curiousity, travel, exploring, culture(s), hiking, biking; watching and listening - people, not just films/music; theatre, art, kayaking, design, architecture, art, weather, smell.
I'd like to meet:
who are you? where have you been? where are you going? are you experienced? anyone with answers to the above, would be a fine start.art/music/design/film/literature business contacts welcomed.
Music:
wake with a song. whistle into the wind. sing at the top of your lungs while riding a motorcyle in the middle of nowhere. the yo-yo ma take on ennio morricone's soundtracks for sergio leone are amazing. particularly track 12, from the climax of the good, the bad, the ugly. listen to that cello saw away.in semi-order of my listening awareness: beatles, stones, johnny cash, chuck berry, ravi shankar, kinks, who, lep zep, rob't johnson, leadbelly, bowie, t-rex, ccr, zappa, ny dolls, roxy music, marley, eno, hassell, waits, the modern lovers, skatellites, specials, madness, mission of burma, pistols, costello, u2, clash, bauhaus, souxsie, anything with that burundi beat, t-heads, televison, joy division/new order, the cure, gang of four, buzzcocks, the dead boys, did i say echo and the bunnymen? echo and the bunnymen. don walser. don cherry. don knotts (just seeing if you were paying attention) hank williams, robyn hitchcock/softboys/et al, dream syndicate, sonic youth, joujouka from northern morroco, dervish and trance musics of any kind, nirvana, jane's addiction, dead can dance, yo la tengo, beck, steve earle, lucinda williams, nusrat fatah ali khan; pape & cheikh, talvin singh, abib koite, manu chao, rachid taha, transglobal underground, asian dub fondation, radiohead, swim team, sigur ros, portishead, coldplay, rice, wilco, japancakes, dj shadow, flaming lips. LCD soundstytem. le tigre, phantom planet, rilo kiley and charles aznavour. nick cave's soundtrack to 'the proposition' was brilliant.rickenbachers and cellos and stratocasters and dobros and bagpipes and sitars and kotos and gamelans and harmonicas and ouds and mandolins and fingersnapping. paul mccartney/dave allen/peter hook/bill laswell on bass. ringo and ustad alla rakha on drums.
Movies:
Austin Film Society; alamo drafthouse; QTfest; casablanca; the wild bunch; the battle of algiers; the good, the bad, the ugly (yes, and once upon a time in mexico); lawrence of arabia; claire's knee; el mariachi; it's a wonderful life; whale rider; dead man; black robe; matewan; gangs of new york; before sunset; from russia with love; mary poppins; lost in translation; you can't take it with you; the 400 blows (and the rest of the doinel series); the seven samurai/magnificent seven; fistful of dollars/yojimbo; kill bill. truffault, eastwood, linklater, malick, kurosawa, bunuel, almodovar, rohmer, kubrick, the triune of sayles|demme| jarmusch, bogart....&tc. &tc.
Television:
tom verlaine, richard lloyd, if you get my drift, and if you do, good. 24, bbc news, jim leher, face the nation, too much for my own good. no cable, thank god.
Books:
bowles. homer. naguib mahfouz. dr seuss. mcarthy. nin. miller. emerson. franklin. kafcamusartre. zen and the art of archery. sheltering sky. the odessey. sneeches and other stories. where the wild things are. aristotle on ethics. the carpet wars: from kabul to baghdad, a ten-year journey along ancient trade routes; zuñi, writings of the first anthropologist to ever live with his subjects; a 19th-century paper called god eating: a study in christianity & cannibalism; a year, with swollen appencies / brian eno; native planters in old hawaii: their life, lore, and environment; la‘au hawai‘i: traditional Hawaiian Uses of Plants; guns, germs and steel: the fates of societies; the age of reason. art, design, history, bio, theology, sex, culture(s), film, travel guides, photography. blah blah blah
Heroes:
mom, dad, rebecka, robin, lennon, che, the mahatma, mlk...the usual suspects. anyone who has toughed it out and made it out the other side.
