Neonatal (NICU) nursing, MUSIC, writing in my journal--poetry, short blurbs of random thoughts, enjoy doing yoga as much as i can--calms my overactive mind, SUSHI/thai-love going to Korea House-eat and relax; photography (manual/darkroom), reading, camping/hiking...hmm the outdoors, film, dancing!!!yes, love hip hop! chihuahuas (i have 2-very sweet though) painting/pottery/went back on an amazing trip to Israel this 05.... trying to better myself--to learn more about things I find interesting, Peace in Israel, traveling the world, Women's Health Rights and education of sexuality, birth control.....
passion and laughter....
so hard to write---I love all types of music except country. "hip hop means never having to say i love u." soul like Arethra Franklin, Jolie Holland, Susan Tedeschi, India Arie...really, anything original with a good drum beat or vocals. John Legend, Ani Difranco, Anna Nalick, Fiona Apple, The Mars Volta, Joss Stone, Postal Service, Garden State soundtrack... Melissa Ferrick, Ben Harper, Over the Rhine... old classic rock...Pink Floyd (Animals), Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd (sat. night special)...others..Beastie Boys, Massive Attack, Tori Amos, Orbital, U2--very nice....Radiohead....grew up with Punk boys--The Ramones, Bouncing Souls, Whippersnapper..etc....other Random artists I like---Aaliyah, Medeski Martin and Wood, Sleater-Kinney, Rilo Kiley, Le Tigre, Smashing Pumpkins (classic), Explosion in the Sky,The Roots,OUTKAST, Great ATL artists-80s hip hop is much fun to dance around the apt to let off energy.....
I love film! I go to the movies by myself religiously. Recently loved: Hustle and Flow, RIZE, LORDS OF DOGTOWN, Crash, Kung Fu Hustle, Sideways, Closer. Classic staples of my collection- Waking Life, Reality Bites, Singles, Before Sunrise/Sunset, The Hours, Napoleon Dynamite, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Empire Records, Motocycle Diaries, The Others, Apocolypse Now, The Boondock Saints, SLC Punk...love cult classic 80s movies like Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Weird Science, etc...and horror. Foreign- Amelie...
Really don't watch as much tv; I don't have cable---but I love NIP/TUCK and of course, Sex and The City. Daily show and anything on comedy central.
Right now- reading The Kite Runner finished--, The Alchemist, rereading old classics like, Confenderacy of Dunes--so hilarious characterizations, Go Ask Alice, Brave New World, The Fountainhead-Ayn Rand. Favorites- Veronika Decides to Die; The Chosen- Chaim Potock, The Red Tent, The perks of being a wallflower; Allan Watts philosophy (The Wisdom of Insercurity in an Age of Anxiety---really good), Running with Scissors, QuirkyAlone, Allen Ginsberg Poetry, Jack Keroac, The Bell Jar (sylvia plath)...Prozac Nation...others...Virgina Woolf's writing, House of Leaves--strange, but interesting book.