music, movies, books, friends, rebels, tattoos, alternative thinking, alternative living, creative thinking, martial arts, being stupid, mud, playing in mud, playing with my mutt, cvalda. hiking, outdoors, midwestern alleys, comunity service, pages to prisoners, volunteer work, thrift stores, local business, stuff. and things. sciences, arts, physics, astronomy, the universe, the brain, psychology, sexuality, passion, intimacy, skinny dipping, writing, wind, sounds, audio recording, engineering, macs, physical affection, collective unconciousness, buddhism, compassion, discovery, exploration, science fiction, fantasy, unreality, reality, yin & yang, spectral, prisms, facets, complexities, comedy, wacky, goofy, bugs, deep sea exploration, randomness, the smell of rain, fun, things, fun things, more stuff, art - yoshitaka amano, salvidor dali stanley donwood,GAMES: katamari damacy, okami, shadow of the colossus, final fantasy III and VII, demon's crest, mario games, mario kart, super metroid, destroy all humans!, the sims, diablo, blackthorne, shadowrun, fallout, h.o.m.m., stuffffffffffff
I'd like to meet:
GOOD nice decent lifeforms, smart or dumb (if there's such a thing). MUSICIANS, mature people, immature people, extraterrestrials, artists, ANYONE sane and down to earth, harmless crazies, massage therapists/physical therapists for my selfish alleviating needs.
Music:
too much to list. currently: DeVotchKA! always: arvo part, (profound man = profound music) sigur ros,(they DEEPLY move me, no band compares) radiohead,(usurped by sigur ros, but we'll see how LP7 turns out!!) bjork,(creative genius), cat power, godspeed you black emperor!, mum, pixies, frank black, my morning jacket, wilco, blonde redhead, cornelius, portishead, modest mouse, the shins, the beatles, david bowie, pj harvey, nirvana, tori amos (mostly 'boys for pele') andrew bird, blackalicious, the flaming lips, rasputina, king biscuit time, aphonic, the beta band, sublime, mazzy star, bella neroux (miss murgatroid and petra haden), the elephants, sonic youth, chopin, prokofiev, bach, beethoven, cazwell tortoise, explosions in the sky, matmos, schubert, under byen, system of a down, kourosh zolani, fiona apple, magnetic fields, air, debussy, ravel, dead can dance, fly pan am, the cure, tricky, grieg, brahms, bartok, liszt, mozart, tchaikovsky, mychael danna, sparklehorse, interpol, mogwai, dresden dolls, smashing pumpkins, tom waits, hidden cameras, beck, badly drawn boy, lisa germano, outkast, blondie, johnny cash, rufus wainright, tenacious d, the doors, pink floyd, kristen hersh, boards of canada, violent femmes, throwing muses, the blow, ravi shankar, cocteau twins, missy elliott, debussy, t rex, cerberus shoal, donovan, mountain goats, vinny miller, paris combo, his name is alive, murder by death, nigel godrich, kourosh zolani, loreena mckennitt, enya (shut up!), r.e.m., diamanda galas, mt. gigantic, the impossible shapes, philip glass, muse, the white stripes, morcheeba, stereolab, lamb, massive attack, aphex twin, cibo matto, ani difranco, tangerine dream, the smiths, morrissey, gorillaz, moby, danny elfman, daft punk, coldplay, michael nyman, kronos quartet and more, more, more to fuck my ears!
Movies:
black snake moan, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, dark days, amadeus, 2001: a space odyssey, 8 1/2, 8 1/2 women, kill bill, y tu mama tambien, Pan's Labyrinth, the fountain, waking life, a scanner darkly, talk to her, team america, primer, brick, my beautiful laundrette, full metal jacket, kundun, chopper, pulp fiction, alien, i {heart} huckabees, wet hot american summer, palindromes, all about my mother,the heart of the world, russian ark, the last emperor, dogville, vertigo, northfork, house of yes, rushmore, audition, punch-drunk love, see the sea, blade runner, heaven, akira, ghost in the shell, fantastic planet, spirited away, suicide club, stacy, battle royale, beloved, pi, eyes wide shut, triplets of bellville, fight club, secretary, the piano teacher, bowling for collumbine, the celluloid closet, twin falls idaho, northfork, exotica, and so much more! kubrick, kubrick, kubrick, kurosawa, hitchcock, fellini, bergman, woody allen, peter greenaway, michel gondry, pt anderson, franois ozon, jan svankmajer, ang lee, wong kar-wai, zhang yimou, wes anderson, darren aronofsky, guy maddin, michael polish, robert altman, john cassavettes, jim jarmusch, david lynch, tom tykwer, harmony korine, hayao miyazaki, lars von trier, alejandro gonzlez irritu, alfonso cuarn, pedro almodvar, andrei tarkovsky, brothers quay, derek jarman, michael moore, spike jonze, krzysztof kieslowski, charlie kaufman, todd solondz, john waters, richard linklater, tim hope, juenet y caro, chris cunningham, fritz lang, scorsese, francis ford copola, ang lee, sophia copola, werner herzog, atom egoyan, peter jackson, ridley scott, takashi miike, david fincher, so much more....
Television:
first, TV is EVIL. however, these select shows (a tiny handful ... hehe) i love on dvd, and PBS/KCTS/public access is always the way to go! ~~~~~~ aeon flux, strangers with candy, six feet under, wonder showzen, south park, adult swim; harvey birdman, home movies, sealab 2021, space ghost, the brak show. the simpsons, kids in the hall, twin peaks, mr. show, daily show, invader zim, family guy, NOVA shows, oliver sacks: the mind traveler, bill nye, any ..ary about sciency things. yummmmmm! antiques roadshow, sister wendy beckett kicks ass! the two shows i currently watch on tv are 30 rock and heroes, not without some guilt of watching tv. but its the commercials that are the worst. brain poison. i mute them. as should you!!! muuute the poooosionnn...
Books:
currently reading: invisible man, kafka's short stories, kafka on the shore. i loved: siddhartha, the invisibles, everything is illuminated (NOT the movie), blindness, tale of the unknown island, slowly downward, galatea 2.2, beloved, johnny the homicidal maniac, squee, clavin and hobbes, the far side, maakies
Heroes:
stephen hawking, kubrick, righteous rebels, buddha, jesus (real or not) emotional-creative-fantasist-scientists, skeptic-mellow-realist-artists, most of the dalai lamas and probably ghandi. all the people i do not yet know of, or never will, that i'd consider heroes. hopefuly the human race, or some future derivative of us. people that spend their lives instilling productivity, exploration, hope, tollerance, and knowledge in other people. people that are themselves, and kind. people that are kind of themselves. kind of. no no, mostly. they mostly come at night ... mostly...
