| General | The sounds of people's voices; the voices of people's instruments; the consciousness of the plant world; culinary technique; animal behavior (wild and domesticated); animal magnetism; weather, and its effect on cloud patterns; whether patterns cloud effect; withering effects of patter; the feel of the bead of the drumstick against the skin of the drum, and its rebound; the vibration of the thumbpick, as it reverberates the strings of the guitar; the resonance of the dobro strings, as the bar slides across them. Spiritual Humanism (which is very different from Secular Humanism!) and Integral philosopy. | | Music | Jillian Brosnan, Gillian Welch, Shannon Whitworth, Peggy Lee, Tom Waits, Tom Grant, Uncle Earl, The Biscuit Burners, Borderdrive, Tom Beaulieu, Stern Burling and the Burltones, SFTRB, OSFT, Sol Hoopii, Ravi Shankar, Tony Rice, Stoney Man, The Frying Ippolito Brothers, Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, The Louvin Brothers, Ed Dickerson, Merl Johnson, Lefty Frizzell, Townes Van Zandt, Jerry Jeff Walker, Antonin Dvorak, Igor Stravinsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Pyotr IL'yich Tchaikovsky, Luigi Boccherini, Renata Tebaldi, Anna Moffo, Greg Brown, Malcom Holcombe, Hoagy Carmichael, Django Reinhardt, Manouche gypsies, Ray Charles, Charlie Christian, Nat Cole, Nat Adderley, Julian Adderley, Charlie Parker, Wes Montgomery, The Mills Brothers, John Coltrane, Dizzie Gillespie, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jim Hall, Lionel Hampton, Cozy Cole, Max Roach, Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, Elvin Jones, Thelonious Monk, Eric Dolphy, Stanley Turrentine, Artie Shaw, Channing Griggs, Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, The Incredible String Band, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, John Renbourn, Redbird, Richard Thompson, Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, John Jackson, John Hartford, (to name a few). | | Movies | Directors: Frederico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Juzo Itami, Charles Chaplin, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Martin Scorcese, Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick, Roger Vadim, the Coen brothers, Jean Cocteau, Jim Jarmusch, Francois Truffault, Louis Malle--the list does go on. (Imagine if I'd named all of their movies) | | Television | | | Books | Yes, books. Authors: Annie Proulx, John Fowles, Ford Madox Ford, John Steinbeck, William Styron, Barbara Kingsolver, Lawrence Durrell, the Bronte sisters (the opiated Bran, as well), Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Akhmatova, Dante Alighieri, William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Miguel de Cervantes, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Joyce Carol Oates, (to mention some). Oh, also, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, Dylan Thomas, Robert Browning, Sylvia Plath, C.K. Williams... | | Heroes | Risking one's life, peace of mind or comfort zone to get hold of something meaningful seems heroic. |
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