Food, Film, Languages, Literature-- all sorts of genres, too, like science fiction, fantasy, horror, humor-- Theater, Poetry, Visual Arts, Politics, Social Activism, Walking, Talking, Dancing, Music, Napping, Dogs
I'd like to meet:
Readers, writers, editors, publishers, publicists, all artists and musicians and filmmakers, rabid enthusiasts, professors and philosophers, storytellers, cooks and big eaters, and...oh, I guess, come to think of it...Everybody!
Music:
Simon Shaheen, Moby, Roxy Music, Eno, Dido, Shakira, Umm Kulthum, Oasis, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sahara Electric, David Bowie, Cocteau Twins, Annie Lennox, Dead Can Dance, Ian Dury, Diamanda Galas, Morrissey, Throwing Muses, Gwen Stefani, Otis Taylor, Joss Stone, Coltrane, The Police, Linkin Park, Jonathan Richman; Norah Jones; Sade; Coldplay; Dido; Pearl Jam; k.d. lang; Joy Division; Talking Heads; Depeche Mode; Captain Beefheart; George Gershwin; English Beat; Fairuz; Mazzy Star; Crowded House; Cheb Khaled
Movies:
Persona; Badlands; The Four Hundred Blows; Picnic At Hanging Rock; Sami and Rosie Get Laid; Trust; Annie Hall; Being John Malkovich; Erotica; Eraserhead; Blue; The Piano; Ron Burgundy; My Own Private Idaho; The Crying Game; Mona Lisa; Diva; The Night Porter; Prospero's Books; Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast; Lawrence of Arabia; 8 1/2; The Stationmaster's Wife; Wings of Desire; The Opposite of Sex; Black Orpheus; The Pillow Book; Rashoman; Breathless; Don't Look Now; The Conformist; A History of Violence; Wild Strawberries; Shakespeare In Love; Last Tango In Paris; Bladerunner
Television:
The Agency; The Office; Sex and the City; What Not To Wear; Nip/Tuck; STTNG; Seinfeld; 30-Rock; Celebrity Fit Club; Twin Peaks
Books:
Okay, so I've written some books-- Origin; The Language of Baklava; Crescent; and Arabian Jazz. I read constantly and have endless favorites, like....
The English Patient; Gilead; The Master; Franny and Zooey; Dubliners; To the Lighthouse; Plainsong; Beloved; Joe Sacco's graphic novels; My Antonia; Mating; Independence Day; How to Cook a Wolf; Portnoy's Complaint; Catch 22; Tender At the Bone; A Farewell To Arms; Them; Birds of America; Round Rock; Dreams of Trespass; Loving Che; Breath, Eyes, Memory; The Incredible Lightness of Being; Lolita; Belle Canto; Annie John; Middlesex; Arabesques; The Third Body; I Saw the Sky Catch Fire; The God of Small Things; One Hundred Years of Solitude; The Mill On the Floss; Midnight's Children; The Ogre; Perfume; History; The Stream of Life; Love Medicine; Woman Warrior; Girl's Guide To Hunting and Fishing; My Year of Meats
Heroes:
Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, Bill Clinton, Noam Chomsky, Derrida, Robbe-Grillet, Oprah, Hillary Clinton, Laurie David, Hanif Kureishi, Atom Egoyan, Ralph Nader, Michael Moore, Neruda, Picasso, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jon Stewart, Edward Said, Pablo Neruda, Borges
