The Taj Mahal ~ Love Expressed Through Architecture.Reading, writing, drinking tea, buying tea, trying new tea, love tea, aromatherapy, hiking, painting (mostly watercolors), cooking exotic/ridiculously spicy food (mmmmmmm..curry) , THE BOSTON RED SOX!, getting my cats cracked out on organic catnip and watching them tweak and trainspot all over hell, playing endless fetch with my dog and being reminded that life really is all about the simple pleasures, he never does stop fetching that ball......
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"Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it." ~Ferris BuellerThis is one of my favorite photographs ever. I'll never forget the controversy that arose from it. Never understood that. Much like the to-do over Lucille Ball appearing pregnant on "I Love Lucy." The cast and crew weren't even allowed to utter the word "pregnant" on the set, Lucy was "with child." (Random Cocktail Party Fact: "I Love Lucy" wasn't the first show to have an onscreen-pregnancy, the first was "Mary Kay and Johnny." in the 1940's) That was considered so bold and scandalous by so many. Why? A woman doing the most natural thing in the world. Hmmm.. Makes me wonder where we get our ideas sometimes..
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Music:
Absolute favorite band EVER : Led Zeppelin. Okay, that's out of the way... Metallica, Billie Holiday, Patsy Cline, Jem, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, Sufjan Stevens, Ravi Shankar, The Shins, Pantera, Frou Frou, Perez Prado, The Cure, Nellie McKay, Ivy, Pink Floyd, Godsmack, Tori Amos, Staind, Gang of Four, The English Beat, The Dixie Chicks, Nickelback, The Be Good Tanyas, Janis Joplin, Madonna, Bob Marley (obligatory, got married in Jamaica, we also welcome rum in our home as well), Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Fleetwood Mac (also, rather obligatory), Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Nat King Cole, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, John Coltrane, Elvis, Billy Joel, Aretha Franklin, Elton John, ABBA, The Bee Jees, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, The Beatles, Blue Oyster Cult, David Bowie, Peggy Lee, Sam Cook, Etta James, Otis Redding, Carlos Santana, Aerosmith, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson....
Movies:
"The Lady From Shanghai," "The Blue Dahlia," "The Glass Key," (LOVE just about anything noir),"Moonstruck," "Casablanca," "Vanity Fair," "The Painted Veil," The Bond films (some more than others), "Grand Canyon," "Sideways," "An Inconvenient Truth," "The Constant Gardener," "American Beauty," "The Lord of the Rings" Trilogy, a really amazing romantic film "Untamed Heart," "FOUR ROOMS," "The English Patient," "All the President's Men," "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," "Big Fish," "Annie Hall," "Strangers on a Train," "Philadelphia," "Mosquito Coast," "Raising Arizona," "Chocolat," "Harold and Maude," "Joe vs. The Volcano," "Out of Africa," "Strange Brew," "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Gone With the Wind," "Forrest Gump," "The Graduate," "Bridges of Madison County,"
"Breakfast at Tiffany's," "Manhattan," "Edward Scissorhands," "Finding Nemo," "The Princess Bride," "Amelie," "Crash," "Walk the Line," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "Garden State," "Donnie Darko," "Magnolia," "Fargo," "Good Will Hunting"My favorite character from literature is Becky Sharp from William Makepeace Thackeray's "Vanity Fair." I thought Reese Witherspoon did an amazing job capturing her spirit!
Television:
Led Zeppelin. I don't know what draws us to some people/things and not others. Their music changed my life, helped me figure out my life, enriched my life. It is the best obsession for me. ;)Favorite show on television ever, "The X Files." "Weeds," "Dexter," any programs about space, nature or the ocean, "Criminal Minds," The CSIs, "Numb3rs." There will never be another show like "Twin Peaks." This is the type of stuff I like, though I really don't watch a lot of TV anymore.
Books:
Quite simply, I read everything. My favorite book of all time is "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," by John Berendt. Others include... "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Democracy in America," "Tao Te Ching," "Siddhartha," "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress," "Leaves of Grass," "The Importance of Being Earnest," "Naked Lunch," "God Is Not Great," "I Ching," "Lolita," "A Passage To India," "Guilty Pleasures," "Brideshead Revisited," "Wide Sargasso Sea," "The Count Of Monte Cristo," ""The Secret Garden," "The Sound and the Fury," "On the Road," "Nicholas and Alexandra," "The Pearl," " Midnight's Children," "Harold and Maude," "A Room With a View," "Brave New World," "The Fountainhead," "Gone With The Wind," "Light In August," "Vanity Fair," "Flowers for Algernon," "The Fall Of The House of Usher," "Peyton Place," "Synchronicity," " Lysistrata," "Tropic of Cancer," "Coming To Our Senses"I LOVE "Bloom County!"
Heroes:
Anyone who approaches life with courage and levity. Quite simply.....
