MUSIC. THEATRE. POETRY. LITERATURE. Being creative. Great conversations and fun games with great friends. reading, writing, making music. Love, in all its forms. Believing in something and staying true to yourself. Living the dream... and remembering to enjoy it.
Like-minded people: musicians, artists, poets, novelists, crazy liberals, hopeless romantics, unjaded optimists, and eternal dreamers.
Brahms, Sondheim, Bill Evans, Regina Spektor, Michael Brecker, Joni Mitchell, Samuel Barber, W.A. Mozart, Ani DiFranco, Jason Robert Brown, Adam Guettel, Tori Amos, Ben Folds, Michael John LaChiusa, William Finn, Beethoven, Schubert, Prokofiev, Oscar Peterson, Dave Grusin, Maltby and Shire, Dave Matthews Band, Bela Fleck, Allison Kraus, Chick Corea, Gabe Dixon, John Mayer, and much more...
Amadeus, Adaptation, Mullholland Drive, The Hours, Garden State, Waiting for Guffman, My best friend's wedding, Lolita (the new one)
This year I had to give up 24 :( But, I still had Big Love, Will and Grace, Seinfeld, Project Runway, and reruns of Full House.
Atlas Shrugged, the Fountainhead, Lolita, Gone with the wind, Catcher in the Rye, Great Gatsby, The Secret history, Frida, The Sacred and the Profane (bio of Mozart), The Agony and the Ecstasy (bio of Michelangelo, The Bell Jar, A heartbreaking work of a staggering genius, The Art of Loving, anything by Chekhov, The Moon and the Sixpence (and anything else by Maugham), The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway), Anna Karenina, anything by Leon Feuchtwanger, etc.
People who realize that the learning never stops. For example, my parents, and all other immigrants who weren't afraid to start anew.