learning everyday, always having a good book on hand, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, the profound in life, people helping animals and animals helping people (AAT), moo-vees, getting my motorcycle license (finally!), a cold beer on a hot day, the truth (whether it be through art, philosophy or science), taking pictures, training for Wildflower, horseback riding, mountain biking, roller-skating, bowling, hiking, softball, golf, my limited gardening (house plants) and digging in the dirt, pretty much anything involving being on or in the water, flip-flops, road trips, or any trips, vocabulary, live music, time with good friends, cooking, talking, thinking, writing, laughing, singing, dancing, sex, integrity, ethics, compassion, the power of positive thinking, social satire and shock value “There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment on a small scale by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.â€
People who think left of center. Musically and artistically inclined folks. Loud, nice, bitchy women. Thinkers and doers. Those with passion and inspiration; as well as those with stability and peace. People who have something to teach me. Those with a positive attitude who recognize their own power. Ethical, liberal, balanced, educated, open-minded, clever, compassionate, optimistic and hungry for adventure.
The Cure, Cake, Stevie Wonder, Ima Robot, Sharon Jones and the Dapkings, Wolfmother, Hot Hot Heat, Ok Go, Captain Marblehead, Reverend Horton Heat, Vampire Weekend, Southern Culture on the Skids, The Horror, Richard Cheese, Tenacious D, Electric Six, Queens of the Stone Age, Lauryn Hill, Black Sabbath, The Beastie Boys, The Clash, Coldplay ("You know how I know you're gay?"), Melvern Taylor and his fabulous Mel-Tones, Madonna, Liz Phair, Death Cab For Cutie, Outkast, The Pixies, The Police, Bill Withers, Billy Joel, Sly and The Family Stone, Earth Wind and Fire, James Taylor, Etta James, Otis Redding, Beck, Jeff Buckley, Ray Charles, The Ventures, Bjork, David Bowie, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Fiona Apple, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Jack Johnson, Stan Getz, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, George Gershwin, Claude Debussy, Antonio Vivaldi
Dawn of The Dead, Much Ado About Nothing, The Empire Strikes Back, Sin City, LOTR, Miller's Crossing, The Big Lebowski, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Children of Men, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, I Heart Huckabees, The Princess Bride, Office Space, Twelve Monkeys, The Black Stallion, Amelie, Sense and Sensibility, Death To Smoochy, O Brother Where Art Thou?, A Fish Called Wanda, Fly Away Home, Fiddler on The Roof, Closer, Lost In Translation, Shopgirl, The Fifth Element, Clueless, Time Bandits, South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut, Team America World Police, Waiting For Guffman, Cannibal the Musical, Strange Brew, Dead Alive, Equilibrium, Crossing Delancey, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Dark Crystal
Little Britain, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, Absolutely Fabulous, Wondershowzen, South Park, Third Rock From The Sun, MXC, The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Dr. Who, Scrubs, The Muppet Show, Strangers with Candy, That 70's Show, Fat Actress, Sex and The City, Law and Order, Barefoot Contessa
(So I went with writers instead of books.) Kahlil Gibran, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, M. Scott Peck, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkein, John Fante, Anais Nin, Herman Hesse, Carl Sagan, Noam Chomsky, Michael Moorcock, George R. R. Martin, Orson Scott Card, Naomi Wolf, Howard Zinn, William Shakespeare, Douglas Adams, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, George Orwell