drawing, writing, graphic design,Illustration Friday, graphic novels, mid-grade fiction,picture books, good animation, parodies, illustrating for kids, patterns, metaphors, analogies, complexity, surrealism, impressionism,expressionism, celtic knotwork, paisley, light and its variations, trees, oceans, stars, living things of all kinds, chocolate, coffee, almond mele pastries, nutella, good cheese, homemade bread, gardening, lambing, shearing, white water kayaking, bodysurfing, hiking, backpacking, skating,spinning, weaving, quilting, dyeing, playing with my kids, cats, dogs, rabbits, pretty much anything with fur feathers or scales.
Music
playing fiddle, cello, guitar, mandolin & bass; oldtime, irish, cajun, and cape breton music, jazz, brazilian jazz, classical music romantics to moderns, gregorian chant and medieval harmonies, blues standards, Bela Fleck, Natalie MacMaster, Stephane Grappelli, Dwight Diller, Gillian Welch, John Prine, Levon Helm, Les McCann, Eddie Harris, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Rene Marie, Etta James, Shirley Horn, Jaco Pastorius, John Coltrane, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Thelonius Monk, Professor Longhair, Dave Carter, Tracy Grammer, Traffic, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Chris Thomson King, RL Burnside, Grateful Dead, Dawg, King Crimson, Adrian Belew and the Bears, Neil Young, CSN, Russian Baritones, Carmina Burana, Sergei Prokofiev, Ravel, Beethoven, Rachmoninoff, Mussorsky-Leibowitz, Antonin Borodin, and many, many more...
Movies
Wings of Desire, Mirrormask, Casablanca, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Howl's Moving Castle, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, Brazil, Monty Python, Lord of the Rings, The Princess Bride, Wizards, The Thief and the Cobbler, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Neverending Story, Alice in Wonderland(in any incarnation), Labyrinth, The Wizard of Oz, The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird, Moulin Rouge, Fantasia, Shrek, Willy Wonka, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda,and and and...
Television
Aint got no. I live online.
Books
How about authors:
C.S.Lewis, George MacDonald, Shaun Tan, Neal Stephenson, Neil Gaiman, JK Rowling, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, Bruce Sterling, Philip K Dick, William Gibson, Douglas Adams, Jules Verne, H.G.Wells, Lewis Carroll, Susan Cooper, Brothers Grimm (All fairy tales, really), Toni Morrison, Ivars Peterson, Alexander Solzynitsen, Steven King, JRR Tolkien, Mark Helprin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Douglas Hofstaeder, Viktor Frankl, Mark Twain, Annie Dillard, Ranier Maria Rilke, Robert Frost, Edgar Allen Poe, ee cummings, Art Spiegelman, Dave McKean, Justine Robson, Carl Sandburg, Samuel Delaney, Jorge Luis Borges, Antoine de Saint-Exupery...
For general types of literature-- folktales, mythology and religious tales, and scientific nonfiction, esp. astronomy,astrophysics,particle physics, genetics, polymer chemistry and materials science innovations, biology.
Heroes
Ordinary people who do all the things that are unpleasant, but need to be done. People who care and respond as if it were reflex, without thinking about it too hard first. And there are too many of those for me to name here.
As you may or may not know, I turned twenty-five the other day. Instead of gifts this year, I'm asking everyone to join my Email List on www. jjhebert. net. Unconventional, my newest novel, will be published by Mindstir Media later this year, and joining the Email List will ensure that you receive updates regarding my book release, contests, giveaways, and more.
Hey Liz, How are you? I hope good. I wanted to send this your way for you to check out. This is my cousin Donnie who won the Guitar Center Drum Off....this is new to the site and he just sent it to me, I know you like music and thought you would enjoy.....