good art, yoga, vegetarian food, street fairs, homemade icecream, watching clouds, reversing fan blades via telepathy, old friends and friends who are old, family traditions, camping, drum circles, women who speak yiddish, spontaneity, Hungarian pop stars, warm showers, good music, patience, foreign films, street jewelry, jazz clubs, sequins, chess, Russians, Russians who play chess, dark chocolate, red wine, finishing books on trains, friends who don't speak English, dogs, saltwater fish, obscure national flags, fireworks, fireflies, firefly restaurant in SF, christmas ornaments, new love, old love, wrinkles, inspiration, life changing books, flying, dreams, learning new things, old pictures.
I'd like to meet:
God, Mahatma Gandhi, John Lennon, Miles Davis, Sark, Sy Safransky, Norma Rae, Lao Tzu, Elenore Rosevelt, Krishnamurti, Victor Hugo, Stephen Schwartz, Charles Dickens, Alphonse Mucha, Robert Fulghum, Peggy Lee, Dr. Suess, Ella Fitzgerald, Kahlil Gibran,and T.K. Desikachar.
Music:
Always the hardest question: Massive Attack, Michael Franti, Zap Mama, Gorillaz, Brazillian Girls, the Roots, Sugarhill Gang, Si Se, Manu Chao, PJ Harvey, Digable Planets, Eva Cassidy, Jimi Hendrix, Zero 7, Nellie McKay, G Love and the Special Sauce, Tribe Called Quest, Mano, Buena Vista Social Club, Panjabi MC, Bob Dylan, Herbalizer, Morcheeba, The Police, Morrissey, Thievery Corporation, Propellerheads, Queen, The Ramones, Radiohead, Erykah Badu, Aretha Franklin, Depeche Mode, Jefferson Airplane, The Beatles, Ravi Shankar, Billy Holiday, MC Solaar, Cat Stevens, Belle and Sebastian, Simon & Garfunkle, Rufus Wainwright, Jamiroquoi, The Velvet Underground, Bjork, Miles Davis, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Gypsy Kings, Moby, Pat Benatar, Billy Holiday, Lauren Hill, Jack Johnson, Bob Marley, Steve Miller Band, Jurassic 5, Counting Crows, Pointer Sisters, Nancy Argenta, Hooverphonic, John Mayer, Paul Oakenfold, Portishead, Laika, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Peggy Lee, Talking Heads, Sublime, Steel Pulse, XTC, Beastie Boys, De La Soul.
Movies:
The movie you are still thinking about 3 days after you've seen it.
Black and white. Subtitles. Heartbreakingly bittersweet twists and turns...Off the top of my head: Big Fish, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Chocolat, Amalie, Akira Kurosawa samaurai films.
Books:
Tao te Ching, Anatomy of the Spirit, The Prophet, The Tao of Pooh, Life's little Instruction Book, Eat Mangos Naked, The Alchemist, Rumi, The Sun, The Four Agreements, Harry Potter, The Giving Tree... so many good things to read.
Heroes:
Martin Luther King Jr, Mahalia Jackson, Maya Angelou, Michael Franti, Rosa Parks, Ida B Wells-Barnett, Caroline Myss, Christiane Northrup, Mothers.
