Anything that involves cooking, animals and drag queen make-up makes me happy. I adore scuba diving, Shoto-Kan karate, hiking with my dog and psycho-analyzing my cat. (He's a monster but amazingly cute! Nice combination, as far as I'm concerned!)
People, Cats, Non-bananas & Gardeners
Pixies, Beck, Prince, Grateful Dead, Matisyahu, Phish, The Postal Service, Beastie Boys, Asian Dub Foundation, Bob Marley, Tribe Called Quest, Madonna, Bjork, Basement-Jaxx, De La Soul, Fat Boy Slim, The Roots, Etnica, Radiohead, Stevie Nicks, Moby, Mos Def, Aphrodite, Neil Young, Chemical Brothers, Bruce Hornsby, Orbital, The Eels, Paul Simon, OutKast, Dolly Parton... classical, old country, drum 'n bass, folk, electronica/electrodub, japanese hip hop...
E.T., House of Flying Daggers, The Cooler, Best in Show, Spellbound, Breakfast Club, Amelie, The Princess and the Warrior, Whale Rider, Dazed and Confused, Dead Man, Bend it Like Beckham, The Wild Parrots of Telligraph Hill, Garden State, Secretary, Talk to Her, Waking Life, Amadeus, Dead Poets Society, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Before Sunset, Quills, Dances with Wolves, Sexy Beast, Office Space, Magnolia, Raise the Red Lantern, Nowhere in Africa, Velvet Goldmine, The Sea Inside.
The Food Network! The Closer, The X-Files, Sex and the City, Popular, Northern Exposure, PeeWee's Playhouse.
Lord of the Rings Trilogy- Tolkien, Mrs. Dalloway- V.Woolf, The Dream of Water- K. Mori, The Red Tent- A. Diamant, Shogun- J. Clavell, Atlas Shrugged- A. Rand, Jane Eyre- C. Bronte, The Giving Tree- S. Silverstein, The Girl of the Limberlost- G. Stratton-Porter. Everything by Nick Bantock, Bill Bryson, Douglas Adams, Barbara Kingsolver. Lyrics and poetry by Robert Hunter. All veggie cookbooks, though Moosewood are my favorite.