exploring, dancing, riding my bike, travel, writing, music, film, art, yoga in the park on a sunny day, dancing, making jewelry, learning new things, culinary experimentation, midcentury modern design, hiking, visiting museums, roller skating, great conversations, pop culture, KPFK/social consciousness n' revolution...did I mention dancing?
~~~Humanists, people who love to dance in sneakers & unconventional types- quirky or eccentric people, walking contradictions...pursuers and pushers of realism, people who are genuine, and people who love their life, even with all its ups and downs.
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House (esp progressive)/ trip hop/ electronica/ reggae, fat n' groovy beats, Built to Spill, Otis Redding, Camera Obscura, Sufjan Stevens, The Shins, Basement Jaxx, Groove Armada, Massive Attack, Elliot Smith, Manu Chao, D'Angelo, Bloc Party, Fiona Apple, Damien Rice, John Mayer, Outkast, Le Tigre, Discount, Beatles, Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Richard Ashcroft, Peggy Lee, The Killers, Bjork, Prince, Morcheeba, early Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, Air, Elton John, DJ Cheb I Sabbah, Roots, Beastie Boys, N.E.R.D., Cafe Tacuba, Kinky, Nortec Collective, The Cure, Stereolab, Green Day, Beck, Flaming Lips, Oasis, Velvet Underground, Doors, Mates of State, plus most of the music on www.kcrw.com
I haven't seen a lot of movies recently, but Children of Men was incredible...go see it! Girl W/A Pearl Earring, Lost In Translation, Almost Famous, Fantasia (original), Spirited Away, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Billy Elliot, Virgin Suicides, Cinema Paradiso, American Beauty, Donnie Darko, Ghost World, Goodfellas, Pride and Prejudice, The Lion in Winter, City of God, Nicotina, The Incredibles, Kill Bill Vols. I n II, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Casino, School of Rock, Talk to Her (any Almodovar), Amores Perros, Go, Royal Tenenbaums, High Fidelity, Friday and I *heart* Huckabees
Entourage and Flight of the Conchords are brilliant; props to HBO. Project Runway rocks. This American Life is fun (though I love the radio show more). Now that I don't have cable with DVR, I miss the Suze Orman show. My previous roommate converted me into a Scrubs and The Office fan. My cousin is hooked on 24, so I'll watch that when we hang out.
Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Baudelaire's Paris Spleen, Ovid's Metamorphoses, The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, 1984 by George Orwell, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and the poetry of Pablo Neruda, Emily Dickinson & Hafiz. From my childhood I remember liking Where the Red Fern Grows, Griffin & Sabine (An Extraordinary Correspondence), Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Ramona Quimby series (Superfudge, too).
Jimmy Carter, Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez, Noam Chomsky, Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, single parents who raise good kids
The Ticket Assassin - he helped me beat 2 moving violations!