If my life were to be described as a genre "action and adventure" comes closest to being accurate.
I'd like to meet:
People willing to re-learn how to breathe. Amateur dancing enthusiasts. Kimchi lovers. Couch surfing hosts. People who are into permaculture and/or growing food and live in northern California. Humbolt county is where I'll be from May onwards!
Music:
Kate Bush (it's no accident she's first in the list. let this be a warning), Charles Mingus, Wanda Jackson, Blectum from Blectum, Madvillian, Old Crow Medicine Show, Monu Chao, Jennie Lewis and the Watson Twins, Albert Ayler, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Nina Simon, Hank Williams (Sr), Big Black, The Country Teasers, Cloudead, Serge Gainsbourough, John Zorn (ok mostly just the Big Gun Down), Zoltar Kodaly, The Books, The Family Fodder, The Firey Furnaces, The Magnetic Fields, The Pogues, Slick Rick the Ruler, Ananda Shankar, Yesterday's New Quintet, Prefuse 73, anything involving MadLib, The Carter Family (especially June), Gillian Welsh.
Movies:
withnail and I, city of god, stroszek, cries and whispers, a woman is a woman, the idiots, nights of caberia, the celebration
Television:
I aspire to become the host of a painfully obscure but cultishly popular cooking show with a permaculture slant on public access television.
Books:
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass. Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving into Stillness by Eric Schiffman. Second Nature and The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez. The Gift: The Erotic Life of Property by Lewis Hyde. The Organic Gardening Encyclopedia by J. Rodale. The New Agrarianism, a collection of essays by various authors. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. The End of Oil by Paul Roberts. Wild Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz. One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka.
Heroes:
Philippe Petit, Nina Simone, Wendell Barry, and Sally Fallon.
