Reading, singing and writing music, compassion, geography....www.democracynow.org, www.tibetaid.org, www.womenforwomen.org
Music:
Mostly Americana type stuff, Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch, Buddy Miller, Chris Scruggs, Joshua Black Wilkins, Mike and Amy Finders, Keiran Kane, Kevin Gordan, BR549, Gary Bennett, A.J. Roach, Dwight Yoakam, Shelby Lynne...My CD is available at:
and on ITunes, and of course www.myspace.com/shannaandthehawk.
Movies:
High Fidelity is my all time favorite movie. It has all the men I should stay away from in it. The dorky, but endearing know-it-all, the spunky, woefully, immature entertainer, and my favorite, the gorgeous malcontent.
Fur, American Beauty, A Mighty Wind, Kundun
Television:
Don't believe in it. Haven't had one for years and think the world would be a much better place if everyone smashed them to tiny pieces.
Books:
"I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read."Thomas Babington Macaulay
My favorite book websites:
www.paperbackswap.com, www.zooba.com, www.bookslut.comTortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle, anything by Tom Robbins, An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro, Margaret Atwood, American Fuji by Sara Backer, Anne Lamott, Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg, Dorothy Allison, Bel Canto by Anne Patchett, Barbara Kingsolver, Fannie Flagg, Orson Scott Card, Paradise by Toni Morrison, Memories of my Melancholy Whores and Love in the Time of Cholora by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, Samrat Upadhyay....I also love nonfiction, particularly of a worldly nature, and have a weakness for young adult sci-fi.Arundhati Roy, Bahgdad Without a Map by Tony Horwitz, Nine Parts of Desire by Gereldine Brooks, Noam Chomsky, She's Not There by Jennifer Flynn Boyle, Sarajevo Days by Elma Softic....
"The trouble with a book, is that you never know what is in it until it's too late." - Jeanette Winterson's mother, and the reason she thinks they are dangerous.
Heroes:
John Lennon, Pema Chodron
