Music, chocolate, good cheese, passionate people, laying around on the floor, watching the birds, physics, teaching myself French, Italian, and the trumpet, geography, growing flowers, wine, running, reading, the art of listening, cooking/baking, geology, laughing, chemistry, stretching my creative boundries, questioning dualities, good tequila with lime of course, keeping the peace, scrying, photography, performance art, skipping rocks, the ocean, eastern philosophy, moon gazing, being barefoot as much as possible, living and let living, art history, escaping Babylon, silliness, practicing what I preach, metal smithing, travel, piercing the veil of the unconscious, oil painting, listening to really hard rain on the rooftop, living the dream, poetry, life, the universe and everything......
I'd like to meet:
people who walk the walk and talk the talk, Eddie Vedder, Zack de la Rocha, Neil Young, Paul Newman, The Dalai Lama, Louis IX, Carl Jung, Jackson Pollock, Adam Duritz, Gordie Howe, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Lee, Andre Derain, Marc Chagall, Henri Mattisse, Corot, Salvador Dali, Cindy Sherman, Chuck Close, Frida Kahlo, Jan Van Eyck (detail like that is insane!) Wassily Kandinsky, Saul Williams, Gertrude Stein, Peter Tosh, Jesus and Buddha (together), Marlon Brando, Chrissy Hynde, Bono, Joan d'Arc, Gene Kelly, Chris Martin, Jean Reno. Ram Dass, Bob Dylan, Jack Black. Claude Monet, people overly saturated with passion and awe of existence.
Music:
Nina Simone, Jill Scott, Van Morrison, Keane, The Shins, Pearl Jam, Allman Bros.,Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Peter Tosh, John Coltrane, Joni Mitchell, Ozomatli, Bob Marley, Kayne West, Coldplay, U2, Beastie Boys, G-Love, The White Stipes, Johnny Cash, Steely Dan, Jaco Pastorius, James Brown, Bela Fleck, Led Zepplin (but I have to be in a Led Zepplin mood) Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots (hey I'm a GenXer, gimma a break!) Mutabaruka, Cocoa Tea, Damian Marley, Israel Viration, Marlene Dietrich, Matchbox 20, Thelonious Monk. The Pretenders, Death Cab for Cutie. Dexter Gordon, Radiohead, Paul Chambers. MC Solar, Nellie McKay, Counting Crows, David Gray, Stevie Wonder, Jim Morrison, Tenacious D, Tom Waits, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Michael Hedges, DMB, Neil Young, The Killers, and on and on and on
Movies:
The Professional, Cool Hand Luke, 1 Giant Leap, Down By Law, Johnny Stecchino, Moulin Rouge, Heat, Betty Page, Catch 22, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 40 Year Old Virigin, Bottle Rocket, Out Of Sight, Il Mostro, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Chitty Chitty Bang-Bang, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Hero, The Cruise, Jesus Christ Superstar, An American in Paris, What Dreams May Come, Death Takes a Holiday, Garden State, Office Space, Red X, Singles, The Breakfast Club, The Departed, The Dark Crystal, The Big Blue, Dogma, Clerks, West Side Story, The Goonies, Some Like It Hot. Dreams, Baraka, Willie Wonka (the original one!) Citizen Kane. The Red Violin, Rushmore, Rize, Murderball, Indiana Jones, Amelie, Waking Life, Rize, Monsoon Wedding, I Heart Huckabees, Chocolat, Singing in the Rain, Better Off Dead, What the BLEEP DO We Know, Casablanca, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, LA Story, Secretary, Wallace & Grommet
Television:
Lost(I've been recently converted and now I'm in it for the long haul!) The Office, this show makes me laugh until I snort :)
Books:
The Tao Te Ching, The Mists of Avalon, all of the Harry Potter books, Les Miserables, A Brief History of Time, Lord of the Rings book, Art and Physics, The Artist's Mirror, The History of the Senses, Love in the Time of Cholera, One Continuous Mistake, All of the Gunslinger series, Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Spell of the Sensuous, Mr. Campbell, The Name of the Rose, I Like You, any Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, Ralph Page. Be Here Now, The Good Life, 100 Years of Solitude, The Book, Mr Jung, Fingerprints of the Gods, Tropic of Cancer, Skinny Legs and All, Eastern Mind Western Body. Don Quixote, Still Life with Woodpecker, On Love and Lonliness, The Da Vinci Code, JitterBug Perfume, SlaughterHouse 5, Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Artist's Way, The Cosmic Trigger, Paul Reps
Heroes:
My husband, Debra Grace, Sonia Choquette, Van Gogh, Steven Wright, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Edgar Cayce, Ram Dass, Bruce Lee, Gene Kelly, Annie Leibovitz, Tim Levitch, Molly Shannon, Dale Chihuly, Nikola Tesla, my mama. Anyone with the ambition and creativity to live the dream, My children for showing me that human beings are born with unstopable will....
