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I've played the sax for 17 years, and picked up the clarinet and flute along the way 10 or 12 years ago. I was an avid jazz musician in high school and my first 4 years of college (I minored in music.) My dad is a jazz musician too, so music runs thick in my blood.

I have recently started appreciating the art of photography. I have a dslr and a few decent lenses that I've been practicing with for a while. I like taking macro photos and pictures of nature (animals, scenery, etc.)

Besides music and photography, my hobbies include (but are not limited to) working out and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, reading (when I can find the time), hiking, rock climbing, soccer, chess, yoga, and reading.

I also like Herbie Hancock, Chic Corea, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Chet Baker, Roy Hargrove, Oscar Peterson, Clark Terry, Don Byron, Artie Shaw, Clifford Brown, Django Reinhardt, Ray Brown, Count Basie, Art Tatum, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington... pretty much any jazz from the 20's through the 70's; big band to bebop and beyond.

I like action/fantasy type movies. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is awesome! All the movies made from comics are really cool too, like Spiderman, The Hulk, Batman, etc. My preferences in comedy run a little old school, back to the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico), and Pink Panther movies with Peter Sellers. Anything by Mel Brooks gets a good laugh. Movies that make you think such as What the Bleep Do We Know, Waking Life, and V for Vendetta are in another category of preferable movies.

As for the other kind of movies, here are some DVDs that I'm on the cover of:

Cuma Sutra was a really fun movie to make! It was on this set that I met my husband Derek. We had a scene together and something just sparked! We have been happy together ever since :-)

I'm an avid reader of philosophy. My favorite philosophers include Nietzsche, Kant, Mills, Bentham, Plato, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Aristotle.

When I was growing up, I read a lot of folk lore, fairy tales, and fables. I was fascinated by the growth of story telling from the Iliad to Robin Hood and constantly compared tales from all over the world and different time periods. In high school, I read everything by Mark Twain, from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court to Huckleberry Finn. I even read all of his essays that I could find and many of his annotated speeches that he gave when he traveled across the United States. And of course I loved science fiction/fantasy books, from Tolkien to Asimov, Arthur C. Clark to Piers Anthony, Robert Jordan to Ray Bradbury. I had my mystery phase too, when I read all of the Sherlock Holmes stories and everything by Agatha Christie. I also enjoyed the classics; I read a lot of Hemingway, Dickens, Shelly, Poe, Stoker, etc.

My last years of high school and my first year of college introduced a wide range of poetry to me. I took 5 or 6 poetry classes at the community college while I was a junior and senior in high school, and I became enthralled with Carl Sandburg (probably still my favorite poet), William Blake, Wordsworth, Hughes, and e. e. cummings.

After taking my first philosophy class at a university though, I lost interest in fiction and have since maintained a strict diet of information, either historical, philosophical, or scientific in nature.

Oh, and here are some magazine covers I've been on:

I've also been featured in Playgirl, ReFresh, Unzipped, and others.