My baby girl, music, poetry, movies, Psychology, religions, culture, blue jeans, dreadlocks, my friends, peace, California, sunshine, the ocean, marine life, the rest of the world, love, peaceful interactions with people, open communication, sharing thoughts and ideas, inner strength, experience, knowledge, meditation, exercise/yoga, the human mind, the universe, what the hell I'm doing here
More musicians, those keepin' it real, open minds, people I can learn from and also give to, other cool moms, Chicagoans, Californians, Arizonians, people that really listen.
"The only ones for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." -Jack Kerouac
“Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. “ ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859
Over-aggressive, under-produced, raw, original, passionate. Lyrics gotta be good 'cause I always listen - if they're not, the song better have a damn good beat to it. I'm open to listen...to pretty much anything and then decide. Here's some: Alicia Keyes, Muse, John Mayer, Johny Lang, Aaliyah, James Taylor, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bjork, Joni Mitchell, anything ambient, Nirvana, Tool, Unit, Outkast, Damien Rice, Portishead, Erykah Badu, Nikka Costa, Sublime, techno, house, The Mars Volta, Massive Attack, Regina Spektor, Brazilan Girls, System of a Down, The Doors, Beatles, Counting Crows, Iron & Wine, Audioslave, Sade, Neil Young, Ms. John Soda, Ben Folds 5, Greg Davis, The Strokes, Super Furry Animals, Counting Crows (old skool), Incubus, Blind Melon, Rush, Rage Against the Machine, Outkast, Five for Fighting, Fugees, Lovage, Audioslave, Beth Gibbons, Brazilian Girls, The Who, Richard Ashcroft, Massive Attack, Modest Mouse ...
Kill Bill Vol. 1, Pulp Fiction, E.T., Reservoir Dogs, When Harry Met Sally, Tommy Boy, American Beauty, Playing Mona Lisa, The Princess and the Warrior, Killing Zoe, Closer, Princess Mononoke, Halloween, The Big Lebowski, Blue Crush, War of the Worlds, My Best Friends Wedding, Bringin' Down the House, Brother Bear, The Interpreter, Harold and Maude
Sesame Street (baby girl), live concerts
Lolita, Story of Psychology, Noonday Demon, Sybil, White Oleander, Shel Silverstein (The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, On the Road, The God of Small Things, Angels and Demons, Birthing from Within, Running With Scissors, You Shall Know Our Velocity, The Seduction of Water, Drowning Ruth, Little Earthquakes, The Book of Illusions, The book of Meditation, Mystic River, The Dharma Bums
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