Coffee and creativity. Sculpture when it's not for a pay cheque. Watching the Ospreys build their nest out of mittens that people have dropped on the bike path. Learning new things. Stargazing. Travel. Local music. History. Science. Brown paper packages tied up with string.
I'd like to meet:
Artists, activists and storytellers. People with vision and heart. Those who respect the land and have the courage to change things for the better. In other words, YOU!
Music:
My taste in music is all over the map, so a sampling of this in no particular order is as follows. Hot Little Rocket, The Adulescents UK, The Damned, Black Flag, Husker Du, Stiff Little Fingers, The Ramones, The Specials, Millions Of Dead Cops, Random Killing, The Clash, The Undertones, The Buzzcocks, The Forgotten Rebels, The Ventures, Link Wray, Talking Heads, Huevos Rancheros, The Soft Boys, Robyn Hitchcock, The Smiths, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Kaiser Chiefs, The Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, The Gruesomes, Deja Voodoo and Billy Childish. Since I moved out west I started listening to Neil Young and a whole lotta Led Zepplin.( I listen to a lot of radio at work) Somehow from there I've started to get into a bit of Bluegrass, Alt Country and even some more traditional country - Elliot Brood, Dave Lang, Tim Harwell, Carolyn Mark, and of course Hank Williams, etc. Late at night I like old Jazz - Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gilespie, Oscar Peterson to name a few. I don't like House music and I hated Nirvana with an abiding passion.
Movies:
I like movies which are quirky and funny, such as: Rare Birds, Waking Ned Devine and Muriel's Wedding. I like movies that are a little creepy, like: Blue Velvet and Memento. Heathers is probably my favourite black comedy. I think that Shakespeare is best left to the stage, and I don't care for horror films. I have to admit I enjoy seeing Bruce Willis save the world again and again. I love science fiction, but probably not for the reasons you imagine. I think that by telling stories in totally implausible settings writers can ask the audience to examine ideas which are otherwise too painful or volatile. For example, Alien Nation (which admittedly was pretty terrible) is really about the discrimination, violence and hardship experienced by new immigrants. Starship Troopers had pretty good eye candy, but fundamentally it was a story about a young man who joined the military to impress a girl and had to deal with the consequences of that act even as they spiraled out of control. I honestly can't stand Chickflicks.
Television:
I have a digital camera, binoculars, more bird guides than you can shake a stick at and a library card. I'm lucky enough to live within walking distance of an irrisistably peculiar coffee shop - arts and crafts break out there the way fights do in bars. I also have a small business, so television is something i rarely use. When I do, I like to watch The Nature Of Things and anything with James Burke or Desmond Morris' name attached to it. I really enjoyed Canada: A Peoples History and Trudeau: The Making Of A Maverick, so for me it's probably safe to say CBC or bust.
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Books:
Non fiction; Bernd Heinrich, Konrad Lorenz, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, David Suzuki, Roger Tory Peterson, Candace Savage etc. basically anything to do with evolutionary biology and/or behavioral biology especially if it specifically deals with birds.
Poetry; John Hayes, Dave Cairns, e.e. cummings, Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman, Charles Bukowski, Alan Ginsberg etc.
Fiction; Ian Banks, Kurt Vonnegut, Yann Martel, Salman Rushdie, Amy Tan, Joy Kogawa, Timothy Findley, Tom Robbins,etc.
Science fiction, speculative fiction and fantasy; Neal Stephenson, Robert J. Sawyer, Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, William Gibson, Charles DeLint, Robert Heinlen, Issac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Larry Niven, Thomas Pynchon, Samuel R. Delaney, Octavia Butler, Frank Herbert, Sherri S. Tepper, Terri Windling, John Brunner, Timothy Zahn, Douglas Adams etc.
