trying to be passionate about social justice, writing, storytelling, doing something about it all
I'd like to meet:
"you don't gotta be right, but you gotta be righteous"
Music:
i.e.; erykah badu, radiohead, usher, digable planets, portishead, tom waits, cafe tacuba, bjork, etta james, immortal technique, four tops, eric clapton, freddy king, beth orton, and van morrison
Movies:
Amelie, Wonderboys, The Sandlot, Syriana, Kill Bill vol 1, A Bronx Tale, LA Story, American History X, So I Married an Axe Murderer, In America, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Professional (and every movie where people fall in love with Natalie Portman inappropriately- except cold mountain), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Secret Life of An American Wife, Lost In Translation, The Neverending Story ...
Television:
Carnivale, Law and Order, Top Chef
Books:
Everything is Illuminated - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Good Earth, The Poisonwood Bible, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, The Great Gatsby, David Copperfield, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1984, all the stories by Raymond Carver (especially "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"), The Fifth Sacred Thing, Atlas Shrugged, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice/Sense and Sensibility, Little Women, The BFG, The Celestine Prophecy, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Harry Potter books, short stories by Capote, The Catcher in the Rye, Gone With The Wind, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Hawaii, ........
Heroes:
Starhawk, MLK jr, Mos Def, the people who fought for the 8 hour workday, Malcolm X, Ira Glass, Cesar Chavez, Captain Planet, Michael Moore, Jon Stewart, people that tip 20%, Ryan White, Oprah, the working class, etc
