Metaphysics and the Meaning of Life. Food - eating, cooking, sharing. Peace'n'love, Yoga, psychology, compassion, Give Peace a Chance - that's all I'm saying! Rituals, celebrations and events - meaning making in a wild multiverse. Saving the world, somehow. Holistic health practices. My baby, other people's babies, hell the whole pregnancy, birth and kid raising thing (novelty is yet to wear off!)
You! Georg Feuerstein , Eli McAll, Albert Schweitzer , David Suzuki, Al Gore, Ben Lee, Foo Fighters, Chris Cornell (aka HOTSTUFF), the Ancestors, pick a celebrity chef, umm thinking thinking... no doubt more to come. Yeah, actually I gotta get me some WOMEN in this list... Germaine Greer (well i have already met her briefly, when she spoke on the medical profession at MWF 02 - mad but brilliant!) Ummmm- why are we so damn MODEST as an entire blimmin gender?? Why am I so on the blank when trying to think of my female heroes? gotta go work on that for a while.....
Anything I can sing along to and really over-emote. Showtunes are good....
The first time I heard this song we were standing in the middle of Times Square, New York as the sun was setting when the video played on a giant screen..... It was incredible, standing in the centre of the entire world, hearing a masterpiece.
A Mighty Wind, Zoolander, Dodgeball, Anchorman, Truly Madly Deeply, A Very Long Engagement, Persuasion, Perfect Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Punch Drunk Love, Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, What the Bleep do we Know?. For Best Film Oscar deservedness - Crash. A Beautiful Mind, anything by John Woo especially Face-Off!!
Conditions of Love - John Armstrong, Gilead - Marilyn Robinson, The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Leopard - can't remember, The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh, The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton, Unbearable Lightness... - Milan Kundera, Nature Via Nurture - Matt Ridley, Eleanor Rigby - Douglas Coupland, The Unconscious Civilisation - John Ralston Saul, anything by Margaret Atwood, Terry Pratchett, Kate Atkinson. Still trying to get through Vanity Fair (after two years I am 1/3 through!!)