shootin the breeze with my friends, coffee, dancing, playing music, reading, writing down the mixed up thoughts in my head, eating, cooking or figuring out how to, keeping the anxiety attacks down to a minimum, social justice...
I'd like to meet:
good, nice, creative... people.
Music:
ANYTHING with a good beat, I'm down to give it a listen... Lauryn Hill, No Doubt, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, 3EB, The Shins, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Oasis, Coldplay, Air, Jurassic 5, The Coup, The Beatles, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Philip Glass, Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell (to be a violinist like him... )Bach,Bethoveen, Mozart,Stravinsky, Shostakovich, a bunch of ballets, garba, bhangra... and much much more.Don't be fooled by the pretentious list above... I'm a sucker for Top 40 music...
Movies:
Some selected favorites: Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Pulp Fiction, anything by Woody Allen, Montey Python and the Holy Grail, Sleeping Beauty,Amalie, Casablanca,The Godfather (I and II), Turning Point, Network, Bridget Jones Diary,Four Weddings and A Funeral, Love Actually, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amores Perros,Citizen Kane, Sathiya, Chalte Chalte, Garden State, Psycho, Kill Bill, and so many more. . .
Television:
I watch an unhealthy amount of TV. Some selected favorites: ER!!, West Wing, LOST, Real World, and SPORTS!! (basketball, baseball,football, futbol, tennis... name it...i watch it. yes, I watch ESPN sportcenter... =))
Books:
Selected favorites: The Namesake, Interpreter of Maladies, The Mistress of Spices, The God of Small Things, Take the Canolli, Assasination Vacation,The Kite Runner, The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Great Expectations, Shakespeare (any and all of it), A Child in Time, Atonment,Saturday, Beloved,The Joy Luck Club, Jamie Oliver (aka, Naked Chief) Cookbooks, The New Yorker Magazine (esp.fiction editions)...
Heroes:
Those who throw caution to the wind. My parents and close friends. Sarah Vowell ( I want to be like her when I grow up!)
