writing, teaching, performing and listening to music...training for my second marathon...making new, wonderful friends...big, bold reds...good brew, be it java, ginger or micro...yoga...world travel...learning new languages...underground clubs...best-kept-secret bistros...sarcasm, good jokes and hearty laughs...kindness and chivalry...public radio and good books...my nieces and nephews...trivial pursuit and jeopardy!...project runway and america's next top model... cool people who do what they love, and love what they do.
as always--artists of any medium, great thinkers and big drinkers, people as beautiful inside as out, big tippers, fellow cancerians, travel buffs and trivia dorks, and people who believe that friends and family outweigh all else in this life...
impossible to list them all...electronic, kate bush, etta james, imogen heap, frou frou, feist, jurassic 5, m.i.a., cibelle, cibo matto, miles davis, donny hathaway, curtis mayfield, mia martini, nick drake, prince, marvin gaye, al green, old skool soul, tricky, bjork, flaming lips, stevie wonder, aretha franklin, rufus wainwright, sigur ros, the killers, cocteau twins, portishead, massive attack, yeah yeah yeahs, billie holiday, sarah vaughn, nina simone, ella fitzgerald, asian dub foundation, atmosphere, desdamona, omaur bliss, peter gabriel, esthero, martina topley bird, jill scott, erykah badu, edith piaf, air, aterciopelados, kinky, plastilina mosh, beck, bob dylan, johnny cash, puccini and mozart operas, regina spektor, markus schulz and many, many more...
The Godfathers I and II, anything by Pedro Almodovar, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Run Lola Run, Some Like it Hot, L'Auberge Espagnole, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Edward Scissorhands, American Movie, Annie Hall, Amores Perros, Waiting for Guffman, Lost in Translation,The Breakfast Club, Mulholland Drive, L.A. Story, The Usual Suspects, Sideways, Requiem For a Dream, Most Woody Allen (the earlier the better), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, La Dolce Vita, How to Marry a Millionaire
Project Runway, The Office, America's Next Top Model, The Simpsons, The Daily Show, The Amazing Race, all things HBO (Sex and the City, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage), Weeds, Blind Date and 5th Wheel...although I don't even have a functioning TV at the moment, these are all guilty pleasures i'd indulge in if i could. ;)
anything by David Sedaris, Charles Bukowski, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vladimir Nabokov, David Rakoff, Nick Hornby, Tom Robbins, Martin Amis, Augesten Burroughs, Isabel Allende, Michael Chabon, Pablo Neruda, The Iliad and The Odyssey, Ovid's Metamorphoses, most travel books
anybody who has the guts to do their thang, and do it well...people who parlay a passion into a living...people with the guts to tell the truth, whatever the consequences...my next record producer...and those still in the running towards becoming america's next top model.