graphic arts/design. painting. reading. bowling. cooking/baking. guinness. scotch. sustainable agriculture- sustainable everything, really. shoes, politics... & more. much more. but not too much more.
bathroom theologians and fortune cookie philosophers. and ninjas. real ones.
i gravitate toward jazz or acoustic.
and i dig electronically orchestrated music.
but you might catch me bobbin' my head
to some rhymes and good beats.
[cause i get down with that too]
the royal tenenbaums (anything wes anderson). run lola run. no country for old men. adaptation. dream with the fishes. roman holiday. being john malkovich. magnolia. usual suspects. princess and the warrior. love actually. amelie. the bicycle thief. muholland drive. pulp fiction. empire of the sun. the jerk.
i find a pleasant zen from my time with the family guy and the simpsons but i attempt to keep the brain candy to a minimum.
Haruki Murakmi.
I haven't read any book since finishing the last of his novels. I'm not sure if I'll find anything as... I like it. It is most good.
Nietschze, Jack Kerouac, Isabelle Allende, Hunter S. Thompson, Alan Ginsberg, Chuck Palahniuk, Jared Diamond, Ayn Rand, Emily & Charlotte Bronte, George Orwell, Franz Kafka, Ray Bradbury, William S. Burroughs, Pablo Neruda, David Sedaris, Tom Robbins, Kurt Vonnegut jr., Dostoevsky Noam Chomsky, Margaret Atwood, Jeanette Winterson, Sylvia Plath, Anais Nin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Proust... these are a few of my favorite reads.
"A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeline L'Engel is still one of my favorites.
if i ever had anything close to a hero, it would be this man.