yoga, sailing, rock climbing, travel, foreign languages, motorcycles, camping, singing around campfires, sleeping under the stars, spontaneous outings, foreign films, muay thai, jiu-jitsu, reading a book in the park, trying to corrupt my nieces and nephews, dark chocolate, red wine and marzipan. I especially love marzipan.
Joan of Arc, Simone de Beauvoir, Anais Nin, my grandmother Charlotte
I don't care if it's cheesy. I love this love story:
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My music favorites change from one day to the next. Some of my all-time favorites include: Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Nina Simone, Johnny Cash, The Beatles, Louise Attaque, Cat Stevens, Desmond Dekker & The Aces, Old 97's, The Ranchero Brothers, The Clash, The Pogues, Garth Brooks, Against Me!, Filthy Theiving Bastards, Ozo Matli and the Heartless Bastards,
Empire of the Sun, Chaos, Clue, Leon, Boon Dock Saints, Together (Swedish flic), So I Married an Axe Murderer and Le Fabuleux Destin de Amelie Poulain (Amelie - of course).
Turn your TV into a high-fangled flying machine and get the hell-out-of-dodge.
His Dark Materials (trilogy), Philip Pullman. Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield. Loose Woman, by Sandra Cisneros. Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn. Delta of Venus, Erotica, by Anais Nin. Invictus (a poem) by William Ernest Henley. The Care and Feeding of the Sailing Crew, Lin Pardey. Hell, anything by Lin and Larry Pardey. Anything by Thomas Hardy, including his poetry. Pablo Neruda. Edward Abbey. The Iliad, by Homer (Stanley Lombardo's translation). Anne Rice (ahh guilty pleasures). Wicked, and Son of a Witch by Gregory MacGuire.
My brother, Rich.