An intelligent, attractive, educated, independent, mature, open-minded, compassionate, emotionally and financially secure, creative, humorous, passionate, sensual, athletic, well-travelled, adventurous woman.
Anything soulful, melancholy, or that has a good beat. Rhythm and blues, jazz, swing, bluegrass, country, rock n roll, soul, world music, hip-hop, reggae, ska, college radio (KCRW 89.9 kcrw.com, KPFK 90.7 kpfk.org, KXLU 88.9 kxlu.com, KJZZ 88.1 kjzz.org, KSPC 88.7 kspc.org). Some of the BIGGIES for me: Leonard Cohen, Nina Simone, Ottis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Jeff Buckley, Mazzy Star, Ben Harper, John Lee Hooker, Leadbelly, Mahalia Jackson, Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Percy Sledge, Sam Cooke, Louis Armstrong, Stephane Grappelli, Django Reinhardt, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ray Charles, Waldemar Bastos, Buena Vista Social Club, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Janis Joplin, Richie Havens, Steve Miller Band, REM, Sarah McLachlan, Maria Callas, Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Bach, Ravel, Puccini, Segovia, Kronos Quartet, Anonymous 4, Yo-Yo Ma, Billie Holliday, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Sade, Alison Krauss, Cowboy Junkies, Jimmy Buffet, The Beach Boys, The Lively Ones, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Cold Play, Radiohead, Jack Johnson, Prince, Golden Palominoes, Lauryn Hill, Norah Jones, 10000 Maniacs, Natalie Merchant, Fiona Apple, Tracy Chapman, Tori Amos, Tom Waits, Edith Piaf, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, David Gray, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, UB40, Portishead, Beck, Seu Jorge, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Jonny Cash, Willie Nelson, Van Morrison, Nick Drake, Joy Division, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Tool, System Of A Down, Jane's Addiction, Sublime, Rage Against The Machine, Dead Prez, Fugees, AMG, The Roots, The Beastie Boys, Bjork, Brazzaville, The Cranberries, Damien Rice, Iron and Wine, The Black Keys, Zero 7, Sean Hayes, Ray Lamontagne, Skye, Mulatu Astatke, Paolo Nutini, I could keep going... In short, music keeps me alive!
Just a few that have left an impression: Dead Poets Society, Vanilla Sky, The Graduate, Solaris, Adaptation, Last Tango In Paris, Apocalypse Now, The Wonder Boys, Igby Goes Down, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 10 Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, My Dinner With Andre, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, House Of Flying Daggers, Hero, Enter The Dragon, Joe vs The Volcano (seriously), The Princess Bride, Legend, Man On Fire, Braveheart, Doctor Zhivago, Say Anything, The Rules of Attraction, Fight Club, The Mothman Prophesies, Jacob's Ladder, Event Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Rear Window, Lawrence Of Arabia, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, The Third Man, The Manchurian Candidate, Dr. Strangelove, The Thomas Crown Affair, Brazil, Il Postino, The Bicycle Thief, Seven Samurai, Blade Runner, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, The Talented Mr Ripley, The Searchers, The Outsiders, Stand By Me, Emelie, Big Night, Like Water For Chocolate, Chocolat, How The West Was Won, Tombstone, Unforgiven, Rozencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Shakespeare In Love, Hamlet, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, American Beauty, The Dreamers, Magnolia, Endless Summer, Gandi, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Sixth Sense, Lost In Translation, Stealing Beauty, The Last Temptation Of Christ, The Passion Of Christ, Sideways, Genghis Blues, Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eyes Wide Shut, Rize, Mind Walk, A Brief History Of Time, What The Bleep Do We Know, Garden State, Elizabethtown, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, As Good As It Gets, The Royal Tenebaums, Rushmore, I Love Huckabees, The Life Aquatic, The Matrix Trilogy, Lord Of The Rings, Life Is Beautiful, Great Expectations, The Motorcycle Diaries, Sin City, Mystic River, Ray, Walk The Line, The Red Violin, Comedian, The Aristocrats, Memento, Ali G In Da House (Buyashaka, Respect!), Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Bitch!), Match Point, An Incovenient Truth, Everything Is Illuminated, Broken Flowers, Borat, The Good Shepherd, 300, Babel, Running With Scissors, A Good Year, The Pursuit Of Happyness, Half Nelson, The Science Of Sleep, Little Miss Sunshine, Bobby, The Lost Tomb Of Jesus, Stranger Than Fiction...
Northern Exposure was the greatest TV show ever made! I occasionally watch Jeopardy, Allah help me--the news, 24, The Office, Saturday Night Live, Reno 911, Family Guy, The Simpsons, South Park, Real Time, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Entourage, Real Sex, Inside The Actor's Studio, Sports Center, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, History Channel, and PBS.
The Kama Sutra, The Bible, An Introduction To Philosophy, The Teachings Of Buddha, Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Man, Norweigian Wood, Catcher In The Rye, Franny And Zooey, For Whom The Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man And The Sea, The Snows Of Kilimanjaro, The Poetry Of Rumi, The Sea Wolf, Call Of The Wild, Two Years Before The Mast, Master And Commander, Once Upon The River Love, Dreams Of My Russian Summers, The Tropic Of Cancer, Black Sunday, Travels With Charlie, Of Mice And Men, The Pearl, A Tale Of Two Cities, Run Rabbit Run, The Celestine Prophesy, The Tenth Insight, Invisible Man, Snow Country, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Leaves Of Grass, On The Road, Don Quixote, The Canterbury Tales, Still Life For Woodpecker, Desert Solitaire, Walden, Civil Disobedience, Profiles In Courage, Sole Survivor, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Angels And Demons, The DaVinci Code, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Huckleberry Finn, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Beloved, The Prophet, Beowulf, The Alchemist, The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Thus Spake Zarathustra, The Devine Comedy, The Odyssey, The Scarlet Letter, The Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony, The Teachings Of Don Juan, A Separate Reality, Decline And Fall, Lord Of The Rings, The Hobbit, Heart Of Darkness, 1984, Animal Farm, The Golden Ass, Brave New World, Contact, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Lucid Dreaming, Paradise Lost, Letters To A Young Poet, To The Lighthouse, The Living, The Road, Into The Wild, Autobiography Of A Yogi...
My grandfather. A scholar and a gentleman. Rest In Peace. My grandmother. A saint of a woman. Rest In Peace. My mother, who gave up her dreams of fortune and fame as an actress to raise six children. My twin sister, who has maintained her inner beauty no matter what ugliness this world has thrown at her. My brother, who is like a father to me, as well as a best friend. My older sister, who had to help raise two troublesome twins. My nana, for her continuing love and support into her 90s! My uncle, for showing me that hard work pays off with the finer things in life $$$.