Black Coffee, Red Wine. Early Mornings, Late nights. Haagen Dazs, roasted almonds, fresh strawberries, sushi and midnight nutella sandwiches. AGO, MOMA, National Gallery, Guggenheim, Louvre. Hillside Festival, Coachella, Bonnaroo, Glastonbury and my iPod. Bike riding, horseback riding and roller coaster riding. Social Justice, Amnesty International, UNHCR, Médecins Sans Frontières & Foster Parents. New People, Old People, Cool People, Geeks & Nerds
Ishmael Beah, Nelson Mandela, John Lennon, Ang Syu Ki, Jesus, Thom Yorke, Ani, Millicent Fawcett and Hitler
Ani DiFranco
Arctic Monkeys
Bach
Beck
Bela Fleck
Ben Folds
Bjork
Boards of Canada
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Brian Ferry
Broken Social Scene
Bruce Cockburn
Coldplay
Controller.Controller
Dave Matthews Band
Elliot Smith
Elvis Costello
Ember Swift
Emiliana Torrini
Emm Gryner
Feist
Fela Kuti
Fiona Apple
Glenn Gould
Gogol Bordello
Hawksley Workman
Hendrix
Hot Hot Heat
Imogen Heap
Jamiroquai
Jeff Buckley
Jeremy Fisher
Joanna Newsom
Johnny Cash
Joni Mitchell
Juluka
Kanye
Kardinal Offishall
Kate Bush
Kathleen Edwards
K'naan
k-os
KT Tunstall
M.I.A.
Martha Wainwright
Massive Attack
Metric
Miho Hatori
Mos Def
Mozart
Oliver Mtukudzi
Paula Cole
Pearl Jam
Peter Gabriel
Pink Floyd
Pink Martini
Portishead
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Regina Spektor
Rufus Wainwright
Sarah Slean
Serena Ryder
Sonic Youth
Springsteen
Stars
Talking Heads
Tegan and Sara
The Arcade Fire
The Beastie Boys
The Beatles
The Clash
The Dresden Dolls
The Ramones
The Stills
The Tragically Hip
Thomas Mapfumo
Tom Waits
Tori Amos
U2
XTC
Yo-Yo Ma
Zeppelin
and too many others to list...
Lost in Translation, Garden State, The Big Lebowski, O' Brother Where Art Thou, Good Night and Good Luck, The Royal Tenebaums, LOTR, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Princess Bride, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Shrek, Traffic, The Pianist and so on and so on....
Having not watched TV in 7 months, I've dived back in with relish and am thoroughly addicted to "Deal or No Deal" - HELP!
Easier to list authors.... Nabokov, Chomksy, Vonnegut, Umberto Eco, Mordecai Richler, Isabel Allende, Malcolm Gladwell, Tolkien, Naomi Klein, Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, Seymour Hersh, Salman Rushdie, Linda Hogan, Walt Whitman, Roddy Doyle, Tim Pat Coogan, Leon Uris, Graham Greene, Jimmy Carter, Philip Roth, Northrop Frye, John Kenneth Galbraith, David Suzuki, Leonard Cohen, Caleb Carr, Steinbeck, Douglas Adams, Gore Vidal, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chuck Palahniuk, Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Crichton, Al Franken, Jared Diamond, Jane Urquhart, Jane Jacobs, Susan Sontag, Cornel West, Toni Morrison, Irshad Manji, Huxley, Paulo Coelho, Yann Martel, Carol Shields, Gloria Steinem, Steven Biko, Ursula Franklin, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Michael Ignatieff, etc, etc, ad nauseum...
Stephen Lewis, Nelson Mandela, Ang Syu Ki, the Dalai Lama, Terry Fox, Peter Benenson, Ursula Franklin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and most of all, my mom.