Music. Dance. Exercise. Travel. Poetry. Yoga. Pilates. BIKRAM YOGA. Philosophy. Transformations. Linguistics. Wolof. Harmoniums. French. Hebrew. Dark chocolate. Red Wine. Giant fuji apples. Ex-smokers. The marginally insane, especially those dealing with "adjustment issues". Good books. Ken Kesey. Ayn Rand. Kurt Vonnegut. Lacey underwear. Wildfires. Chainsaws. Compulsive shopping. The fact that we're all Africans. Sestinas. TOEFL. TESOL. WWKD. Senegal. Step aerobics. Big fixes to quick problems. Mind-changing. Tree-falling. Sweaty dancefloor encounters. Procrastination. Falling in love. Getting out of dodge.
People other than myself.
Me and my harmonium on our good days. Tom Waits, El Olio Wolof , Prince, Counting Crows, Lisa Dewey, The Cranberries, Mike Doughty, Graeme Downes, PJ Harvey, Outkast, The Wildlife , Morphine, Maroon 5, Bobby Darin, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Buckley, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Prince Billy, Van Morrison, Cat Power, Xiu Xiu, Brett Michael Strawn , Ben Folds Five, Radiohead, Brad Paisley, Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Randy Travis, Chopin, Rascal Flatts, Bob Schneider, Guster, Feist and anything else good.
Purple Rain, Baraka, Sometimes a Great Notion, Showboat, Under the Cherry Moon, Secretary, The Breakfast Club, My Fair Lady, The Jungle Book, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Mary Poppins, 12 Angry Men, The Gods Must Be Crazy.
Throw it out the window.... All right, so I love Matlock. Six Feet Under. Nip/Tuck. And there was this horrible sitcom about people with eating disorders on FX for about two weeks called "Starved"- AWEsome. Apparently I was in the minority on that one.
Sometimes a Great Notion, Catcher in the Rye, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, The New York Trilogy, Of Mice and Men, The Power of One, The Women's Room, Ender's Game, Brave New World, The Bell Jar, 1984, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Madame Bovary, Friday, Of Human Bondage, Webster's Dictionary of the English Language, Larousse's French-English Dictionary.
The future me.