Creating art, esp Antiportraits, playing the bagpipes, bones, tin whistle, flute, piccolo and djembe, eating yummy vegetarian food, listening to (usually live) music, Irish step dancing, foreign flicks, having fun, volunteering, helping people connect, spending time with my family and friends, writing, reading, spending time outdoors/communing with nature/hugging trees/being Dr. Doolittle, meaningful beauty, love, kindness, joyfullness and travelling all over tarnation
I'd like to meet:
I only have room in my life for people who are kind, loyal, fair, compassionate, interesting, fun, intelligent and wise. Life is too short to gather garbage.
Music:
Adam Ant, Alpha Blondy, Altan, the Beatles, the Clash, David Bowie, Billie Holiday, Nick Cave, Dead Can Dance, Diamanda Galas, Elvis, Elvis Costello, Sinead O'Conner, Radiohead, Rasputina, Portishead, Saw Doctors, Dead Kennedys, Cherish the Ladies, Johnny Cash, Keane, Madredeus, Massive Attack, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Oumou Sangare, Heather Nova, Sex Pistols, U2, Youssou N'Dour, Peter Gabriel, Seven Nations, Simon & Garfunkle, Mary Black, the Chieftans, Tom Waits, Jeff Buckley, Ofra Haza, Devics, Cocteau Twins, Jimi Hendrix, Steel Pulse, Yousou N'Dour, most 80's alternative, etc....
Movies:
RHPS, Rebecca, The Nightmare Before Christmas, any Harry Potter, Paris J'taime, The Crow, Broken English, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Le Mari de la coiffeuse, V for Vendetta, Fight Club, The Cat Returns, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Un Chien Andalou, Run Lola Run, Battleship Potemkin, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Star Wars: A New Hope and the Empire Strikes Back, Waking Life, What the Bleep Do We Know, Ghost Dog: Way of the Samuri, Dead Man, Edward Scissorhands, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Zoolander, any Monty Python, American Werewolf in London, Young Frankenstein, The Princess Bride, Whale Rider, Love Actually, In America, Winged Migration, The Castle (The Australian one), Into the West (the Irish film, not the American TV show), Amelie, Sliding Doors, Santa Sangre, Magnolia, Shrek 1 & 2, Donnie Darko, shorts by Modi - esp. Rose Mi Amor, Earth Girls are Easy, Little Miss Sunshine
Television:
What's Television?
Books:
Jitterbug Perfume, Surfers of the Zuvuya, Cat You Better Come Home, The Foxfire Book(s), Le Petit Prince, Tuesday, Sowa's Ark, The Prophet, any Harry Potter, The Alchemist, The Stranger, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Giving Tree, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Orbiting the Giant Hairball, Goodnight Moon, A Language Older Than Words, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Unbowed, any Yeats
Heroes:
Vicki Jones, Jane Goodall, Ingrid Newkirk, Wangari Muta Maathai, Jimmy Carter, Eleanor Roosevelt, Samantha Reed Smith
