playing with language, traveling, Iyengar yoga, writing, climbing trees, the window seat, urban decay, dancing my ass off, spending all day in the park, hot women with flasks, water flowing underground, going to museums alone, dark chocolate, sashimi, modern post-modern and japanese poetry, balancing health and hedonism, dancing on broken glass, getting sweaty, bruises, bellies, snitching nibbles while people cook for me, taking pictures of textured things, androgyny, passing all afternoon at an outdoor cafe, the color brown, old man cardigans, line breaks, conservation, going someplace i have never been, thunderstorms, sekt, rhinestones, knee socks, street food, cream pies, stilton: king of the cheeses, appreciating my family, post-rave, post-vegan, live in the now, can't remember shit, dirty techno, eating not cooking, anti-domestic, the power of words, dancing all night and all morning, weekly outdoor markets, rock climbing, documentation, pranayama, orange stoli and soda, bikes and feet and trains not cars, maps, that thin blue light that signifies transition, running, organic and sustainable food, good soundsystems, dirty warehouses, falling down, urban planning, lifelong insomnia, laughing at myself
Rowdy but grounded people. Fellow enablers. Androgynous beings. Good cooks (I'll bring the wine). People who collected rocks as children, and still sometimes pick them up.
Autechre, Nobukazu Takemura, Basic Channel, acid house, Drop Bass, Aphex Twin, Johnny Cash, Dan Bell, Thomas Brinkmann, Squarepusher, Bob Dylan, Luciano, Mike Ink, Rhythm & Sound, The Pixies, A Tribe Called Quest, Concrete Blonde, old man house, Bogdan Raczynski, Atomly, Stunt Rock, Primus, Coil, Yo La Tengo, dub, Eliot Lipp, Plug, Patsy Cline, Nasenbluten, Led Zeppelin, Monolake, Elliott Smith, Dettinger, dubstep, Bjork, Built to Spill, Moodyman, Pole, Doormouse, Ricardo Villalobos, Jane's Addiction, Theo Parrish, Gas, Janis Joplin, jungle from '94-'96
Jarmusch, Kurosawa, Faces, The Graduate, Ghost in the Shell, Wong Kar-Wai, Belle de Jour, 400 Blows, The Big Lebowski, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blade Runner, Brazil, Seven Samurai, The Shining, Christopher Guest, Super Troopers, Yojimbo
ST:TNG, Six Feet Under, Twin Peaks, Sealab, Lost
Anne Carson, Hamlet, Jeanette Winterson, Basho, Dune (books 1, 2 and 6), One Hundred Years of Solitude, Herman Hesse, Seamus Heaney, Marianne Moore, Salman Rushdie, Charles Bukowski, Gertrude Stein, Haruki Murakami, early Jorie Graham, Kurt Vonnegut, Li-Young Lee, Light on Yoga, Paul Celan, W.S. Merwin, Toni Morrison, Henry Miller, Middlesex, Mark Doty, No More Prisons, Looking Around, Adrienne Rich, Cosmicomics