Travel, Art, Photography, Music, Books, Hawaii, Friends, Happy Hour, Belvedere and Cranberry, Hot air balloon rides, Movies, Memories, Dreams, Long Drives, Swimming Pools, Flowers, Santa Fe, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Arizona, Maine Lobster, Home cooked meals from my man, Dancing with my girls, and Wednesday night.
AWAKE--Jim MorrisonShake dreams from your hairMy pretty child, my sweet one.Choose the day and choose the sign of your dayThe day's divinityFirst thing you see.A vast radiant beach in a cool jeweled moonCouples naked race down by it's quiet sideAnd we laugh like soft, mad childrenSmug in the wooly cotton brains of infancyThe music and voices are all around us.Choose they croon the Ancient OnesThe time has come againChoose now, they croonBeneath the moonBeside an ancient lakeEnter again the sweet forestEnter the hot dreamCome with usEverything is broken up and dances.
House Music, R&B, Soul, Funk, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Downtempo and THE DOORS!!!! Besides that, a few favorites--Mark Farina, Derrick Carter,India Arie, Jill Scott, Common,The Roots, Leela James, Otis Redding, Bob Marley(of course!),Outkast, The Roots, D'Angelo, Mos Def, P-Funk, Fiona Apple, Poe, Nina Simone, Angi Stone, Sade, Erykah Badu, and way too many more!
I have too many favorites to even remember, but here are a few----The Doors, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dazed and Confused, Gone with the Wind(classic!) Heat, Lord of War, 25th Hour, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Munich, Syriana, Garden State, Memoirs of a Geisha, Kids, Romeo and Juliet, The Beach, Unfaithful, Chasing Amy,and a million more!
If I could have my own television station, the lineup would look something like this....My So-Called Life, Beverly Hills 90210, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, and The Office (funniest show on TV right now.
I read Memoirs of a Geisha last summer and I think it was the best book I have ever read. Valley of the Dolls, Like Water for Chocalate, Autobiography of Malcom X, The Beach, by Alex Garland,Henry Rollins, Strange Days by Patrica Kennealy, The Drifters, The Old Man and the Sea-Hemmingway, The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald, and any smut by Jackie Collins are all good choices too.
My parents and their 30 years of marriage. Amazing!