Art, travel, Helping Mariem Village + the Lost Boys of Sudan, thrifting, my family, travel, a mountain with chair lifts, Bush hating, my doggie Milo...and did I say travel?
Music
Um...well, gotta say XTC is the best band that's every hit a note...and...here's what ran through my iTunes lately: Oh No Oh My, Sea Wolf, Prayers & Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers, Nurses, Office, Slowlands, Skytone, Beartrap Island, Alasdair Roberts, Adem, Tender Forever, Duels, The Winchell Riots, Yeasayer, Porsteinn Olafsson, The Republic Tigers, Ruined by Martin, The Cat Empire, Fionn Regan, Rogue Wave, Maps, Eric Malmberg, The Ginger Envelope, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Taut Blue Quality, Taxi Taxi, Air Traffic, Red Pony Clock, Meg Baird, The Poison Control Center, José González, My Latest Novel, Tales of Jenny, Vapnet, Mary Queen of Scot, John Frusciante, SpyMachine Sixteen, Superheroes, The Picture, Mohawk Lodge, The Prids, Rats with Wings, Tornister, Volunteers, Scattered Pages, Ted Lumley, Vandaveer, Snailhouse, Track a Tiger, Vicarious Me, Mittens, Poney Poney, The Parkas, Yucca, The Academy, Aaron Schroeder, Magik Markers, Rademacher, The Adverts, Aidan Baker, Winter Family, 1990s, Black Helecopter, Boats, Caesars Palace, Good Shoes, I am Kloot, It Hugs Back, Hourly Radio, The Illuminoids, The Books, Jeff Hanson, KECH, Itchy Brother, Smokescreen, The Hotts, Doveman, Bliss, Charlemagne, Check in the Dark, Hockey Night, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (RIP), Bound Stems, Shearwater, Conner, The M's, Arizona, French Kicks, Owen, Page France, Harry and the Potters, Tokyo Police Club, i mike, Porn on Beta, The Archibalds, Art Pedro, Another Cynthia, Alamo Race Track, Baboon, The Manner, No Fun, SiXer, Stone Soup, Chet, Cass McCombs, June Bug, Trip to Molly, Ghostrunner, Weatherpond, Mantler, The Mood Swings, Franz Ferdinand, Get Him Eat Him, Jose Gonzalez, The Gregg Yeti, Hayden, Theodore Kouroumlis, Tar, Mothers Gaping Hole, Plutonic Rephrygerator, Scissors for Lefty, The Banners, Wolventrix, No Apology, Bronx Cheerleaders, Kheaton, Citizens Here & Abroad, Giant Judys, Blood Will Tell, Drakkar Sauna, John Moffit, David Bowie, Black Lipstick, Cat Power, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pan American, Adorable, Nyles Lannon, Pinback, TV on the Radio, Celebration, Horns of Happiness, Opposite Day Austin, Oakley Hall, Matthew Robins, Mates of State, The Subjects, Donkeys, Langhorn Slim, Vietnam, Roger, Roll, if:then:go, Grandatlantic, This Worlds Fair, A Brave Noise, Alex Niedt, Fruit Bats, Summer Darling, Supermayer, Astud, Julie Doiron, Syrup, Shoes & Rider, Directia 5, Zen Terrorist, Lacrosse, Sleep Station, Snowglobe, La Croquette,
Lullatone, Gogol Bordello, Go Robot Go!, Sambassadeur, Peachcake, This Day & Age, Apostle of Hustle, Future Clouds & Radar, Supertramp, The Himalayan Bear, If There is Something, Horse Feathers, John Fahey, Jonathan Seet, Ra Ra Riot, Panda Bear, Klima, My Latest Novel, Promise & the Monster, Jesca Hoop, Half Rabbits, Daniel Johnston (TX), I Make this Sound, Great Lake Swimmers, Pickup, The Quiet Ones, The Union Trade, Druidas, Athlete, Tunng, The Unbearables, Starboard Green, Sebastian Clark, Revelatio, The XYZ Affair, Tilly and the Wall, The Swingin' Medallions, Joan of Arc, The Retrogrades, Global Village Idiots, Beezewax, Bunnygrunt, The Paper Chase, Esmerine, Pilot to Gunner, Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire, The Lot Six, Gruff Rhys, Violins, Bikeride, Elekibass, The Fall, Bee Bee Cee, Midnight Movies, Bang! Bang!, Cursive, Sparklehorse, Built Like Alaska, Audio Out Send, Morningwood, Marianne Faithfull, Mary Timony, Donovan Frankenreiter, Branta, Tower of Foil, Explosions in the Sky, Unicorns, Discosadness, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Of Montreal, John Vanderslice, Waxwings, Tom Vek, Hard-Fi, Kasabian, Elf Power, Postal Service, Hawksley Workman, Jim White, Pony Up, Elefant, Robyn Hitchcock, David Bowie, White Whale, The Gossip, Paloma, Che Arthur, Polvo, Stephen Malkmus, Maritime, Walkmen, Faraway Places, Hoffmann, Love, Six Parts Seven, Radiohead, People in Planes, Seaeva, Birdmonster, Swearing at Motorists, Gang of Four, Deerhoof, Wolf Parade, Great Lake Swimmers, Swiss Kiss, Chin Up Chin Up, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, !!!, Professor Murder, Mercury Rev, The Decemberists, Inouk, Cat Power, Daniel Lanois, Actionslacks, Imola, Fiery Furnaces, Eels, Grant-Lee Phillips, Margo & The Nuclear So and Sos, Futureheads, Rahim, Mahjor Bidet, The Gunshy, Magnetophone, Bird and Bee, Stainless Denmark, Pedro the Lion, Lines, We Raggazzi, The Robocop Kraus, Bjork Mit Funkstorung, Checkbook Biography, Dishwater Psychics, Faraway Places, Diamanda Galas, Impossible Shapes, Echoboy, Goblin Market, The Rogers Sisters, Eef Barzelay, Walker Kong, Fojimoto, Hayden, Yuji Oniki, Olive League, Datsuns, Pop Levi, Blanket Music, Space Mtn, Two People, Rhett Miller, Halloween Alaska, Swiss Kiss, Faint, Faunts, Macha, Kaitlyn Ni