Scootin' on my '74 Vespa Primivera, playing guitar, knitting. Making photographs beautiful. Discovering new music to love. Meeting new people who stir my interests and imagination and spending time with the ones who already do.
Pete Townshend, Anais Nin and Henry Miller, Malcolm Gladwell and Henry Darger. Bjork, but I don't think I could handle it.
The Who, The Auteurs, The 6ths, Hefner, Elliot Smith, The Flaming Lips, Belle and Sebastian, The Magnetic Fields, Kings of Convenience, Cocteau Twins, Leonard Cohen, Dolly Parton, Death Cab For Cutie, Willie Nelson, The Jam, Sebadoh, The Pernice Brothers, Pheonix, The Arcade Fire, Interpol, ELO, Matt Pond PA, The White Stripes, Ivy, Imogen Heap
Dancer in the Dark, Monsoon Wedding, Manhattan, Strictly Ballroom, Harold and Maude, A Room With A View, Anything by Wes Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, Christopher Guest or Terry Zwigoff
The BBC version of The Office, Trying to avoid as much reality TV as possible. Otherwise, love to watch Conan as I drift off to sleep.
Mostly non-fiction. No Logo by Naomi Klien, Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, The Tipping Point and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. The memoirs of Dave Eggers, Anais Nin, Augusten Burroughs,Henry Miller and any books on Henry Darger and Joseph Cornell.
Hmmm......define hero.