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Interests aesthetics, aetiology, air, alphabets, antecedents, artifacts, atonement, beauty, beliefs, bikes, birds, bodies, books, breathing, buildings, canyons, change, cities, campuses, cheerfulness, combination, commitment, connections, cooperation, creation, cultures, cycles, deserts, desserts, development, divinity, efficiency, energy, epistemology, ethics, etymology, family, faith, flowers, food, forests, freedom, friends, fruit, genetics, genealogies, grace, grammar, habits, healing, health, histories, honesty, hope, ideas, images, inspiration, institutions, interactions, language, languages, life, light, love, memories, metaphors, metaphysics, moon, mountains, movies, music, musical instruments, mythology, narratives, oceans, organization, origins, paintings, parks, peace, people, photographs, pictures, plants, poems, presence, r-value, rain, relations, relationships, respect, revelation, revolution, rhetoric, rivers, rocks, sculpture, shade, soil, songs, spaces, stars, sun, sustainability, symbiosis, systems, talking, temples, texts, traditions, trails, transportation, trees, trust, vegetables, walking, water, wind, words
Favorite Movies 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Hard Day's Night, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Amélie, Anchorman, Apocalypse Now, Avatar, The Big Lebowski, Downfall, Dr. Strangelove, Fight Club, Gandhi, The Godfather (I & II), Good Will Hunting, The Green Mile, Hidden Fortress, I Heart Huckabees, The Incredibles, Koyaanisqatsi, The Life of Brian, The Lord of the Rings, M, The Matrix, My Best Fiend: Klaus Kinski, Midnight Cowboy, Napoleon Dynamite, Nosferatu, Raising Arizona, Rashomon, Red Beard, Rivers and Tides, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Seven Samurai, The Shawshank Redemption, Spellbound, Spirited Away, Star Wars (esp. V & III), Taxi Driver, Three Colors (esp. Red), The Usual Suspects, Vitus, WALL-E, Wild Strawberries, Wings of Desire
Favorite Music AC/DC, Alison Krauss, Andrés Segovia, Annie Lennox, Astrud Gilberto, Bach, The Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beethoven, Béla Fleck, Black Sabbath, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, Chris Isaak, Chris Thile, Cream, The Cult, The Cure, Dave Bruebeck, Dave Matthews, The Dead, Diana Ross, Edgar Meyer, Elliott Smith, Eric Clapton, Foo Fighters, Frente, George Harrison, G'n'f'n'R, Gwen Stefani, Hank Williams Sr., Iceburn, INXS, Jackson Five, James Brown, James Taylor, Jane's Addiction, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Juli, Led Zeppelin, Mark Thomas, Marvin Gaye, Metallica, Michael Hedges, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Mozart, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Nickel Creek, No Doubt, Norah Jones, P.M. Dawn, Paul Simon, Pearl Jam, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Phish, The Police, Primus, Prince, Rage Against the Machine, Ray Charles, Roberta Flack, Rush, Santana, Sarah McLachlan, Sevendust, Shawn Colvin, Simon & Garfunkel, Slayer, Smokey Robinson, Söhne Mannheims, Soundgarden, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Stone Temple Pilots, The Stones, Stravinsky, The Sundays, Talking Heads, Taylor Swift, Van Halen, Vince Guaraldi, Wes Montgomery, White Zombie, Willie Nelson
Favorite Books A New Earth (Tolle), The Aeneid, anything on [sustainable] architecture, Approaching Zion (Nibley), art books in general, The Bacchae (Euripides), The Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche), Cassandra (Wolf), Civilization and its Discontents (Freud), The Critique of the Power of Judgment (Kant), The Death in Venice (Mann), Either/Or (Kierkegaard), Epistle to the Hebrews, The Fashion System (Barthes), The Gospel of John, The Great Brain Series (Fitzgerald), The Great Divorce (Lewis), Hamlet, Hammer's German Grammar and Usage, Hermann And Dorothea (Goethe), The Iliad, Isaiah, Italian Journey (Goethe), King Lear, The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), The Magic Mountain (Mann), The Odyssey, The Order of Things (Foucault), The Oxford English Dictionary, The Peloponnesian War (Thucydides), Phaedrus (Plato), Philoctetes (Sophocles), Odes (Pindar), Roman Elegies (Goethe), Timaeus (Plato), The Trial (Kafka), The Twilight of the Idols (Nietzsche), Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Goethe)