Art / music / sailing / riding / painting / writing / rock-climbing / film (others and my own creations...) / trying to dance / free-running / history / henri matisse / my ipod / friends [i.e. real people, not the lame tv show] / guitar / piano [grade 2 baby!] / pointless expeditions through forests and up mountains / guitars / girls / pirates / travelling / Canada / U.K. / Cuba / California / Yosemite / Paris / Rome / Vienna / my camera. . . But not all at the same time. That would just be silly.
Things beyond our comprehension, Something signifying oneness, truth and eternity and spiritual unity, Inspiration, Jack Kerouac, Henri Matisse, J. D Salinger, Bob Dylan, David Berman, Captain Jack Sparrow, Jimi Hendrix, Fellow Pirates, the Hamburglar, Myself, [from another person's perspective...], God, tiny moths that drink the tears of sleeping birds, and......you.It would be quite a cool party, if only most of them weren't dead / made up...
To name but a few: The Shins, Cat power, Bob Dylan, Black Keys, Flogging Molly, Hendrix, Silver Jews, Howlin' Wolf, Devendra Banhart, Velvet Underground, Debussy, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Santana, Arcade Fire, Tori Amos, Tim / Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Sex Pistols, Pixies, Richard Thompson, Nirvana, Antony & The Johnsons, Beirut, Jamie T, Led Zep, Midlake, Morrissey, Johnny Cash, Stranglers, Rufus Wainwright, Fleetwood Mac, Frou Frou, T. Rex, Beach Boys, Iron & Wine, The Felice Brothers, Big Bill Bronzy, Sufjan Stevens, Strokes, Joe Cassady & the West End Sound, Gob, Jamie T, The Doors, Dirty Pretty Things, Death Cab for Cutie, The New Pornographers, 10cc, Beatles, Bloc Party, Queens of the Stone Age, Fats Waller, Tool, Bob Marley, Hayseed Dixie, Chuck Berry, Jamie Cullum, The Who, The Vines, Velvet Underground, Dave Brubeck, Animals, Be Good Tanyas, Cat Stevens, Arctic Monkeys, Kansas,, Sunset Rubdown, The Libertines, ac/dc, Kinks, Elvis, Francesca Bandino, The Doobs, Sam Cooke, Killers, Eric Clapton, Kanye West, Meat Puppets, Debussy, Rolling Stones, Supertramp, Hayden, Jack Johnson, Free, Thom York, Mooney Suzuki, Outkast, Handsome Family, Lou Reed, the Clash, Miles Davis, Wolf Parade, Fats Waller, Tommy Tucker, James Gang, Art Pepper, Sir Mix-a-lot, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Erik Satie, my sister...
Well cling 'film,' is quite impressive...Otherwise: The Third Man, Garden State, The Life Aquatic, Fight Club, Billy Madison, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, North by Northwest, the Edge, Fierce Creatures, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dr. Strangelove, Happy Gilmore, Shawshank Redemption, Lock Stock, Snatch, The Butterfly Effect, Withnail and I, Road to Perdition, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Anchorman, Italian Job, Science of Sleep, Marie Antoinette, Grizzly Man, JFK, The Appartment, The Departed, Monty Python, Oceans 11, 12, 13, 3 colours trilogy, Easy Rider, Big Lebowski, Blow up, Goodbye Lenin, Night of the Hunter, Dukes of Hazard, , Blow, Starsky & Hutch, Saboteur, Citizen Cane, To Kill A Mockingbird, Napolean Dynomite, (only funny in retrospect), The Road to Perdition, the Godfather, Pirates of the Caribbean [1, 2, 3], Open Range, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Pan's Labyrinth, A Fish Called Wanda, Colditz, Treasure Island, James Bond, Snakes on a Plane, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Surprising Adventures of Rupert the Pirate etc
Back in my day we didn't have no fancy 'tele-visions...' All we had was a cardboard box. We used to sit and watch the box for hours on end...Although, in those days - o'course there weren't much on.
Jack Kerouac, David Berman, J.D. Salinger, Graham Greene, Hunter S Thompson, Orwell, Hemmingway, John Locke, Cavafy, Wittgenstein, Harper Lee, Solzhenitsyn, Carl Sagan, Jack London, Ginsberg, John Updike, Dodie Smith, Roddy Doyle, Aldous Huxley, Michael Morpurgo, Percy Bysshe Shelley, F Scott Fitzgerald, Leo Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Steinbeck, Gary Snyder, Joseph Heller, Andrew Marr, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Conrad, Dee Brown, the backs of cereal packets.
...are the spiritual embodiment of transcendent admiration of great people.