Currently: Adele, M. Ronson, Anything Rakim, 2Pac, Lupe Fiasco, Hem, Chili Peppers, J. Buckley, Dolly Parton, Feist, Mary J. Blige, and my gal Joplin.
I like everything, and I hate music snobs.The Shawshank Redemption.
Alias, House, CNN, The Office, Arrested Development, Everything Joss Whedon, Veronica Mars, Law & Order (etc.), The A Team, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Fresh Prince, The Proud Family, and Degrassi (old + new).
it's brave/scary to ask a writer about the books they mark as favorites....it's easier if i list writers/poets (also: this is no particular order, promise):D.A. Powell, Venus Khoury-Ghata, Antler, Marie Howe, Steve Scafidi, Stephanie Strickland, Calvino, Larissa Szporluk, Cynthia Voigt, Tony Hoagland, Adrienne Rich, Richard Russo, Michael Cunningham, Ernest Hemingway, J. D. Salinger, Mary Oliver, Z Z Packer, Poe Ballantine, Lois Lowry, Ai, Margaret Atwood, Sandra Cisneros, Sherman Alexie, Adrian Blevins, Jill McCorkle, Richard Russo, Kent Haruf, Audre Lorde, Charles Simic, Anne Sexton, Antler, Orwell, Toni Morrison, Marie Howe, Allison Joseph, Nicole Blackman, Khaled Mattawa, Haryette Mullen, Valerie Minor, Darcey Steinke, Natasha Trethewey, James Tate, Dara Weir, Bly, Strand, Chuck Palahniuk, Ginsberg, Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings, Chaucer
Helen M. Strummer (portrayed above is her photo, "Imitating Daddy.")
as well as, Bruce Davidson,
Rose Bower,
Antoine and Tati,
Tony Hoagland,
Ghandi,
Martin Luther King,
bell hooks,
Alice Fulton,
Charles Simic,
Gertrude Stein,
Emily Dickenson,
Bronte (ya huh),
Hollins women,
me Mecca (Sevem),
Frusciante,
Ellington,
Joplin, Dylan, Morrison, etc.,
Talib K. and Mos D.,
Mr. Parks, etc.