Writing fiction, non-fiction, poetry and screenplays. Dancing. Yoga. Film. Reading. Fashion. Music. Visual arts. Connecting. My beloved children.
writers, musicians, filmmakers, fashion designers, painters, photographers, poets, dancers, planet protectors, lovers of life and art.
P.J. Harvey, Sinead O'Connor, Tori Amos, 1980's punk bands, early Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell, Marianne Faithfull, early Bowie, Krishna Das, Donna DeLory, Alanis Morissette, Sia, early Go-Go's, REM. The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, Moby, Annie Lennox, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cramps, X, Iggy Pop!
Fellini, especially JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. NIGHTS OF CABIRIA. LA DOLCE VITA. PAN'S LABYRINTH. THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE. AMERICAN BEAUTY. THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP. WINGS OF DESIRE. THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION. MY LIFE IN PINK. HAROLD AND MAUDE. FAIRY TALE: A TRUE STORY. NARNIA. THE ORPHANAGE. BLUE VELVET. THE ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND. THE REFLECTING SKIN. LORD OF THE RINGS MOVIES. AMELIE. GHOST TOWN. LOST IN TRANSLATION. Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN. MULHOLLAND DRIVE.
SIX FEET UNDER. Guilty pleasure: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. I don't have TV now.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, THE CIRCUS OF THE EARTH AND THE AIR by Brooke Stevens, RULE OF THE BONE by Russell Banks, HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS by Isabel Allende, THE WHITE BONE by Barbara Gowdy, THE ANIMAL FAMILY by Randall Jarrell, NINE STORIES by J.D. Salinger, GO WEST YOUNG F*ED UP CHICK by Rachel Resnick, THE LOVELY BONES by Alice Sebold, THE CONQUEST by Yxta Maya Murray, OUR ECSTATIC DAYS by Steve Erickson, THE SEA CAME IN AT MIDNIGHT by Steve Erickson, ZEROVILLE by Steve Erickson, RUBICON BEACH by Steve Erickson, PLAY IT AS IT LAYS by Joan Didion, MIDDLESEX by Jeffrey Eugenides, TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf, THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham, THE HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Michael Cunningham, NEVER LET ME GO by Ishiguro, books by Angela Carter, Anais Nin, A.S. Byatt, Margaret Atwood, poetry by H.D., Sylvia and Anne.
Many of the people whose work is mentioned in the other sections. Also Helen Caldicott, Ghandi, Thich Nhat Hanh. My friends. Humanitarians. Anyone working for the environment and for peace. Anyone who takes the risk to create art.