I'm just another one of those bleeding-heart queer-friendly spiritual-seeking leftist pro-peace and understanding writers striving to be a mythmaker on par with my heroes and the type of person that people call "kinetic."

writing, poetry, activism, reading, finding new music, learning, travelling, cooking, canoodling, having conversations, people watching, holding hands, activism in art, pretty much all music, journalism, peace, media, humanitarian issues, heartbeats, good books, good movies, cheap jewellery, creativity, privilege & what to do about it, tattoos, breath, tea, cultures and subcultures, brightly painted nails, motion, comic books, dragonflies, spoken word, snail mail, smiles from strangers, politics, space, having appropriate hats for every situation, languages, stories, media literacy, feminism, dreams, awareness, performance art, wit, whatever you find interesting enough to tell me about, and the way in which you do it.

oh lord..., The Academy Is..., Ani Difranco, Aretha Franklin, Atmosphere, The Beatles, Bedouin Soundclash, Bikini Kill, Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen, Cake, The Cat Empire, The Clash, cody chesnuTT, Coldplay, Common, Counting Crows, Damien Rice, David Bowie, Duke Ellington, Elliott Smith, Empires, Eric Clapton, Erykah Badu, Fall Out Boy, Fish & Bird, Fleetwood Mac, Foo Fighters, The Frames, Fugees, Gnarls Barkley, Gogol Bordello, Immortal Technique, James Brown, James Morrison, Jamie Lidell, Jamiroquai, Janis Joplin, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, Justin Timberlake, K'naan, K-OS, Kanye West, Lauryn Hill, Led Zeppelin, Lupe Fiasco, M.I.A., Mad Caddies, Marvin Gaye, Matisyahu, Matt Mays, MGMT, Miles Davis, Modest Mouse, Nina Simone, Nirvana, No Doubt, Outkast, Panic at the Disco, Patrick Wolf, Prince, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, The Roots, Rufus Wainwright, Sa-Ra, Sam Roberts, Smokey Robinson, Solange Knowles, Sonic Youth, The Strokes, Sublime, Talib Kweli, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, Tori Amos, Tragically Hip, TV On The Radio, The Verve, The White Stripes, The Who, Wyclef Jean, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yeasayer

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Brick, Blood Diamond, Bamboozled, Les Choristes, Wristcutters, Rushmore, Zeitgeist, Darjeeling Limited, I Heart Huckabees, Babel, City of God, Crash, Persepolis, Fight Club, Garden State, Donnie Darko, Inside Man, Brokeback Mountain, The Band's Visit, Little Miss Sunshine, Labyrinth, High Fidelity, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Amelie, etc.

Def Poetry, Criminal Minds, House, The Wire, documentary specials

by author, because otherwise it'd be a mile long:, way way way too many poets to name, Neil Gaiman, Roberto Bolano, Michael Ondaatje, Jonathan Safran Foer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Oscar Wilde, Haruki Murakami, Francesca Lia Block, Joseph Campbell, Sera Beak, Arundhati Roy, Inga Muscio, Jack Kerouac, Henry Rollins, Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Paul Auster, Tom Robbins, Glen David Gold, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, multiple comic books, and biographies, cultural and political studies, anthropology, history, and other non fiction works, etc. I read a lot.