Donovan, Selah Ben Haim, Vue, Hefner, Hold Steady, TV on the Radio, Wolfmother, New Year, On the Speakers, Calexico, Duke Spirit, Koufax, Red Stars Theory, Grizzly Bear, Wonka, The Snow Fairies, Tesco Chainstore Mascara, Salty Pirates, The Oktober People, Pocketbooks, Math and Physics Club, The School, Strawberry Whiplash, The Reputation, Caribou, James Kochalka Superstar, Graham Coxon, Amy Winehouse, Ad Astra Per Aspera, Jim Noir, Titty, Benjy Ferree, Forget Cassettes, Every Move a Picture, The Rakes, ...Trail of Dead, Flaming Lips, Fear Before the March of Flames, Half-Handed Cloud, Asobi Seksu, People in Planes, Spencer Dickinson, Ghost Peeps, Pernice Brothers, Silver Mt. Zion, Yind, Christie Front Drive, Panther, The Go Find, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Marco Polo, St. Vincent, Winterkids, Radicalfashion, I'm Turning into..., Say Hi to Your Mom, Marnie Stern, Ghostigital, Super 8 Music, Rahim, Velvet Underground, Grizzly Bear, Blaq Poet, Birthday Party, Adam Evil & The Outside Royalty, Monkey Swallows the Universe, The Lovekevins, Work Clothes, The New Lou Reeds, Dinosaur Jr., Snakepit, Be Your Own Pet, Rough Bunnies, Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, Simon Dawes, Bound Stems, Vetiver, Wooden Wand and the Sky High Band, The Capitol Years, Psychodelic Furs, Vincent Gallo...
Movies
Harold and Maude, ANY Matthew Barney work, The Ninth Configuration, Babel, Tommy, House of Games, Double Indemnity, Baron von Munchhausen, Kill Bill vol 1 + 2, Manhattan, Annie Hall, Henry and June, The City of Lost Children, Secretary, Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Blue Line, any Bollywood flick, The Brown Bunny, American Psycho, The Big Lebowski, Fahrenheit 9/11, Apartment Zero, Midnight Cowboy, MASH, Down by Law, Welcome to the Dollhouse, and on and on...
Lovely Milo the Australian Cattle Dog sings for me
Television
Little Britain!!!, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Young Ones, Ab Fab, Top Chef, The Soup, BBC BBC BBC BBC
Books
JACK PENDARVIS!! He is the master of the written word!!! Okay, and Sarah Vowell and Jill Soloway, too.
Heroes
My pop Don and
Anna Barbauld, English poet, essayist, critic, 1793:
When we carry our eyes back through the long records of our history, we see wars of plunder, wars of conquest, wars of religion, wars of pride, wars of succession, wars of idle speculation, wars of unjust interference, and hardly among them one war of necessary self-defence in any of our essential or very important interests.
Jeanette Rankin, (1880-1973) First woman to enter U.S. House of Representative in 1917:
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. The work of educating the world to peace is the woman's job, because men have a natural fear of being classed as cowards if they oppose war.
Teach us, and show us the Way ( Chinook - Native Wisdom )
We call upon the earth, our planet home, with its beautiful depths and soaring heights, its vitality and abundance of life, and together we ask that it
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the mountains, the Cascades and the Olympics, the high green valleys and meadows filled with wild flowers, the snows that never melt, the summits of intense silence, and we ask that they
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the waters that rim the earth, horizon to horizon, that flow in our rivers and streams, that fall upon our gardens and fields and we ask that they
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the land which grows our food, the nurturing soil, the fertile fields, the abundant gardens and orchards, and we ask that they
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the forests, the great trees reaching strongly to the sky with earth in their roots and the heavens in their branches, the fir and the pine and the cedar, and we ask them to
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the creatures of the fields and forests and the seas, our brothers and sisters the wolves and deer, the eagle and dove, the great whales and the dolphin, the beautiful Orca and salmon who share our Northwest home, and we ask them to
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon all those who have lived on this earth, our ancestors and our friends, who dreamed the best for future generations, and upon whose lives our lives are built, and with thanksgiving, we call upon them to
Teach us, and show us the Way.
And lastly, we call upon all that we hold most sacred, the presence and power of the Great Spirit of love and truth which flows through all the Universe, to be with us to
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UPCOMING SHOWS: 6.15.08-Travis DeVries acoustic performance-w/Webelos, Princeton, & Manos de Plata @ The Comet, Seattle, WA 6.25.08-THE TURN-ONS ’Curse’ Release Party!!!-w/Tea For Julie[cd release], & Crosstide @ The Doug Fir, Portland, OR 6.28.08-THE TURN-ONS 'Curse' Release Party!!!-w/Triumphant Returns, Apple War & Geographer @ The Comet, Seattle, WA
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