Traveling, reading, knitting, tattoos, movies, red wine, my kitties, teaching, talking politics, driving around, trying new things, listening to music i've never heard before, playing piano, popping bubble wrap.
Smart, bookish types. People who can laugh at themselves. People who like to try new things. Travelers. People who see problems and try to fix them. People who are honest. People with passion and compassion.
KCRW, KPFK, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, old southern delta blues, Beck, Beastie Boys, Shuggie Otis, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Prince, David Bowie, Le Tigre, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Suba, Patsy Cline, Death Cab for Cutie, KT Tunstall, Marlene Dietrich, older Ani Difranco, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Lucinda Williams, Erik Satie, music from Mali, most yodeling music, and many many more.
A State of Mind, Lawrence of Arabia, Gone With the Wind, The Sound of Music, To Kill a Mockingbird, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday, Secretary, The Princess Bride, My Own Private Idaho, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Brokeback Mountain, Lost in Translation, Royal Tenenbaums, Hitchcock, Woody Allen, you know, good ones.
The Simpsons, Futurama,American Idol, American Experience, Antique Roadshow, South Park, Freaks and Geaks, Cowboy BeBop, L Word, House, Grey's Anatomy.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Color Purple, Feed, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, A People's History of the United States, Reading Lolita in Tehran, so many to read, so little time.
My sister, my mom and dad, my niece, and my two Amandas.