Painting, drawing, printmaking, music, travel, art theory, reading, writing, hiking, camping, getting lost, canoeing, snow-shoeing, breadbaking!, Spanish language, pressed flowers, amateur psychology, making everything funny, semantics, dialogue, nonverbal communication, paralinguistics, etymology, being gentle, listening, practicing acceptance, spirituality, love, joy, beauty, all that good stuff.
Someone who enjoys a good cup of tea. People who are creative, dry-humored, dead-pan, witty, sarcastic, funny, easy going, outdoorsy and wear Carhartts, uptight about grammar, multi-lingual, bodyworkers, queer or artistic. Woodworkers, painters, salsa dancers, non-salsa-dancer dancers. Anne Frank, if I had a translator. I bet Matisse would be pretty interesting. I'd love to go back in time and say "Hey, lay off the heavy metals" to our good friend Vincent Van Gogh. Because really, if he'd had a little health advice he might not have gone so nutso.
The Pixies, PJ Harvey, Bjork, Mos Def, Massive Attack, Portishead, Paul Simon, Tribe Called Quest, The Pogues, The Beatles, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Bouncing Souls, Johnny Cash, Bad Religion, Tricky, Damien Rice, Tracy Chapman, The Shins, Otis Redding, Bright Eyes, Cat Power, Youssou N'Dour, Fela Kuti, Thievery Corporation, Radiohead, Taj Mahal, Dar Williams, Bob Dylan, Face to Face, Sublime, The Ramones, Ray LaMontagne, Ziggy Marley, Bebe, Jaguares, Manu Chao, Lila Downs, Alpha Blondy, Beastie Boys, Al Green, Barry White, Bonnie Raitt, Bill Withers, Marvin Gaye, Outkast, La Ley, Soda Stereo, Elefante, Los Fabulos Cadillacs, Shakira, Juanes, Black Eyed Peas, early Michael Jackson, The Roots, Mana, Marco Antonio Solis, Muddy Waters, Beethoven, Mozart, Erik Satie, Franz Schubert, Maria Callas, Ben Harper, Iron and Wine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Remy Zero, Coldplay, Mary J. Blige, Greg Brown, Leonard Cohen, Yo La Tengo, Zebra Junction, Fugazi, TV on the Radio,
The Abyss, Tank Girl, Secretary, Grosse Point Blank, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Meaning of Life, The Girl in the Cafe, Happy Accidents, Wings of Desire, Tampopo, Much Ado About Nothing (with Emma Thompson), The Merchant of Venice (with Al Pacino), Othello (with Lawrence Fishburne), Romeo & Juliet (Baz Luhrman's), Richard III (both Ian McKellan's and Lawrence Olivier's), Hamlet (with Mel Gibson), Hamlet 2000, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Batman, Chris Rock's Bigger and Blacker, Say Anything, Bridget Jones' Diary, The Princess Bride, Moonstruck, Bagdad Cafe, Buckaroo Bonzai, Cyrano De Bergerac, City Slickers, Ghostbusters, Harry Potter, A Mighty Wind, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, The Sea Inside, Lost in Translation, Napoleon Dynamite, Frida, Monsoon Wedding, Beautiful Thing, Diva, Sliding Doors, Wit
Will and Grace, The L Word, Sex and the City, Grey's Anatomy. So help me, I can't stop watching that show. I love the Daily Show because Jon Stewart cried on 9/11 and I love Steven Colbert because he regurgitates the truth like a mama eagle.
I'm reading a book called The Short Bus by Jonathan Mooney. Look for it in a store near you, it's great. Loved: Prodigal Summer, Animal Dreams, The Poisonwood Bible, The Phantom Tollbooth, Seductress (it's a training manual for wayward women; I'm learning so much) A Course in Miracles, The Invisible Dragon, The Grapes of Wrath, Cunt, Eureka Street, Eats, Shoots and Leaves, Written on the Body, Picnic Lightning, Nine Horses, Shakespeare, Harry Potter, Matisse on Art, A Walk in the Woods, WB Yeats stuff, Sylvia Plath stuff, The Things They Carried, Richard Wright: Black Boy, Native Son, The Brothers K, Once Minutos, El Alquimista
My family, Emma Thompson, Janeane Garofalo, Barbara Kingsolver, Tank Girl, She-Ra, JMW Turner, Matisse, Oskar Kokoschka, Georgia O'Keefe, Ida Rolf, Shakespeare, Billy Crystal, Josh Blue, Mitch Hedberg