Quantum Physics, Ecological protection groups, e.g., ELF and ALF, Water Sports, esp. Water Ballet, Cooking, Photography, and Linguistics
Handel's Water Music; Ducksicle; all JM (but particularly, Covered in Rain, Don't Trust Myself, Wheel, Split Screen Sadness, Clarity, Why Georgia, Over and Over, Gravity, and Vultures); Marc Anthony, in general cept for that Jenny from the Bronx issue, but most affectionate for Contra la Corriente, and his singin Satin Summer Nights (from The Cape Man, Paul Simon's sadly misunderstood venture on Bway); Norah Jones, in general, but Come Away with Me and Nightingale, esp; Buckley, Lover You Should Have..., I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby, Back in NYC, and Witches' Rave; Jill Sobule, Karen by Night, Houdini's Box, and Trains; ANATH; Tori Amos' cover of I'm Not In Love; S. McLachlan, esp, Surfacing and, from that one, Aidia and Do What You Have to Do; ALL of Cantos de Agua Dulce (think about it, Songs for the Sweet Water, by the delicious Colombiana Marta Gomez, for a lil duck who grew up in a trilingual home, English, Spanish, and Quackish); Karen Carpenter; Sweet Baby James; Jackson Browne (BIG TIME, specially Saturate Before Using); Sheryl Crow, Globe Sessions, but especially Riverwide and It Don't Hurt; Officium; Iggy Pop, Lust for Life and Nightclubbing; New Order, Temptation; Bedrock w/KYO, For What you Dream Of; The Sundays; Lyle Lovett, esp. If I Had a Boat; Mozart, esp. violn concertos 1, 3, & 5; Blue Train, Coltrane (durr :) QUACK!, wiggling my back bottom feathers all sassylike cuz you'd have to be deaf not to LOVE Coltrane and Miles, no disrespect meant to those who have to live without the most precious sense of sound); Coleman Hawkins; Etta Jones; Nina Simone (she is my role model, and I am thinking of migrating to Paris as soon as I have full fluency in both French and Greek, could hang with Johnny Depp, his wife and kids [me and my kids] there then too); Henry Johnson's Organic; the Andrew Sisters, esp, w/Bing, Don't Fence Me In and Rum and Coca-Cola; Puccini, esp, of course, La Boheme; and Kathleen Battle, esp. the Six Spirituals she does so well; and my dear dear friend, Yo Yo Ma, because I love humans and the cello is THE sound which most closely resembles the human voice and which stirs this Lady Duck Dolores' sweet, melancholy soul, and finally MOBY (esp. Great Escape) and yes, REM, early stuff: HarborcOat, 7 chinese bros., so. Central Rain, and so on. You had no idea how much ducks love music, didja?
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The Girl in the Cafe (HBO), Law and Order (I really love cop shows), and Real Time with Bill Maher
Animal Farm; Moby Dick; Watership Down; The Safety of Objects; The Ugly Duckling; Arguments Against the G8; and fav poem, by Yeats, "Leda and the Swan"
Morgan Spurlock, Greg Palast, Busby Berkeley, Aquadettes Barbara Hack and Beverly Margolis, Jacques Cousteau, Angela Davis, Ruben Dario, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, and George Galloway