painting, collage, reading, writing, radio, activism, radio-activism, internet activism, self-employment, swimming, walking, hiking, music, lying in the sun doing nothing, biking, rollerblading, cooking, gardening, naps, working out, playing with my high maintainence hamster named 'teebedabeebeda', (UPDATE: teebs died in oct. '06--i haven't had the heart to say so until now...); meeting new people, being anywhere under the sky with feet on the planet, and sometimes under water... love my nieces, time with my family: yelling at the tv with my mother when stupid news is on, laughing and dancing with my sister and her kids and my brother and his kids... looking out at the world and living with gratitude and celebration, in spite of the vagaries of existence and the exit always on the horizon... why is the sky blue? how did i get here? what are you laughing at? what is time? will i run out of space in this message before i can ask and answer all these questions?
I'd like to meet:
Interesting people (--there's no other kind of people!) who want to get to know me even if I am so busy it takes a long time ( --I am, and it will....). Georgia O'Keefe (artist) said, "To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time."
Music:
Love it all... I have a bizarre and all-over-the-board taste in music. Come from a cross-cultural family background. Parents very different from one another. Father was Sicilian immigrant and mom is Polish--in their day, and in their families, that was a big deal. He was 18 yrs older than her, so there was a huge variety of music [and food!!] in my family all the time, because there was also the music of mine and my sibs generation... Love it ALL! Soundtracks from films, and music from artists once-from-bands-gone-solo, and music that is cross-genre --all these are often what pique my interest. UPDATE on PROFILE Song, Tues., 24 July, '07: For Radio Roxanne's theme music, I originally chose "What's Up?" by the 4 Nonblondes bec. it was the first piece of music I heard in the '90's that made me break down and get into digital music technology--My first CD, and then it was my profile song here for a bit. This song blows me away--The vocal range of Linda Perry, the genre is hard to categorize, the theme, the lyrics--It's a powerful anthem to our times. Here's a link to an interview about the song: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1853 But in Feb., '07 the song mysteriously disappeared from Myspace... So I have a new theme song... I chose "I'll Take You There", the 1972 hit by the Staple Singers. Here's some info on this remarkable and timeless cross-genre folk-rock-soul song: Stax Records president Al Bell (born Avertis Isabell) wrote this after attending the funeral of his little brother, who was shot to death. Says Bell: " "I went out in the backyard in my father's home. He had an old school bus there parked that was not running. I went back there and sat on the hood of that bus thinking about all that was happening. And all of a sudden, I hear this music in my head. And I heard these lyrics: 'I know a place, ain't nobody worried, ain't nobody crying, and ain't no smiling faces lying to the races, I'll take you there.' "I heard it, and I heard the music. And it wouldn't leave, it stayed there. kept trying to write other verses, but I couldn't. Nothing worked - there was nothing left to say." Here's a url to info about the song: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2173
Movies:
Last favorite I saw: The Secret Life of Words. Outstanding.
Favorites: Babel, In the Valley of Elah, Idiocracy, Riding Along for Thousands of Miles Alone, The Great New Wonderful, Turtles Can Fly, Tsotzi, Brazil, Grand Canyon, My Dinner With Andre, Grizzly Man, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Crash, Groundhog Day, Cinema Paradiso, Il Postino, The Matrix (all of them), V for Vendetta, Catch a Fire, Michael Collins, All 3 Mad Maxes, Smoke Signals, Into the Wild, Rabbit Proof Fence, The Mission, Erin Brokovich, The White Rose, The Truman Show, 12 Monkeys, Finding Forrester, Good Will Hunting, Carnival of Souls,
Angel Heart, The Sixth Sense, Arsenic and Old Lace... and this movie: Network-Howard Beale is one of my celluloid heroes. ---I gotta go, this could go on forever...
Television:
Hardly ever. Once in awhile, late at night, when I need a break from my mind, I turn on that show--what's his name? He makes me laugh! And my mother tapes Bill Maher for me every week he's on...
Books:
Goal in life: To have more time to read, (and being with friends) which is why I'm working on developing businesses with my art, so I can live more of the life of my dreams... Love to read, and my library is always bursting at the seams. Several books I am reading now: Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream, by Greg Sarris; Endgames 1&2 and Listening to the Land, by Derrick Jensen; Skylar Gabriel by Lierre Keith; Strange Piece of Paradise, by Terri Jentz; A Separate Piece, by John Knowles.....
Heroes:
old people, young people, and people who pay attention... people who know and/or learn how to live in the world and share what they learn... sophie scholl, bunnista and franti from minimum security cartoon, sister karen klimczak, arundhati roy, mavis staples, frances moore lappe, congressional representative maxine waters, rosie o'donell, william sloan coffin, phillip berrigan, bill maher, amy goodman, al franken, martin luther king, diane diprima, starhawk, randi rhodes, cindy sheehan, michael moore, derrick jensen, keith olberman, spike lee, ted rall, greg palast, aaron mcgruder, michael franti, the dixie chicks, rachel carson, billy bragg, tom morello, edward abbey, stephanie mcmillan, lois gibbs, erin brokovich, my mother, my sister, my brother, my father, my nieces, and just about everyone i meet...INCLUDING ALL NON-HUMANS, ALL OF WHOM ARE VICTIMIZED BY THIS CULTURE OF "INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION" i.e.DESTRUCTION OF THE PLANET; ALL OF WHOM HEROICALLY STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL...
