Civil Air Patrol, photography, poetry, music, geeky computer stuff, sociology, miniature pinschers, politics
Prince, John Mayer, Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Tony Macalpine, Lenny Kravitz, Paul Simon, Nikki Giovanni, Alice Walker
Jazz (generally more fusion than straight-ahead), funk, soul, classic rock, stuff that doesn't suck.Artists? Prince, John Mayer, Lenny Kravitz, Joe Satriani, Simon and Garfunkel, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors
Forrest Gump, American History X, Dead Poets Society, Dancer Texas Pop. 81, Ray, Hurricane, Top Gun, Black Snake Moan, Hustle and Flow
The Office, evening news magazines (Dateline, etc.), CSI, House, Wife Swap, Supernanny (NOT the Nanny 911 ripoff), American Idol
"Convicted Survivors" by Elizabeth Leonard, "Authentically Black" by John McWhorter, anything by Nikki Giovanni or Saul Williams, "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama
My mom and Dr. Elizabeth Leonard