CURRENT MOON moon phases
pink gorilla suits, reading excessively, writing constipatedly, mixing metaphors, ecology, conservation biology, evolutionary biology, biology in general, dancing in inappropriate situations, dancing in appropriate situations, spiders, sun, big bright beautiful moons, crescent and gibbous moons, wilderness, walks and hikes, escapism, journals, purple and green, daydreaming, antique clothing, silver toe rings, swimming at night, swimming not at night, universal availability of birth control and abortions, preservation of bio- and cultural diversity, education, cultivating optimism, black cherry seltzer and vanilla seltzer, lazy days, self confident people for contrast, the eschewing of drugs and alcohol, other agoraphobics, other atheists, my adulterous love/hate relationship with modernity
I'd like to meet:
Ideally, I'd like to build an army of folks in gorilla suits to accost people who take shit too seriously.
Barring that, I'd like to meet at least one person willing to explore the possibility of traversing the suburbs while barely touching concrete or asphalt (inexpertly measuring the maps of coyotes and deer), who wouldn't be afraid to storm into shopping malls and sing loud songs or recite poetry dramatically. In the mall, we'd strategically place wrapped presents of empty beer bottles and grass clippings and hold giggling mad-dashing races through department stores, making faces at anyone who didn't understand we were only illustrating more blatantly than the shoppers the absurdity of modern existence. We'd wear clown noses and shower caps; we'd wear biohazard suits; we'd wear underwear outside our clothing.
Music:
Richard Thompson , Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Euros Childs, Richard James, Linda Thompson, Teddy Thompson, Fairport Convention, The Incredible String Band, Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Iris DeMent, Jerry Douglas, Joni Mitchell, Kate Rusby, Tori Amos, Bjork, David Bowie, Pulp, Jarvis Cocker, Bauhaus, Virgin Prunes, Gavin Friday, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Portishead, Underworld, Rasputina, The Pogues, Planxty, Dolores Keane, Nick Drake, Mississippi John Hurt, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison, Tom Waits, Warren Zevon, Indigo Girls, Super Furry Animals, Gruff Rhys, Catatonia, Neil Young, Toots and the Maytals, Billy Bragg, Regina Spektor, anyone singing when they don't know I'm listening, the random jamming of friends, etc.
Movies:
The Big Lebowski, Box of Moonlight, American Psycho, Oscar and Lucinda, Big Fish, Adaptation, Breakfast on Pluto, Velvet Goldmine, Ed Wood, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Disco Pigs, Donnie Darko, Sid and Nancy, Sling Blade, Vampire's Kiss, Rashomon, Smoke Signals, Barton Fink, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Tully, The Princess Bride, Legend of The Drunken Master, 'Manos': The Hands of Fate, Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Angels and Insects, My Summer of Love, A Life Less Ordinary, The Advocate (I don't like the American title), The Seventh Seal, and more!
Television:
Star Trek (Shatner style), Voltron, Quantum Leap, PeeWee's Playhouse, A-Team, You Can't Do That on Television, Knight Rider, Alf, Smurfs, Inspetor Gadget, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra: Princess of Power, Pound Puppies, Rainbow Brite, Transformers, Alien Nation, Golden Girls
Books:
Science magazine!,
Biology of Spiders!, dictionaries!
Also, books by: Margaret Atwood, Thomas Hardy, Kurt Vonnegut, Oscar Wilde, Irvine Welsh, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Sherman Alexie, Mary Oliver, Denise Levertov, James Merrill, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Rita Dove, Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward Abbey, Derrick Jensen, Edward O. Wilson, David Quammen, Some specific books: Cat's Eye, The Edible Woman, Oryx and Crake, Cat's Cradle, Sirens of Titan, 100 Years of Solitude, Jude The Obscure, Jitterbug Perfume, The Freeing of the Dust, Twelve Moons, American Primitive, A Language Older Than Words, The Diversity of Life, The Sixth Extinction, Of Wolves and Men, Desert Solitaire, Forest Primeval
(The list is meant to give a rough idea of what pleases me. I dig more and less than this.)
Heroes:
Rory Shock . Torgo. And members of order Araneae.
