reading, the environment, world travel, tribal belly dance, politics, israel, my dog, meeting people all over the world, tree hugging, natural living, liberalism, women's rights, sirius first wave, literature, good movies, British history, cooking, real food, learning lots and lots of things, independence, simplicity, snark and sarcasm, writing
Hanson, Morrissey, The Cure, Matisyahu, Rancid, The Distillers, Reggie and the Full Effect, stellastarr, She Wants Revenge, Tegan and Sara, Muse, Shiny Toy Guns, Minus the Bear, Alkaline Trio, AFI, British Sea Power, The Ramones, The Movielife, Wolfsheim, Fluxuation, I Am the Avalanche, Social Distortion, 2pac, The Beatles, New Order, The Smiths, Head Automatica, Keane, Hot Hot Heat, Jack's Mannequin, The Ting Tings, Thursday, GC, Brand New, Jimmy Eat World, Poison, Death Cab, Pete Yorn, ALL, Depeche Mode, Tiger Army, old Saves the Day, a lot of Arabic music, etc. etc.
Iron Jawed Angels, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset
The Office
The Mists of Avalon, Random Family, Angela's Ashes, Jane Eyre, The Dress Lodger, Middlesex, Catch Me If You Can, Harry Potter, Beneath a Marble Sky, Water for Elephants, Ethan Frome, The Time Traveler's Wife, the Twilight series, The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food, zillions more. I love historical fiction, dystopian fiction, and travelogues. And if we're talking authors in general, then Mark Twain, Ruth Reichl, David Sedaris, Douglas Adams, Haruki Murakami, Tony Bourdain, Khaled Hosseini, Michael Pollan, J. Maarten Troost, Lemony Snicket, Maeve Binchy, Al Franken, Philippa Gregory, Oscar Wilde....and of course, the greatest book ever written...The Dragon That Wouldn't Quit, by the one and only Jeff Lipitz.
People who give a shit about the world, and actually do something about it.