ecofeminist speculative fiction
walking the beach at night
singing in the rain
thunderstorms
hurricanes
lightning
clouds
fog
trees
the moon
stargazing
archaeology
anthropology
ancient religions
ancient technology
the 1960s and 1970s
optical illusions
impressionism
expressionism
psychedelia
mandalas
fauvism
drawing
writing
bowling
canoeing
Thai food
Indian food
Vietnamese food
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
concerts right up at the stage
skinheads (not boneheads)
tattoos and piercings
guys with cool scars
Mexican guys
Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein
FAVORITE STYLES:
1950s-1970s
R&B, Soul & Funk
1950s-1980s
Rockabilly
1960s-1970s
Psychedelic Rock & Soul
1960s-1980s
Ska & Rocksteady
1970s
Prog Rock
1970s-1980s
Disco & Dance
1970s-1980s
Punk & New Wave
1980s-2000s
Latino Rock
WORLD MUSIC
especially music from Algeria, Brazil, Egypt, India, Iran, Mali, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, Turkey.
CURRENT PLAYLIST:
Max Roach
"We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite"
Jorge Ben
"Jorge Ben"
Caetano Veloso
"Tropicalia"
Gilberto Gil
"Sound of Revolution 1968-1969"
13th Floor Elevators
Nick Lowe
"Jesus of Cool"
Cabas
"Amores Dificiles"
Youssou N'dour
"Rokku Mi Rokka"
Nortec Collective Presents:
Bostiche + Fussible
"Tijuana Sound Machine"
Yukihiro Fukutomi
"Love Each Other"
Gal Costa
"Gal"
Orchestra Baobab
"Made In Dakar"
El Chivo
"Cicatrices"
Behroozinia & Hadadi
"From Stone to Diamond"
Debashish Bhattacharya
"Calcutta Slide Guitar"
Miguel Bose
"Papito"
Bauhaus
"Go Away White"
DJ Bitman
"Latin Bitman"
Cafe Tacuba
"Sino"
Kinto Sol
"Los Hijos del Maiz"
Liam Finn
"I'll Be Lightning"
B-52's
"Funplex"
Senor Flavio
"Supersaund 2012"
Kinky
"Reina"
FAVORED ARTISTS:
Marc Almond
Boy George
Caravan
Clash
Wayne/Jayne County
Miles Davis
Fairport Convention
Funkadelic
Nina Hagen
Millie Jackson
Kinks
Yusef Lateef
John Lennon
Nice
Gary Numan
Yoko Ono
Pink Floyd
Polecats
Queen
Ramones
Tom Robinson
Sector 27
Homayoun Shajarian
Shakin' Pyramids
Patti Smith
Specials
T.Rex
War
Yardbirds
Yes
FAVORITE DIRECTORS:
Pedro Almodovar
Federico Fellini
Ken Russell
BBCAmerica Newshour
Bones
CSI
Democracy Now!
Doctor Who
Keith Olbermann
Link TV
NCIS
Rachel Maddow
Torchwood
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ALL-TIME FAVORITE BOOK:
"DHALGREN"
by SAMUEL R DELANY
ALL-TIME FAVORITE AUTHOR:
SHERI S TEPPER
NONFICTION:
VINCENT BUGLIOSI:
Betrayal Of America
JOHN W DEAN:
Conservatives Without Conscience and
Worse Than Watergate
SAMUEL R DELANY:
The Motion of Light In Water
THOMAS PAINE:
Age of Reason
GERTRUDE STEIN:
Autobiography of Alice B Toklas
MERLIN STONE:
When God Was A Woman
HOWARD ZINN:
A People's History of the United States
FICTION:
MARGARET ATWOOD:
The Handmaid's Tale
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO:
The Decameron
OCTAVIA BUTLER:
Lilith's Brood (aka Xenogenesis)
GEOFFREY CHAUCER:
The Canterbury Tales
THOMAS M DISCH:
One Hundred and Two H-Bombs and
Camp Concentration
UMBERTO ECO:
Baudolino
ESTHER M FRIESNER:
The Psalms of Herod and
The Sword of Mary
URSULA K LEGUIN:
The Lathe of Heaven and
The Left Hand of Darkness
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ:
Autumn of the Patriarch,
Love In the Time of Cholera, and
One Hundred Years of Solitude
J K ROWLING:
Harry Potter (especially books 4 through 7)
MARY DORIA RUSSELL:
The Sparrow and
Children of God
MELISSA SCOTT:
Dreaming Metal and
Dreamships
UPTON SINCLAIR:
The Jungle
GORE VIDAL:
Creation
KURT VONNEGUT:
Cat's Cradle,
Sirens of Titan, and
Slaughterhouse Five
ALICE WALKER:
The Color Purple and
The Temple of My Familiar
TOM WOLFE:
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Harry Potter.
Jayne County
John Dean
Larry Flynt
Amy Goodman
Harry Hay
Lady Bunny
Harvey Milk
Greg Palast
Helen Thomas