I love to read, and I love to ride my Harley. I like to write, too. Let's see, I enjoy lots of things: dancing, movies, good music, great food, stimulating conversation (moonlit walks on the beach blah blah blah). I love motorcycles and tattoos and everything associated with them. My husband is an old-school biker, a tattooed degenerate with the proverbial heart of gold. Basically, I'm a really laid-back person who can appreciate just about any experience. I love to learn, love to travel, love to experience different things. To me, life is a process of constant learning and re-learning, and hopefully some spiritual growth. And....that's about all I can think of to share for now! If you made it to the end of this paragraph, I congratulate you.
Do they necessarily have to be living? Hmm... John Cusak, Edward Norton, the Dali Lama (no, honestly), and Sandra Cisneros are among the living. I'd love to be able to have a conversation with someone like Cleopatra or Nero or Alexander the Great. I always wonder what those huge figures in history were REALLY like.
I'm into chick music and rock: Sarah McLachlin, Shakira, Muse, Coldplay, Staind, Bif Naked, A Perfect Circle, Counting Crows, etc. I like club music for dancing, stuff like Ludacris and Petey Pablo. For meditation or just to relax, I like Enya and Agricantus.
Some of my favorite movies: Donnie Darko, Labrynth, Steel Magnolias (I know, I know), Dirty Dancing (I know again), Office Space, Army of Darkness (a classic), Dogma, Pulp Fiction, Scarface ("Fly, pelican, fly!"), Snatch, Boondock Saints.
Don't watch nearly as much as I used to, but I'm still a sucker for Scrubs, Family Guy, Sex and the City, and Friends. Everything else I can pretty much take it or leave it.
I can't possibly list all the books I've loved, or even keep this updated with the one I'm currently reading. I honestly go through them too fast. I'll list some of the books I read when I was a kid that really stuck with me: Ride the Wind (one of the very few books I've read more than once); The Chronicles of Narnia; anything by Roald Dahl (The Witches, The BFG); the Anne of Green Gables series.
I have great admiration for strong women in history (history and historical fiction are two of my favorite genres). I often read historical fiction and then go back and research the facts for myself. Some of the women I admire: Empress Nur Jahan of India, Empress Tzu-Hsi of China, Cynthia Ann Parker, and Elizabeth I. I realize that this makes me a pretty huge nerd... don't really care. Ferociously intelligent, independent, and ambitious women have always fascinated me and earned my respect. Also, and I know it seems cheesy at first, but my mom is another intelligent, independent, capable, and damn cool woman whom I admire.