theater - directing, acting, new plays, seeing as much as I can, philosophy - especially aesthetics & phenomenology, music - listening, singing, going to concerts & festivals, playing french horn, art - painting, drawing, art history, modern art, politics, religions, photography, poetry, the Italian Renaissance, travel, people-watching, walking, Florence, Ireland, Greece, Africa, primates & primatology, Jane Goodall, hiking, camping, cooking, international cuisine, sushi, coffee, reading, magic, math magic, badminton, pilates, movies, film history, Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart, Merleau-Ponty, PoMo, Shakespeare, sustainability, learning, creating, teaching, laughing, dreaming...
Ray Charles. Monkeys.
Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Beck, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Ray Charles, Patty Griffin, Neil Finn, Crowded House, Nickel Creek, Van Morrison, Brandi Carlile, Spoon, Madeleine Peyroux, Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, Paul Simon, David Bowie, Johnny Cash, Rosanne Cash, Kate Bush, David Gray, Natalie Merchant, 10,000 Maniacs, Greenwich Meantime, Angelique Kidjo, Damien Rice, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ozomatli, Yerba Buena, U2, Dixie Chicks, Les Nubians, Zap Mama, The Shins, Stevie Wonder, Lucinda Williams, Matt Pond PA, John Prine, Angelo Melasecca, John Mayer, Shemekia Copeland, Death Cab For Cutie, Teada, Moby, Radiohead, Belle & Sebastian, Jim Croce, Cat Stevens, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Oscar Peterson, John Coltrane, Grateful Dead, Tracy Chapman, The Wailin' Jennys, Corinne Bailey Ray, Fiona Apple, Wilco, Jesca Hoop, Old Crow Medicine Show, Baka Beyond, Iron & Wine, Dispatch, David Wilcox, John Gorka, Trout Fishing in America, Norah Jones, Indigo Girls, Bright Eyes, Guster, Marc Broussard, Green Day, Ben Folds, R.E.M., Diana Krall, Rufus Wainwright, Dar Williams, Django Reinhart & Stephane Grapelli, Ruthie Foster, Eugene Hideaway Bridges, Raful Neal & Family, my African compilation CDs, my Paste Magazine CD samplers, WXPN, WRTI, etc...
Vertigo, Velvet Goldmine, Waiting for Guffman, This is Spinal Tap, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, Strangers on a Train, The Man Who Knew Too Much, North by Northwest, It's A Wonderful Life, Rear Window, just about any movie that Jimmy Stewart is in or that Alfred Hitchcock directed, The Manchurian Candidate (the original), Amelie, anything by Wes Anderson, The Station Agent, The Life of David Gale, Ray, Napoleon Dynamite, 9 Dead Gay Guys, Saved!, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Zoolander, Office Space, I 3 Huckabees, Garden State, Philadelphia, The LOTR trilogy, Waking Ned Devine, 25th Hour, Dr. Strangelove, Young Frankenstein, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Last Unicorn, The Point, Millions, Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees, Citizen Kane, Doctor Zhivago, Casablanca, Strictly Ballroom, Lost in Translation, The Wizard of Oz, Junebug, Bread and Tulips, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Everything is Illuminated, Walk the Line, The Constant Gardener, Transamerica, Broken Flowers, Runaway Jury, The Commitments, Crash, F for Fake, Little Miss Sunshine, An Inconvenient Truth, Les Choristes, The Girl in the Cafe, Stranger Than Fiction, Shopgirl, Once, I'm Not There, Juno
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Grey's Anatomy, My So-Called Life, Monk, Gilmore Girls, 30 Rock, Weeds, Arrested Development, House, Curb Your Enthusiasm...on dvd or online.
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Certain Women, The Small Rain, Ishmael, Sophie's World, Shopgirl, The Magus, Very Far Away From Anywhere Else, Claire Marvel,A Room With A View, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Lady Chatterly's Lover, Everything is Illuminated, Life of Pi, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Walden, A Director Prepares, Tips, Being Peace, America the book, The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader, just about anything by Madeleine L'Engle, John Fowles, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Harold Pinter, Harry Kondoleon, Joe Orton and Caryl Churchill, among others.