The blue-eyed boy, my fur people, scooter rallies, Forrest Yoga, my P200, my bluebadge, my GL, Buddhism, tattoos, good friends, family, modern furniture, self-realization, the 40's, Bette Davis, riding vintage scooters, modern art, Yoga, Bodywork, Reiki/energywork, good reads, poetry and other word play that ignites a fury within me, meditation, narrative nonfiction, short stories, painting, sculpture, peace, traveling, meeting up with good friends, making new friends, being pleasantly surprised by the universe, correcting punctuation and spelling, cleaning house.
Johnny Cash, Ghandi, Lisa Simpson, the Dalai Lama, Pema Chodron.
My Grandfather, Punk, Indie Rock, Melodic Hardcore, Screaming Hardcore, Bid Band/Swing, some Metal, the kind of Pop that makes you feel like all will be ok, meaningful singer/songwriters, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Coldplay, Iron & Wine, good movie soundtracks, Elliot Smith, Louis Armstrong, Beta Band, Flaming Lips, Built to Spill, Janes Addiction.
Walk the Line, Now Voyager, Au Revoir Les Infants, Petrified Forest, Gone with the Wind, The Royal Tennenbaums, all of Bette Davis' movies, The Thin Man, Godfather I and II, Goodfellas, Das Boot, Jerry Maguire (although I hate to admit it), Baraka, Carandiru.
24, LOST, Law & Order, Six Feet Under, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Rescue Me, Battlestar Gallactica.
Too many to mention...just a few: Ulysses, Running With Scissors, The Executioner's Song, Shot In The Heart. Writers I adore: MY GOD, MR. JAMES JOYCE!!!, lots of Southern ladies, namely: Eudora Welty, Blanche McCrary Boyd, Flannery O'Connor, & Dorothy Allison; Short fiction: Carver & Macleod. I love short fiction, but prefer narrative nonfiction as my means of writing. Poets: Dickinson, Rich, Blake, Whitman, & Ashford. Buddhism: Pema Chodron and Chogyam Trungpa.
The Dalai Lama, my grandfather, my mother, Bill W. and Dr. Bob, Mother Teresa, Ghandi, Buddha.