Photography (manual; not digital). Writing. Singing. Traveling. Snowboarding! (and breaking my ribs on double black diamonds. What, what!) Painting people. Music. Fun. Baking goodies from scratch and watching people enjoy them. Legendario de Cuba. Ways to eliminate vocal nodules. Good conversation. Learning. My breasts the week before my period. Espanol. Paulo Coelho. Hiking. Zoos. Starry skies on pollution-free nights. Passion. Nature. Beauty. Life. Love.
Some wild stallion with a very large...MIND. Some girls who are TRUE friends. Some creative souls who are doing what they need to do here. Funny people. Loving people. Intelligent people!! Mediocrity kills, so all you bright people, come and arouse my left and right brain! Photographers who haven't succumbed to the digital world. Photographers who HAVE succumbed to the digital world and consequently want to help me see that there's something incredible about it. Unique people who encourage me to reach new heights. Spiritual-in-a-non-religious-way people. Hmm. *Some super-sexy, laid-back, earth-loving Rasta-type* People who think. Deeply and profoundly. Someone who wants to assassinate George W., his whole family, and his jesus-loving administration. Someone who stops to smell the roses. Someone who likes green eggs and ham. Someone who cries when they listen to beautiful music, the kind that makes the hair on your arms stand on end. Someone intelligent. a dreamer.
Bjork. Bob Marley. Blackalicious. Bonobo. Buju Banton. Thievery Corporation. The Pharcyde. A Tribe Called Quest. Gift of Gab. Jurassic 5. Outkast. RjD2. Gotan Project. Fugees. Chambao. Steel Pulse. Lauryn Hill. Damien Marley. Cafe del Mar. U2. Black Eyed Peas. Manu Chao. Postal Service. The Streets. Sade. Norah Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne. I like it all. Hip to the hop. Unique ladies who sing with such passion they bring tears to your eyes. Brazilian music. Drum n bass. Reggae. Grime. I don't like country and I hate heavy metal. But for some reason I like System of a Down. Jazz is great. So is classical. Chill-out. Flamenco. I'm a well-versed gal.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the original). Under the Tuscan Sun (tear, Michelle). Napoleon Dynamite....whatever. I don't like this section. It's boring.
Don't watch much, but if I do, it's Gray's Anatomy and stupid MTV reality shows, especially when I'm going to sleep alone late at night. mmhmm.
Currently reading: Live what you Love. All-time favorites are: The Alchemist (Coehlo); On the Road (Kerouac); The Stranger (Camus); The Pilgrimage (Coehlo); By the River Piedra, I Sat Down and Wept (Coehlo); The Trial (Kafka); The Neverending Story; Angels and Demons (Dan Brown); His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)....and on and on and on....
Not heroes, but people who inspire: *My parents...because they are amazing human beings who have followed their passions and never wavered no matter how hard it got; because they're two of the most intelligent people I know, and because they're still so in love after almost 30 years of marriage that they hold hands and kiss each other hello. Can I get an AMEN! *People who follow their dreams and don't settle for less. *Mr. Marley himself. *Paulo Coelho. *Dale Chihuly for creating such beauty and for bringing the desire to create back to me!!! *Intelligent risk-takers...people who step into the unknown and let the universe take them where they're meant to go, all the while trusting that it's happening because it's supposed to. *People who inspire positive social and political change.