dialogue, wellness, creativity, revolution.playwrighting, theater, spoken word, slam, poetry, activism, leftist politics, applied theater/educational theater, knitting, cooking/eating well, spirituality, alternative and non-western healing practices, yoga, feminism, mormon bashing, geeking out.
nice people who know how to be mean.
Ani DiFranco, Le Tigre, PJ Harvey, Gnarls Barkley (and what I know of Celo's earlier stuff...), early Liz Phair, Paul Simon, Patti Smith, Van Morrison, Lucinda Williams, Michelle Shocked, Erykah Badu, Mos Def, Laurie Anderson, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, David Bowie, Fiona Apple, Visqueen, Iron and Wine
Secretary, Angels in America, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Divine Intervention, Angela, Dancer in the Dark, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Flirt, LOTR, The Neverending Story, 12 Monkeys, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, I Heart Huckabeesplays by: Paula Vogel, David H
Family Guy, The Daily Show, Desperate Housewives, Buffy, The Chappelle Show, The L Word
novels/memoirs: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Poisonwood Bible, Wicked, Written on the Body, Me Talk Pretty One Day, To the Lighthouse, Rent Girl, Harry Potter. poets: Adrienne Rich, Diane Di Prima, Sharon Olds, Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, many many chapbooks...plays by: Paula Vogel, David Henry Hwang, Caryl Churchill, Suzan Lori-Parks, Tina Howe, Sarah Jones. non-fiction: bell hooks, augusto boal, paulo freire, mumia abu-jamal, Organizing from the Inside Out, alice miller, sark
the cool folks in my given family, my chosen family