I need peace, so I seek it. However, once I get it, and rest in it awhile, I'll be ready to get loud and crazy again ... and so it goes in cycles. Peaceful pursuits at the moment: Lying in cool green grass on a blue-sky-fluffy-cloud day. Oboes. Really large spaces, indoor and outdoor. Self-hypnosis. EFT. Steve Martin's Art Collection. Creator and Creation. Hyacinth, Patchouli, Magnolia and Honeysuckle. My children. Photography. "Short walks on concrete at arm's length from others." Good wine, but better champagne.
Home Schooling. Un Schooling. Love. Justice. Buildings. Flowers. Air. Field Trips. People. Places. Things. Words. Animals, Vegetables, Minerals. Rock, Paper, Scissors. Nouns, Verbs, and Reverb. Monkeys.
Road Trips with Trippy Road People.
Health - see www.westonprice.org. Raw Dairy. Ancient Eating. Non-Factory Farming. Pastured and Grassfed Meat. Cultured Vegetables. Fermenting. Gourmet Cooking. Indian Food. Sushi.
Climbing Stone Mountain. International Market on Belmont Boulevard in Nashville. The old days at Bongo Java. Sculpture. High Museum of Art. Quantum Physics. Good Sex.
Favorite Quotes:
"You may be right, but if you're rude, you're wrong." - Joel Osteen, Texas Philosopher
"A home is not dead but living and like all living things, must obey the laws of nature by constantly changing." - Carl Larsson, Swedish Artist
"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted." - Mae West, Hollywood Philosopher
I'd like to meet:
Most everyone except mean people.
Music:
Rock/Pop- David Bowie, Joanna Newsom, ThE BeAtLeS, Deathcab For Cutie, Coldplay, Allman Brothers, Zombies, Frou Frou, Lulu, U2, Yes, Seal, The Cure, Gwen Stefani, Carole King, Bob Dylan, Todd Rundgren, Kraftwerk, Chrissie and The Pretenders, Blind Faith, Dido, The Mamas & the Papas, King Crimson, Folk Implosion, Sean Lennon, Talking Heads Air, Madness, Steely Dan, Elvis Costello Get Happy LP, THENEWNO2, Cream, The Go-Go's, Traffic Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys, Maria Muldaur, early Loggins and Messina, Dusty Springfield, Brian Eno, Devo Gut Feeling, and early Randy Newman...
...AND Roxy Music (see video below)
... AND The B-52s Give Me Back My Man (true performance art) - must watch below.
Jazz- Miles Davis, instrumental Frank Zappa, George Duke, Herbie Hancock, Mahavishnu Orchestra, John McLaughlin, Joni Mitchell Hejira, McCoy Tyner, Bjork (I say she's jazz!), Billy Cobham, Flora Purim, Return to Forever, Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea, Weather Report, Jean Luc Ponty, the Stan Lassiter Group (w/Costo Davis, Randy Bowles & Mark Tallent).
R&B Soul- Smokey Robinson, Destiny's Child, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin Rock Steady, Sly & the Family Stone, Roberta Flack Where Is The Love, Marvin Gaye, Earth, Wind & Fire That's The Way Of The World, Curtis Mayfield.
Photo courtesy of Johnny Hollywood!
Americana- Graham Nash, Barefoot Jerry, 70s Eagles, Mindy Smith, Pure Prairie League, Gram Parsons, Matraca Berg, Buffalo Springfield, several Cash & Carter Family configurations, Deana Carter, Don Gibson, early Dan Fogelberg, early Pam Tillis, Neil Young, Poco, Elton John & Bernie Taupin Tumbleweed Connection, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, Hank Williams, Sr., Jason and the Nashville Scorchers.
Favorite Local Radio Stations- Georgia Tech WREK 91.1, and Georgia State University 88.5
Movies:
My Friend Totoro, Laurel Canyon, The Family Stone, U.S. vs. John Lennon, Something's Gotta Give, Batman Begins, The Secret, The Player (Altman), Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson), What the Bleep Do We Know?, A Hard Days Night, Grace of My Heart, Shrek3, All About Eve, Drop Squad (Spike Lee), Last Holiday, Banger Sisters, Far From Heaven (Julianne Moore), A Room With A View (Helena Bonham Carter), Austin Powers, Amelie, Grave of the Fireflies, Smoke Signals, Walk The Line, Better Off Dead, The General (Buster Keaton), To Sir With Love, Dead Poet's Society, The Aquatic Life of Steve Zissou, Tea With Mussolini, Tootsie, The Philadelphia Story (Cary Grant at his best), One Fine Day, Almost Famous, The Pianist, most Woody Allen films, Adam's Rib, The Station Agent, The Desk Set, That Thing You Do, Royal Tennenbaums, Hope Floats, Jerry Maguire, Diane Keaton's Heaven, Chocolat, LA Story, Enchanted April, Constant Gardener, Anastasia (animated), Shawshank Redemption, Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, Alladin, Mulan (Director Barry Cook), Forrest Gump, Sweet Home Alabama, I Am David, Legally Blonde 1 & 2, Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh!), Anchorman, Bruce Almighty, Babette's Feast, Zeferilli's Romeo & Juliet, Elf, anything by M. Night Shyamalan, some Ben Stiller work, 13 Going On 30.
Television:
Samurai Jack, Green Acres, American Masters-The Artists, Colbert Report, Partridge Family, Sex In The City, Ken Burns docs, SpongeBob Squarepants, Animal Planet, Modern Marvels, America's Next Top Model, 1970's PBS Loud Family, How It's Made, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Burnett Show, Jenny McCarthy.
The GoGo's are my sisters!
Books:
Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn; The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton; Brian McLaren books; How The Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill; Verbal Abuse series books by Patricia Evans; The Pleasure Of My Company by Steve Martin; Sham Pearls For Real Swine by Franky Schaeffer; kid's books by Todd Parr and Patricia Polacco; Psalms; Biographies and non-fiction; Shakespeare sonnets; The Medium is the Message by Marshall McLuhan; History books with lots of architectural and society photography and art; The Promise of Energy Psychology, Groupie books like those written by Bebe Buell and Pamela Des Barres.
Heroes:
God, the Universe, my family, Sacajawea, me, Paul & Linda McCartney, John & Yoko Ono Lennon, Diane Keaton, people who are positive and friendly, Lily Munster, old people who still smile a lot, Christian Bale in his Batman suit, children who survive bad situations, Dorothea Lange, the New York Yankees, LA Conservancy, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, Happening People. Women everywhere = the collective survivors of faulty patriarchy.
