Surrealism, all kinds of music and dance, organic food, CSA's, altered states, communing with other dimensions, spirituality, higher selves, God/ the Source, performance art, yoga, bellydance, watching fire-dancing, discipline, going to clubs, live music, pilates, creativity, creative thinking, underground /alternative/indie culture, domination, mindfuck experiences, minds blowing, values-led business, empowered workers, traveling, South Africa, raw food, alternative medicine, art, crafts, drawing, sculpture, trash art, design, mid-century modernism, affordable housing, new urbanism, walkable cities, livable cities, the environment, dairy- and wheat-free eating, walking, experimental music, animals, nature, meditation, camping, vegetarianism, horseback riding, gardening, furniture refinishing, dumpster diving, british comedy, burlesque, shopping, revival of urban rivers, fashion, cooking, clearing clutter, reading, swordplay, exercise.
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People who: go bump in the night; collect Ramune soda bottles; don't clean their ashtray regularly; have entered spelling bees and lost (or won); like the show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" or "Doctor Who?"; do not like natto but have tried it; are first generation and feel culturally alienated and ignorant; barf at elitism and exclusion; pick their noses in the car; get amused and angry at today "creative drivers";don't talk on the phone in the car; have participated in flash mobs or free running; do art; live their passion; like silly Japanese TV shows .
Pussycat Dolls, Anastacia, Blackalicious, Deltron 3030, Bitter: Sweet, Natacha Atlas, Muse, Bonobo, Nickodemus, Zero 7, Sia, Mr. Bungle ,Daft Punk, Faith no More, 4 String, Depeche Mode, Fannypack, Dido, Ying Yang Twins, Pitbull, Massive Attack, Jem, Michael Buble, Zucchero, Fatboy Slim, Cold Play, The Fray, James Blunt, Oojami, Gia, Norah Jones, middle eastern, DJ Cheb i Sabbah,
Cars, Bee Movie, Lady in the Water, Shoot Em' Up, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Better than Sex, What the Bleep do We Know?, Corpse Bride, But I'm a Cheerleader, Nightmare before Christmas, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Notebook, The Last Unicorn, Scarlet Diva, Big Night, The Moon Stallion,The Illusionist, The Fountain, The Secret Garden, Happy Feet, Mr. Vampire, Star Wars, Constantine, Happenstance, The Holiday, Stardust, anything by Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, etc.)
The L Word, Sex and the City, Clean House, Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Hell's Kitchen, Queer as Folk, Dotch Cooking Show, Most Extreme Challenge, Designed to Sell, Doctor Who, Whose Line is it Anyway?, The Simpsons, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, Absolutely Fabulous, any makeover or dating show, court shows occasionally, Dinner Impossible, No Reservations, Man vs. Wild, Star Trek, Gossip Girl
Earth In Mind, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Narnia series, The Dark is Rising sequence, Pure Dessert, The Relationship Cure, Drawing for the Artistically Undiscovered, How to Draw A Radish (Clam, and Coffee Cup)- all by Joy Sikorski, Everything We Love Can Be Saved, Information Anxiety 2, The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road, The Bad Girl's Guide to Getting What You Want, any of the Bad Girl's Guides!, Bread Tomato Garlic, Built to Last, The Other Side and Back (by Sylvia Brown), Eat Pray Love, The Big Sister's Guide to the World of Work
Obama, The Dalai Lama, David Carradine, Carrie Graber, Tori Amos, Viggo Mortensen, E.O. Wilson, Andrew Wulff, Richard Saul Wurman, Cameron Tuttle, Elizabeth Gilbert, Johnny Depp, Alice Waters, Lisa Garr, Jesus, Buddha, Anita Roddick, Paul Hawken, Alloya, my friends and family, Princess Farhana, Ansuya, Fahtiem, Kristina Wong, Dr. Ho, singers and artists, writers and actors everywhere- anyone who does their passion for their life!