Where to begin. . . I love to play with food, I love to play with sound, I love to play with my girlfriend. I love to ride my bike, especially in the rain! Reading anything about music, food, science, religion, nature and philosophy. I love horror movies, cheesy or without cheese. I love to Eat great food. I love to drink great wine, whiskey, and beer. Dinner parties and sleep overs, I love when I realize that I am doing exactly what I want to do.
Every time I meet someone new I always tell myself, "I sure am glad I met that person.†We are all particles bouncing off of each other exchanging energy so we may continue to travel on, I enjoy exchanging energies with my randomly placed fellow organic life forms, so I'll just keep doing that.
Music is the way I meditate, I must listen to music EVERY day. I especially like it first thing in the morning (like sex). If I go too long without creating any of my own, I start to feel stagnant and this will reflect onto other pieces of my reality. For some I may not have to explain the sensation of release, but I will summarize by saying: I receive a great feeling of enlightenment when I can transfer what I hear, and decipher from the synaptic swarms in my noodle bowl, into magnetic energy which, following the laws of circular behavior-pattern theory, will re-enter the noodle bowl and merge with the prior to form an evolved version of itself. Without music, or the ability to create it, I would be sitting in a padded cell somewhere asking my guardians for a plastic cup that I could press against the floor with my ear and possibly hear grumbled mash of the lower frequency wavelengths rising up from the levels below me. Now listening to, Robbie Robertson, Amorphis, Strapping Young Lad, Steve Reich, Rotting Christ, Sentenced, It's always shifting.
I have a problem, I like too many movies to list here. so for now, again, I will type in a few movies that I fancy. Curse of the Golden Flower, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (old and new), PI, Shadow Magic, Fearless, The Descent, Slither, Goonies, What the Bleep do we Know? Jesus Camp--- scarey movie. Many more of course.
Just a few: Old Cartoons (e.g. Rocky and Bullwinkle, Flinstones, Underdog, etc.) South Park, Futurama, Family Guy, Simpson’s, Iron Chef, Dinner Impossible, actually, anything on Food network. National Geographic channel, History channel . . . I'll watch anything that keeps my brain tingling.
This is Your Brain on Music, The Devil's Picnic, It's Here Now, Are You?, Be Here Now, Hyperspace, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Meaning of it All, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Charcuterie, The Professional Chef, The French Laundry, Larousse Gastronomique, Escoffier, What Einstein Told His Cook, On Food and Cooking, Ocean of Sound, Siddhartha, The Soft Machine, After Death, Culinary Artistry, Hungry Planet, Garde Manger, Fast Food Nation, The Real Frank Zappa Book, Hong Kong and China Gas Chinese CookBook, Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid.
My Mother, Didi, Chameleon, Eva, Auguste Escoffier, Aron Ralston, who/whomever designed my brain to work the way it does. Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, Peter Tagtgren and anything chaotic.