Radio - I have programmed local music in Boston for longer than even I can remember in an effort to expose independent music that may otherwise remain hopelessly obscure. Well, it still may, but at least a few fortunate ears will be all the more graced.
Music Photography
Nature and wildlife Film - with little time to indulge in seeing much these days. ..aries are my favorite. I Would love to produce and direct a documentary or two someday. Perhaps in my next life. Maybe this one.
Myself on an African foot walking safari
Create your own visitor map!
All genres if they are well written and performed. Here are a few mostly 'classic' nationals to start (in no particular order): Patti Smith, Nick Drake, The Kinks, Jonathan Richman, Buzzcocks, Buffy Sainte Marie, AC/DC, Elliott Smith, The Who, The Damned, Mighty Bosstones, The Fall, Iggy Pop, Clash, Mission of Burma, Cheap Trick, Linda Ronstadt, Stranglers, Johnny Cash, Alice Cooper, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, The Beatles, Neil Young, David Bowie, John Lennon, The Blue Nile, Annie Lennox, Ramones, T Rex, Fats Domino, Chameleons UK, Joan Baez, Mott the Hoople, Squeeze, Rolling Stones, Erin McKeown, Sly Stone, The Smiths, Tom Rush, Nine Inch Nails, Black Flag, Richard Thompson, Ray Charles, Anything Motown, Naked Raygun, Yardbirds, Jeff Beck, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Elvis Costello, Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, James White & The Blacks, Suzanne Vega, Sex Pistols, P.I.L., Thin Lizzy, Deb Talan, X, Elliot Smith, Foo Fighters, Irma Thomas, Robert Johnson, Motorhead, Megadeth, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Dr. John... Cut me some slack on the limited amount of bands so far. I posted these at 6:30 AM which is pretty aces, if you ask me.
The Constant Gardener, El Norte (don't watch this one if you forgot to take your mood enhancers), Anything by John Waters, Los Furtivos, Night of the Living Dead, Philadelphia, Big, Thelma & Louise, Rain Man, Clerks, Mrs, Doubtfire never not makes me laugh.
60 Minutes, Animal Planet Network, The Office, ER, Conan O'Brien, Law and Order, Seinfeld re-runs... However, I rarely watch TV much these days.
American Gods - Neil Gaiman, To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee, The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd, Life of Pi - Yann Martel, I've Got The Light Freedom - David J. Garrow, Secrets of the Savannah - Mark and Delia Owens, Cry of the Kalahari - Mark and Delia Owens, Animals in Translation - Temple Grandin, Whatever you do, Don't Run - Peter Allison The Great Divide - Studds Terkel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Choderlos de Laclos, The Pianist - Wladyslaw Szpilman, A Peoples History of The United States - Howard Zinn, Wonderland Avenue - Danny Sugerman
Not exactly heroes, but fearless women & men who I respect for the difference they have made in this world:My parentsSojourner Truth (1797 - 1883) - abolitionist & feministPatti Smith - poet & musicianCesar Chavez - Mexican American labor activistLucy Parsons - African American labor activistStephen Bantu (Biko) - Anti-Apartheid activistMore to come, but these are the ones who instantly come to mind.