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Human rights, women's rights, anthropology, religion, music, travel and dance. I'm sure there's more... like I said I've been knitting... and I've been trying to make jewelry... and I'd like to take up the guitar again.
Anyone really worth knowing.
First and foremost, Joni Mitchell. Also Ben Folds, Evan Dando, Natalie Merchant, Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple (her new stuff was worth waiting for), Tori Amos (although I feel as though her last couple of albums have proven that she has certainly lost a lot of her creative edge), Ani, Patty Griffin, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash, Gillian Welch, Shelby Lynne, Howie Day (his older stuff), Wilco, and anything my little brother busts out with on his guitar. I'll pretty much listen to anything but Top 40. Except for at noon time when I'm giving my ladies their lunches and one of the local Top 40 stations does an hour of 80's. If Modern English, The Thompson Twins or Duran Duran are played then I'm a happy girl. Eclectic is the way to go. It's good to be open-minded to all sorts of music and listen to whatever sounds good to you, even if it's ABBA. Oh yeah, I like ABBA as well.
Great Expectations, the Labyrinth, Gia, Losing Chase, Dirty Dancing, Garden State, The Hours, Awakenings, Beaches, Steel Magnolias, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Sense and Sensibility... for some reason if I watch Sense and Sensibility when I'm sick I start to feel better... can't go wrong with a movie that does that. And while I'm on the subject of Jane Austen, I thought the new Pride and Prejudice was excellent as well.
I don't have cable. But I can tell you I miss ER and Oprah.
The Bell Jar, The State Boys Rebellion, Crimes Against Humanity, Gracie (read it when I was 13... a bit juvenile but intense nonetheless...), Lovely Bones, Jane Eyre, Catcher in the Rye.
My parents, my grandmothers, Jackie, Kristen, Sue, Freida Hughes, Audre Lord, and I hate to sound like I'm 50, but Oprah Winfrey. She has done so much for so many people. Okay, stop laughing.