music, literature, art, psychology, balance, irony, poetics, energetic studies, revolution, politics, tattoos, randomness.
people capable of challenging me.
.. the allman brothers band, the grateful dead, air, the beatles, smashing pumpkins, pink floyd, widespread panic, tosca, koop, broken social scene, the notwist, bob dylan, badly drawn boy, american analogue set, aphex twin, ghost of monkshood, octopus project, stars, stellastar, apples in stereo, the toadies, pete yorn, damien rice, underworld, portishead, the beatie boys, afi, green day, boxcar racer, nirvana, jimi hendrix, the faint, m.i.a., muse, blur, nas, explosions in the sky, godspeed! you black emporer, the koreans, the misfits, placebo, beta band, ani difranco, nick drake, dave matthews, tori amos, the clash, david bowie fiona apple, pink floyd, a tribe called quest, andrew bird, beck, architecture in helsinki sun ra, rage against the machine, zero 7, jem, alkaline trio dntel, radiohead, black crowes, thursday, the album leaf, the walkmen, weezer, poe, afi, the cure, fifteen, ben harper, anti-flag, the transplants, jewel, deathcab for cutie, pedro the lion, the damnwells, ratdog, postal service, elefant, the flaming lips, dj shadow, fugazi, hot water music, interpol, kmfdm, lou reed and the velvet underground, public enemy, rancid, the unicorns, islands, nine inch nails, underworld, american analogue set, oakenfold, digweed, the railroad earth, string cheese incident, the pixies, willie nelson, america, ravi shankar, john lennon, james taylor, the fraternity of man, ms. jones soda, bing crosby, dean martin, john denver, wu-tang clan.
.. lord of the rings series, anything wes anderson or quentin tarintino do. traffic. fight club. requiem for a dream. it's a wonderful life. the breakfast club. life is beautiful. ringu. session 9. american history x. death to smoochie. insomnia. contact. the science of sleep. zeitgeist.
...makes you dumb.
.. jack kerouac, allen ginsberg, william s. burroughs, joseph campbell, edgar allen poe, bram stoker, e.e. cummings, friedrich nietzsche charles bukowski, michel foucault, carl jung, thomas szasz, george orwell, thich nhat hahn, carl jung, jrr tolkien, cs lewis, john steinbeck, aldous huxley...anything on mythology/religion, beat poetry, stream of consciousness.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.