Read, Watch, Listen

Input

escape, see, hear

READ
flow state, escapism, stimulate imagination, learn good writing
vicarious experience, education, space/time-travel
news, information, data, research, stay informed, good citizenship
speed reading book/course, how to learn (coursera), lumosity
google queries, stay curious, who what where when why how!
fiction, scifi (science fiction), fantasy, short stories, jokes,
cc archive (comedy central), joke archive (sfpl), 10+ joke books
poetry, plays, encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlas, philosophy
nonfiction, biography, history, cookbooks, science and nature
anything, everything (omnivore), vs. specialization
play tourist! get tourist books for activity ideas for where you live
material from computer/library/bookstores/friends/neighbors
true crime, crime encyclopedia, horror, fantasy, masd
bass, bams, bans (best american) (martial arts, self-defense)
   (short stories, mysteries, nature and science),
   (also best buddhist writing/ best nonrequired reading)
librarian picks, bill gates recommendations (gatesnotes),
book club, best-sellers, award-winners, okcupid faves
  e.g.Hammett (crime), Bram Stoker (horror), Hugo/Nebula,
Pulitzer, Pen, Booker, Nobel, nba (nt'l book award), nbcca..
self-help/psych, foreign languages, aletheon, money, art
kaiser permanente healthwise handbook / web md
explore different libraries, go to cs reading rooms
bpl, opl, sfpl, albany (i have library cards for each)
(berkeley, oakland, san francisco)
GTU (graduate theological union), Cal, link+

some favorite authors: Proust, Shakespeare, Freud, Dostoevsky
Lev Grossman, Bill Bryson, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Gabo (Gabriel Garcia Marquez), Douglas Adams, Jorge Amado,
Albert Camus, Anne Rice, Isabel Allende, Mark Twain, V Smil,
George Eliot (Middlemarch), Jack London (call of the wild),
Alessandro Manzoni (The Betrothed) (the pope's favorite book)
   Pope Francis is a former literature professor, internet says :-)
Kurt Vonnegut, (also funny, i'm told: Wodehouse, Waugh, Hiaasen)
Yuval Noah Harari, Chomsky, and the National Enquirer, of course!

lists of "must-reads":
(1001, 501, 500, Gates, Bloom canon, newbery, teen)
   --if you like, i will make you a photocopy of my 7 lists--
(Bloom and Gates are online. Newbery is on wikipedia).

reference books:
   world book, wikipedia, brittanica (cd, and in library)
   dictionaries (chambers, spanish, slang) (peruse OED)
   world atlas, road atlas
blog research, grzimek/naturalist, mensa, nolo (law)
   (religion and spirituality, ecology/botany/zoology, brainy)
internet: sermons, procon, schizophrenia.com, arts and letters,
   phrontistery, iep, poetry foundation, bartleby, random blog surfing
magazines: RS, NG, PT, People, Mad, MH, UR
(rolling stone, nt'l geo, psych today, men's health, utne reader)

-daily routine:
e-mail: delancey, poem, vocabulary, trivia, news, family
   (jessteshara@yahoo.com)(jesterific8@gmail.com)
book/day, ideally.  start with Newbery winners (children's)
   b-a-d is g-o-o-d! (get out of dismal?)
enjoyable journeys in wikipedia "rabbit hole,"
daily history (6):
  wikipedia, farlex, chase (online)
  grim reaper, today in history (books),
  brittanica (computer cd)
check blog stats (averaged 68p views/day, last month!)

-daily news:
a dozen pages of the economist, daily (to finish in a week)
yahoo, wikipedia, e-mail (ny times summary, wapo 202)
christian science monitor, ny times, la jornada (library)
foreign affairs (cal library), cnn, huffpo (phone notifications)
online: berkeleyside, weird news, sex news (on literotica), fb
fake news: onion; sometimes: rolling stone, bloomberg, the week
bay woof (monthly, free)

-trivia:
J! (online jeopardy archive),  funtrivia.com, trivial pursuit cards,
you don't know jack, wbsm (win ben stein's money), trivia crack,
cash cab, who wants to be a millionaire, ru smarter than a 6th grader
uhaul, snapple, geography bee, ken jennings, etc.
(ignorance is blitz -decode, decipher) (uncle john's bathroom rdrs)
(trivia at bars, trivia night at libraries)
    -do you know the (somewhat lengthy!) protocol for safely
    cleaning up after a broken cfl (compact fluorescent light bulb)?

