visiting free public insitutions, libraries, musuems, taking long bus rides or above ground train rides for inspiring scenery...digging on graffiti as always. photography, oral history, community produced film, counseling, soaking up sunshine whenever possible, music out the windows, animals, dreaming about all the places i want to see in my life and planning the ultimate road trip
dope down easy going people who are open minded fun loving
joni mitchell, treah, perfume, sin and space, poor man's whiskey, kate wolfe, portishead, nina simone, slum village, taj mahal, cat power, beatles, bright eyes, sebadoh, 80's jams, prince, mary j. blige, bob marley, radiohead, stevie wonder, al green, otis redding, jill scott, bjork, mos def, tupac, eels, rolling stones, cake, kopek, the boss, mana, sharikra, modest mouse, too short, billie holiday, thelonious monk, charles mingus, michael jackson, john legend, cody chestnut, bob dylan, van morrison, ben harper, E-40, elliot smith, jeff buckley, nick drake, postal service, etta james, aretha, patti labelle, white stripes, anything funky or anything involving a banjo or accordion
requiem for a dream, adaption, meeting people is easy : the documentary on radionhead, the hustler, dr. strangelove or how i learned to love the bomb, amelie, motorcycle diaries, the machinist, eulogy, sideways, march of the penguins, dukes of hazzard, sin city, the life aquatic, charlie and the cholocate factory, he got game, monsoon wedding, mi vie en rose, purple rain, sometimes in april, breakfast at tiffany's, million dollar baby, the magadeline sisters, the matchmaker, meet the fockers, crash, cool hand luke, zoolander, the big leboski, me you and everyone we know, dogtown and z boy's, good night and good luck, whale rider, city of god, view from the top, say anything, the last unicorn...keep in mind this is only a smattering of the many films i have watched enjoyed and still haunt me in some way
campus ladies, roseanne, in living color, law and order, daily show
the chronicles of narnia, the alchemist, the book of laughter and forgetting, report to greco, woman hollering, to kill a mockingbird, push, charlie and the cholocate factory, the posion wood bible, da vinci code, the book of sarah's, the red tent, the color purple (pretty much all alice walker books and essays), the hobbit, wind in the willows, in the night kitchen, where the wild things are...any and all poetry i can get my hands on.
my grandpa