Music of ALL styles (thousands of CDs - and a live music lunatic); Reading (at least a book a week); Writing (poetry & journaling); Films; Travel; Food and wine; Emergent communities; Social Justice; Big Cities (favorites: NYC, SF, Rome, London); Nature (the ocean is my soul's home); people of varied types and backgrounds; how God weaves through all this... variety is truly "the spice of life" for me.
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Music:
Sam Phillips, U2, Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, The Roots, Patty Griffin, Beatles, Flaming Lips, Bjork, Nina Simone, Muse, Portishead, Astrud Gilberto, Nat King Cole, Orbital, Pink Floyd, John Coltrane, Ben Folds, Billie Holiday, Tori Amos, K-oS, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Chemical Brothers, Cake, Stan Getz, Talib Kweli, Dean Martin, Over the Rhine, Sarah Vaughn, Radiohead, Alanis Morissette, White Stripes, Pasty Cline, Edith Piaf, John Lee Hooker, Kristen Hersh, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Jurassic 5, Dolly Parton, Nat King Cole, Zero 7, Bob Marley, Lauryn Hill, Sigur Ros, Cat Stevens, Paula West, Buddy and Julie Miller, Waylon Jennings, Kate Rusby, India Arie, Kenny Drew, Jr., Kronos Quartet, Arvo Part, Beastie Boys, Imogen Heap, Gershwin, Brad Mehldau, Regina Spektor, Joanna Newsom, Film scores, and on and on...
Movies:
Magnolia, Moulin Rouge, Breakfast at Tiffany's, All About Eve, Bullets Over Broadway, Ed Wood, Big Night, The Apostle, Philadelphia Story, Waking the Dead, Swingers, Next Stop Wonderland, Gone with the Wind, Almost Famous, Hotel Rwanda, Dead Man Walking, 25th Hour, Office Space, Shadowlands, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Amelie, Wild Strawberries (Bergman), The Station Agent, Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?, Hero, Nightmare Before Christmas, Donnie Darko, Raising Arizona, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rebecca, Rushmore, Little Women, You Can Count on Me, A Raisin in the Sun, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Once, Quiz Show, In the Mood for Love (Chinese), Waiting for Guffman
Television:
Six Feet Under, The Office (British version), Arrested Development, The Office (US version), 30 Rock, Sex & the City, Saturday Night Live (certain years), Mystery Science Theater
Books:
Favorite non-fiction authors: Thomas Merton, C.S. Lewis, Anne Lamott, Henri Nouwen, Annie Dillard, A Severe Mercy-Sheldon Van Auken, Kathleen Norris, Frederick Buechner, Dallas Willard, Julian of Norwich, St. John of the Cross, Walker Percy - Favorite fiction: Middlemarch-George Eliot; Les Miserables-Victor Hugo; Anna Karenina-Tolstoy; Isak Dinesen; the Brontes; L.M. Montgomery; Madeline L'Engle; Italo Calvino; Flannery O'Connor; Silence-Shusaku Endo; End of the Affair-Graham Greene; Jhumpa Lahiri ---- Favorite Poets: Denise Levertov, Ranier Maria Rilke, T.S. Eliot, Pablo Neruda, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Donne, Galway Kinnell, Mary Oliver
Heroes:
Jesus, my parents, Mother Theresa, Sam Phillips, Thomas Merton, C.S. Lewis, Johnny Cash
