politics, traveling, coffee & chocolate(preferably together, anyone say mocha?) hangin with the fam and my fabulous friends, school work ( least I should try to enjoy what is the bulk of my existence currently!), dancing (ballet & hip hop), happy hours, singing in the shower and car radio
just another way to stay in touch with friends....frankly the endless variety of other mediums (texting, phone calls, emails, etc, etc...) just doesn't cut it?!? I need to know what y'all are doing RIGHT NOW.
Lily Allen, The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, Augustana, Death Cab for Cutie, Citizen Cope, Matt & Kim, Kanye West, Modest Mouse, The Shins, Nirvana, Sleater Kinney, Ani DiFranco, Lauren Hill, Weezer, Fiona Apple, Jack Johnson, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Nina Simone, the Pink Martini, Ella Fitzgerald, oldies, big band jazz, etc...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday (anything with Audrey Hepburn), All the Presidents Men, Sense and Sensibility, Election, Napoleon Dynamite, Citizen Kane, To Kill a Mockingbird, Annie Hall & Manhattan (big fan of Woody Allen), Metropolitan, Legally Blonde, Amadeus....
West Wing, Jon Stewart, the Gilmore Girls, Lost. I was formerly addicted to Laguna Beach.
this is an impossibly difficult question unless you want a laundry list: Anna Karenina, Love in the Time of Cholera and 100 Years of Solitude, Catcher in the Rye, Franney and Zooey (anything by J.D. Salinger), Slaughter House Five & Cat's Cradle, anything by Jane Austin, although Sense and Sensibility (her first novel) is my favorite. I was formerly into a lot of feminist literature: The femimine Mystique (Betty Friedan, former Smithie) Backlash (Susan Faludi), Second Sex (Simon de Beauvoir), etc. I used to read more poetry: The Wasteland Canon (T.S. Eliot), Dorothy Parker and Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickenson, Les Fleurs du Mal (Baudelaire), and Shakespeare's sonnets, particularly 116. Also "Profiles in Courage" and other political writings which I won't bore you with cause this list is too long...
My dad and mom, my grandparents, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Martin Lurther King Jr., JFK and RFK