Music, hiking, dancing under the moon, the ocean, brewing beer and seeking out the new and interesting in life, Martinis, reading, writing, being challenged, helping to create change, dogs (especially jack russels and korgies), learning about our past, learning new things, exploring secret areas, mountains, the rainforest, traveling, hotsprings, wine country, people who come together under unexpected circumstances to take action, camping, swimming (although I totally suck at it), FIGHT the good fight, Sweat-lodges, Drums, art, painting, speaking out, Vacation!,
Passionate, driven, honest, silly, fun, brave people who enjoy laughing at life and themselves.
Anything that makes me shake my booti and I don't even notice that I am doing it. I love blues, jazz, underground hip hop scene, reggae, old school... well shit I really do just love it all but I do hate county and mainstream no talent bullshit(meaning anything unoriginal). Anticon, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Buck 65, Bob Marley, BlackFire, Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen,Dead Can Dance, James, Aretha Franklin, The Streets, Morcheeba,Michael Franti and Spearhead (all about Power to the Peaceful baby!) Tori Amos, Bjork, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Cafe del Mar, Tom Waits, Ani Difranco, Beck, Blackaliscious, Ursala Rucker, Louis Armstrong, Loreana McKennet,Marvin Gaye,Johnny Cash, I Monster, Portishead, Massive Attack, Miles Davis, Tricky, Gorillaz, Manu Chau, Tribe Called Quest, Digital Planets,The Coup, and more and more and more.
Amelie, Whalerider, Fightclub, Bowling for Columbine, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Braveheart, Meet the fockers, Shawn of the Dead, Napolean Dynamite, The Last Unicorn, The Dark Crystal, American History X, South Park the Movie, Smoke Signals, Skins, Ponnette, Maria Full of Grace, Requium for a Dream, Brokeback Mountain, Love Actually, Garden State, Erin Brochovich, Dancer in the Dark, Oh Brother Where Art thou?, Boondock Saints, Hotel Rwanda, No Cure for Cancer-Dennis Leary, Hero, The Big One, The Big Lebousky, City of God, Love me if you Dare, Kill Bill (I & II), Fahrenheit 9/11, V for Vendetta, Walk the Line, Pan's Labyrinth, Little Miss Sunshine, The Hurricane, The Lives of Others, Hot Fuzz, Sicko, P.S. I Love You, Juno, Superbad
The Simpsons, SouthPark, The John Stewart show and Sex and the CityFor a really good laugh-check out John Stewart kicking ass on Crossfire (seriously this is soooo good) http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2652831?htv=12Also check out Steve Colbert at the White House Correspondents dinner~ He speaks right next to the president and it's shocking he got away with it~ Its Freakin' AWESOME!http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-49736174487 70513925
Mutant Message Down Under, Potiki, On the Road, Jitterbug Perfume, Life in Debt, Stop the Next War Now, Even Cowgirls get the Blues, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Eat, Love & Pray
My real greatest hero's are Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi because they were great leaders who lived and stood for what they believed in the most honest and beautiful way. People I respect and hold in the highest regard are: Michael Moore, Steve Colbert(for his recent speech right next the president),Chief Joseph, Chief Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Tom Robbins, All the crazy, relentless activists around the world who never give up no matter how hopeless it all seems, Che Guevera, Dennis Kucenich and all the writers, artists and musicians who break the rules and create something totally new and extraordinary.