road trips and world travel, film, backpacking, birding, cafe culture, old books, tattoos, cooking for friends, whippersnappers, family, music, skateboarding, meso-american history, basketball, boozing (including but not limited to tequilla), soccer, darts, hiking, spooning, culture jamming.
I'd like to meet:
people who inspire me, entertain me and make a positive contribution to the world. i sorta like trouble makers too. these types of folks are on my list: painters, tattoo artists and other pranksters creating visual art, innovative activists, writers, people involved in their community, shamans, participants in the bicycle revolution, intrepid global backpackers, ecologists, thinkers and kind dynamic people. people that vote!
Music:
Ozomotli, The Roots, System of a Down, Velvet Underground, Jurrasic 5, Los Lobos, Ranier Maria, Decemberists, Damien Marley, Burning Spear, The Flaming Lips, Minor Threat, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Ponys, Woody Guthrie, Rage Against the Machine, Sleater-Kinney, Johnny Cash, Culture, Chemical Brothers, Beth Orton, the Police, Seven Year Bitch, Robbie Robertson, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck, Nirvana, Tom Petty, Ben Harper, Mariachi tunes, Billie Holiday, Nortec Collective, Jane's Addiction, Lee Scratch Perry, Critters Buggin', Animal Collective, The Black Dots, The Thermals, Deerhoof, The Smiths, The Strokes, The Ramones,
Movies:
Blue Velvet, Adaptation, 40-year Old Virgin, American Beauty, The Tramp, Amores Perros, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Blood Simple, The Center of the World, Dead Man, Fist Full of Dollars, Kandahar, Kill Bill Vols: 1 and 2, The Lady Killers, Traffic, Citizen Kane, Vertigo and scores of documentaries
Television:
Do not own a TV, but I do like these shows: Ren & Stimpy, Sopranos, Deadwood, K Street, Democracy Now!, Discovery Channel
Books:
Fathers and Sons, Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara, My Story as Told by Water, Green Pharmacy, The Poems of Dylan Thomas, Post Office, The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques. Magazines: Utne Reader, Juxtapoz, Audubon, The Bear Deluxe, Mother Jones, zines
Heroes:
Emiliano Zapata, Diego Rivera, MLK, Emma Goldman, Hunter S. Thompson, Óscar Romero, my momma and people that walk their talk.
