simon (with Art Garfunkel sometimes) Cat Power, Elliott Smith, Joanna Newsom, Sonic Youth, Calexico, The Black Keys, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Talking Heads, Judy Collins, The Decemberists, Do Make Say Think, The Joel Plaskett Emergency, Pink Floyd, The Smiths, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Barn Owl, Gordon Downie and you.
To draw from a fading memory bank- Snatch, Crash, American History X, Fight Club, Rounders, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, You Me and Everyone we know, The Squid and the Whale, SLC Punk!, Witches, The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under, Labyrinth, and I can't even remember any more of them.
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Anything by- Tom Robbins, Diane Schoemperlen, Douglas Coupland, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, C.S. Lewis, Margaret Atwood, Naomi Klein, Carolyn Cassady, Lewis Carroll, Gordon Downie, Hunter S. Thompson, Dennis Lee, etc.
Joni Mitchell, Stephen Hawking, Leonard Cohen, Mr. Schnurr, artists worldwide