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Music:
When you find somebody making really great music, it's fun to watch them create and evolve and just keep up with them...There's so much good music out there! J. Ralph,John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band,Sigur Ros,Iron and Wine,Kings of Convenience,Dylan,The Decemberists,Elton John :),Cat Stephens,Rufus Wainwright and the rest of his family,Nina Nastasia, Bond,Audioslave,Beck,Death Cab for Cutie,Joan Baez,Lisa Germano,Frances Cabrel,Smashing Pumpkins,Ravi Shankar,Metallica,The Scorpions ;),Live,Snow Patrol, Coldplay,Experiment Theory,Thomas Dybdahl,Radiohead....and the list goes on...and on...and on...
Movies:
Bridget Jones' Diary--I feel so understood when I watch that movie. Love Actually; Harold and Maude; Sabrina(the original); Cyrano de Bergerac with Jean Depardieu; LOTR; anything with Fred Astaire; Run Lola Run; Ladies in Lavender; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Saving Grace; French Kiss; Chariots of Fire; The Prestige; Twin Dragons(early Jackie Chan); Mansfield Park; House of Flying Daggers; Annie Hall--I feel so understood by Woody Allen in that movie too... ;)
Television:
America's Next Top Model and Sex and the City could easily suck me in...."The vast wasteland..." Marshall McLuhan
Books:
Anything but fiction-O.k. I take that back...I've decided that fiction can be really good, but none of this John Grisham/inspirational fiction/cheezy paperback silliness... But a sampling of the really great stuff;Edith Hamilton's 'Mythology', Frances Rolleston's 'Mazzaroth',R.W.Emerson, Hemmingway's 'Old Man and the Sea' changed my life ;),Roy Hession. Read C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy if you haven't!I am in love with John Donne(for his religious works)and then even more for his earlier non-religious poetry,Thomas Carew, George Herbert-they're all 17th century writers. And George MacDonald I love just as much as John Donne. Roger Highfield's 'The Science of Harry Potter-how magic really works' is neat. Jane Austen's 'Mansfield Park',Julia Child-I want to be her! Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' isn't even 1/4 of an inch thick but it's brimming with genius. Recently, Donald Miller's 'Blue Like Jazz- nonreligious thoughts on christian spirituality'.