painting, drawing - my first love, comics, tattoos, jewelry design, knitting/crocheting/pottery/all that crafty stuff, motorcycles, kungfu, swimming, yoga, homemade chinese cuisine
folks who like keepin' it real yo!
oh man, there's sooo many - cesaria evora, faithless, massive attack, portishead, hooverphonic, groove armada, etbg, primal scream, j-rock, chicane, paul oakenfold, yungchen lhamo, naweng khechog, leftfield, underworld, delerium, shpongle, blank and jones, digital witchcraft, bjork, smashing pumpkins, king tubby, steel pulse, bob marley, scientist, black uhuru, gregory isaacs, augustus pablo, abyssinians, fela kuti, pink floyd, neil young, public enemy, a tribe called quest, zola
again, too many to list - the twilight samurai, young and dangerous 1-5, infernal affairs 1-3, crouching tiger hidden dragon, hero, lord of the rings trilogy, eat drink man woman, once upon a time in china, enter the dragon, anything with eddie izzard in it, apocolaypse now, the killing fields, city of god, hotel rwanda, tsotsi, born into brothels, story of the weeping camel, the whale rider, all of miyazaki's films
i secretly watch bad reality tv while lifting weights in my living room. oh and pbs of course
non-fiction's my most fave genre - the mustard seed garden manual of painting; hegemony or survival, solitude: a return to the self; the stone of heaven; the chinese in america; rape of nanking; fast food nation; when things fall apart; everything bad is good for you
i could probably list famous people but it's really about all my amazing friends, for they inspire me the most