Friends + family, great food, anime, comics and manga, movies, music, books and literature, artartart, TV, NPR, adultswim, sex, porn, global culture and languages, Buddhism, yoga, meditation, dreams, the oracular arts, kung fu, saints of all cultures, altruistic philanthropy, philosophy, physics, political action, debunking sociology, evolution, liberation and the end of suffering
I'd like to meet:
everyone, just not all at the same time, but most of all, it is my life's wish to one day meet His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama.
I Love the Whole World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5BxymuiAxQ
Romeo - Basement Jaxx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU4Y3A3oJRM
Death Proof vs. Faster Pussycat Kill Kill http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T86YAN2T-hs
Music:
Punk, indie, rock 50's-70', house, trance, jungle/D&B, metal, hip hop, jazz/big band, classical, reggae/dub/ska, reggae-tone/dance hall, J-Pop, bachata, some goth and screamo, and in between stuff like MIA, Octopus Project, My Toys Like Me, Cibo Matto, Lilly Allen, Tori Amos, Warren Zevon. I love OST's.
Movies:
Anime, martial arts, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, action/suspense, gangster, fictional biographical, cult classics, grindhouse/pulp, arthouse, stuff based on comic books, some westerns. Films by Tarantino, Godard, Kurosawa, Jeunet & Caro, Zhang Yimou, Wes Anderson, Scorsese. Absolute faves include Akira, Sid & Nancy, Dracula, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, I Heart Huckabees, Kung Fu Hustle, Tampopo, The Color Purple, Belly, Princess Mononoke, Kundun, Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men, Pi, Primer.
Television:
adultswim, HBO originals, Bravo reality shows, World's Strongest Man competitions, Discovery channel, and Japanese TV. I hate American Idol, and funny shows about pets. Absolute faves include Cowboy Bebop, Bleach, Metalocolypse, FLCL, Venture Brothers, TGTTM/TEASGJ.
Books:
Mags: Gourmet, Wired, Tricycle, Discovery.
Non-Fiction: political/sociological, physics, astronomy, art history, religious/spiritual (theory & text), books by the Dalai Lama, The Celestine Vision by James Redfield.
Comics/manga: Akira, Battle Angel Alita, Sandman, Batman, Sin City, X-Men, very moved by Maus, Persepolis, King Cat Classix.
Fiction: books by Neil Gaimen, Frank Herbet & son, Robert Heinlein, Douglas Adams, Amy Tan, Anne Rice, William S. Burroughs, Frank Miller. Absolute faves include Life of Pi by Yan Martel, American Gods by Neil Gaimen, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, Blood & Gold by Anne Rice, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman, Dune series by Frank Herbert, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Poetry: William Carlos Williams, Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare, Alan Ginsberg, Walt Whitman.
Heroes:
Siddartha Gautema, His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Paramahansa Yogananda, Avalokitesvara/Kuan Yin, Jesus + Mary, Joan d'Arc, Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron, Master Sheng Yat-sen, Bruce Lee, Karl Mark, Frida Kahlo, Mariko Mori, Katsuhiro Otomo, Hayao Miyazaki, Stephen Hawking, Ralph Nader, Al Gore, Ariana Huffington, Albert Einstein.
