art, photography, Politics, radio, yoga, getting to know people, crocheting, knitting, sewing, riding my bike, kittens, sustainable living, food and nutrition, singing and playing guitar, the ocean, swimming in the ocean, cooking and baking, thinking too much...
People who are genuine. Happy to be who they are. Peaceful. Curious. Lively.
Joni Mitchell, Crosby Stills & Nash, Patty Griffin, John Ledgend, Gillian Welch, Beth Orton, John Gorka, Ellis Paul, David Gray, Denison Witmer, Brown Bird, Jean Grae, Nas, Common, Tupac, Iron & Wine, Josh Martinez, Ani Difranco, Dar Williams, The Story, Mary J. Blige, Whitney Houston, Gil Scott-Heron, Nina Simone, Nanci Griffith, Alison Krauss, classical music, and commercial hip-hop too even.
There Will Be Blood (is excellent), Once, Army Of Shadows, Battle of Algiers, Funny Bones, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, All The President's Men, Trapped in the Closet, Anne Of Green Gables, Harold & Maude, 28 Days Later, Pride & Prejudice (the 6 hr BBC version), A Very Long Engagement, Fried Green Tomatoes, virtually all Hitchcock Movies ever made, To Kill a Mockingbird, Old timey B&W films, Charlie Chaplin, Speghetti Westerns, Documentaries: Fidel, Sir No Sir,Rize, Favela Rising, In the Year of the Pig, An Unreasonable Man, Manufactured Landscapes, Billy The Kid, Roger and Me, Journey's With George, etc.
Radio is my television equivalent. I am constantly listening to talk radio. I listen both to NPR and community radio. Mostly WNYC 93.9 FM/ AM 820, and WBAI 99.5 FM. Democracy Now on WBAI Mon - Fri @ 9:00 is a power house. The Brian Lehrer show is great for international and local politics. The Leonard Lopate show covers some politics but mostly culture and entertainment. I love This American Life, Radio Lab, A Prarie Home Companion, All things Considered, Car Talk, On Point, Fair Game, and especially Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. I Think I am always listening to the radio.
Anatomy of the Spirit, Mary Oliver poetry, Aphrodite's Daughters, Memory of Fire (series of 3 books by Eduardo Galeano), The Unbearable lightness Of Being, The DiVinci Code, The Four Agreements, The Alchemist, Catch 22, Angela's Ashes, People's History of the U.S., Who's Afraid of Virgina Wolf?, Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores, The Picture of Dorian Grey, stories by David Sedaris. The Nation Magazine.
My Dad. Then also Ralph Nader, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Emiliano Zapata, Augusto Sandino, Joni Mitchell, Amy Goodman, Malcom X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Howard Zinn, James Baldwin, Klimt, Monet, and many other artists.