tea, blankets, music, prideFC, photomicrography, dogs, techmology, lying, truthing, trivia!, culinary delights, kiehl's blue astringent, BJJ, real food daily, hot showers, measuring mettle, making things, pingponging, stereograms, myself, gross miscalculations, michael gross, cats, funny, freedom, feelings, photoshop, red stripe, biore strips, furniture, maps, evolution's carrot celery beet juice, fine ass minerals, theraplex hydrolotion, chocolate malted crunch, BOARD GAMES!, did i say blankets? i'd like to specify: kukicha and genmaicha.
the stage sensation
and then... the television smash
Star Wars, Casshern, The Imposters, Ran (kurosawa), Communion, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Nausicaa of the Wind Valley, Howl's Moving Castle, Shining, B.Lyndon, Strangelove, AclockworkO, Platoon, Made, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Rushmore, Kundun, Grizzly Man, Every Chris Guest Movie, BlazingSaddles, YoungFrankie, the OG TCMassacre, 28 Days Later, Nightmare b4 Xmas, Dress to Kill, Last Temptation of Christ- NOT Passion, Lebowski, Huckabees, As Good As It Gets, What's Up Tiger Lily, Holy Grail, Magnolia, Story of the Weeping Camel, MICROCOSMOS, Kung Fu Hustle, The Prodigal Son, 40 Year Old Virgin, The Warriors, Made, The Quick and the Dead, Transformers: The Movie, Rushmore, Notting Hill, Whale Rider, Tetsuo: Iron Man, Last of the Mohicans, Little Miss Sunshine, About a Boy, High Plains Drifter, Mystery Men DAMNIT, All M.Night sans 6th Sense- even though it's pretty good.
i don't have an antenna or cable but.... rallarsving, deadwood, little britain, TUF, wondershowen, office(s) anyone who doesn't like the american one and only likes the british one is an ignoraneous, 30 days, iron chef. mr. show, NARUTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Photoatlas of Inclusions in Gemstones Vol. 1 & 2, Ender-ShadowoftheGiant, DarkTower(s), H(ewlett) P(ackard) Lovecraft, Heimlich Ellison, Chapter 198 of The Urantia Book, 70's sci-fi illustration books (of which i have many, thank you very much) and anything by the late, great Yarro Stevensenmanchild Woodrick
John Lennon for showing me how to say yes.
Ani Difranco for never taking no for an answer.
My cousin James for doing his job excellently anywhere he goes.
Stanley Kubrick for showing us how to always make a thing perfectly.
Akira Kurosawa for making a beautiful thing every time.
My mother for teaching herself strength.
Steve Carell for being THAT funny.
Prince and David Bowie for never being anything less than Prince and David Bowie.
Tori Amos for being accessibly inaccessible.
My grandmother for making it.
Martin Sexton for being an imperfect vessel.
Gabe for being smart and silly.
Haruki beacuse he's always looking for more from himself.
Coley for awlays getting me out to vote.
Anyone who'll cross a desert or an ocean for a better life for their family.
People who understand that love will move the world.
Thom Yorke for knowing how good OK Computer was and being terrified by it.
Hayao Miyazaki keeping me young.
Steve and Martina for not giving in and trying again and giving us Sonja.
Patty Griffin for writing the way she does.
Genki Sudo for coming out in chinese attire and hairstyle.