total art junkie.... lots of books (historical novels and social signifigance esp.)... excellent music... cooking! and fantastic food (proclaimed food snob and health freak)... aspiring wine aficionado... long conversations about the why's in life... yoga... fitness and working out in genral... shibori... time with my family... funky movies... quality clothing with personality... carousing with friends at really great venues... massages... travelling (Europe as of late)... anything involving mountains and ocean (where do I live?!?!?)... and trying things that scare me
friends that I don't get to see that often especially :)
David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell, U2, India.Arie, Lauryn Hill, Interpol, Beck, Pink Floyd, the Velvet Underground, Frou Frou, Imogen Heap, STS9, Umphries McGee, Phish, Radiohead, Snow Patrol, Coldplay, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Pete Yorn, Wilco, Morrissey, White Stripes, The Shins, The Beatles, Incubus, 311, Sublime, Fermata (all my Cali boys), Devin Townsend Band, Damien Rice (if I am depressed), Portishead, Primus, Les Claypool, Mike and Leo, DJ Shadow, Nicole Nordman, some Michelle Creed, Tori Amos, Simon and Garfunkel, Bjork, the Indigo Girls (really just Swamp Ophelia), anything I can dance to, Samba music, La Boheme, all Puccini, Mozart's Requeim (among others), Madame Butterfly, Vivaldi, Wagner, Carmina Burana, Rachmaninov, Italian Operettas, Rob Watson and Carolee Mayne, David Crowder, Trevorside, Beethoven's 3rd and 7th esp., early James Taylor, Have been turned on to good metal lately... Red Sparrows, Opeth, Neurosis, Isis... STP, Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson, Sarah Vaughn, Rosemary Clooney, Nat King Cole, Frankie, Dean, Bing, Ella... anything I can sing to in the car... to name a few
Anything (for the most part) including Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Gene Kelly or Danny Kaye (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Charade, To Have and Have Not, Court Jester, Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Funny Face, North by Northwest, Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer, Bringing up Baby, Holiday, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, My Fair Lady, Roman Holiday, etc.)... Film Noir in general, Brick, Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, all of the Cohen brothers movies (I own most if you have yet to experience them), Usual Suspects, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Patriot Games, Last of the Mohicans, Braveheart, the Passion of the Christ, As Good As It Gets, What a Way To Go, The Godfather Trilogy, Garden State, Pride and Prejudice, Mean Girls, Bridget Jones' Diary, Daddy Longlegs, An American in Paris, Goodfellas, Crash, Collateral, Amelie, Babette's Feast, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, So I Married an Ax Murderer, most Adam Sandler movies, Will Farrell is my hero, and I have a huge crush on Luke Wilson... so anything they are in, Wes Anderson flicks (sooo good!), Ang Lee movies, All of Tarantino's actual movies (as opposed to things people attach his name to), Magnolia, Dark City and so many more that are not coming to mind right now....
Family Guy, Ren and Stimpy, Futurama, Robot Chicken, Simpsons, South Park on occasion (so I like cartoons!), Law and Order (yes, I am one of those....), Friends, Will and Grace, Six Feet Under and The Sopranos.
As of Late... the Tipping Point, Lust for Life, The Bell Jar, The Universe in a Nutshell, Desiring God, The Agony and the Ecstacy, Random Family, Skinny Legs and All, ANYTHING by C.S. Lewis or J.R.R. Tolkein, World Prayer, Rembrandt's Eyes... I want to read a lot more.. Freakonomics, The Myth of Certainty, many others.... if you have suggestions for books that i should read let me know! I have an hour commute everyday and I need new material!
My parents and brother. Jesus.