Esse est percipi.
Music, being, living, breathing, thinking, biking, hiking, walking, talking, drinking good beer, whiskey, creating, cats, snowboarding, getting ridiculous tattoos, dreaming, people watching, running, scarves, scissors, pens, pencils, climbing, urban exploration, adventures, misadventures, days off, reading, laying in bed stoned out of my mind listening to records, scoring free stuff, delegating responsibilities, watching videos of people doing stupid things and making fun of them.
People who are good to themselves and each other.
The sound of the demise of civilization. Clicks and beeps and fluctuations in the atmosphere.And all things metal.
Anything by Takashi Miike or Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Asian horror, campy horror, B horror, foreign horror, Mockumentary, Dry British Comedy, Strange movies without much dialogue, 70s post apocolyptic films.
Desperate Housewives, Dexter, Six Feet Under, Heroes
Any and everything mental health and criminal justice related. Haruki Murakami, Kurt Vonnegut (RIP); "All the President's Men" - Bob Woodward, "The Great Gatsby" - F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky", "Hearts in Atlantis" - Steven King. Current Read: "The Lucifer Principle" - Phillip Zimbardo, "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman" - Haruki Murakami, Chemistry and Bio texts.
"The 'futures' and 'careers' for which American students now prepare are for the most part intellectual and moral wastelands. This chrome-plated consumers' paradise would have us grow up to be well-behaved children. But an important minority of men and women coming to the front today have shown they will die rather than be standardized, replaceable, and irrelevant." - Mario Savio