I enjoy talking and eating with friends and family, running, walking, yoga, hiking, xcskiing, dancing, swimming, watching movies, reading, talking politics and celebrity gossip, talking about social mores, watching the boob tube, sleeping, NPR, eating good food, cooking (when I have time), volunteering for political campaigns and non-profits, going out to the theater, museums, clubs and concerts for live music and daydreaming.
Anyone who has something positive or funny to share with me, and with the rest of the world. Ghandi, FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, MLK, Robert Kennedy, Huey Newton, anyone from the Black Panthers, Cesar Chavez, Sitting Bull, Mother Jones, all of the writers of the U.S. Constitution and their wives, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sandra Day O'Conner, Jane Adams, modern progressives, bell hooks, the creators of the UN human rights documents, Nelson Mandela, the Dali Lama, Joan Jett, Jane Pratt, Kurt Vonnegut, Barbara Kingsolver, John Irving, Arundhati Roy, Barack Obama, William Wimsatt, Oprah, Cate Blanchette, Reese Witherspoon, Hilary Swank, Zach Braff, Aaron McGruder, Eddie Vedder, Robin Williams, Lily Tomlin, Mary Louise Parker.
Beastie Boys, Ani Difranco, Christine Delmhorst, Vance Gilbert, India Arie, Pearl Jam, The Shins, Ben Lee, Josh Radin, The Postal Service, Arcade Fire, Wilco, Erasure, Phish, Schuyler Fisk, Madonna, Depeche Mode, U2, REM, Jeff Buckley, Regina Spektor, Beth Orton, Peter, Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan, Ella Fitzgerald, Ben Harper, Ben Folds, Ray Lamontagne, Jason Mraz, Okkervil River, Snow Patrol, Alexi Murdoch, The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Rachel Yamagata, Beck, Rusted Root, Frente, Nirvana, Talking Heads, They Might Be Giants, Coldplay, The Killers, Phish, Pink Floyd, Elliot Smith, Damian Rice, Jonathan Rice, The White Stripes, Aretha Franklin, Bran Van 3000, Colin Hay, Nick Drake, The Folk Implosion, George Clinton, Gomez, Grateful Dead, Green Day, Iron and Wine, Janet Jackson, Salt N Peppa, Jennifer Trynin, Joan Armatrading, John Lee Hooker, Letters to Cleo, Amiee Mann, Modest Mouse, Muddy Waters, Neil Finn, Pamela Means, Depeche Mode, Paula Cole, Pete Seeger, Peter Gabriel, Sarah Mclachlan, Simon and Garfunkel, Tori Amos, Johnny and June Carter Cash, Dolly Parton, The Flaming Lips, Vance Gilbert etc.
I love movies. Anything P. Almodavar, S. Coppola, N. Holefcener, B. Bertelucci, Z. Braff, W. Anderson, S. Spielberg, J.P. Jeunet, J. Hughes (before 1990), the Cohen Brothers. R. Altman and C. Crowe are involved with. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I Heart Huckabees, Whale Rider, The Sweet Hereafter, Being John Malkovich, Good Will Hunting, Ten Thing I Hate About You, Man in the Moon, Beverly Hills Cop I and II, Million Dollar Baby, Little Miss Sunshine, Babel, American Beauty, Life is Beautiful, Goonies, Empire of the Sun, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Working Girl, Indiana Jones, E.T., Boyz N' the Hood, Scream I and III, Karate Kid, Can't Buy me Love, Spirited Away, American Pie, Monsoon Wedding, Bend It Like Beckham, Requiem for a Dream, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Tigerland, Platoon, Real Women Have Curves, East Is East, Pretty Woman, Titanic, Parenthood, Steel Magnolias, Star Wars, Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet, Harry Potter
Scrubs, Gray's Anatomy, Six Feet Under, Sex in the City
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Barbara Kinsolver, John Irving, Dave Eggers, Medeleine L'Engle, Judy Bloom, Beverly Cleary, Amy Tan, Anna Quindlan, Margaret Atwood, Arundhati Roy, Isabel Allende, Maya Angelou, Edith Wharton, or bell hooks, Catch-22, Kite Runner, Amazing Adventures of Kaveleir and Klay, Mists of Avalon, There Are No Children Here, All About Love, A Right to be Hostile, Streets of Hope, Roots to Power, The U.S. Constitution, Suicide, Huck Finn, The Best Non-Required Reading, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Separate Peace, 1984, Animal Farm, Ordinary People, Jane Eyre, Fall on Your Knees, Geek Love, Native Son, Black Boy, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness, Girl, Interrupted, Cold Mountain, White Oleander, Big Town, Big Talk, Pitied but Not Entitled, Failing at Fairness, The Iliad, Jane Eyre, Invisible Man, The Virgin Suicides, Harry Potter, Fast Food Nation, The Color Purple, etc.
Anyone who uses their heart and their brain.