Midwifery, herbalism, anthropology, music, art, travel, folklore, costumes, old wives tales...
Afropop, punk rock, country music, lullabies, opera, son, a capella, chants, ancient music, anything sung by billy holiday, pretty much everything else too Especially love: Dead Moon, Fela Kuti, Ali Farka Toure, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Bob Wills, Hank Sr., Willie Nelson, Wah!, Dead Can Dance, Sade, Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, X, Tosca, Alice Spencer, Ella FItzgerald, Tom Waits, Reagan Youth, Naked Aggression, Crass, Blatz, Buster Poindexter, Ella Fitzgerald, Wes Montgomery, Ice Cube, Bushwick Bill, Madeliene Peyroux, Krysta Bell, John Lee Hooker, R.L. Burnside, The Gits, John Prine, Townes Van Zant, Butt Hole Surfers, Scratch Acid, Jesus Lizard, Big Black, Boss Hogg, Tarnation, White Ghost Shivers, Asylum Street Spankers, Mano Chao, Ozomatli, Tania Libertad, Brown Whornet, Golden Arm Trio, Pong, Talking Heads, Violent Femmes, Pixies, Angelique Kidjo, Cloiter, D.O.L., Man is the Bastard, Eye Hate God, Sam Cooke, Lee Perry, and lots more ...
Who has time for this? No really, I enjoy movies and all but I rarely have time to watch them. I love all "old" black and white movies, back when cinema was not so much about special effects and all about costuming and character. I love Claudette Colbert in everything she was ever in and Liz Taylor is amazing. Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf is one of my favorites but I also like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert also plays a fine Cleopatra). How could I forget Whatever Ever Happened to Baby Jane!I love all the Godfather movies, yes even the third one. I really love documentaries lately. What else... Cohen Bros., David Lynch (I don't remember liking eraserhead, but I'm willing to give it another try). I love the 80s fantasy movies (never ending story, princess bride, the labyrinth). I occasionally see some good ones these days. I like being shown obscure, bizarre movies but I really don't have much time to dedicate to seeking it out. My all time favorite movie ever? Hmmm... Maybe Wild at Heart. I'll think it over. Recent good ones: Pan's Labyrinth, Babel, Little Miss Sunshine
I don't watch so much of that stuff. PBS documentaries, the Simpsons, ALIAS...
Not a lot of time to sit down with a good book really. I read a lot of nonfiction, birth related, science, how-to. I love Isabelle Allende, Rudolfo Anaya, Flannery O'Connor, Kurt Vonegut, Robert Anton Wilson, Charles Bukowski, Tom Robbins...
All of my grandparents for different reasons.