the wife and kids, Music, Home Surgery, music, art in many of its varied forms, living sustainably, music, SCREEN PRINTING!, Qi Gong, Body mechanics, Sacred Geometry, herbs and spices, music, psychology, philosophy, music, Entheogens, a bunch of weird new-ager type stuff, music, talking to myself in languages i barely understand but really enjoy learning, music, working in the yard, mycology, Recording, Permaculture, music, Radio, oh and I really like dark blue guitars.
I'd like to meet:
a babysitter.Bapak & Phillip K. Dick
the transformation masters of Shikoku Island
Tesla, Dore, and the person who invented the pretzelI admire people with something left over at the end of day. Folks that once work is over still the the energy to pursue thier creative interests, whatever they may be. Folks that have the stamina or energy to break out of simple survival or escape mode and really make things happen in thier life. yeah, people like that.
Jacob
Music:
OK OK...stuff I have actually been listening to lately:
(in no particular order)
James Blackshaw
Mirah
Fatal Flying Guilloteens
These are Powers
Xiu Xiu
Bonnie "Prince"
...and...CHARLES FUCKING MINGUS my friends,(the tune moanin' just fucking is it) ....and many others like, Polar Bears, The Velvet Teen, Lhasa, TV on the Radio, AsvA, Congotronics, Experimental Dental School, Colleen, Xiu Xiu, Les Savy Fav, Secret Chiefs 3, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, dEERHOOF, The Blood Brothers, Ten in the Swear Jar, Devendra Banhart, Buffalo Daughter, Des Ark, The Birthday Party, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill, Radiohead, Portishead, Hint Hint, Max Richter, Steel Pole Bath Tub, Dirty Three, PJ Harvey, John Fahey, Tom Waits, CSN, Gyorgy Ligeti, the Cure, Jolie Holland, Godspeed You Black Emporer, Bonnie Prince Billy, John Zorn, Melvins, Bela Bartok, Oma Yang, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Shining, Elliott Smith, Charles Mingus, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Sun Ra, TV on the Radio, Dizzee Rascal, DJ Shadow, Massive Attack, Funkadelic (Maggot Brain freaking Rules! can you get to that?), Cat Power, Zeni Geva, Nels Cline, Morphine, Sunn O)), Bauhaus, Jesus Lizard, Karate, Led Fucking Zeppelin, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, Iron and Wine, Colleen, Tarantula Hawk, Thrones, Yellow Swans, Tortoise, Milk Cult, Fuck, Enon, Mogwai, Butthole Surfers, The Need, Can, Joan of Arc, This Heat, Mr Bungle, Tubeway Army, A Silver Mt Zion, Autechre, Leonard Cohen, Captian Beefheart, The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, Robert Johnson, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Aphex Twin, Fugazi, Engine Down, Muse, Amon Tobin, Hank Williams, Errase Errata, (old) Pink Floyd, Q and Not U, Joanna Newsom, Jon Spencer, Kronos Quartet, Elton John
Movies:
Science of Sleep, Pan's Labrynth, The Lady in the Water, Shortbus, A Scanner Darkly, V for Vendetta, Jesus is Magic, Water, Genesis, Pom Poko, Howl's Moving Castle, The Prestige, Bang Rajan, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fight Club, The Jacket, Space is the Place, Batman Begins, Anchorman, Tin Drum, Shakes the Clown, The Cruise, El Topo and Jodorowsky in general, the City of Lost Children, Delicatessan, My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Fight Club, Texas Family Style Bar-B-Q, Lost Highway, Eraserhead, Deadman, Freeway, Wings of Desire, The Wind in the Willows (BBC) I heart Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Ju Dou, Shakes the Clown, Miyazaki, Kurosawa, Sergio Leone, Lynch, Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman, Charlie Chaplan, Broken Lizard, and th 3Giligns Island Movie (that i watch like the mystery science fiction 3000 guys but calling the characters of giligan's island the name of characters form LOST)(for Lila ;))
Television:
is like a pacifier for the brain, laced with sugar and iodine.
I literally DO NOT watch commercial television, but i have watched a few shows on dvd that i really enjoy. stuff like: Carnivale, Lost, the Lost Room, House MD
Books:
I Ching, Fight Club, Amnesia Moon, The Painted Bird, You Can't Win, Gifts of Unknown Things, Geek Love, Botony of Desire, Kabir's Touch of Grace, Letters From Earth, Secret Life of Inanimate Objects, Living Presence (thanks Bella!), i really want to read Ishmael, that is what i will probably read next and that will most likely become my new fav book ever from what i have heard of it. it keeps getting recommended to me when i start talking to folks with a good head on, they say, "you should read Ishmael, i think you would really like it cuz it talks about what you are already thinking about", but hey, we shall see.
Heroes:
me, you, and some of these folksPootie Tang, Paul Hernandez Reyes, Alicia Feltman, Bapak Mohammed Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo, Daniel Knauf, Steve Albini, Phil Elk, Billy Anderson, Johnathan Burnside, Mr Snubbs
