Music:
ani difranco, coltrane, monk, nina simone, zap mama, neil young, lee scratch perry, linton kwesi johnson, tom waits, talking heads, brian eno, abbey lincoln, bob marley, peter tosh, bongwater, kristen hersh, throwing muses, the pogues, and many others
Movies:
hmmm too many, but some of my favorites are ... Elling......Until the end of the world.... pretty much anything by Jim Jarmusch.... Me, YOu and everyone we know.... The Hours..... Flirting with Disaster... Little miss sunshine .... Latcho Drom..... This is what democracy looks like.... living with war
Books:
Alice Walker, Leslie Marmon Silko, Hermann Hesse, Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, Kurt Vonnegut, Howard Zinn, Amy Tan, Audre Lorde, many others, and lots of good stuff I stumble across at the library..... , and OK, i will admit it...harry potter (impatiently waiting for july... dumbledore isnt really gone, is he?is he?)