i'm obsessed with good food and drink, especially spicy food & gelato (a must when you visit Phoenix: Nina's Tutti Santi & Richardson's New Mexican Cuisine). can't live without music and art - once was a painter, and maybe again someday soon. other passions include: architecture, design, graffiti murals, traveling, politics... may be i should change my career and work for the Travel Channel!
anyone... as long as they're not mean or ignorant!
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Al Green, Amy Winehouse, Atmosphere, The Beatles, Buena Vista Social Club, Coldplay, Corrine Bailey Rae, Damien Rice, Dizzee Rascal, DJ Muggs (Dust), DJ Shadow, Everlast, Felt, Fort Minor, Incubus, Justin Timberlake (guilty pleasure), Led Zepplin, Lily Allen, Linkin Park, Living Legends, Lupe Fiasco, Marvin Gaye, Massive Attack, Miles Davis, Nas, Norah Jones, Outkast, Ozomatli, Paolo Nutini, Pink Floyd, P.O.S., Portishead, Radiohead (always playing on R2D2 - my iPod), Rage Against the Machine, Raphael Saadiq ("Still Ray"), Rise Against, Rolling Stones, Sade, Sting (& The Police), Transplants, U2, Van Morrison, Visionaries ("If You Can't Say Love"), The Who, Z-Trip... the list goes on...
P.O.S.
300, Amelie, An Inconvenient Truth, The Boondock Saints (favorite), Braveheart, The Bourne Series, City of Gods, The Departed, 40 Year Old Virgin, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fight Club, Finding Nemo, Fun with Dick and Jane, The Incredibles, Knocked Up, Lord of the Rings, Man on Fire, Serenity, Trainspotting, Wedding Crashers, What's Eating Gilbert Grape... also English classics and anything with subtitles or martial arts!
Big Love (i can't help it... although i'm not LDS, i grew up in mesa... that speaks for itself), The Daily Show and The Colbert Report (and many others on the Comedy Central), Discovery Channel, Entourage, Family Guy, The New Times, PBS, VH1 (yes, I love pop culture shows), UFC (believe it or not!)
I have a very short attention span... usually I'll start a book and never finish it. The most recent book is - Guns, Germs and Steel - by Jared Diamond (chapter 2). For natural progression, I have to finish it because I would really like to read - Collapse - by Jared Diamond.
My late Bohemian Great Grandmother, Helen (1908-2004)... the story of her life, both joys and sorrows, are anything short of amazing and heroic! The women in my family... nearly all of them have had their own business - independence! My step-brothers (John & Jay) for never letting go of the things they're passionate about... music, film & family. Also, my mother-in-law - she knows what I'm going through with learning to balance my career and family life... and aunt-in-law former U.S. Ambassador to Malawi, Africa - she is empowering!