Sun, wind, yoga, ocean, rollerblading, outdoors, swings, bikes, beaches, palm trees, prose, poetry, musicallthetime, friends, love, hope, faith in something I haven't found yet, people-watching, sociology, psychology, cats, guitars (so far, just listening), travel or, more commonly, travel talk, hammocks, rollerbladding, breakfast and the morning news, procrastinating (actually I hate it but who would ever guess with how much of my time it monopolizes), exploring, summer concerts and outdoor festivals, people-watching, conversation, dance and drink, driving with the music up and the windows down, futbol/soccer, windows and sunny rooms, reading 7 books at one time, replaying memories, daydreaming, night dreaming, dwelling in possibility (in the inspired way, not the overwhelmed way), Los Angeles, Latin America, the world, my girls, my sisters, my mom and dad, my kitty Milo, and finally, myself - who I am still learning how to love.
Cultured, intelligent, adventurous peeps who share my sense of humor and who inspire.
Indie, folk, pop, rock, trance, hip-hop and reggae inspired, world, eclectic, oldies, mucho mas. . .
JONI MITCHELL, Beth Orton, Ray LaMontagne, GUSTER, Clare Burson, THE SHINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Griffin House, AIDAN HAWKEN, Patty Griffin, Schuyler Fisk, PETE YORN, Jim Bianco, SASHA DOBSON, Lily Allen, RACHAEL YAMAGATA, Sara Bareilles, HEM, Brandi Carlile, JOSHUA RADIN, Tristan Prettyman, JOSHUA RADIN, Joe Purdy, Feist, Alexi Murdoch, ANI DIFRANCO, Indigo Girls, JACK JOHNSON, Aqualung, THE FRAY, Matt Pond PA, Snow Patrol, Mazzy Starr, Leona Naess, IRON & WINE, The Perishers, Matt Costa, The Sundays, Pinback, Cary Brothers, Damien Rice, Fiona Apple, THE FORMAT, Duncan Sheik, Modest Mouse, Dave Matthews, Incubus, Radiohead, Simon & Garfunkel, Collective Soul, Coldplay, DAVID GRAY, Red Hot Chili Peppers ~THE GARDEN STATE SOUNDTRACK and THE LAST KISS SOUNDTRACK~ Jewel, SARAH MCLACHLAN, Ashlee Simpson, SHERYL CROW, Gwen Stefani, Nelly Furtado, Chris Isaak, AVRIL LAVIGNE, Alanis Morrisette, The Cranberries, JUANES, Shakira, Goo Goo Dolls, Beck, U2, Tom Petty, Sublime, BOB MARLEY, THE STROKES, The Killers, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Dylan, Sade, CCR, Dean Martin, Johnny Mathis, Judy Collins, ENYA, Norah Jones, No Doubt/Gwen, Mariah, BRITNEY, Justin, Nelly Furtado, Janet, Jem, Missy, Milky, IMOGEN HEAP/Frou Frou, ATB, Groove Armada, Goldfrapp, Paul Okenford, Kaskade, Air, Motorcycle, Rockell, NINA SKY, Jurassic 5, Outkast, Tupac, Pussycat Dolls, Salt'n'Peppa, Snoop, Sean Paul, De La Sol, Mos Def, Common. . .
Half Nelson, BLOOD DIAMOND, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, The Constant Gardener, Maria Full of Grace, In Her Shoes, WAKING LIFE, I Heart Huckabees, Nowhere in Africa, Office Space, Thelma&Louise, Grease, Motorcycle Diaries, Marie Antoinette, The Interpreter, The Truman Show, CAST AWAY, Kids, OUT OF AFRICA, Romeo+Juliet, Titanic, Dopamine, Thirteen, Crazy Beautiful, The Last Kiss, Requiem for A Dream, CONTACT, Finding Nemo, Dead Poets Society, Anne of Green Gables, El Crimen del Padre Amar...
Could watch 100 times over:
Clueless, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Ace Ventura (1 and 2), The Sound of Music, 10 Things I Hate About You, Two Weeks Notice, The Thomas Crown Affair (sexiest freickin movie of all time), Naopleon Dynamite, Miss Congeniality (I adore Sandra), Oceans 11. Wedding Crashers is effing hilarious.
Six Feet Under! Lost. Early episodes of The OC.
Occasionally Desperate Housewives, Gilmore Girls, The Real World and other MTV reality shows. South Park, Family Guy, Saturday Night Live. The Travel/Discovery channel.
Old shows...Punk'd, Ali G (Borat being my least favorite and Ali G. being my favorite character), Sex & the City, Seinfield, Felicity, My So-Called-Life (they never should have taken it off the air), Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and the classic 90210.
I like thinking books, not just ones to kill time. I don't read nearly as much as I'd like to. My favorite genres are probably idea-based fiction, and travel memoirs... White Oleander (Janet Fitch), The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway), Tales of a Female Nomad (Rita Gelman), Catcher In The Rye (J.D. Salinger), Ash Wednesday (Ethan Hawke), I Still Know This Much Is True (Wally Lamb), To The Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf), Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte), Four Blondes (Candace Bushnell), The Great Gatsby (mine and everyone else's favorite), Dharma Bums (Jack Kerouac) and any other piece of Literature by that brilliant, brilliant man, Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream," (and any piece of literature by that brilliant, brilliant woman...whoever she was...)
POETS -- Franz Wright ("God's Silence"), T.S. Eliot, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Gertrude Stein (particular mood), Samuel Coleridge, Keats and other sublime-obsessed poets, a bunch of contemporary poets you've never heard of, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Alfonsina Storni, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel Ministral...
anyone who does what they truly want, despite their fear of failing at it; who finds meaning in life and most importantly, acceptance of and happiness with what is. Those who find that internal glow will ultimately turn it outward for others to share :)