Modern art, classical music, politics, astronomy, health and nutrition. History, baseball, architecture. Painting, wine, baking. Native Americans, Gardening, oceanography, journalism. Dream interpretation, mysticism, the New York Times. The Amazon River and its surrounding rain forests. Female anatomy, anything Italian, baby boomers.
I wish a was a trapper I would give thousand pelts To sleep with pocahontas And find out how she felt In the morning on the fields of green In the homeland weve never seen.- Neil Young.I would like to meet other artists, writers, explorers and adventurers; people with something to say. Jim Morrison in his hey day; a young Walt Disney; Dreamers, actors, rockers, sensual women who write erotic poetry. Younger people with old souls; older people with joi d'vivre. Ed Ricketts, Roger Revelle; Jacques Cousteau. Ordinary people from other countries. Culinary adventurers who buy new spices every few weeks and love to cook ethnic food. Georgia O'Keefe, Tina Madoti, Annais Nin. Book store owners, ranchers trust fund brats. The ancestors of those who held Spanish land grants in the American West. The great, great grand daughters of Shoshone and Black Foot warriors. Hippies from the 60s. dot.com retirees. More Australians, Brazilians and Swedes. Retired and reflective punk rockers. Women from the South. Surfers. Famous people from history.
Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Miles Davis, Hank Williams, Joni Mitchell, Andres Segovia, the Gypsy Kings, the Beatles, Neil Young, Brian Eno, Ray Orbison, Celcilio & Kapono, Enya, David Bowie, Earth Wind and Fire, Astrud Gilberto, Foo Fighters, JJ Cale, Jimmy Reed, Dave Brubeck, the Beach Boys, Linda Ronstadt, the Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, Smashing Pumpkins, Bare Naked Ladies, the Grateful Dead, Sinead O'Connor, Duran Duran, Earl Munroe, Tears for Fears, Pearl Jam, Queen, Dixie Chicks, Jim Morrison and the Doors, David Sanborn, James Taylor, Billie Holiday, my teenage neighbor's garage band...
The Mystery of Picasso. Anything by Fellini. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Crash. Gladiator. Raising Arizona. I Walk the Line. Raging Bull. The Godfather. A Fish Called Wanda. Silent Running. Unforgiven. Anything by Werner Herzog. Wizard of Oz. A Clockwork Orange. High Plains Drifter. Most anything by John Waters. Dr. Strangelove. Anything by Stanley Kubrick. Rumblefish. Drugstore Cowboy. Something About Mary.
All kinds of books, and lots of them. Coffee table books with beatiful two-page spreads of breath-taking scenic beauty or photo essays of wild animals from the Serengetti Plains of Africa; books about early aviation; travel journals chronicling the nomads of Western Mongolia or the rainforests of Papua New Guinea. Books about trains; books about architechture; books with large pictures of beautiful and exotic gardens. Cookbooks; old magazines from the 1940s and 1950s. Books about movies and actors. Lots of books. Pretty much anything by John Steinbeck.
The Chinese guy at Tianamen Square who ran in front of a tank. The hippie in the 1960s who stuffed flowers down the rifle barrels of National Guardsmen. Ronnie Earl. Jerry Garcia. Skip Frye. Sacajawea. My grandfather. Any single mom with two or more kids.