I am of course interested in many aspects of music... but some of my other passions include:politics, cooking, gardening, running, yoga, and card games.
Lately I am really digging the Bad Plus - a piano, bass, and drum trio that has reinvented jazz and made it so very relevant again. But some of my faves are (in no particular order) Stravinsky, Poulenc, Brahms, Bach, Britten, Puccini, Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk, Bjork, Soul Coughing, Miles Davis, anything sung by Franco Corelli or Mirella Freni and many, many others.... I also enjoy choral music from all genres of music, Gamelan orchestras, Ragas, Flamenco, and chanting of all types.
I Heart Huckabees, Miller's Crossing, The Color of Paradise, Apocalypse Now, Dr. Strangelove, Waking Life, American Beauty, O Brother Where art thou?, Bob Roberts, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Station Agent....
Arrested Development, The Simpsons, and South Park.
Shikasta, The Fountainhead, Siddhartha, Dhalgren, Radiofree Albemuth, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Catch-22, Breakfast of Champions, Tao te Ching, anything by Mary Oliver, Ken Wilbur, and the Sufi poets Rumi and Hafiz
Mother Teresa, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Barney Frank, Molly Ivins, Allan Watts, Ken Wilbur, Audre Lourde, Adalai Stevenson, Jonathan Kozol, BILLY FRA FRA!!!!