bioluminescence, archaeoastronomy, frisbee, hiking, music heard or played, drumming, reading, cooking, eating, drinking good beer, anything with garlic, lectures, classes, seminars, learning, library stuff, talking, pacific sunsets, loving, dreaming, acting, LAUGHING!, singing, hosting, did I mention good beer?, lots of other -ings
radiohead, bjork, joni mitchell, thievery corporation, stereolab, maria callas, sigur ros, foo fighters, frank zappa, hendrix, brian eno, david byrne, robert fripp, police, leon theremin, clara rockmore, loads of electronica, loads of jazz, world party, XTC, Cure, Siouxsie, New ORder, Depeche Mode, mary's danish, throwing muses, sundays, my bloody valentine, REM, rashaan roland kirk, harry partch, classical, good new stuff like: bright eyes, shins, decemberists, fiery furnaces, mountain goats, eisley, devendra banhart, goldfrapp, cat power, rilo kiley, caribou, imogen heap, ekova, british sea power, calexico, band of horses, iron and wine, peter bjorn and john, cocorosie, new pornographers...
Check this out....Depeche Mode on WTC
(3:54)
this was one of my anthems and still stands up today Talk Talk - It's My Life (4:10)
...............And THIS will school you on proper COOL, SOUL, LIFEFORCE - this is not just a performance, not just a human - but a true innovator, one who's vision went well beyond the spectrum of sight, a passionate dreamer. you have never seen anything like this before:
Rashaan Roland Kirk (5:55)
and let's not forget..... (1:49) Jonzun Crew's PACK JAM!
i can't ever get enough of dystopian science fiction movies: (2001, Farenheit 451, Alphaville, Blade Runner, Brazil, Laloux's "Fantastic Plantet", THX-1138, etc..), foreign, arthouse, independent movies - Damn where to start!, Jeunet (Delicatessan, City of Lost Children, Amelie), Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine...!), Cinema Paradiso, documentaries: (Baraka, Winged Migration, Rivers and Tides, Who Killed the Electric Car, Sketches of Frank Gehry), Paul Thomas Anderson movies, well, made - good anime, like some Hayao Miyuzaki movies, Robert Altman movies, Tim Burton movies, Hal Ashby flicks: (Harold and Maude, Being There)
For a beautiful time in the 70's, some crazy hippies had control of the airwaves....
here is some of that magic that changed my life and some other good stuff...
Lower case n - nuff said... (1:00)
Stevie on Sesame Street (6:47)
Meanwhile....here's what Uncle Sam was showing their parents and teachers... (3:37)...poor girl, she'll never enjoy a hotdog again
Bubble Magic (2:13)
Hey, I'm not going to kid you...I watch TV (Lost, the Office). I try to limit the amount (I can think of about a million better ways to spend my time), but I do like to watch movies a lot and the occasional show. I try to keep some basic truths and observations in mind, to be 'aware' and cultivate discernment while watching. Remember folks...
"The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little."
Ray Bradbury
and don't forget kids: MUTE THE COMMERCIALS!! (unless you're watching the stupor bowl)
All Quiet On The Western Front, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes!!, pretty much everything by T.C. Boyle, Tom Robbins (esp. "Jitterbug Perfume"), W. Somerset Maugham, good historical fiction - Mary Renault's "The King Must Die" Gore Vidal's "Creation: A Novel" Jean Auel's "Clan of the Cave Bear" , Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael", too many amazing, inspiring, independent, and creative comics and graphic novels: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, Harvey Pekar,good Sci-Fi - Michael Moorcock, Harlan Ellison, Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. Le Guin, Walter Tevis, J.G. Ballard, Haruki Murakami, Philip K. Dick, Christopher Moore, Thedor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, Maurice Sendak
These bastards forgot ARTISTS, but that's a whole nuther ball of wax and I could list a ton of those....
Andy Goldsworthy, Jacques Cousteau, Dalai Lama, Maude