No, I am not a big Dune fan. I just feel that I embody the characteristics of the Spice.dancing, yoga, belly-laughing, sparkles, more dancing, reading voraciously, languages, neuropsychology, any form of "ill behavior," snuggling with my kitties, shaking/grooving and generally parading my Badonkadonk, "cult" film, the art of perfumery, fashion, singing (although my considerable talent is mostly relegated to occasional karaoke and my car), red wine, gentle spankings, the concept of perception & altering it, the Netherlands, languages (Dutch, Spanish, French), San-X & other Japanese pop culture, vacuuming, kickin it, posting to TRIBE.NET where there's more discussion space :) :)
Anyone else who likes to flow. Alan Watts. George Carlin. Margaret Cho. (really any of my "heroes" below...)My future self and my childhood self, both at once.
Underground (and some above-ground) hip-hop, house (Detroit/Chicago style booty shakin' tech house, & the funkier SF beats), Detroit techno, funk & soul, downbeats, some '80's. Faves: J-Live, Lyrics Born, Blackalicious, Outkast, Aceyalone, De la Soul, the Roots, Missy Elliot, Dilated Peoples, Angie Stone, Jurassic 5, Derrick Carter, Mark Farina, DJ Krush, John Acquaviva, Massive Attack, Gene Farris, Marques Wyatt, Derrick May, (DJ) Traxx, Richie Hawtin (Plastikman), Doc Martin, Jazzanova, Kruder & Dorfmeister, everything on the Pork label, Groove Armada, Thievery Corporation, LTJ Bukem, DJ DB, ABBA, Talking Heads, Ella Fitzgerald, Eartha Kitt, Cibo Matto, Peter Gabriel, Shirley Bassey, Beatles...I could go on, but I won't...
Dr. Strangelove, Kids in the Hall's Brain Candy, Waiting for Guffman, Antonia's Line, Happiness, Magnolia, Bowling for Columbine, Wonderland (documentary aboutt Levittown NY), Donnie Darko, This is Spinal Tap, The Lover, Adaptation, SLAM!, Being John Malkovich, Falling Down, Lost in Translation, Hedwig, The Player, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Vernon FL, Network, Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios, All About Eve, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Kentucky Fried Movie
Six Feet Under, Brothers and Sisters, The Daily Show, The Tudors, Curb Your Enthusiasm, the L Word
Authors: Tom Robbins, Christopher Moore, Al Franken, Douglas Coupland, David Sedaris, Jon; Books: The Corrections (J. Franken), the Unfolding of Language (Deutscher), Descartes' Error (Damasio), the Alphabet Versus the Goddess (Schlain), the House of the Spirits (I. Allende), Media Virus, Love in the Time of Cholera (Garcia-Marquez), People's History of the United States (Zinn), How the Mind Works (Pinker), Jitterbug Perfume (Robbins), Girlfriend in a Coma (Coupland) Periodicals that I groove on: *BUST*, Bitch, Harper's (the literary one), Mother Jones, The Onion!, The Nation
Not in any particular order: Alan Watts, my mother, Joseph Campbell, Andrew Weil, Candace Pert, Carl Jung, Jon Stewart, Al Franken, Michael Moore, Howard Zinn, George Carlin, Margaret Cho, FDR, Noam Chomsky, Hafiz, Pablo Neruda, Margaret Sanger, Isaiah Berlin, Paul Wellstone, Johnny Depp