My husband, my family and friends, my dogs, photography, music....Books, books, BOOKS!
Allman Brothers...Beatles....Rolling Stones....Tubes....Pretenders....Steely Dan...Little Feat, Neville Bros.... Gilberto Gil, Freddy Jones Band.....Earth, Wind and Fire....Laura Nyro, Motown, Johnny Mercer, Bonnie Raitt, Joni Mitchell, any and all blues artists, especially Cora Mae Bryant, who recorded a CD in our basement studio in Atlanta, Delbert McClinton is amazing, I wanna go on his Blues Cruise!________________________Tom Grose!!!...lovely Chloe March with her beautiful voice and lyrics...bluesy Sue Leonard, Rachel Taylor Brown, Dana Immanuel, muse with a banjo...Jazzmonk...Little Queenie, the pride of New Orleans...listen to Chico al Paso, check out donatella sassi's artwork at www.donatellasassi.com, bellisima!...listen to Anne-Marie and Green Bracelet. Sandro Oliva, he is outrageous! I must get to Italy to see his tour!....renfro, with their beautiful song, "Illuminations"................goddamn electric bill...groove to Santa Mamba...Leningrad Cowboys... I am freaking about new music, the stuff you don't hear on the radio, aren't we all tired of the same 20 songs that mainstream radio plays?
All That Jazz, Dune, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, V for Vendetta, Singin in the Rain (I swear), Breakfast Club, Dogma, Bladerunner, Citizen Kane, Chinatown, American Beauty...The Big Lebowski, c'mon anyone who hates the Eagles is my personal hero... Secret favs are Fight Club and Snatch, can't make a list without including The Usual Suspects, Time Bandits, BEING JOHN MALCOVICH!, Beauty and the Beast..... Syriana, Constant Gardener... Pan's Labyrinth...
Bill Maher is my hero, Jon Stewart Anderson Cooper Tina Fey HBO and Showtime...no commercials! HBO and Showtime...great thought provoking shows!
I cannot name only a few, I read EVERYTHING, fiction, non-fiction, history...if I had to name a favorite book it would probably be "To Kill a Mockingbird" as an old standby and "Life of Pi" for a new one. "Another Roadside Attraction"! Stranger in a Strange Land, Cat's Cradle, The Ugly American, Slaughterhouse Five, Brave New World, Handmaid's Tale!!! "Geek Love" (!!!)...Carl Hiaasen, especially "Stormy Weather", because living in Florida is like living in a Carl Hiaasen novel, I love Margaret Atwood, Barbara Kingsolver, John Steinbeck, J K Rowling...love Harry Potter!!........ HISTORY...... "Island at the Center of the World", of New York City's settlement by the Dutch..."Under the Banner of Heaven"...."Stealing Lincoln's Body"..."Praying For Sheetrock" and "The Temple Bombing" by Melissa Fay Greene
my sister Beth