being free. painting. natural disasters. cooking better. tripping. gardening. flowers. snackies. road trips (mostly with people that i secretly want to kiss). birds. meeting people who don't think they're too cool to read. oranges. heady nuggets. porch parties. the prospect of retirement. drug phases. falling in love with girls...and boys. the right time. wearing black and brown together. cooling off. dinner parties. cuddling. the moon when you can tell it's an orb. not work. mountains. immortality. loosing my footing. getting it back. vitality. commercials. quiet places. estrogen. moving. anthropology (the lens not the store). summer sausage. personal nostalgia. bricolage. genderfucking. lists. ethnic food. breaking shit.
norman mailer, patti smith (fuckin tuff!), neal cassady, gary snyder.
billie holiday, howlin wolf, thelonius monk, bird, pre-cool miles davis, jelly roll morton, cole porter, woody guthrie, BD, patti smith, hound dog taylor, ma rainey, john lee hooker, bob carlin, leadbelly, ella fitzgerald, robert johnson, chic corria, lightnin' hopkins, xemhiah "skip" james, son house, t-bone walker, bob marley, mmw, vincent gallo, astor piazolla, paco de lucia...RJD2, kimya d, nick drake, iron and wine, wilco, fiona apple, beck, ani, jane's addiction, the pixies, violent femmes, the flaming lips, tortoise...mostly like the older varieties of folk, delta blues, ragtime, and bop jazzzzzzzz, also reggae and...missy elliot
buffalo 66', any altman (RIP), all academy award nominees for 2005 best picture (besides crash)
globe trekker
book of the month: "the judgement of paris" by gore vidal, norman mailer, nabokov, juan rulfo, isabel allende, gabriel garcia marquez, carlos castenada, camus, edward abbey, henry miller, gore vidal, anais nin, toni morrison, burroughs, kerouac, bukowski, william blake, thomas wolfe, spengler, hegel, salinger, i read a lot of poetry...
elizabeth fucking king, professors who couldn't care less and certain loyal dogs.