Music: I'm a big fan of Leonard Cohen (books, poetry and music), The Hidden Cameras, Martha and Rufus Wainwright, Ani Difranco, Crystal Castles, The Blow, David Bowie, Heart, the list could go on considerably here... Books: How could I possibly choose? I'll start here (all of these but certainly not limited to): Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (David Graeber); Beautiful Losers (Leonard Cohen); Public Sex, Speaking Sex to Power (Pat Califia); Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories (J. D. Salinger); Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Mother Night, Slaughterhouse Five OR The Children's Crusade (Kurt Vonnegut); etc. Movies: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus, C.R.A.Z.Y., Breakfast at Tiffany's, Airplane, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Paris is Burning, Manhattan, etc.

Recently I was fortunate enough to travel up to coastal Labrador. I saw the most spectacular sunset I think I will ever see, and the terrain was unspeakably beautiful. Flying in a tiny Twin Otter airplane, however, was horrifying and I hope to not have to do that again.