Writing, film, photography, TRAVEL, art, music. Daily yoga and meditation. Cultivating inner peace. Spirituality, sociology, psychology, philosophy. Animal welfare. Interior design, architecture. I love to learn. I love words. I love imagery.
Smart, creative, curious, spiritual, cerebral types who love to laugh and know how to cry. Travelers. People without pretentions. People who are kind and tolerant, passionate and principled. People who see beauty where others might not.
Everything from alternative to rock to jazz to classical to international. U2, Coldplay, The Cure. Some opera arias bring me to tears. Ella Fitzgerald. Lounge music. The Beatles. Lisa Gerrard and Hans Zimmer. Fantasy job: Choosing music for films.
Eclectic tastes.... Prefer drama over comedy (dry over slapstick). The Godfather. Good cop films, like Serpico. The English Patient, Immortal Beloved, Shawshank Redemption, The Pianist, Schindler's List, The Player, Mistress. Wings of Desire. Giant, All About Eve. I love a good cry.
Not much lately but... CBS Sunday Morning, House, Nip/Tuck, Project Runway. Loved Inside the Actor's Studio before they sold out with the likes of Will Smith and Meg Ryan.
Recent books: Shantaram -- long but worth it. Running with Scissors, which I suspect has about as much truth in it as another recent read: A Million Little Pieces. (Sorry, Augusten Burroughs' life could NOT have been THAT bizarre. Could it?) Currently: Eat, Pray, Love and Atlas Shrugged. (I have STACKS of books to read.) Trying to read more great fiction -- great writing is MOST important -- but love non-fiction, including dictionaries and reference books(!), spirituality, psych/sociology and stories of journeys (internal or otherwise) of people doing or experiencing amazing things.
My parents. And sometimes even myself.