humanism, documentary filmmaking, screenwriting, playwrighting, theater, veganism, politics, philosophy, living experimentally, literature, creative flow, economics and political economy, The New York Review of Books, skepticism, the open road, opera, meditation, classical music, ambient music, art, drawing, transhumanism, techno-progressivism, jazz, World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, flying airplanes (have license), futurism, book stores, Free Inquiry magazine, Critical Review journal, art supply stores, fashion, longevity, activism, skepticism, creativity, books, continual personal evolution, the cultivation of complexity, activism, changing the world
Those seeking to make the world a better place. Explorers, creators, thinkers, activists. Those with large inner worlds.Specifically: James Hughes, Marina de Van, Alexander Cockburn, Isa Gordon, Ray Kurzweil, Rie Rasmussen, Greg Palast, Fiorella Terenzi, Russell Jacoby, Saul Landau, Emily Carter, Floria Sigismondi, Gar Alperovitz, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mike Malloy, Tony Judt, Ovidie, Clifford Pickover, David Twohy, Steven Spielberg, Gregg Araki, Francis Fukuyama, You?
Wagner, Puccini, Combustible Edison, Holst, David Bowie, Ravel, Debussy, Robert Rich, Chopin, Mazzy Star, ambient (especially dark), Mazzy Star, Keston and Westdal, Portishead, David Bowie, The Cure, Pat Metheny, traditional jazz, big band swing
Amores Perros, Stalker (Tarkovsky), Saving Private Ryan, The Third Man, Sunset Boulevard, The Maltese Falcon, Sin City, The Best Years of Our Lives, Heat, Dead Man, Tales From Gimli Hospital, Les Invasions Barbares, The Matrix, Mysterious Skin, Tipping the Velvet, The Legend of Leigh Bowery, Seed, David Lynch (you name it), Institute Benjamenta, Donnie Darko, Wings of Desire, Takashi Miike, Munich, Casablanca, Alien, Army of Darkness, Memento, Requiem For A Dream, The Yes Men, The Seventh Seal, Ikiru (Kurosawa),
The Simpsons, BookTV, C-Span. Most weeks I don't watch any TV at all.
Proust/Development as Freedom (Amartya Sen)/Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Carl Sagan)/Thais (Anatole France)/ Nietzsche(everything)/Bertrand Russell (everything)/Robert Walser/Fathers and Sons (Turgenev)/The Clock of the Long Now (Stewart Brand)/ Cass Sunstein (everything)/J.G. Ballard/Samuel Delaney/Voltaire/Mario Bunge/Edgar Allan Poe (everything)/academic journals/Jean Genet/Stanislaw Witkiewicz/Eugene Ionesco/Marcus Aurelius/Ulysses (James Joyce)
Hero worship compromises the critical mind. Become your own ideal.