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FAV MUSIC: Jazz, jazz, and jazz. World music, bluegrass, some classical, some jazz, a lot of jazz, did I mention I like jazz? ARTISTS: Satch, Billie, Prez, Miles, Jack Teagarden, Ella (early Ella Fitzgerald), Nina Simone, Bill Evans, Blossom Dearie, Ellington, Basie, Oscar Peterson, Djivan Gasparyan, Aaron Copland, Gustav Holst, Bach, Glenn Gould, St. Germain, Cesaria Evora, Oliver Mtukudzi, Ayub Ogada, Nwahulwana

FAVORITE BOOKS (Genre): mostly non-fiction, biographies, social & political satire, travelogues, and a lot of equine-related coffee table books., FAVORITE AUTHORS: , Somerset Maugham, Emerson, Ayn Rand, Tom Wolfe, Nelson DeMille, Bill Bryson, Thomas L. Friedman, Robert Fisk, Christopher Hitchens, Jimmy Carter, Monty Roberts

Mostly indie and foreign films. Can go for the occasional Hollywood mainstream every now and then., MOVIES:, Slumdog Millionaire, The Kite Runner, War Dance, Khuda Kay Liye, Earth (Deepa Mehta), Fire (Deepa Mehta), Water (Deepa Mehta), L.A. Confidential, Eastern Promises, Schindler's List, Gandhi, Fiddler On The Roof, The Insider, Gladiator, The Motorcycle Diaries, Across The Universe, DIRECTORS:, Deepa Mehta, Spielberg, Attenborough, Gillian Armstrong

You're kidding, right? Is it even worth watching?

Kananaskis, Paris

Horses, model-horse collecting, cats, books, travelling, jazz music, (East) Indian food, my laptop..

If wishes were horses...

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever, by Christopher Hitchens; Nureyev: The Life by Julie Kavanagh, Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter, Medicine & Compassion: A Tibetan Lama's Guidance For Caregivers by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche with David R. Shlim M.D., Pets and Mental Health by Odean Cusack; various magazines..

Church of Jacuzzi Science, United Food Lovers Against Okra & Brussel Sprouts, People Against People Who Protest Everything Without Understanding Why, Motivational Speakers Of Tomorrow, Procrastinator's Club

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