Contradictions in life that make it sweet but not so simple. Eating great food cooked by other people. Campfires and stars and waves and rolling green hills and all that wonder and celebration that everyone feels when they see a shooting star fly across the sky.( I think even the tough, hard core intellectuals that say it was just a bit of cosmic trash making it's way out of the universe are silently making wishes.)
Maya Angelou, Lance Armstrong, Lyle Lovett Bill Murry,Queen Latifa, the woman at the bus stop. Authors, artists, creators of works that say what it is to be a part of the human experience.
Mother Teresa, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain ('cause he's a rascal), Helen Keller, Ghandi
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Everything. The Stones, Lyle Lovett, Marvin Gaye, Jazz, Alternative. Music is such a mood setter. I listen frequently when I write. I love a particular song by Bonnie Raitt, God Was in the Water, that is just - strange and a good set up to the written page. Changes lifes direction the way a good poem changes the mindset. I love to listen to independent radio like - yes, WRFN - Radio Free Nashville streaming live at www.radiofreenashville.org for the sounds that I don't get from my everyday dial. And college stations that are still tossing up things that are brand new. And of course in Nashville Writer's Night takes on a whole new meaning and you can hear things from everywhere and a lot of originality. I like the evolution of music and still discovering new voices. Of course I also like Chanting Monks which drives some people insane.
Movies are my drug of choice. So I see the new ones pretty soon. Stock answers - yes, yes, geeky as it may sound by God I love Jimmy Stewart and It's a Wonderful Life. (But - you know, I saw Pulp Fiction too many times and I've Time Warped my fair share so what does a list really say about someone?) The Christmas Story is one of the most perfectly adapted, cast, narrated and designed movies I've ever seen. As Good As It Gets - it just doesn't get any better than that. I loved that simple old movie Lilies of the Field with Sidney Poitier but then I don't think I've ever seen a S.P. movie I didn't like. Now it's funny to see old John Wayne or Clint Eastwood movies but it's because they make me think of my Dad and it's like having him here for company. I liked Stranger Than Fiction - love the orginality and the mood. Love comic book movies - Batman Begins- the absolute best of the series. Spiderman - who knew? So waiting for the new Spidey for summer. I see serious movies, and beautiful movies, and movies that make me (or is that let me?) laugh and cry. And just plain stupid, silly movies like Galaxy Quest that just cracks me up over and over.
I would love to say I only watch PBS and the News from the BBC and the Discovery Channel but that would be a LIE. I don't usually ever catch a current tv show because my schedule doesn't allow me to be faithful to the box. However, I catch them late at night sometimes and fall in love with things and see them ten years after they were the hot new thing. Now I can watch them on DVD and see twice as much in half the time - After I write a lot and work all day or into the night I favor a few laughs - like Calgon take me away. I lean toward reruns of Seinfield or Frasier or That 70s show. Also like Monk. Could be the theme song. I know there are a lot of shows on that I would enjoy but I don't catch them on a regular basis.
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Add to My Profile | More Videos All of them. The dusty ones that have been long forgotten in old book stores, the brand new ones dripping slick off the shelves. Fiction of all genres, creative non-fiction, memoir
Loved: The Alchemist, If You Don't Dance They Beat You, All Over But the Shoutin', Angela's Ashes, The Mysterious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime, 100 Years of Solitude, Like Water for Chocolate, Peace Like a River, A Soldier's Story . . . Flannery O'Conner, Mark Twain, Faulkner, and, yes, Hemingway. Occassional Stephen King (The Stand, The Green Mile,the movie The Stand, and Shawshank Redemption) J.R.R. Tolkien, Harper Lee, The writings of Barry Hannah. Ernest Gaines.Just this week finished The Mercy of Thin Air and Rain Village and adored them both for their mysterious beauty and passion.
Everyday people. Single Moms that keep working and get their degrees. Single Moms that don't get degrees but keep bread on the table and read to their kids even when they are too tired to see. Blue collar Dads. People who have patience with little people and older people and even the tired, angry ones in between.