I've got my hands in many baskets. My lifetime passion is dance. All about the mind-body connection. I also enjoy choreography, music, philosophy, cosmology and astronomy, photography (though I'm definitely quantity over quality), Pilates, yoga, and gardening. I dabble in the following arts and crafts: knitting, beadwork, jewelry, soapmaking, candles, sewing, origami. Quite the girly-girl; fashion, clothing design, makeup, hair, all things mini. In the summer I like to play outside. I love orchids, flowers, animals (I am of the feline purr-suasion), and hummingbirds. I love food and I'm a big advocate of organics and proper nutrition. I'm really into the Raw and Living Foods movement and learning to un-cook. My specialties are raw dishes, vegetarian cookery, curries, and vegetable sushi. The onion is my arch-nemesis. I have a lip gloss fetish and enough of the stuff to get me through the next millenium. Shoes, shoes, shoes.
Dancers, NO BAND REQUESTS please.
The Beatles have been my favorite band since I was very young and will always be. Einsturzende Neubauten, Tom Waits, David Bowie, Wilco, The Faint, Depeche Mode, The Melvins, and Nirvana have been big at different points throughout my life. Various electronica and house music, 80's retro and New Wave, Devendra Banhart, Smiths, Clash, Cure, Jeff Buckley, Kings of Convenience, New Order, Sufjan Stevens, MIA, Spoon, Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, Antony and the Johnsons, Neko Case. I indulge in what some would call lame pop tunes that I won't mention here. My favorite music is made by my husband Ernie , an awesome songwriter, musician, and vocalist.
Hard Days Night, 2001: A Space Oddity, Amelie, North by Northwest, Vertigo. Alfred Hitchcock and the Cohen brothers are my favorite directors. I usually go for a comedy or a French or Italian black and white film from the 60's. I'm currently obsessed with Christian Bale and am making my way through all of his films. Except for American Psycho I'm not much on gratuitous violence and I wish there were more happy art films, but until then, I'll watch the sad/interesting ones. I also love documentaries. Recent faves: Royal Tennenbaums, Broken Flowers, March of the Penguins, La Dolce Vida, Pan's Labrynth, The Fountain.
Works great with DVD and VHS! And let's be honest here, Food Network rules.
I mostly read a lot of textbooks, magazines, and raw books, but try to work some fiction in too. Subscriptions include Paper, Harper's, Yoga Journal, Shape, Fitness, Dance. I've read a lot out of these genres: Romantic poetry (Blake is my favorite), Shakespeare, Eastern, Social-Political and Feminist philosophy, Southern literature (Faulkner, O'Connor, McCarthy). A Brief History of Time (Hawking), Blood Memory (Martha Graham's autobiography), books about plants, animal psychology, cosmology, yoga, Pilates, cook and raw books, exercise and physiology. Recent faves: "Rawvolution" by Matt Amsden, "Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine" by Dr. Gabriel Cousens, "Healthy Aging" by Dr. Andrew Weil, "Food as Medicine" by Dr. Darma Khalsa, "Light on Yoga" by B.K.S. Iyengar "Diet for a New America" by John Robbins, "The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity" by Daniel Reid, "The Road" and "No Country for Old Men" by McCarthy. I'm currently working my way through any raw food books I can get my hands on, a few Pilates books, the last few Bret Easton Ellis novels I haven't read, and reading (or re-reading) Cormac McCarthy's books from first to last.
Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Isadora Duncan, my husband Ernie, my mom and dad, my late grandfather, George Broderick.