Reading (not textbooks...yawn), advocating for patients, documentaries, biographies, college football, journaling, community and global activism, crafts (knitting, sewing, making natural soaps and lotions), world religions, sarcasm, irony, rallying for the vulnerable, microbiology, logic puzzles, creative writing, ranting occasionally, trying hard to be a better person, and of course...Lortab! (inside joke).
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The ghost of Kurt Cobain and ask him if it was really suicide. Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon, C.S. Lewis,Those who both talk the talk AND walk the walk, Savannah, Vanessa, Hunter, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and compassionate people.
Nirvana, Dave Matthews Band, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Enya, REM, Sting, Sublime, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Wolfgang Press, Concrete Blonde, Abba, The Beatles, Cornershop, Counting Crows, Depeche Mode, Eminem, Beastie Boys, Everclear, Fleetwood Mac, James Taylor, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, The Smiths, Morrissey, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Vertical Horizon, Cowboy Junkies, and Tegan and Sarah, Black Eyed Peas, etc.
The Godfather, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, anything from M. Night Shyamalan, Dune, Lord of the Rings, Fight Club, It's a Wonderful Life, all Hitchcock movies, The Fountainhead, Dancer in the Dark, The Usual Suspects, Schindler's List, Full Metal Jacket, Leaving Las Vegas, Snatch, documentaries, biographies, and the occasional chick flick, Gladiator, A Christmas Story (Ralphie kills me!), A Wonderful Life, and did I mention...Lord of the Rings? It's only like the best movie EVER!!!
BBC News,Twin Peaks, Six Feet Under, Big Love, Soprano's, Project Runway, Top chef, Intervention, Grey's Anatomy, MST3K (plz bring it back!), Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares on BBC, Hell's Kitchen, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Family Guy (love Brian!), and the Discovery Health Channel, and of course...House!
Everything by Charles Bukowski, Anais Nin, Alice Sebold, the classics, biographies, etc. Just finished reading "Flower's for Algernon" for the third time, lol. Henry Miller, pretty much a bit of everything--I love reading, sadly due to school I haven't had time to read as much as I'd like to. Textbooks don't count! Hehe!
Chris Carlson, His Holiness the Dalai Llama, Ghandi, Jesus Christ,Rosa Parks,all the rescuers on 9/11, Walter Payton (for the amazing thing he DIDN'T do), Martin Luther King, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet (For their generosity and commitment to helping others), anyone who overcomes profound disadvantages, people who strive to make the world a better place, those who question authority and buck the system when the need arises.