God, my husband and children, all my family and friends, complete strangers(but are we really?), digital image manipulation, people watching, naps, popcorn, bacon, butter, red red wine, light and shadow, prose and poetry, philosophy, politics and freedom, Abstraction, hummingbirds and crows, BS theory... rusty metal, the process of weeding out, laughing, body language, wind and rain, hurricanes and tornadoes, beautiful things, puddles, flora and fauna, kindness, sacrifice and selfishness, something I can not explain...contact, breathing, self evaluation, logarithyms, crickets, janus portuary, cylindrical mathmatics, detail, wanton slumber, set apart-yet unified theory, the number 3, the oogie boogie man, revelations, morning light, birdsong, old photographs, thinking about eternity, the beach at night, angels and demons, complicated situations, cut and paste, graveyards, discarded objects, pieces of string too short to use, feline behavior, allegory and allusion, symbolism, irony, smoking, coffee, dress up, cold sheets, reading the bible, regeneration, baby animals, texture, compassion, dirt but not dust, orange, nocturnal animals, long dead trees alone in a field, moonlight and mist, creme brulee, hugs and kisses, the sounds of summer nights, watching people sleep, tiny little fingers and toes, that new baby smell, cool autumn breezes, ruby red velvet, a sea of candles, desert roses...
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...soothes the savage beast...
...another reason to consume popcorn and cokes. A sampling of my favorites: Wings of Desire, Don't Tempt Me, The Pillow Book, Buffalo 66, Amalie,The Miracle Worker, The Holy Mountain, Dario bloody Argento films, Paper Moon, Requiem for a Dream, Annie, Sunset Boulevard, Straight to Hell, Kill Bill 1&2, The Graduate, Sunshine, Big Fish, Freaks, The Passion of the Christ, almost any vampire movie (even the really baaaad ones)...Zombie movies also, Night of the Hunter, ET, Constantine, Elvis flix, Felini films, Blue Velvet, Blade Runner, Chinatown, Howls Moving Castle, Run Lola Run, The Road Warrior, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Mars Attacks!, Edward Scissorhands, A Nightmare Before Christmas, Monty Python...anything, The Birds, Slingblade, Pandora's Box, Harold and Maude, The Exorcist, Elf, The Proposition, Cannonball Run, Pan's Labyrinth, The Never Ending Story, The Princess Bride, Young Frankenstein, ...many, many more that deserve mention but again lost in the labyrinth that is my gray matter.
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...open up the doors of perception.
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