Soma everything: SWING, Classical, Hot Gypsy Jazz, Blues, Folk, Boogie Woogie, Reggae....Beatles, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Cowboy Junkies, Neil Young, Sinead O'Connor, Ella Fitgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, Helen Humes, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Sidney Bechet, Django, Artie Shaw, Illinois Jacquet, Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, Casa Loma Orchestra, Nat King Cole, Cab Calloway, Louis Jordan, Ruth Brown, Etta James, Harry Connick Jr., Jao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, KoKo Taylor, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Esther Phillips, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Chris Isaak, The Cure, Bonnie Raitt, Beth Orton, Dar Williams, Kathleen Edwards, Ryan Adams, Lauren Hill, Common, Kanye, Big Daddy Kane, EPMD, Run DMC, Erik B & Rakim, Public Enemy, De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Big Pun, Notorious BIG, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Kinks, Talking Heads, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Alanis Morisette, The Killers, Rolling Stones, Joe Williams, Big Joe Turner, Sade, U2, The Who, Pink Floyd, Queen, Jackie Wilson, Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Edie Brickell, The Police, , Sara McLachlan, Dido, Norah Jones, Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin, English Beat, Weezer, Wilco, Pixies, Big Head Todd & The Monsters, They Might Be Giants, Dave Matthews, REM, Counting Crows, Gorillaz, Portishead, Cranberries, Gypsy Kings, NWA, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Ani DiFranco, Ben Folds, Elliott Smith, Bjork, Peter Gabriel, Suzanne Vega, Jimmie Lunceford, Chick Corea , Louis Prima, Harry James, Fats Waller, Mora's Modern Rhythmists, Lester Young and Oscar Peterson Trio, Jonathan Stout & The Campus 5, Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums, Wendy Rea and Her Lost Boys, Stompy Jones, Mezzonians, Damien Rice, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Matthew Sweet, 10,000 Maniacs, Indigo Girls, Bare Naked Ladies, Salt N Peppa, Interpol, Coldplay, Big Sandy, Erykah Badu, The Roots, Black Eyed Peas, James Brown, Bobby Darin, Sinatra, Regina Spektor, The Story, Sundays, Diana Krall, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Tuck & Patti. Lemonheads, Billy Bragg, Bright Eyes, Jason Mraz, Cat Power, Snow Patrol, The Shins, Postal Service, Nada Surf, Paul Westerberg, Old 97's, Rod Piazza & His Mighty Flyers
Movies
Old Swing Dance Clips, Raising Arizona, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life and The Holy Grail, Harold & Maude, Spinal Tap, Best In Show, All Aardman Animation (Wallace & Gromit), Napoleon Dynamite, Amadeus, Office Space, Amadeus, Anything Steve Martin, Robin Williams, or John Cusack, Goonies, Royal Tenenbaums, Shawshank Redemption, Do The Right Thing, The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen, The Piano, Breaking the Waves, Schindler's List, Mississippi Burning, Boy's Don't Cry, The Color Purple, Leaving Las Vegas, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Chocolat, Finding Neverland, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Like Water for Chocolate, Annie Hall, Gas, Food, Lodging, Breakfast Club, Better off Dead, Wizard of Oz, Grease, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Big, Reality Bites, Stand By Me, Dirty Dancing, Princess Bride, Untamed Heart, Cry Baby, Diner and Liberty Heights, Tim Burton's Stuff, Anchorman, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Fisher King, Litte Miss Sunshine, And I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton...
Television
Six Feet Under, The Muppet Show, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Kids In The Hall, The Office, Absolutely Fabulous, Northern Exposure, Alias, Malcolm In The Middle, Conan, Scrubs, Huff, The L Word, Michael Moore's The Awful Truth, M*A*S*H, Will & Grace, Simpsons, South Park, Driven, Behind the Music, Made, all Dane Cook specials and appearances
Books
All Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Rainer Marie Rilke, Tom Robbins, Thick Nhat Hanh, Sogyal Rinpoche (Tibetan Book of Living & Dying), Roald Dahl, ee cummings, Faulkner, Vonnegut, Barbara Kingsolver, Chitra Divakaruni, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Alice Seybold, Augusten Burroughs, Ursula Hegi, Gloria Steinem, Noam Chomsky, Calvin Trillan, EB White (Charlotte's Web), Calvin&Hobbes, Doonesbury, Dr. Suess, Brian Andreas' Story People & art, John Robbins - Diet for a New America, Caroline Myss - Anatomy of the Spirit, Christiane Northrup, M.D. - Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, Karen Andes - A Woman's Book of Strength (Weightlifting), Gregory Maguire - Wicked, Keri Hulmes - The Bone People, Leslie Marmon Silko - Ceremony, Paula Gunn Allen - The Sacred Hoop : Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions, Brain Gym, In Fitness and in Health, Touch for Health, Wilson Rawls - Where the Red Fern Growns, Scott O'Dell - Island of the Blue Dolphins, Madeleine L'Engle- A Wrinkle in Time series, Ursula Le Guin, Russell Hoban - How Tom beat Captain Najork and his hired sportsmen.
About me: "A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern, intricate but gay and swift and free, like a country dance of Mozart's. To touch heavily would be to arrest the pattern and freeze the movement, to check the endlessly changing beauty of its unfolding. There is no place here for the possessive clutch, the clinging arm, the heavy hand; only the barest touch in passing. Now arm in arm, now face to face, now back to back -- it does not matter which. Because they know they are partners moving to the same rhythm, creating a pattern together, and being invisibly nourished by it."
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Who I'd like to meet: Someone who wants to massage me almost all the time. Curious people. People who walk the walk. Healers. Fun and hilarious, smart, independent thinkers who still give a crap. No one who will ask me if I've ever considered a nose job. People with integrity. Kind, compassionate, conscious, artistic, musical, engaged, responsible. "A wise woman our family knew...used to say that the world was divided between people who could be trusted to do what they said they'd do, and everyone else." - Calvin Trillin.
Hey Sarah! The CD release party for my Fire Line CD is this Thursday, November 20th at 7:00 pm at Romancing the Bean Coffee House 150 S. San Fernando Burbank, CA 91502
I'll be playing the songs from the CD with backup from my good friends Sweet Talk Radio! It's all free except for a sip of coffee or tea for the establishment. And...tahdah...free parking in structure behind! It would be awesome to see you.
The orange street fair went down this last week and I was totally remembering our adventure in the super hot sun!!! Let me know when you have some free time. I would love to hang out with you. =D
Downtown Anaheim Swingin on the Promenade... Next Saturday, August 23, 6PM-10PM
Free Swing Dance Lesson 6:15-6:45 THEN the Famous Royal Crown Revue will woo and wow you as you dance the night away on a huge dance floor under the stars! Admission/Parking FREE!
Located at Center Street Promenade and Lemon Street in Downtown Anaheim, 92805
Hey, swivel sister haven't seen you in a while. Marshall and I are having a little swing house party this Saturday night - you should come by! 1435 S. Fairfax Ave Los Angeles 90019
Hey! Random question for ya! Do you know another Bal dancer in the SD area by the name of Brian? He is probably about our age, likes to wear Newsie-style hats, is into photography, and wears glasses? Also do you know of an old-school dancer named Quinn from LA? They were both at RAF, and I'd like to see if they have a myspace page..... Thanks for any info you know! Hope you're having a great day! Heather
Hey my dear. So glad I was able to dance and spend time with you this weekend. You made RAF that much better. I will try to make it down to LA soon so we can dance some more. Take care of yourself. (p.s. still laughing about the lick/pants comment)
