(A Poem by Zen Master Ryokan.)
Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.
Stars and meadows,
twigs and rivers,
s p a c e,
COLLISIONS.
City lights,
late nights,
(... vodka);
Photography,
Music,
Art,
Love.
and lots of coffee.
(shins)
(spoon)
ALSO.
Beatles.
Beck.
Belle & Sebastian.
Coldplay.
Colin Hay.
Cure.
Dandy Warhols.
Datarock.
David Bowie.
Dire Straits.
Doors.
Foo Fighters.
Franz Ferdinand.
French Kicks.
Gorillaz.
Interpol.
Iron & Wine.
Jimi Hendrix.
Kings Of Convenience.
Led Zeppelin.
Lovemakers.
Modest Mouse.
Nirvana.
Pink Floyd.
Queen.
Radiohead.
Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Rolling Stones.
Rufus Wainwright.
Sex Pistols.
Simon & Garfunkle.
Smashing Pumpkins.
Sufjan Stevens.
Weezer.
Zero Seven.
ALSO.
The 25th Hour.
American Beauty.
Bowling For Columbine.
Charlotte's Web.
Chicago.
Darjeeling Limited.
Death At A Funeral.
Don Juan DeMarco.
Edward Scissorhands.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Fight Club.
Finding Neverland.
Garden State.
Gattaca.
Jarhead.
Lion King.
Lord of the Rings.
Lost Boys.
Matrix.
Moulin Rouge.
O Brother Where Art Thou.
Oliver Twist.
Pocahontas.
Pride And Prejudice.
Road To Perdition.
Schindler's List.
Science of Sleep.
Shawshank Redemption.
Thank You For Smoking.
To Kill A Mockingbird.
V For Vendetta.
ALSO.
Deadwood.
Friends.
South Park.
Weeds.
"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy": Douglas Adams
"Jane Eyre": Charlotte Brontë
"Robinson Crusoe": Daniel Defoe
"The Sound and the Fury": William Faulkner
"The Saskiad": Brian Hall
"The Poisonwood Bible": Barbara Kingsolver
"The Bean Trees" and "Pigs In Heaven": Barbara Kingsolver
"To Kill A Mockingbird": Harper Lee
"Love in the Time of Cholera": Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"One Hundred Years Of Solitude": Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Animal Farm": George Orwell
"Trickster's Choice" and "Trickster's Queen": Tamora Pierce
"His Dark Materials": Philip Pullman
"Harry Potter" (series): J.K. Rowling
"Of Mice And Men": John Steinbeck
"Lord of the Rings": J.R.R. Tolkien
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn": Mark Twain
"Fahrenheit 451": Oskar Werner