books, animals, piano, crossword puzzles over breakfast, ballet, gardens, and a healthy dose of gypsies make any life complete.
Smart people who like fresh fruit and drawing on sidewalks.
dustam...
Dick Dia, Robert Johnson, Spaccanapoli, Zap Mama, Taraf de Haidouks, Le Scrawl, Secret Chiefs 3, David Holmes, Beastie Boys, Besh o droM, Little Brother, Firewater, Daft Punk, Russendisko, Zion I, Hossam Ramzy, Shot'nez, Jimi Hendrix, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Mohammed Rafi, Polysics, Gogol Bordello, Sheila Chandra, Balkan Beat Box, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Erykah Badu, Franz Schubert, Golem, Panjabi MC, Kocani Orkestar, Judas Priest, Royal Crown Revue, Haustor, Leningrad, Fats Waller, Gaurang Yodh, Dinesh Patel, Vibrators. I'm a huge sucker for Gregorian chants, but I'm nowhere near being Catholic.
The Exorcist, Pulp Fiction, Scarface, The Godfather I and II, Alice in Wonderland.
Animal Planet.
Authors: Thomas Harris, Ayn Rand, Kurt Vonnegut, C.S. Lewis, Jack Kerouac, Herman Melville, Robert M. Pirsig, Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward Uhlan, Nancy Richler, Gaston Leroux, Mr. Poe, Irvine Welsh, Frank McCourt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, J. K. Rowling, Rick Moody, Asne Seierstad, Chuck Palahniuk, Kahlil Gibran, Bram Stoker, Mary Roach, William Peter Blatty, Mark Twain, J. G. Ballard, Virginia Woolf, Mario Puzo, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dante Alighieri, H. P. Lovecraft, Phillip Lopate, Lewis Carroll, James Joyce, Mary Shelley, Christopher Leppek, Eddy Joe Cotton, Sark, James Frey (I was reading him pre-Oprah, I swear!), Huston Smith, John Milton, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Beller...
Rosie (who is hopefully enjoying life as a pygmy in the Rainforest right about now) and Bluebell. Ã…sne Seierstad. Hermione Granger. Russian Street Climbers, Polyglots, and Capoeiristas. Oma!