Late nights in Balboa Park, Running around San Diego, Happy hour with sangria, Grassroots Activism, Sexual politics, Good conversation with friends or strangers, YOGA!-various methods, International travel(though I tend to stay national due to funds and time allowances), Scarves, Perversion, The art of disguise, Hiking, Backpacking, Lobbying and politics, Good books, Fatalism, Admiring art, Creating art, Dancing like mad, Eastern thought, musica!, Red wine snobbery, life and living it.
Active folks: Road running friends, swimming hole rock jumpers, Sunday hikers, bikers (I rock out on my beautiful new road bicycle but I also love riding on the back of motorcycles), Yoga crow pose masters, and multi-pitcher happy hour embibers. Live music junkies, early morning coffee drinkers, traveling partners, creative/ artistic folks who can show me a thing or two, literati/bibliophiles, activist types, radical folks who believe in free thought, free love, dynamic harmlessness, and good clean fun that leaves you feeling a little dirty.
Emily Haynes,Esthero,Feist, sage francis,The Gossip, Isis, Two Gallants, Devil Makes Three, Vetiver, Goldfrapp, four tet, Devendra Banhart, Gregory Page, Eddie from Ohio, Mirah, frou frou, Neutral Milk Hotel, God Speeed You!!! Black Emperor, Ani Difranco, Andre 3000, Jay-z, Rusted Root, Bahamadia, Elliot Smith, Nick Drake, Nas, Talib Kweli, Muse, Placebo, Disco Biscuits, Cat Power, The New Deal, Bjork, Melissa Ferrick, Tegan and Sara, dimmu borgir, bolt thrower, Cursive, the Cure, Depeche Mode, Wormwood, Black Heart Procession, Starlight Mints, Kenna, Stereototal, Peaches, Boilermaker, Stone Roses, The Walkmen, 3mp, Jawbreaker, Alk3, Hot Water Music, Ben Gibbard 3, Broken Social Scene,Pavement/Steve Malkmus, Modest Mouse, The Faint, Woody Guthrie, Sambada, Stars, Itzhak Perlman, Jon Brion, One Line Drawing, Old 97's, M83, Antony & the Johnsons, Poe, Le Tigre, Erin McKeown, The heartless bastards, Ellis, and old school feel good music from the 30's-80's. I also enjoy classical music in some of my more mellow moods.
Viva Almodovar! Me and you and everyone we know, Annie Hall, Amores Perros, My life as a dog, ma vie en rose, "Outside" amazing short film by Jen Kao, Eternal Sunshine, Rocky Horror, Boondock Saints, The Graduate and Kung Fu movies (preferably old and dubbed horribly.)
Television: electronic meditation, medication for the masses.
Currently: "This Common Secret" by Susan Wicklund, "Oranges are not the only fruit" by Jeanette Winterson, "She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb and assorted other books I've shelved for far too long! Oh how I love the library and it's free books.
I respect those who have come before me, but my investments are in those who are still breathing. Oh, and my brother...what an awesome person he has turned out to be!