...sounds and textures and laughter and confusion and theories and shapes and tones and organics and the wild and absurd stupid stuff sprinkled with a pinch of seriousness...

I think helping others, especially the less fortunate, is very important though I should probably do much more. I have worked in public health for years, though my current job is pretty bland comparatively. I have enviromental concerns, and I am interested in strategies of being less wastefully and more minimal. I like cooking with new methods and ingredients, especially weird veggies that I've never tried before. I am an introvert by phychological standards, though I am also skeptical of putting too much stock in such broad terms and categories.

I enjoy art, especially experimental/improvised/avant garde/abstract/whatever (sound, sculpture, collage, juxtapositions, photography, installations, multi-media, painting, video, junk piles, textures, odd placements, absurdities, the brilliantly stupid, etc.) I create art as well; varied pieces that may or may not be described above in such catchy terms and genre names. I also perform music, usually referred to as experimental noise. Sometimes I perform live in public.

I like wondering around thrift stores. I like being outside, in the woods away from car sounds and people chatter and the daily grind. I like walking my dog. I like watching my cat wrestle with a tennis ball. I like eating wild berries picked directly off the plant. I like pondering existence and various philosophical topics without getting too bogged down in who said what and the isms, ics, and ists... and sometimes I just like to sit back and laugh at it all...

art, music, hiking, laughing, walking, looking, thinking, wondering, dreaming, not knowing for sure, etc.

avoiding questions about "what I'm really good at."

uhhh... smile? dimples? the large avalanche unknowingly occuring behind me?

Lately I've been reading various vegetarian cookbooks and books on house plants obtained from thrift stores. But I also enjoy books on nature/animals/biology/evolution, etc. as well as Philosophy and various fiction, poetry, abstract cut-up... and random stuff like The Hatless Man by Sarah Kortum.

Movies: Rear Window, Pi, 2001, Inland Empire, Two or Three Things I Know About Her, Barfly, Grunt, Raising Arizona, Harold and Maude, The Lives of Others, Millennium, Network, The Corndog Man, The Incredible Melting Man, Cannibal The Musical, The Jerk, Secretary, Pink Flamengos, Gummo, The Wrestler, etc.

Music: can't go wrong with almost anything by the Sun City Girls, the Cosmic Slop album by Funkadelic, various interesting noise, interesting drone, thick and subtly morphing ambience, folk, old country, free rock and jazz, tribal sounds of the past and strange incarnations in the present, enviromental field recordings, improv, avant-garde, electronic spazz, spontaneous spew, absurd goofy shit... and sometimes (when drinking) stupid sentimental stuff like Kenny Rogers or Neil Diamond... oh, and lots of scratchy thrift store albums of random styles...

Food: mostly vegetarian, and some seafood in moderation. Especially interested in trying new veggies that have yet to stimulate my taste buds. I also love spicey food Mexican, Indian, Thai, etc. and various hybrids. I like experimenting in the kitchen...

I am a spoiled American with all basic needs met, so I kinda feel a bit awkward making a list like this but, here goes...

The desire to constantly question things

The wild

Art

My friends and family

Passion

Laughter

Existence, the creative process, traveling, passion, and the absurdity of it all...

catching a good show, drinking some beers, making some sort of art, walking in circles, clueless...

I have way too many cheesy nicknames for my dog and cat...