Favorites

  • Books:
    • Kerouac – The Dharma Bums
    • Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea
    • Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    • Vonnegut – Cat’s Cradle
    • Flann O’Brien – At Swim-Two-Birds
    • Munro Leaf – The Story of Ferdinand
    • Chris Van Allsburg – The Wreck of the Zephyr
    • Zinn – A People’s History of the United States
    • Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath
  • Music: Grizzly Bear, Bon Iver, Beirut, Passion Pit, Silver Mt. Zion, MGMT, RATM, Panda Bear, Defiance Ohio, Brett Dennen, M. Ward, Connor Oberst, Phoenix, Kid Cudi, Chiddy Bang
  • Movies: Darjeeling Limited, Baraka, Children of Men, Annie Hall, Harold and Maude, Catch Me If You Can, The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Fight Club, THX 1138, The Fountain, Science of Sleep, Eternal Sunshine, Long Way Round, Encounters at the End of the World
  • Video: The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, South Park, Archer, Current.tv, LinkTV.org, fora.tv, therealnews.com, reddit.tv, Babelgum, VBS.tv, Edge.org
  • Artworks: Oil Portrait of John F. Kennedy by Aaron Shikler, Purity Test by Mark Tansey, Ransom of Damien Hirst’s Faber Castell pencils by cartяain, Guernica by Picasso, Landscape with the Temptation of Saint Anthony by Roelandt Savery, Europe After the Rain by Max Ernst
  • Poems: “Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W.B. Yeats, “Digging” by Séamus Heaney, “Mid-August at Sourdough” by Gary Snyder, “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver, “The Wheel Revolves” by Kenneth Rexroth
  • Sounds: calls of Mourning Doves, wooden wind chimes, rain on my corrugated tin roof, exclamations of Snowy, gentle waves of the Pacific Ocean at Campus Point at 6am
  • Comedians and commentators: George Carlin, Mitch Hedberg, Bill Hicks, Doug Stanhope, Dylan Moran, Jim Gaffigan, Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien
  • Rabbis, bodhisattvas, and guides: Siddhaārtha Gautama, Yeshua of Nazareth, Dogen, Francis of Assisi, John of the Cross, George Fox, Alan Watts, Teilhard, Tolstoy, Adya, Nhat Hanh, Seung Sahn, countless others, you?
  • Materials and services:
    • Clothing and equipment: Patagonia, TOMS Shoes, FiveFingers shoes
    • Software and apps: OpenOffice, WordPress, F.lux, Online Armor
    • Food and drink: White tea, Sam Smith Oatmeal Stout, lemon seltzer, split-pea soup, sweet-potato fries, Paninos, Full of Life Flatbread, Freebirds, Mochi ice cream
    • Services: Virgin America, Zipcar, Arclight Cinema, Skylight Books
  • Places:
    • In SBC: Surf Beach, Cojo Bay, Gaviota Peak, Oso Flaco, Vedanta grounds, Lizard’s Mouth
    • In Los Angeles: Walt Disney Concert Hall, El Coyote, Huntington Gardens
    • Elsewhere in California: Yosemite, Devil’s Punchbowl, Joshua Tree, UCSC campus
    • Beyond California: Boulder, CO; Philmont, NM; Takoma Park, MD; Cork, Ireland
    • Celestial objects: Europa, Enceladus
  • Organisms:
    • Plantae: Jujubee tree, Coast Live Oak, Honeysuckle, Willow tree, Sunflower
    • Animalia: Otter, Dolphins, Meerkat, Loris, Okapi, Bonobo
  • Miscellanea:
    • Color: Cerulean blue ▰▰▰
    • Number: 5
    • Element: Copper+Verdigris/Patina

Image credits: Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles, warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings ♪♫♩♬♪♬♪;
Cream colored ponies, crisp apple strudel, door bells, sleigh bells, schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings ♪♫♩♬♪♬♪;
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes, silver white winters that melt into springs ♪♫♩♬♪♬♪!
Used under Creative Commons licensing. Thank you!