Playing and listening to all crazy types of music, ballroom/latin dance, shiny objects, trying new things, yoga, toying around with languages, anything involving the outdoors, travel, international politics, green tea, playing in the rain and pretty much anything that's out of the ordinary.
These people make me far too happyChristopher Hawkins and Hazel Newberry Showdance Waltz
IDSF Grand Slam Final 2005 Samba (My favorite latin couple, Maurizio Vescovo and Melinda Torokgyorgy, is dancing in this; she's the one in the gold in the first heat)
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I play jazz for fun, but I suppose it's better that I elucidate so you don't think I'm an east coast jazz purist.My influences range from Satchmo to Sun Ra, The Who to The J.B.'s, and Robert Johnson to John Prine.As a listener, I like anything that moves me to dance (and I mean, really dance, not just grind on somebody)
SPINAL TAP, Any Cheech and Chong stuff, Clerks, Animal House, Life of Brian, Son of Morning Star, Blazing Saddles and pretty much anything else that will make me laugh or think.
Come to think of it, I really don't watch much TV
All significant religious texts of Christianity (my personal religion), Islam and Hinduism which help me seek an expanded, more clear concept of God and my relation to Him.Moby Dick - Herman Melville; Sanctuary - William Faulkner; The Jungle - Upton Sinclair; The Republic - Plato; Don Quijote - Cervantes; and anything by Federico Garcia Lorca
Maurizio Vescovo, Donnie Burns, Victor Kanevsky, Marcus Hilton, Luca Barrichi, Jonathan Wilkins, Eugene Katsevman, Stefano DiFilippo, Peter Stokkebroe, Slavik Kryklyvyy, Michael Wentink, Christopher Hawkins, Timothy Howson, Victor Fung, Paul Richardson, Maksim Kozhevnikov, Bryan Watson, Mirko Gozzoli, Glenn Weiss, Riccardo Cocchi, Sergei Ryupin, Franco Formica, Michael Malitowski, Louis Van Amstel and many other greats of the Dancesport world.