Hiking, Camping, gardening, anything outdoors; traveling (whenver I can afford it);live music; contradancing ; estatic dance; dancing of any kind; practicing my guitar ; reading; eating healthy whole organic yummy foods; trying to get back into yoga again; playing basketball (or "hooping" as the kidz call it these days), watching sports especially pro football (Hail to the Redskins!)
other vegans who share my non-milatant, not "in your face" philosophy on veganism; someone to play guitar with; anyone who can help me learn and grow (and I'm not talking about getting taller, I'm plenty tall enough thank you); anyone who cares about the world around them and takes an active roll to make a difference (and does not think W. Bush is the solution); anyone who have an appreciation for a wide variety of good music (even if some of it is stuff I personally don't care for); readers (but not non-readers) of fine or not so fine literature; hikers, bikers, and trikers (Okay maybe just hikers. I don't actually bike and "triker" isn't exactly an actual word. It just sounded good at the time.)
Love that "hippie" music. My three favorite bands are in the videos below. But besides that, I like a billion other things too numerous to name. I can share with you some of the good stuff I've been listening to lately: Herbie Hancock, Arturo Sandoval, Charlie Hunter, Charles Mingus, Billie Holliday, John Coltrane, all kinds of jazz really. Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Ray LaMontangue, Railroad Earth, Theivery Corporation, Zero 7, My Morning Jacket, White Stripes, Eddie Vedder, Feist, Fionna Apple, Tori Amos, Patti Smith, Jose Gonzalez, Rodrigo y Gabriella, Gil Scott Heron, Digable Planets, the Coup, Karsh Kale, Steely Dan, Greg Brown, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen.
Phish 7-6-98 Ghost jam
Grateful Dead 10/31/80 Fire on the Mountain
String Cheese Incident Bumpin Reel 2006 (Sorry the video quality sucks, I just like this song)
Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Monty Python's the Holy Grail and the Life of Brian, City of God, the Constant Gardner, Crash, Hotel Rwanda (in fact I've never been dissapointed with anything that stars Don Cheadle), Bob Roberts, Shawshank Redemption, The Corporation (and other political documenteries), the Naked Gun, Airplane, the first Austin Powers movie (the sequels sucked), and a bunch of other stuff I'm not thinking of at the moment.
Television? Who watches television in the summer time? Get outside already! However, I will say that January through May on Thursday nights at 10 I will be glued to my TV to satisfy my obsession for LOST. But right now, tv? No tv.
Ursula K. LeGuin is my favorite author. The Earthsea novels are my all time favorites. The Chronicles of Narnia are also childhood favs of mine. "Contact" by Carl Sagan (not the movie with Jodie Foster). The Hithchikers Guide series. Phillip K. Dick. Octavia Butler is wonderful. Jorge Luis Borges. The "His Dark Materials" trilogy by Phillip Pullman (again, skip the movie, read the book). The Christopher Chant novels by Dianna Wynne Jones. Anything fiction or non-fiction that has to do with autism or other mental disablities, such as "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime" and "Songs of a Gorilla Nation".
Over the past several months, I've been reading a long string of non-fiction books:
* "Eat to Live" by Dr. Joel Furhman- a diet book which just solidifies my belief that eating leafy green veggies-GOOD, eating lots of meat- BAD
*"Omnivore's Dillemna" by Michael Pollen- eating locally grown organic vegetables GOOD, eating bigtime organic from Whole Foods, NOT AS GOOD, eating corn filled crap from grocery stores BAD
*"Woody Guthrie: A Life" by Joe Klien- one of the most interesting well written biographies I've ever read
*"An Open Heart" by the Dalai Llama- the Dalai Llama telling me alot of things I already know in theory, but not always in practice
*"Hyperspace" by Michio Kaku- a book about the real life theories on the ten dimensions, time travel, and paralell universes. I'm so into it that I've already got another one of his books ready to read, "Parallel Worlds"
Captain Ozone! The environmental superhero from the future.
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