Entertainment media, environmentalism, recycling, animals, animal welfare/compassion, vegetarianism, responsible/conscious consumption, sustainable agriculture, alternative energy, national and international politics, antiwar efforts, pacifism, protesting, zero population growth, overpopulation education, birth control, socialism, humanism, realism, dreaming, sleeping, cooking, gourmet food, cooking programs on television, bistro dining, independent and foreign films, film and television history, documentary films, psychology, sociology, anthropology, man's search for meaning, the collective unconscious, music, sensory experience, personal responsibility, accountability, regrettable schadenfreude, liberalism, intelligent discourse, sarcastic humor, dancing, agnosticism, Tibetan Buddhism, Tao te Ching, Taos New Mexico, tattoos, getting/being tattooed, roller coasters, Turner Classic Movies, powerful forces of nature, independence, living with cats, hockey, honesty, Georgia Aquarium, cownose rays, feminism, playing guitar, college radio, cookbooks, collecting books, being surrounded by books, art, popular culture, photography, refrigerator magnets, collections of kitsch, trees, rivers, whitewater canoeing, sailing, hiking/camping, Googling, research, astrology, introspection, emotional expression, gesticulating wildly, clouds, astronomy, driving cross country, confident and passionate people, writing, 'blogging', words, language, English, unabridged dictionaries, communication, architecture, bungalows, kitchen and bath design, extreme homes, gardening, Boca Burgers, Norma Kamali and Gladys Kravitz... and Sienna Lou
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(These are people I've yet to meet - I've met everyone else... working at a large indie bookstore for several years, and simply being alive a long time, affords one that privilege) Ted Turner, Bill Clinton, Dan Rather, Mick Jagger, Jon Stewart, Pat MacDonald, Paul Simon, Iggy Pop, Jacques Pepin, David Letterman, Hugh Hefner, George Clooney, Aretha Franklin, Martha Wainwright, Jamie Oliver, Michael Moore, Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson, Madonna, Edie Brickell, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Peter Trachtenberg, Vincent Perez, Jonathan Cainer, Kiefer Sutherland, Garrison Keillor, Al Gore, Dolly Parton, Paul Newman, Anderson Cooper, Jack Hanna, Wolfgang Puck, Craig Ferguson...
...and writers, photographers, artists, activists, intellectuals, misanthropes, malcontents, misfits, memoirists, eccentric philanthropists with money to spare, television producers in need of an assistant, anyone who will change my life completely, and in a good way.
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" - Jack KerouacAnd now, please watch the Scuba Diving Kitty:
Meet Sugar, the Two-Legged Wonder Dog!:
Almost all of it - from the really old stuff, like some of those Gregorian chants, to the dead white guys, like Mozart and Beethoven and Bach, and Vivaldi and Haydn, to more recent, like Beastie Boys, and Moby, MC Solaar, Loudon Wainwright III, Jeff Buckley, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, James Brown, Deee-Lite, Chemical Brothers, The Monkees, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Peace Orchestra, Cibo Matto, Iggy Pop, The Wiseguys, The Doors, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Telepopmusik, old Black Sabbath, John Lee Hooker, Nortec Collective, Edith Piaf, Grace Jones, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Hank Williams (Senior), Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Edie Brickell, Nine Inch Nails, Pat MacDonald, Imogen Heap, Buck 65, Nicola Conte, Meat Beat Manifesto, Ali Farka Toure, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Tom Waits, Gipsy Kings, Grateful Dead, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Cure, Simon and Garfunkel, Cactus, David Gray, Johnny Cash, The Smiths, Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley, Follow for Now, Billie Holiday, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, XTC, Pylon, Gang of Four, B-52s, Jim Carroll Band, Panjabi MC, The Sugarcubes, Jimi Hendrix, Louis Prima, George & Ira Gershwin, Marvin Gaye, etc.
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Harold and Maude, The Thin Man, Amelie, Queen Margot, Indochine, Babette's Feast, Annie Hall, Days of Heaven, Duel, Pulp Fiction, Triplets of Belleville, Notorious, Rosemary's Baby, Planet of the Apes, Jaws, Deliverance, Rear Window, The Caine Mutiny, Strangers On a Train (1951), The Women, Winged Migration, Dumbo, Fantasia, Woodstock, Barbarella, Dr. Strangelove..., Goldfinger, American Beauty, Super Size Me, Run Lola Run, Fahrenheit 9/11, Garden State, Closer, Dr. No, Goodnight and Good Luck, A Boy and His Dog, Crash (NOT the Cronenberg!), Enter the Dragon, You Only Live Twice, Alien, Aliens, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Fatal Attraction, Little Big Man, Cool Hand Luke, Double Indemnity, Lawrence of Arabia, Trainspotting, Thelma and Louise, Dead Calm, West Side Story, Pillow Talk, Fiddler on the Roof, Spartacus, In the Heat of the Night, A Place in the Sun, Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra, sex, lies, and videotape, Sunset Boulevard, Mary Poppins, Memento, Road Warrior, Grizzly Man, After Hours, The Ice Storm, Faster Pussycat! Kill, Kill!, Dog Day Afternoon, Duel, When Harry Met Sally, Spiderman, Spiderman 2, Spiderman 3, Midnight Cowboy, The Defiant Ones, The Great Escape, Some Like it Hot, The Court Jester, The Apartment, Our Daily Bread, The Graduate, Brimstone and Treacle, Why We Fight, Who Killed the Electric Car?, An American in Paris, The Station Agent
Amazing Race, The Daily Show, Top Chef, Star Trek (the original!), Twilight Zone, Big Brother, The Simpsons, Gilmore Girls, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Sex and the City, Bewitched, St. Elsewhere, My So-Called Life, The Flintstones, The Late Show With David Letterman, Jeopardy, Who Gets the Dog?, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Miami Ink, ER, I Love Lucy, Nature, Animal Heroes, So You Think You Can Dance, Take Home Chef, Grey's Anatomy, Guiding Light, Iron Chef, Iron Chef America, The Honeymooners, Dancing With the Stars, Planet Earth, LA Ink, Felicity, Kid Nation, Flip That House, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, No Reservations, A Cook's Tour, Survivor, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Greenovate, Wasted, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
The Bean Trees, Cowboys Are My Weakness, The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Larousse Gastronomique, Random House Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Animal Dreams, Linda Goodman's Love Signs, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Pleasures - Women Write Erotica, 7 Tattoos, My Cat Spit McGee, Pack of Two, Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters, Gorillas In the Mist, Comfort Me With Apples, Kitchen Confidential, A Cook's Tour, A Mind of Its Own - A Cultural History of the Penis, The Stand, Misery, Waiting for My Cats to Die, Addicted to War - Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism, Perfume, On the Road, A Walk Across America, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Go Ask Alice, The Hobbit, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Perfect Storm, The Clan of the Cave Bear
Dennis Kucinich (IMPEACH BUSH/CHENEY!), Jacques Cousteau, Julia Child, Dennis Kucinich, Ted Koppel (as of 4/30/04), Gloria Steinem, Greenpeace, Michael Moore, Jon Stewart, Michigan state representative John Conyers, as of 6/16/05 (Downing Street Minutes Democratic Congressional Hearing), George Clooney, Stephen Colbert, Jane Fonda, Al Gore, Keith Olbermann - 09/11/06, Dian Fossey, Jane Goodall, Wolfgang Puck, Winona LaDuke, HRH Prince Charles (organic gardener extraordinaire!)