Interests

• education
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC!
Leonard Cohen, Regina Spektor, Mirah, Tori Amos, Muddy Waters, Mozart, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, old time blues and swing, Oi Va Voy, Kings of Convenience, I am Jen, Fiona Apple, Autour de Lucie, Dead Can Dance, The Postal Service, Pink Martini, Jack Johnson, G-Love, Ben Harper, David Bowie, Ry Cooder, Claude Chalhoub, Talking Heads, The Waterboys, Sleater-Kinney, Vienna Teng, 3 Leg Torso, Frou Frou, Beth Orton, Aimee Mann... There's so much more but I'm too lazy to list it all.

TV SHOWS/MOVIES
LOST, Firefly, Six Feet Under, Babylon 5

Frida, Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Waking Life, Spirited Away, Serenity, LOTR, Lost in Translation, etc.

BOOKS
George R.R. Martin, Philip Pulman, Neil Gaiman, & others. More concrete examples include: Jitterbug Perfume, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, Ecocities, American Gods, Enders Game, Long Walk to Forgiveness

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Gone to Monkey Valley in India... The single most magical place on earth. Hiked the tallest staircase in the world (Girnar Hill), also in India. Taught lifeskills and AIDS education to kids in South Africa (and was taught BY them as well of course).