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One of our favorite places to be...
...and here (San Gimignano, Italy)
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above all, my husband and my kids (my two beautiful kids Tyler and Vienne - pronounced "VN", and my two wonderful stepkids Madison and Christopher), our family, and friends; then if there's any time to spare: music, travel,cooking, interior design, running, snowboarding, outdoor stuff, volunteering at the children's hospital and making memories foundation, politics, and, of course...coffee, wine, and microbrews!
My sweet little boy...
My wonderful stepson, and our son...
Our beautiful son...
My sweet baby girl
It is tough to sum it all up in a small space. I'll start just by listing my all-time-favorites that I couldn't live without - followed by a list of artists that are currently in heavy rotation in my home, car, and ipod.
All-time-favorites, in no particular order: The Cranberries, The Damned, Sisters of Mercy, Social Distortion, Cat Stevens, Sinead O'Connor, Bagpipes, Marching Bands, and The Cure.
Currently in rotation: MGMT, The Duke Spirit, Beirut, Kate Nash, The Kooks, Regina Spektor, AFI, Vampire Weekend, Editors, Feist, Matisyahu, The Helio Sequence, Sarah Brightman, Carla Bruni, Kate Bush, The Streets, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Elton John, Stars of Track and Field, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, Band of Horses, Tori Amos, Live, Leonard Cohen, Fischerspooner, Lilly Allen, The Shins, Death Cab, The Killers, for my son -The Shrek Soundtrack, and yes...my occasional guilty pleasures: Timbaland (Shock Value!) and Wyclef Jean.
East is East, Monsoon Wedding, Donnie Darko, Superbad, Danny Deckchair, Muriel's Wedding, V for Vendetta, Rebecca (1940), Welcome to the Dollhouse, Microcosmos, Winged Migration, Layer Cake (or anything with Daniel Craig), Usual Suspects, Heat, Love the Hard Way, Hot Fuzz, Goonies, Braham Stoker's Dracula, Lost in Translation, August Rush, Chocolat, Paris Je Taime, Moulin Rouge, To Die For, Sweeny Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Borat, Jackass, Princess Bride, True Romance, Romeo & Juliet(1996), Natural Born Killers, Eastern Promises, and anything David Lynch
Twin Peaks
When I am not changing diapers or wiping spit up off myself, and the TV happens to be on -these are the shows I switch to: Forensic Files, 48 Hours Mystery, Medium, CSI, Shark, Designed to Sell & House Hunters (I'm an HGTV junkie), interesting documentaries on Discovery-A&E-TLC-or OPB, Criminal Minds, The Office, Scrubs
Where the Wild Things Are
Jitterbug Perfume, Still Life with Woodpecker, Interview with the Vampire, White Oleander, The Prince of Tides, 123 Magic (the best kids/behavior book!), Where the Heart Is, Map of the World, She's Come Undone, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Bean Trees, The Bleeding Heart, anything in the YOU: series (by Dr. Roizen and Dr. Oz), anything by Dr. Christiane Northrup, It's Always Something - Gilda Radner, and I don't Want to Live this Life - by Deborah Spungen, the Poetry of Byron, and works of Poe.
my cousin Careyann, my husband, and women throughout history that have had the guts to stand up and be heard and followed their calling even if it was against the grain, especially incredibly smart ones like Rosalind Franklin, and Ada Lovelace
St. Francis of Assisi