SINCE 73., Bille Holiday, Ben Harper, Gretchen Wilson, Bjork, Nikka Costa, Zero 7, Ella Fitzgerald (with and without Louie), Diana Krall, ALICA KEYS, Tori Amos, Thelonious Monk, Maynard Ferguson, LeAnn Rimes, Tina Turner, Journey, Mary J. Blige, Roots, Rascall Flatts, Aretha Franklin, Anita Baker, Whitney, Seal, Keane, Chet Baker, White Stripes, Beatles, Coldplay, Big Mamma Thorton, Etta James, my MOM, Toto, my cousin Jarese, Sarah McLachlan, Ani DeFranco, Upstart, I LOVE KJAZZ!!!, Mute Math, Dave Matthews Band, Stevie Wonder, Ben Folds (Five), G-Love, Foreigner, Styxx, Angie Stone, Christopher F'IN Cross, Luther Vandross, America, Seals and Crofts, John Legend, the gospel choir @ St. Paul's, Yolanda Adams, Patti LaBelle, I LOVE MICHAEL BOLTON, WHAT?!?, TLC, SWV-all the great acronym girl R&B groups of the 80's and 90's, Led Zepplin, Al Green, Natalie Merchant and 10,000 Maniacs, Lauryn Hill, Joss Stone, Erykah Badu, Matisyahu, Fiona Apple, Common, Gold Chains, Cream, J-Z/Linkin Park, Gnarls Barkley, Chaka Khan, Bettye Lavette, Imogen Heap, Dinah Washington, Old School Love Muffins, Tadashi Namba, Miles Davis, Tess Wiley, Amy Winehouse, Jill Scott, Astrud Gilberto, Madeline Peyroux, Chrisette Michele, Jack Johnson, Jane Monheit, JANIS JOPLIN, Norah Jones, Maxwell (he should be called "Sexwell" woo hoo)John Mayer, Ray LaMontagne, Robert Cray, Sarah Vaughn, Marvin Gaye - another endless list. ..
Sixteen Candles (or anything starring the Brat Pack), Napolean Dynamite, Star Wars (4-6 when Mark Hamill made me realize I was a girl at 7 yrs. old), I *Heart Huckabees, What the Bleep, Anchorman, A Bronx Tale (new fave), Lost in Translation, Donnie Darko, Can't Hardly Wait, City of God, Casablanca.
For my friend Zachary, third from left.
Recently? Kartography (excellent writing!), Hidden Messages in Water, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, Everything is Illuminated, Lucky, Psycho Ex Game, Big Bad Love, Queen: The Biography of Dinah Washington, all the new stuff by Sophie Kinsella, my cell phone manual.
Mom, Mama Leola, Ella Fitzgerald, Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou, Martin Luther King Jr., Jane Austen, Georgia O'Keefe. One very important hero, limitless heroines.