Movies, African Dance, crocheting, writing, school, Theatre, sociology, yoga, my guitar, working out, The NY Times, reading, music, acting, directing, not drinking, sleeping late, thinking about painting my room, not returning calls, meeting new people, puppies, orangutans, ancient egypt, judging people from a distance, shopping...well, window shopping, trees, tea, tea tree, listening, my kitty friends, finding the very best of whats around.
Johnny Depp.
Bobby M, Beatles, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, The Roots, BW and folks, DMB, Phish, India.Arie, Lauryn Hill, Alecia Keyes, Jason Mraz (acoustic), Michael Jackson (pre weirdness...there was a time people, we have to remember), Dispatch, Blackstar, Blackalicious, Alice Smith, Erin Regan, ...and I've lost interest in doing this profile right now so...more to come.
Anything with Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep, Dustin Hoffman, or Kate Winslet, Devdas, Star Wars, American Beauty, American Psyscho, Beauty and the Beast, Boogie Nights, Dogma, The Shining, Fight Club, Garden State, Vertigo, Requim for a Dream, The Kill Bills, Love Actually, Office Space, 21 Grams, Labyrinth, So many millions of others that I get frustrated trying to name them all.
Blue Planet and Planet Earth. Also, Orangutan Island.
Memoirs of a Geisha; Memoirs of Cleopatra; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Nickel And Dimed, There are no Children Here, SAvage Inequalities, The Handmaid's Tale, Sextrology, My Sociology Textbook, Black Boy; Sula; Mr. Potter; Their Eyes Were Watching God; Anything about gender, race, or class, Pretty much anything written by Toni Morrison and anything on Oprah's book list; All your typical acting books: checkov, stan, uta, stella, how to be a working actor, ect; Helter Skelter; Complete works of Willy Shakes; Art and Fear; The Artist's Way; cook books (Trying to learn); History books - they're like novels only true!
People who don't believe in excuses. People who have so much going on that I wonder where they get more hours in their day then I can find for mine. People who have passion and show it. People who don't need sleep. People who can communicate.