Interests are everything but these are my faves - eco building/living , design, engineering, architecture , animal welfare, food politics, technology, fine art, philosophy (ethics/political) and travel .
Time wasters/stress mgmt - trying to keep my plants alive, knitting, surfing, building things and burning food.
Music:
Static music faves are Bjork , Kate , Lisa and DCD , Ani , Annie , Bowie , Gabriel , R.E.M. , Metallica , The Hip , 10’000 Maniacs , old punk, most electronica, most classical, most jazz and some opera.
Current tune faves are Aes Dana and anything ambiant trance - but that could change in a second.
Fave radio is Vinyl Cafe and DNTO on CBC, Tongue and Groove on CKUA, and anything that Sonic 102.9 plays!! Listener since week 2 of test. Best modern rok station EV-ERR!
Movies:
Sample movie faves - The Hunger, American Werewolf in London, Repo Man, Hunt for Red October, Bread and Tulips, Girl in the Cafe, It's All Gone Pete Tong (pool scene!), Shawn of the Dead (brilliant!!!!), How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Decalouge, Trainspotting, Run Lola Run, Eternal Sunshine..., Kurosawa, Gladiator, Twister (pure fluff but i love it!!),The Fog (original ONLY!!), Devil's Rejects, Super Size Me, Her Majesty's Secret Service, any Michael Moore, Delicatessen, Falling Down, Bridges of Madison County (for the really good girly cry), Waking Ned Divine, Airplane, Monty Python and Natural Born Killers.
Television:
Faves- FoodNetwork - becuase I can't cook and I'm a masochist, HGTV, BBC, IFC, BIOG, DOCS, Martha (guilty pleasure), Amazing Race, Soprano's, Weeds, Big Love, Rome, The L Word, Queer as Folk, My Name is Earl, Battlestar Galactica (old and new), Corner Gas, anything Rick Mercer, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Kids in the Hall, Eddie Izzard .
Books:
Recommended Reads-
Non Fiction - The Existential Pleasures Of Engineering (Florman), Rights Revolution (Ignatieff), Talk to the Hand (Truss), Fast Food Nation (Schlosser), The Witches Bible and anything else by Janet and/or Stewart Farrar .
Fiction - High Spirits (Robertson Davies), Mists of Avalon, Martian Chronicles, Paperbag Princess, Phantom Tollbooth and Tales of the City.
Heroes:
Heroes to me are any person who is finding their path and living it, my Teenmonster.