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Reading, writing, gardening, raising my children
JK Rowling - greatest writer of the modern age; Dalai Lama - gotta love a truly Holy Man, Lauren Bacall - just to listen to her stories, Johnny Depp - perhaps he should have come first; George Bush - just to slap him a few times; Ringo Starr - old crushes never die; Bono - no better still Ali Hewson - brilliantly active people doing good in the world; Gore Vidal - previously greatest writer of the Modern Age; Bryan Ferry - see Ringo Starr!; Allyson Hannigan - just to pinch her cheeks; Joss Whedon - the man who revived my interest in TV; Dylan - Just to genuflect!; Leonard Cohen - see Dylan; Joni Mitchell - again with the genuflecting, Kate Bush - because she is brilliant, James Spader just because.
This could go on for days! I better start with handsome hubby or there will be hell to pay! Tom Stevens with and without the Long Ryders, Kate Bush, Leonard Cohen, Lucinda Williams, Beatles, Patti Smith, U2, Stones, Tom Waits, Waterboys, Cranberries, Bowie, Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Todd Rungren, Alanis Moursette, Ani Difranco, Beck, Joan Baez, Black Crows - got the feeling I am looking at my MP3 list yet? - Boomtown Rats - and Geldorf on his own, Bryan Ferry alone and with Roxy Music, Buffy St. Marie, Byrds, Natalie Merchant - both with 10,000 maniacs and alone, Michelle Shocked, Donavan, Clash, Emmylou Harris, Donovan, Elvis - Costello these days more than Presley but I have my moods, Edith Piaf, Eurythmics - and Annie Lennox, Greenday, Harry Belafonte, Harry Nilsson, Ian Hunter - and Mott the Hoople, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, Kinks, Lou Reed, Maddy Prior and Steeleye Span, Nick Lowe, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Sheryl Crow, Sinead O'Connor, Sex Pistols, Suzanna Vega, Tom Petty, Tori Amos, Victoria Williams, Yoko - yes I like Yoko!, and Iggy Pop for fun!
This will take longer than music. My latest fav is Serenity and Henry and June. I have enjoyed movies from Anna Christie with Garbo to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! I will fill in the holes when time allows.
Boston Legal is the only show aside from Jon Stewart and Colbert that I watch that is still being made. James Spader is ... Anyway Joss Whedon's shows I still watch regularly for inspiration - Buffy, Angel, Firefly. Besides that TV sucks!
JK Rowling - all; Chaim Potok - all; Herman Hesse - all; Anais Nin - all; Henry Miller - still on Tropic of Cancer; JeanPaul Sartre - Nausea; Oscar Willde - all; Marion Zimmer Bradley - Mists of Avalon and Lady of Avalon; Tolstoy - Anna Karenina; Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle; Anita Diamont - Red Tent; Rebecca Wells - all; Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden; Leonard Cohen - Beautiful Losers and Poetry collections; Patti Smith - Poetry Collections; Any City Lights Author!
Gotta start with Christ - what a guy! Anais Nin for her courage; Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir - existentialism rocks!; Harpo Marx - so much to say, so little time to say it; Thomas Paine; Joan the Mad - can't explain it would take too long; Marilyn Monroe - such a beauty and grace; Isadora Duncan - the coolest death ever; Carole Lombard - she was married to Gable for Goddess Sake; Sarah Stevens - she has the courage to do (personal you are not expected to understand), Martha Stewart for making homemaking a comercial art, Shakespeare - he was cool!; John Lennon - for telling the truth even when it made him look like an asshole; Dylan - see John Lennon.