Mountains, the Sun, the Stars, Patterns, bring me coffee or tea, the smell of tomato vines & cucumbers, engrams, mass delusions, the collective unconscious/consciousness, uncompromised art, reading, writing, my husband.
The Isadorables.
and the Little Twin Stars, Lala & Kiki
The best music is when you're walking along a river far far away from any other human, just listening to the water flow, the ospreys cry, the wind shake the leaves in the trees, the sound of dirt crunching under your feet, and your soft gentle ecstatic thoughts reflecting it all back.
But I dig these cats too: My Bloody Valentine, The Stooges, Can, Eno, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Syd Barrett, Swell Maps, Cocteau Twins, Spacemen 3, Silver Apples, Soft Machine, 13th Floor Elevators, Cluster, Harmonia, Palace Brothers, João Gilberto, Chrome/Helios Creed, Big Black, Faust, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, The JB's, Joy Division, New Order, Public Image Limited, Nurse with Wound, The Legendary Pink Dots, Swans, Whitehouse, Coil, Death in June, Psychic TV, Current 93, Neu!, Ravi & Anoushka Shankar, OOIOO, Boredoms, Acid Mothers Temple, Dinosaur Jr., Mazzy Star, Galaxie 500, The Clientele, Labradford, Television, Richard Hell, The Buzzcocks, Gang of Four, Wire, The Clash, The Specials, Lee Perry, Fred Anderson, Miles, Coltrane, Mingus, Hutchinson, Dolphy, Shorter, Sanders, Jarmon, Sun Ra, Brotzmann, Vandermark, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Beyonce, Steve Reich, the Kinks, The Beatles, The Doors, The Ramones, Naked Raygun, Rollins, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Animal Collective, Donovan, John Fahey, Capleton, Anthony B, Mos Def, Earatik Statik, old skool hip hop (Tribe, Digable, DelaSoul, DJ Premier...), ragga dub, dancehall, drum'n'bass, Wolf Eyes & all that noise, the Torti & Topes, Dave's music... Dave's madman music...
Camus, Vonnegut, Nietzsche, Bataille, Mirbeau, Frankl, Joseph Suglia, V.S. Ramachandran, Heidegger, Kirkegaard, Kundera, Lao Tzu, Kerouac, Burroughs, Corso, W.C. Williams, Ginsberg, Snyder, McClure, Yeats, Rimbaud, Eluard, Fante, Mary Gaitskill, Elizabeth Smart, Carver, J.G. Ballard, Palahnuik, Terrance McKenna, Aleister Crowley, Alan Watts, Carl Gustav Jung, Simone de Beauvoir, André Breton, Tristan Tzara, Zola, Dostoevsky, Dickens, Dickenson, Proust, Nabokov, Tolstoy, Goethe, Rousseau, Beckett, Voltaire, Poe, Cummings, Marquez, Huxley, Hesse, Norton Juster, Madeleine L'Engle, Kenneth Grahame, Feynman, Einstein, D.H. Lawrence, Tibor Fischer, Philip K. Dick, Irvine Welsh, Donleavy, J.K. Toole, von Masoch, de Sade, Lautréamont, Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller, Bukowski, Brautigan, Thoreau, Whitman, Warhol, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Miles Davis, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Kurt Gödel, Shakespeare, Pauline Réage, Dr. William Moulton Marston, Cervantes, Isadora Duncan!
Artists
Ivan Albright, Mari Eastman, Nils-Udo, Andy Goldsworthy, Brian Froud, Robert Smithson, Lee Bontecou, Alexander Calder, Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, Raymond Salvatore Harmon, Basquiat, Mark Ryden, Hashiguchi Goyo, Katinka Matson, Juan Miro, Harold Sohlberg, Tsugouharu Foujita, Matta, Paul Delvaux, Peter Blume, Joel-Peter Witkin, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, Francisco José de Goya, Giorgio de Chirico, Fuseli, Caspar David Friedrich, Gustave Doré, Francois Boucher, Ivan Aivazovsky, Bouguereau, Pierre-Auguste Cot, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Oscar Monet, John William Waterhouse, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Edvard Munch, M.C. Escher, Auguste Rodin, Henry Miller, Henry Darger, Jim Trainor, Man Ray, Michael Gard, Michael Eckerman, Dan Flavin, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Maxfield Parrish, Dali, Picasso, DaVinci, Charles Eames, Busby Berkeley, George Clinton, Sun Ra, Charlie Chaplin... and of course, Harry G. Peter.
Passion. Bravery. Frailty. Suffering. Perseverance.