WATCH
see, go, do

surf the internet, surf the ocean, explore the earth
surf the earth! walk "around the world" (around the block, for a kid)
watch tv, computer, movies, plays, shows, concerts, standup comedy
go travel, see museums, nature, circus, magic, sports, theme parks
rituals, festivals, parades, national parks, safari, races...
   i liked spike n mike film festivals, animation, cartoons, like
beavis n butthead, ren n stimpy, tom n jerry, itchy n scratchy,
fractured fairy tales, dr. katz, adult swim, south park, power puff girls
sick and twisted, oscar-nominated shorts... muppets, martians
(i haven't seen yet): game of thrones, westworld, black mirror (rec'd)
late night tv, conan, daily show, john oliver, seth meyers, SNL (saturday night live)
movies (free from library, $6 video store rental, theater (fandango giftcards)
youtube: ask a ninja, cirque, juggling, youtube awards, bb motivation, weird al videos
pinterest, instagram, google pics, porn, wikipedia list of internet phenomena, lumosity
mtv: ridiculousness, awesomeness, (music videos?)
Cal campus calendar, entertainment calendar (on kalx)
rocky horror picture show (audience participation), 3D IMAX anything, the strand (1127 market), shotgun theater (nearby), berkeley ballet theater, any Dan Clegg shows, millbrae train museum, harlem globe trotters, sharks, 49ers, raiders, flamethrowers, demolition derby, car shows, (nascar, motocross, monster trucks: never been!),
   behind the scene with a magician (a fond memory, i wanted to be a magician when i was a kid), magi/cia/ian!  hobby, career, talent; sex (bedroom "where the magic happens" -mtv cribs), saw magicians as cub scout, as adult (at branch library), store in SF, rosemont counselor; portals? dream-worlds (morpheus) (day dream? v's (voices), telepathy?), books, movies, videogames, VR (virtual reality), gee i see, eye c (third eye).  LG's books (lev grossman).  card shark roommates, in college (ucdavis).  youtube, tv, vegas.  chemistry magic show,
  picnic day, whole earth festival (davis, ca), state faire, halloween cemetery tours, make a costume that utterly transforms you (unrecognizably!) into another person (say, another sex, or fatter, or older, with facial applications), 52 museums (in San Francisco alone), golden gate fields (horse racing), greyhound racing, zoos, MADE museum (in Oakland- over 5,300 playable videogames!), tattoo/gun shows, professional wrestling, comicon, (renaissance faire, star trek convention, oingo boingo, laser shows: do these still exist?), taiko drums, sumo, gymnastics, quidditch, hockey, soccer, olympics, rainforest, white water rafting, birdwatching, look through telescopes/microscopes, fishing, horseback riding, pow-wow, sweat lodge, lead hikes, point reyes national seashore, yosemite, mt. madonna.  opera, ballet, hot air balloon ride, wine tasting, great america, knott's berry farm, six flags, disneyland, disneyworld, santa cruz beach and boardwalk, roller coasters around the world, historical landmarks, national parks.  religious variety, attend services everywhere: glide memorial, holy hill, spiritism, unitarian, christian science, etc. (jw, lds, sikh, hindu, muslim, jewish, buddhist, taoist, shinto, scientology, fsm).  retreat centers and places of beauty, serenity, meditation, contemplation, and maybe even transformation.  Join a cult?  Make my own?  MHA (mental health advocates, nearby).  flea markets, garage sales, thrift stores.  bingo, lottery, vegas.  travel the USA.  oaklandlibrary.org/events. 

i like the idea of joining (not at once!) every religion, in the spirit of all of humanity sharing a single God, but worshipping Her in different ways and under different names.  Immersion, like learning languages and cultures, or taking drugs (trippy). 

LISTEN
hear, hear
 speech, music, white noise, nature, silence.

birdcalls, joe frank, alexa, am/fm radio, kalx/ win tickets (e.g. old first church), satellite radio, cable tv music stations, itunes (radio), itunes gift card (for phone), youtube, pandora, noise-cancelling headphones/earplugs, ted, podcasts, sermons, standup comedy, foreign languages, audiobooks, poetry, open mic night, lectures, speeches, shows, concerts, taiko, audit classes, online courses: oyc (open yale courses), coursera (happiness, how to learn, quran, development), ...  telephone calls, library cd's, record stores (e.g. amoeba, rasputin), cb radio, live bands, raves, opera, symphony orchestra, barbershop quartets, gay men's chorus, gospel choirs, blue heron, hos (hearts of space), music with space (for that location that resides between the left and the right ears), marv rosen (classicaldiscoveries.org), baroque, jazz, gdradio.net (grateful dead), wybcx (yale online radio), simple radio (on my phone), college radio: wprb, whrb, wmbr, kalx, kcpr, kusf, kzsc, kzsu, kdvs), local kalw, kpfa.   I have some Tony Robbins cassettes from the thrift store i haven't listened to yet, lol.  buy music for swimming device?
-hertz hall, weekly concerts, W 12:15-1p, music.berkeley.edu