Dancing (especially to funk music), fatherhood, woodworking, folksongcraft, composition, cosmology, performing, higher consciousness, painting, luthierie, God, Love, Xerox machines, science, humanities, mysticism, vinyl, conversation, shamanism, moiré effects and interference patterns, indigenous cultures, philosophy, eating smoked salmon, geometrical abstraction, bridging east and west, Art: most of modernist painting and sculpture, Op-art, California light and space artists, graffiti/urban/street art, dada, action painting, process, installation, earthworks, Olafur Eliasson, Leo da Vinci, Paul Klee, Escher, Hector Serna Jr. R. Crumb, James Turrell, Inuit artworks, Northwest Coast formline/ masks/ poles, African woodcarvings, carvings in general, Brancussi, and also everything.
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Quintessentials…[Debussy, Thelonius Monk, Fender Rhodes, Scriabin Sonatas, Tribe Called Quest, oldies, Squarepusher, theory, Bob Marley, Flaming Lips, Steve Winwood, Stevie Wonder, Romantics (such as Camille Saint-Saens), Pygmy Music, trip-hop, cosmic blues, psychadelia, hymns, traditional country, nasty-butt-thumping-funk, afro-strut, HotHotHeat, noise, The Shins, running water, DaveBrubeckQuartet, Supertramp, SteelyDan, choral, Pinback, piano, John Scoffield, John Coltrane, John Cage, John Houghtan, Herbie Hancock Headhunters, (Cypress Ave.), (Austin City Limits), Miles Davis, Dire Straights, Fiona Apple, drunk people, Radiohead, Michael Jackson, Daft-Punk, Postalservice, Honky-Tonk, Chopin, birdcalls, BenFolds, brass instruments, Medeski Martin & Wood, songwriters, The Ssion, upright bass, George Gershwin, spaces, Eric Satie, Bluegrass, The Strokes, folk, equipment, insects, Pat Metheny, fuzz-bass, Mo-town, BCR, Hammond B3s, Mozart Sonatas, Tom Waits, James Brown, Nick Drake, Keith Jarret, hip-hop, bebop, free, straight (not smooth), Beach Boys, windchimes, classic Christmas songs, The Decemberists, Supremes, Coldplay, Chinese Buffet, kick-push, hot-bot, pizzicato, Phish, Lemonheads, SmokeyRob. &the Miracles, Iron & Wine, Archie Bell &the Drells, Tommy James &the Shondels, Ligeti, Outkast, flatted fifths, drum solos, my sister’s music, FooFighters Colour & Shape, minor nines, contemporary, vibes and xylophone, Zepplin, and more…] The Beatles, Bob Dylan.
Lavishly executed musicals of the depression era (especially those choreographed by Busby Berkelee), Black Orpheus, documentaries, Wild Style & Style Wars, Charlie Chaplin, comedies, stand-up, Fred Astaire, Woody Allen, Eternal Sunshine, Aladdin, Bloodsport, Paint Your Wagon, MIA, Water-volleyball scene in Meet the Parents, Gasoline-fight scene in Zoolander, The Royal Tennenbaums, Cremaster Series, I Heart Huckabees, Baraka, American Splendor, The Red Shoes, Lady of Shanghai, Shawshank Redemption, Singin’ in the Rain, American in Paris, Amadeus, Fritz Lang, Funny Girl, Great Outdoors.
PBS/KCPT, Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations, Austin City Limits, History, Nova, Art:21, Family Guy, Futurama, Arts Network, My Family, channel nineteen, Gray's Anatomy, ATHF, Seinfield, Friends, Oblongs, Moral Orel, Legends of jazz w/ Ramsey Lewis, Mr. Show w/ Bob & David, Meet The Press w/Tim Russert, and I seldom miss an episode of the Daily Show w/Jon Stewart.
books with imagery: photos, graff-mags, voyager images, graphically rendered empirical data, typography catalogues, maps, art, charts, The Power of Limits/ Gyorgy Doczi, Shambhala Press, Philosophy Texts, Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Histories of Natural Sciences, Art and Physics/ Schlain, Tao of Physics/ Capra, God and the New Physics & The Cosmic Blueprint/ Davies, Antiquated Books, R.W.E., H.D.T., etc., Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Emanuel Swedenborg, Finnigan’s Wake/ Joyce, Vonnegut, Beats: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Godel-Escher-Bach/ Hofstadter, Rilke, The Aquarian Conspiracy
Lennon/McCartney, Dylan. Jesus, Albert Einstein, Galileo, James Turrell, Pierre Teilhrd de Chardin, Nolan Ryan, Michel Gondry, Rev. Dwight Frizzell, Julia Cole, Frederick C. Dimmel III, Martin Q. Murphy, Pit-Pat, NASA, my mom, and Lauren Elise.