Community and Economic Development, Spiritual Revolution, Mysticism, radical enlightening ideals, the idea that the I, we, us, them are all one and the same, less speech and more progressive concrete action, social activism, economic justice, elimination of the extremes of wealth and poverty, volunteering, non-profits, working with youth, working to combat liver disease, and fueling the meditative mind. (and all that's the light stuff)
Reading, a firm believer in discerning thoughtful education...not the kind that leads to rickets of the mind, but the one that elevates and opens doors or portals to visionary expansive thoughts or ideals...or just "good times"...
tutoring guitar, of course playing guitar, keyboards, bass guitar, listening to music, watching bands play(both good and bad, there something to learn from both), writing poetry...not the maddening "angst love-riddled-limpy-kind-of-verse", but the good stuff
watching NFL action...and the usual sporting activities...B-ball, pool, ping pong, dodge ball, teether(spl?) ball, etc...
vegetarianism...
mainly friends.
U2, Coldplay, Green Day, Isis, Red Sparrowes, Pelican, Mastodon, Cave In, the Smiths, Morrissey, the Cure, Death Cab for Cutie, Led Zepplin, the Beatles, Metallica(def. only older stuff), A Perfect Circle, Tool, the Mars Volta, at-the-drive-in, Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave(mainly 'cause of Mr. Morello), AFI, REM, Journey, Kansas, Angels and Airwaves, Rush, Live, Bjork, Depeche Mode, Soundgarden, Pearljam, Alkaline Trio, KRS1, N.W.A., Public Enemy, Run DMC, and Bahamadia...I digress...Coltrane, Dizzy, Mr. Monk, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Jim Hall, Robert Johnson(Delta Blues)...Stanley Clarke, John Scofield, Acoustic Alchemy, B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Wes Montgomery...
All the President's Men, Good Night and Good Luck, The Constant Gardner, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Fire and Ice, Basket Case(Preston's recommendation), Donnie Darko, Casino, Saw, Sin City, Jaws, Revenge of the Sith, Office Space, 300, and an obscure film-the Messenger
and an even obscurer film The Backyard of Baronness Brenda Backer...
I don't own a T.V. (strange I know, but I love it.)
The Advent of Divine Justice, the Dawn Breakers, People's History of the United States, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Common Sense and Rights of Man by Thomas Paine, Walden and Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Nature and other writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Dhammapada, the Tao Te Ching, Bushido - The way of the Samurai, The Way to God by Gandhi, The Conference of the Birds by Attar, Essential Rumi, The Gift by Hafiz, Thoughts in Solitude by Thomas Merton-(thanks much Sia for reminding me!)Freedom, Love, and Action by J. Krishnamurti--
The bibliography of M. Gandhi, and the autobiographies of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz...I believe that the light of truth can come from all kinds of sources(not just mine or yours)...
My father, grandfather, and grandmother...Aqa Muhammad Ali(Baha'i' youth - surname Anis), Wangari Maathai (an exceptional woman)...and several others...alive and eternally living...