Hiking, the environment, geology, journalism, op eds, writing, poetry, music, dancing, art, art history, the clarinet, percussion, guitar riffs, books, cooking, traveling, fitness, education, politics, basketball, Phoenix Suns!!!!soccer, sports media, good food, fine spirits , expensive wine, shopping, futurism, love, depression, mania, gravity, the sun, the earth's core, environmental law, the judicial system, truth, lies, Africa, karma, spirituality, global warming, Artic National Wildlife Refuge, Basquiat, Salvador Dali, Gustav Klimt, Paul Clee, Wasilly Kandinski, Edgar Degas, Michaelangelo, culture.
Buddha.
Folk junkie by birth, however I appreciate most musical forms. Top of the list Ben Harper and Jackson Browne, but not to exclude or in any particular order;Bob Dylan, The Dead, Martin Sexton, The Who, Aimee Mann, The Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye, Lucinda Williams, Nirvana, The Pixies, The Breeders, The Ramones, Widespread Panic, Pinback, Modest Mouse, Moe, Walking Bicycles, Secret Machines, The Clash, Slightly Stoopid, G. Love and Special Sauce, Neil Young, Madonna, Antonio Vivaldi, Beethoven, Bach, Deep Forest, Debussy, Bob Marley, Jr. Gong, Black Uhuru, Sade, Dave Matthews Band, Fleetwood Mac, Lenny Kravitz, Sarah Mclachlan, Tom Petty, Carly Simon, Erykah Badu, Tracy Chapman, Jack Johnson, Enigma, Nat King Cole, Pink Floyd, Marvin Gaye, Carole King, BB King, Herbie Hancock, Tribe Called Quest, Jurrasic 5, Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., Old Snoop Dogg, Warren G., Nas, James Taylor, Taj Mahal, Elvis Costello, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and his orchestra, I could go on for days. I love music: everything from Reggae to Jazz to Classic Rock to Original Punk... anything that inspires emotion.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Seven, The Usual Suspects, Hackers, The Goonies, Being John Malcovich, Reality Bites, Bridget Jones Diary, The Sound of Music, The A&E adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, The Wall, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, Pans Labyrinth
Law&Order, Basketball, Football
The DICTIONARY!!!!Anything that deals with the Environment, Geology, Psychology, particularly C.G. Jung, Freud, Sociology, Art History, and Cooking. Favorite authors, Jane Austen, Homer- I am fascinated with The Iliad and The Odyssey, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Shakespeare and Margaret Atwood.
My mother and father, two separate and completely different individuals that prove that two people from opposite cultures can live harmoniously together-proving that however rare it is, true love does exist.