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Wanderers, Lovers, Sheep Hearders, Pearl Pedlers, Moon Dancers, Apothacaries, Tight Rope Walkers, Midwives, Princes, Shoe Sellers, Lesser Known Gods and Goddesses, Habadashers and, of course, YOU!
The Carter Family, Holcombe Waller, Indigo Girls, Three Dog Night, Tori Amos, Ani DiFranco, Blind Boys of Alabama, Nina Simone, Kansas, Joanna Newsom, Journey, Keb Mo', Aimee Mann, The Beatles, Eminem, Wynonna, k.d. lang, Maroon 5, Chopin, Joni Mitchell, The Kingston Trio, Dead Can Dance, Billy and Ella, Carole King, The Corries ... or anything with bagpipes in general, Tom Petty, Bjork, Esquivel, Michael Jackson, Queen Latifah, Peter Gabriel and Genesis, Dolly Parton, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Judy Garland, Portishead...and some more Tori Amos, because you can't have too much Tori.
White Christmas, Tootsie, anything by Almodovar, Lawrence of Arabia, Vanya on 42nd Street, All About Eve, Babette's Feast, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Dark Crystal, Tender Mercies, Harold and Maude, Howards End, The Piano, Rob Roy (or any thing with Liam Neeson really), Memento, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Singin' in the Rain, Young Frankenstein, Titus, Downfall, Amelie, Atomic Cafe, Fog of War, any of the Monty Pythons, Elizabeth, Simple Plan, Raising Arizona, Moonstruck, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Incredibles, Hunchback of Notre Dame (the old one), Blazing Saddles, The Color Purple, Parenthood, Angels in America... oh and Con Air... of course.
The Sopranos, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, PBS specials with Bill Moyers and all the shows where they take a modern day family and place them in an environmental timewarp and leave them to survive for four months (ie. Frontier House, Manor House, 1940's House, Colonial House... there's a whole series.)
BOOKS : Year of the King by Antony Sher, Full Exposure by Susie Bright, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men and East of Eden by John Steinbeck, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Birds of America by Lorrie Moore, Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin, Mrs. Dalloway and the essay 'A Room of One's Own' by Virginia Woolf, Middle Passage by Charles Johnson, Housekeeping by Marianne Robinson, Sense and Sensibility by Ms. Austen, A Vindication on the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft, The Red Tent by Anita Diamante, Hero of Our Time by Lermontaov, Dead Souls by Gogul, Alienist by Caleb Carr, Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, Spiral Dance by Starhawk, The Empty Space by Peter Brook, The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Ciseneros, Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley, Gift From the Sea by Anne M. Lindberg, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Push by Sapphire, Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells, Europe Through the Back Door by Rick Steves, The Idiots Guide to... (insert anything here), The Scribner Anthology of Short Fiction, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and of couse the Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms edited by Ross Murfin and Supryia M. Ray.POETS: Miss Nin, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Rumi, Pablo Neruda, Nikki Giovani, George Eliot, Claude McKay, William Blake, Dorothy Wordsworth, Zora Neal Hurston, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliott, Derek Walcott, Alice Munro, William Butler Yeats, Allen Ginsberg, Salman Rushdie, Gwendolyn Brooks, Colleridge, Amiri Baraka, Maya Angelou, Lucille Clifton, Shakespeare, Alice Walker, some Byron, John Keats......and now the PLAYS: The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Humble Boy, Handler, Stop Kiss, Waiting for Lefty, All my Sons, Streetcar Named Desire, Waiting for Godot, Waiting for Lefty, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, The Iceman Cometh, Death of a Salesman, Stones in his Pocket, Man and Superman, Heartbreak House, Spinning Into Butter, Take Me Out, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Wit, Fuddy Meers, Three Days of Rain, Arcadia, Top Girls, Cloud Nine, The Skriker, Mitzi's Abortion, Our Town, By the Skin of our Teeth, Tantalus, Angels in America, Falsettos, A New Brain, Gypsy, A Little Night Music, Sweeny Todd... this list is endless...
Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper:Virginia Woolf:Sojourner Truth:Eleanor Duse:Jelaluddin Rumi:Sarah Bernhardt:Claude Cahun:Thich Nhat Hanh:Gabriel Garcia Marquez:Constance Atkinson:Jack Greenman:Lucy Owen: