books, music, archaeology, religion/spirituality, poetry, vegetarianism, clarinet, bass clarinet, incense, pandas, traveling, little shops, street markets, the beach, ancient civilizations, quotes, dancing, hanging with the Beehivers, collages, sketching, iMovie, playlists, garba/raas, flinknapping, experimental archaeology, political and history jokes
Musicians: Ryan Adams, Neal Casal, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Darren Hayes, John Lennon, Krishna Das, Ravi Shankar, Keith Lockhart
Other: Jesus (who wouldn't?),Martin Luther King, JR (BU alum!), Howard Thurman, Gandhi, Paramahansa Yogananda, Dilip Kumar Roy (Dadaji), Ma Indira Devi, Mirabai, Anne Rice, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Jefferson, Swami Vivekanandaji, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Who I've met: Eric Idle (Monty Python), Amma (The Hugging Saint), Jesse Malin (3x)
Ryan Adams, Bob Dylan, Jesse Malin, The Beatles, George Harrison, Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, Neal Casal, John Lennon, World Music, Bollywood, Savage Garden/Darren Hayes, The Clash, Flogging Molly, Mika, Pete Yorn, D Generation, Soundtracks, Enya, Moses Hogan, Jai Uttal, Holst, Copland, Patti Smith, Matt Nathanson, +44, Kimya Dawson, Whiskeytown, Old 97s, Bruce Springsteen, and more...
Serendipity, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Lilo and Stitch, Monty Python, Eddie Izzard, History of the World, Pt. 1, The Sound of Music, Bridget Jones's Diary, Rent, Dogma, Mean Girls, Keeping the Faith, Clerks II, Indiana Jones, Sister Act, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Om Shanti Om, Juno, Taxi Driver, Corky Romano, Chocolat, The Holiday
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, The Ramayana
Autobiography of a Yogi, The Vampire Lestat, Servant of the Bones, Harry Potter, America (The Book), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Measure for Measure, Siddhartha, Pilgrim of the Stars, The Dharma Bums, The Prophet, The Namesake, Bridget Jones's Diary, Climbing Chamundi Hil, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, A Coney Island of the Mind, and lots of poetry
Favorite Poets:
Mirabai, Dilip Kumar Roy, Rumi, Rabia al Basri, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Shakespeare, William Blake, Kabir, Walt Whitman, Kahlil Gibran, Hafiz, Tulsidas, St. Thèrese de Lisieux, St Francis of Asissi, Rilke Rainer Maria, E.E. Cummings, George Herbert, Jack Keroauc, Kahlil Gibran, Swami Vivekananda , Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Pretty much the people in the who I'd like to meet. But my heroes are anyone who LIVES everyday.... if you are making it in this world....if you are changing every day for the better....you are my hero. :)