Photography, reading, meditation, music, writing, painting, hanging out with my pooch, taking spontanious road trips, traveling, playing the piano, dancing by myself in my apartment, taking baths, good conversation, using my imagination, singing in piano bars, battling the ocean
I'm meeting them all now.
Ani Difranco, Fiona Apple, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bessie Smith, Joan Jett, The Doors, Janis Joplin, any broadway showtune (guilty ) : ), Nina Simone, Liz Phair, AC/DC, Metallica, Liza with a Z, Hole, Nirvana, Lena Horne, Otis Redding, Portishead, Elvis Prestley, The Beatles, Billie Holiday, Johnny Cash and June Carter, Dolly Parton, Duran Duran, Billie Idol, David Bowie, Pink Floid, Yma Sumac, Bonnie Raitt, Aerosmith, Kelly Clarkson, Doris Day, Marilyn Monroe, Glenn Miller, just to name a few....and of course the Stones
Gone with the Wind, Streetcar named Desire, The Wizard of Oz, The Magnificent 7, Sunset Blvd., Follow that Bird, Goodfellas, Casino, any judy garland film, any bette davis film, any marlene dietrich film, Pillow Talk, But i'm a cheerleader, Niagra, Niagra, Elisabeth, The Life Aquatic, Apocolipse Now, Born on the 4th of July, Raging Bull, In the Heat of the Night, La Dolce Vita, Fried Green Tomatoes, Steel Mag., Straight Talk, 9 to 5, Funny Girl, Caberet, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf,
The Sopranos, Rome, Big Love
Anything Maya Angelou has written, as well as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker. Fall on Your Knees, The Nature of Water and Air, any Anne Rice novel, hope for the flowers,
People who aren't afraid of living their lives, and even if they might be full of fear, they walk through it. My heros are my friends, the ones who are honest, and selfless, and human with beautiful flaws, who see mine, and love me even more.