ocean, desert, mountains, people, liberation, lucidity, communication, coffee (love/hate relationship), music (listening, writing, singing, playing guitar & accordian), long walks, fun, the occassional alcoholic beverage, social movements, social movement theory, listening to other people's smart ideas, affirmation whenever warranted, quality time with my old school peeps, ending wars, long meetings (i'm only half joking)
nice people of all sorts
Antony & the Johnsons * Antsy Pants * The Beatles * Belle & Sebastian * Ben Harper * Beth Orton * Bjork * The Bear & The Wolf * Buena Vista Social Club * Cat Power * Chumbawamba * The Clash * Cocorosie * The Coup * The Cranberries * The Cure * Danny Dolinger * Dar Williams * David Rovics * Dead Prez * The Dickle Brothers * Gillian Welch * Greg Brown * The Guess Who * Joanna Newsom * Johnny Cash * Kimya Dawson * Leonard Cohen * Lucinda Williams * Manu Chau * Moby * Neutral Milk Hotel * Nina Simone * Over the Rhine * Phil Ochs * The Police * Pink Floyd * Queen * Radiohead * Red Hot Chili Peppers * R.E.M. * Regina Spektor * Roger Waters * Root & Wing * Seize the Day * Smashing Pumpkins * Talking Heads * Tim Barsky * Tom Waits * U2 * Yann Tierson * lots more...
City of the Lost Children * Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon * Dead Poet Society * Delicatessen * Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind * Fiddler on the Roof * Harold & Maude * I Heart Huckabees * Monty Python * Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) * Papillon * Princess Mononoke * Rabbit-Proof Fence * Southpark the Movie * Spirited Away * The ORIGINAL Star Wars Trilogy * Waking Life
House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende * All The Power by Mark Anderson * Wall and Piece - Banksy *A Taste of Power by Elaine Brown * Revolution in the Air by Max Elbaum * Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire * Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm * Demian by Herman Hesse * Siddhartha by Herman Hesse * The Long Haul by Miles Horton * Ishmael by Daniel Quinn * anything by Kurt Vonnegut * Frontiers of Social Movement Theory * Waves of Protest * Harry Potter (you got a problem with that?)