people who live dangerously and differently; people who forsake certain comforts in life to help others; a good beat; music in general; modern art; photographs; my family and precious few friends; criminal justice gone wrong; change, for the better or worse; shit that's funny
hmmm, the ones i can think of off the bat: justice brennan; hugo chavez; sandra cisneros; the founding fathers; the 2003 texas house and senate members (mostly for slapping); jimmy hoffa; jesus (and perhaps god); mahatma gandhi; manuel noriega; john candy; clarence darrow; percy foreman; robespierre (how does a good idea go bad?); daniel quinn; nelson mandela; kate chopin; gore vidal; bill murray . . . mostly bill murray.
leonard cohen; erykah badu; L7; jane's addiction; tori amos; nine inch nails; bela fleck; enya; fugees; diana krall; moby; michael jackson; steely dan; fiona apple; jill scott; annie lennox; jodeci; boyzIImen; the cure; damien rice; bob dylan; dave matthews; huey lewis and the news; deep forest; enigma; medeski, martin, and wood; alanis; pink floyd; october project; steve vai; alice in chains; pat metheney; dixie chicks; snoop dogg; geto boys; mack 10; tupac; pearl jam; sade; kruder and dorfmeister; barbara streisand; metallica; jethro tull;toad the wet sprocket; tracy chapman; phil collins;
v for vendetta; city of god; donnie darko; the life aquatic; me, you, and everyone we know; brassed off; the edukators; life is beautiful; the house of the spirits; paradise lost; paradise lost 2; the thin blue line; anne of green gables and all subsequent anne movies; doctor zhivago; so i married an axe murderer; bram stoker's dracula; most other gary oldman flicks; the contender; say anything; gattaca; pump up the volume; amadeus; memento; immortal beloved; unprecedented, the 2000 election; super troopers; rushmore; the age of innocence; last of the mohicans; dogville; fight club; life of brian ("all the gold i could eat . . ."); amelie; chocolat; quills; natural born killers; moll flanders; nothing but trouble; squid and the whale; godfathers I and II; my cousin vinny; the italian job; robin hood men in tights; garden state; michael collins hell, this could go on forever . . .
no tv these days, but when i had it, i liked simpsons, futurama, sealab, pretty much everything that was on adult swim there for a good while. venture brothers i liked. bill moyers, when he was still on pbs's now, was great. just watched the entire first season of deadwood on dvd and loved it.
the awakening; lies and the lying liars who tell them; loose woman (sandra cisneros poetry); it and the stand; anything by stephen king; slaughterhouse five; possession; snow falling on cedars; sexing the cherry; the passion, oranges aren't the only fruit; anything at all by jeannette winterson; what are big girls made of? (marge piercy poetry); powerdown; island of the blue dolphins; a wrinkle in time; all the harry potters; the life-giving sword; king of the courtroom: percy foreman for the defense; tess of the d'urbervilles; hero with a thousand faces; tulia; germs, guns and steel; like water for chocolate; ishmael; the story of B; cunt; live from golgotha; galapagos; the chomsky reader; all the pretty horses; the color purple; the power of myth; room with a view; 100 years of solitude; and more
mom; butch; jeff blackburn; clarence darrow; pootie tang--challenging all injustice and moral wrongs with merely the belt around his waist; the dalai lama; cesar chavez; justice brennan and the justices marshall