Music, Activism, Mass Social Movements, Pool, Traveling, Languages, Photography, Skiing, Racuqetball, Yoga, European bread, chocolate and coffee.
qts, eccentrics and crazy geniuses.. albert einstein. brilliant musicians that embrace originality.. old souls, beautiful souls, new souls, linguists and globe trotters. those who hold onto innocence, while indulging in the arts, academia and world affairs. my maker. my grandparents. stephen hawking, nelson mandela, buckminster fuller..
A small sampling: Soulfege, Peter Gabriel, Tom McRae, Imogen Heap, Nitin Sawhney, Ella Fitzgerald, Donny Hathaway, Tchaikovsky, Bjork, The Weepies, Michael Jackson, Benny Goodman, Cassia Eller, K'naan, Jarabe de Palo, Edith Piaf, Zero 7, Sufjan Stevens, Damien Rice, Pink Floyd, U2, Bran Van 3000, and almost every kind of music that is *good*. I dream of seriously composing one day, and posted some choppy stuff on my other profile.
where are the good movies!? so tired of cookie cutter productions.. I like most of what Participant Productions creates, french ones, documentaries, and movies that inspire, educate or move you to think about things other than fashion, straight love or world war II. Among my faves: La Cite des Enfants Perdus, Power of One, Ma Vie en Rose, What Dreams May Come, Cabaret, Magnolia, The Matrix, 300, Into the Wild..
i have a love hate relationship with television.. i hate the boob tube but have to ween myself off. now i know why my parents got rid of our TV when i was 7 years old... ok, there are some shows i watch or watched with regularity: Six Feet Under, My So Called Life, the Simpsons, the Daily Show.
are great and wish i had more time to read more of them... among my faves are the Tipping Point, The Prophet, The Alchemist, A Brief History of Time, Fast Food Nation, Confessions of Economic Hitman, The Starfish and The Spider (the unstoppable power of leaderless networks), Walden, Ishmael, The Celestine Prophecy, Foucault's Pendulum, Cancer Battle Plan, and Things Fall Apart. Recently read, reading or wanting to: Freakonomics; Linked - How everything is connected to everything else; Shift; and Good to Great.
Jane Goodall, Jewel, Michael Furdyk & Jennifer Corriero, Hafsat Abiola, Miki Jacevic, Laurie Meadoff, Billy Wimsatt, Laurie Meadoff, Sheryl Leach & Howard Rosenfeld.