Music and Musicians, Torturing the Piano and the letting the Violin torture me...it's catharsis! Umm...what else...Painting, Photography, Reading, Writing, Baking, Cooking, Swimming, Eating exotic food, Lavazza and other forms of espresso!
The person in whose presence I find solitude... People who are people...
Souvenir de Porto Rico and Tango Fugata!!! Al di Meola - the best exotic guitarist. Bach for waking up, South American music to get me going, Bartok, Ravel, Gershwin, Ginastera, Rachmaninoff, and all those other Russians for the rest of the day... and certain love songs. =)
Meet Joe Black, The Red Violin, Scent of a Woman, Legends of the Fall, Finding Forrester, Shine, Immortal Beloved, Legend of 1900, A Very Long Engagement, Little Man Tate, Little Women, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Drumline, Gladiator, Braveheart, Last of the Mohicans, First Knight. As for musicals; The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, Phantom of the Opera.
I prefer books than television... and when I do watch, I choose the geeky programs... Euromaxx, Arirang's Perform Arts, Discovery Channel and National Geographic presentations... "If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed." =p
The Bible. Plato's Symposium. The creations of John Fowles, Isabel Allende, Pearl S. Buck, Jane Austen, Jostein Gaardner, Russian and South American Authors...and ever since I was a lil' girl, Louisa May Alcott and Laura Ingalls Wilder have always given me something to relate to. The list goes on endlessly... Tom Robbins (thanx to one particular person), and those kinds of books that according to Franz Kafka "are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of a person we love more than ourselves... or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation -- a book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us." ("She likes books so much it has turned her brain." Louisa May Alcott)