the rhythm of life as transmitted through dance and music, indigenous world culture, bodies, souls, bodies with soul, travel:journeys inner and outer, sculpture, drawing, painting, maskmaking, cello, percussion, rare perfumes, orchids, organic gardening, exotic food, holistic health practises, wood carving, tatoo designs, languages, desert sunsets and mountain sunrises, dreams, history, philosophy, poetry, architecture, eco-design and perma culture, making things out of what has been thrown away, bones, deer antlers, feathers, colored rocks, rivers, metaphors, synchronicities and at the core of it all: sex
those who turn dreams into action
my favorite music was the other night live drums in a zocalo in mexico...i am always crazy about the work of the native composers i am working with, ( inclduing quetzal guerrero, robert mirabal, jim wilson's TULKU, robbie robertson, soni moreno of ulali, edgardo moreno, matthew andrae, philip glass (UAKTI), jan garbarek, tuvan throat singers, sami reindeer herding songs, ariel ramirez' missa criolla, ayuhuasca healing songs of the sipibo people ) also listening these days to osunlade, louis vega, sade, carlos santana, lena's stranger on earth, guapale, ursula(spoken word), lila downs, jazzanova, virginia rodriguez, olivia tailfeathers, pamyua, lauryn hill, susana baca, songs from liquid days, mendelsohnn's songs without words, roberta flack, gipsy kings, mercedes sossa, anything of pedro martinez esp with yerba buena...
Favorite Movies: atanarjuat, latcho drom, carlos saura's flamenco version of carmen, kama sutra, rivers and tides, once were warriors, the legend of suryothai, himalaya, whale rider, rabbit proof fence, any of baz luhrmann: romeo and juliet, moulin rounge, strictly ballroom, les enfants du paradis, hero, baraka, camille claudel, girlfight, frida
what's a television?
i love reading, some of the books that are around my house that i have loved: BONES, love medicine+tracks+tales of burning love(novels by louise erdrich), shape shift - poetry by my friend sherwin bitsui, GUNS GERMS AND STEEL, the earth shall weep, the alphabet versus the goddess, new moon travel guide to italy or brasil or oaxaca or british columbia or morocco or istahnbuhl or barcelona or new zealand or tibet or cuba etc..., the magic of dance by margot fonteyn, pochahontas bio by paula gunn allen
the humble quiet ones who have believed that they could change the world by their own choices and actions