Volleyball, Post-colonial studies, racism, sexism, pretty much any -ism. Composition Pedagogy. So yeah, BOOKS.
I'd like to meet:
I met Rigoberta Menchu--Nobel Peace Prize Winner. Her words comforted this distruaght soul after 9/11. Someone asked her how she felt about the attacks--it seemed like they were fishing for sympathy. She said (I'm paraphrasing), "It is always sad when lives end before they have to." I didn't know anything about her when I met her, hearing those words was enough to know. If you want to know more, read her book.I want to meet people who inspire others, allowing that warm fuzzy feeling to pulse through their veins. Why do I want to meet them? To get that feeling, duh.
Music:
Generally: Indie, Alternative, Hip Hop, Jazz. The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Dave Matthews Band are the creamy whip cream atop my musical smorgasborg--the first and sweetest bite. I would be remiss to leave out the women in my life: Ani DiFrano, Tori Amos, Lush, Chara, Norah Jones, India Arie, Bjork, Rachael Yamagata
Movies:
Sadly, I haven't seen a movie to add to this list in a LONG freakin' time. Tampopo, Cinema Paradiso, Il Postino, Dancer in the Dark (Bjork), Shawshank Redemption, Amelie, Whale Rider, Lost in Translation: layered amongst a hundred others
Television:
Late Night with Conan O'Brian, The Office, Scrubs, Dave Chappelle Show, Reno 911.
Books:
New Books: Philip Roth's The human Stain, Pierre Bourdieu's Language and Symbolic Power, Salman Rusdie's Midnight's Children, V Woolf's Orlando, Enchi Fumiko's Masks, Zadie Smith's White Teeth, VS Naipaul's A Bend in the River, Delillo's White Noise, Updike's The Centaur, Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus; my library grows weekly
