cooking, performing and watching others perform, travel, exercise, music, antique stores, writing letters, recycling and vegetarianism and bicycling and other pitiful attempts to minimize my impact on the earth's ecological systems
WHOM I'd like to meet: those creatively occupied, those not flakey
Patty Griffin, Joni Mitchell, Ben Folds, Portishead and Beth Gibbons, Frou Frou and Imogene Heap, Jimi Hendrix, The Arcade Fire, Jesus Christ Superstar, Rent, Jason Robert Brown, William Finn, Franz Ferdinand, Dayna Kurtz, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Bjork, Fiona Apple, Plaid, Nina Simone, Elvis Costello, Dolly Parton (bluegrass stuff), Chris Thile, Nickel Creek, Edgar Meyer, Stephen Sondheim, Lauryn Hill, Beck, Tori Amos (first four albums), jazz standards, music by composers John Adams and Steve Reich and Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein and Ludwig van Beethoven and George Gershwin and Antonin Dvorak and Peter Tchaikovsky and Bela Bartok and Dimitri Shostakovich and Franz Schubert and J.S. Bach and Henry Purcell and Heitor Villa-Lobos
The House of Yes, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Supersize Me, Dancer in the Dark, Happiness, Cabaret
I don't watch television.
The Blind Watchmaker (Richard Dawkins), Portnoy's Complaint (Phillip Roth), The Joke (Milan Kundera), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera), The Alchemist (Paulo Coehlo), Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie), Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut), In Schools We Trust (Deborah Madison), The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child (Ron Clark)
Martin Luther King, Jr., Jonathan Kozol, Stephen Sondheim, Javier Torres, Wendell Berry