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Favorite Movies Include: Long Kiss Goodnight, Matrix (YES all three), Harry Potter (YES I'm a geek), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Kill Bill (YES I like Quentin), Big Fish, Godfather (YES all three), Casino, The Aviator (YES I like Leo), Lord of the Rings (YES all three, and YES I like Orlando and Viggo!), Awakenings, The Black Stallion, Frequency, Elf, Galaxy Quest, Highlander (1st one only)....and lots more.
Favorite Television: I don't get regular television so I have to wait for it to come out on DVD. But....favorites include(d): Alias, Dharma and Greg, Three's Company, X-Files, Quantam Leap, Sliders, Star Trek (YES original, Next Generation, and Enterprise), Sopranos, Wonder Woman, Commander in Chief, Battlestar Galactica and others that I can't think of right now.
Books: I don't read as much as I should, but I'm getting better nowadays. And though many of my 'educated' friends will be horrified, some of my favorites include: Da Vinci Code and Harry Potter (YES all); Enlightened reading I enjoy: Conversations with God series, Celestine Prophecy, most books by Deepak Chopra and Dr. Wayne Dyer; Always reading something from my favorite author Ray Bradbury.
Poets: Lucille Clifton, Edgar Allen Poe, Shakespeare, Leroi Jones (aka Amiri Baraka), Shihan Da Prototype, Justine, Ty Scott, Rhian Edwards, Sekou tha Misfit, Gina Loring, Nathan Penlington, Steve Connell, Rives, Thea and GaKnew, Gagnez, Watts Prophets, The Roots.... I mean, the list could go on forever, but the ones listed above have actually inspired particular poems and exploration of style and form.
Favorite author of all time: Ray Bradbury
Heroes: My Mom, Ray Bradbury, Lucille Clifton, Glen, Locksley, Faith Rivera, Ali Handal, Jacq
Life's Inspiration: Warm chocolate chip cookies right out of the oven, cooked, but gooey; long walks on the beach (corny, but I LOVE them); seven year old children making games out of everything; advances in technology and advances in ways to hide from it....; NASA (National Aeronautics Space Administration); the night sky, especially the view from the high sierras in California where the sky looks like a velvet black cloth with thousands of tiny holes through which the light behind shines through, so many shooting stars you can't keep count; Jupiter (yes, the planet); Loud, loud music with the a cool breeze, sunshine, and the top of my mustang down while I drive to Malibu on a day where I have NOWHERE to be.......
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