music, booty shakin', traveling, the journey, being in motion, all night conversations, connecting souls, bookstores, cross-disiplinary, mindsex, curiosity, kee's chocolate, dim sum, tropical fruits, hunan food, pavlova, lower cheung sha, my family, languages, painting with acrylics, argyle socks, culturephile, accents, laughing, crying, being young and growing old, learning, fire places, sunny window ledges, surreal scenery, consuming data, musicians, geeky guys, non-profit work, ambiguously placed quotation marks, deep irony, quiet passion, comfortable silences, self-improvement, integrity, honesty, compassion, journals, taking pictures, leaving it all behind
angels, superheros and people who know how to love
anything that moves my head, heart, brain, spirit or ass. jazz, motown, blues, soul, r&b, hip hop, classical, indie folk rock, world music, reggae, folk, electronica, abyssinian creole, al green, adbdullah ibrahim, the album leaf, ani difranco, the arcade fire, aretha franklin, be good tanyas, blue nile, bob marley, bob dylan, bjork, bach, bud powell, bright eyes, brodsky string quartet, the cure, charlie parker, charles mingus, the congos, the coup, crooked fingers, de la soul, dead prez, dizzy gillespie, donny hathaway, django reinhardt, elliott smith, ennio morrison, erykah badu, ernest ranglin, gil scott-heron, gomez, hall and oates, horace silver, iron and wine, john coltrane, john fahey, johnny cash, jon brion, ladysmith black mambazo, the last poets, lauryn hill, louis armstrong, marvin gaye, miles davis, nick drake, npr, kcrw:morning becomes electric, nina simone, sparklehorse, old prince, otis redding, the postal service, sade, sigar ros, tom waits, spoken word poetry, stevie wonder, tribe called quest, thelonious monk, yo le tango
Boys Don't Cry, Salaam Bombay, Tampopo, Wong Kar-Wai films, In the Mood for Love, Chungking Express, 2046, Eat Drink Man Woman, Shower, Waking Life, Il Postino, Pixote, Like Water For Chocolate, Notebook, Spirited Away, Whale rider, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Hero, Baraka, Lucia y el Sexo, Latcho Drom
don't own one
Bad Elements(Ian Buruma), Collapse (Jared Diamond), The Impossible Will Take a Litte While(Paul Rogat Loeb), The Cronicles of Narnia(C.S. Lewis), Kitchen and Lizard(Banana Yoshimoto), Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs(Chuck Klosterman), Long Walk to Freedom(Nelson Mandela), Siddhartha(Herman Hesse), The Alchemist(Paulo Coelho), The Prophet(Kahlil Gibran), Roar Softly and Carry a Great Lipstick(Autumn Stevens), Unbearable Lightness of Being(Milan Kundera), Autobiography of Malcolm X, Rabindranath Tagore, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Steinbeck, Noam Chomsky, Douglas Adams, Rumi, Pablo Neruda, Kurt Vonnegut, Thich Nhat Hanh, Bell Hooks, The Onion, Where the Wild Things are, Recipes for Disaster, Colors magazine, almanacs and encyclopedias. Currently reading: Everything Bad is Good for You (Steven Johnson)