Music: listening to it,creating it, learning it's language. Quantum Mechanics: we are just beginning to understand what we dont understand (-; Flamenco: the dance form of the gypsies and musicianship of the highest quality. Horses: the most beautiful and powerful creature that has ever served man. We are sooo undeserving. Native Americans: who knew how to treat the earth and it's gifts. Secret societies and how they affect global politics. Not even a question for me. I mean, HELLO!!!!
My most persistent inner self, the best of teachers who believe in my songs, musicians interested in playing in my band.
I love everything from rock to opera. I grew up performing in semi-professional musical theater productions and singing in the school's chorus. Years ago, back in Manhattan, I'd do sets of cover songs with local artists who would let me. I sang soprano parts in a Christmas choir there as well. Now, I enjoy the artists who may or may NOT be household names but are "songwriter's songwriters" ... Patty Griffin, Brett Dennen, Rufus Wainright, and MANY others too numerous to mention. There's an ocean of mega talent beneath the radar of radio and tv play and I applaud the ones who keep on playing and sharing their gifts, unsigned and unrecognized...although some DO get heard (-; I love every form music takes but am a slave to the classic rock genre.
Vast array of likes but Legends of the Fall, Dances with Wolves, Chocolat, Finding Neverland, The Notebook, Farenheit 9/11(I couldn't resist), and What the Bleep Do We Know as well as An Inconvenient Truth. Many more...
There are some quality shows on tv but I dont even have my cable hooked up (-; I dont want to be addicted to shows I cant always watch and I'm not into catching them on all the new recording gadgets available. I prefer music. When I watch tv, I get fat and dont practive guitar enough(-;
I used to hate reading as a child and would be sequestered to the basement as punishment to work on book reports for school... then I read The Pearl by John Steinbeck and my love of reading began. Later I read the Celestine Prophecy and saw the world with new eyes. Then I started dipping heavily into astrology, occult matters, and theosophical teachings. I have read many books about various secret societies and their relation to our government's undertakings(shhh, the titles are a secret). Angels and Demons by Dan Brown was even better than DaVinci Code. Most recently I read The 48 Laws of Power... great life tools. For fun, I also refer to The Bad Girls Guide to Getting What You Want. And a little paper back called A Woman's Worth is worth buying for every little girl on the planet.
The ordinary, every day people who persist despite mental or physical disabilities, poverty, hunger, religious persecution, racism, and war conditions. People with great wealth who share it and give hand-ups, not hand-outs are also pretty high up in my book. I wont give seperate names... true heroes dont need to be named, they are obvious.