rock climbing . mountaineering . ski touring and snowboarding . home brewing . wine making . tea . used book, clothing, CD and DVD shops . shutterbugging . getting lost . art . travel and exploratoin . grubbin' food . meandering about . wine . scuba diving . kayaking . discovering new customs . cheese . travelers stories . philosophy . finding new and interesting friends in odd places . learning through awkward embarrassment . playing in the snow . frozen hair in a warm hotspring ...
a platypus. critter, you must answer for yourself.
Spearhead . Elvis Costello . Blackalicious . Manu Chao . Jackie Greene . John Lennon . Flogging Molly . Joanna Newsom . Paul Simon . Waterbone . Thievery Corporation . Lewis Jordan . Serge Gainsbourg . Lily Allen . Boards of Canada . Johnny Cash . The Pogues . They Might Be Giants . Mark Farina . Susan Cagle . Regina Spektor . Jerry Reed . Buffet . Orbital toss in some Lounge . TripHop . Funky House . D&B and things are copasetic
Kung Fu Hustle . Cowboy Bebop . A Very Long Engagement . Fear and Loathing . Kung Fu films . Charade . Lost in Translatoin . The Matador . The Big Lebowski . Jean de Florette . Monty Python . The Dirty Dozen . The Jerk . Baraka . City of Lost Children . Borat
should be ignored for the most part.
Hagakure: In the Shadow of Leaves . Time Travelers Wife . Dharma Bums . Howl . Vonnegut . Van Vogt . Lewis Carroll . Hawking (he hurts my gray matter) . Plato . Socrates . Kerouac . Ginsberg . John Long . D Adams"Win? Not a chance. But that's not the point... The point is to offer yourself to death and see if you're chosen... He wants to make sure God wants him to live. So he spends a lot of time asking. He brings himself close to the edge and he feels God's breath on his back. If God wants to take him, all he needs to do is blow" -Dave Eggers "You Shall Know Our Velocity"
my automatic fish feeder, the all powerful Master of the tank.