Art, books, reading, writing, drawing, sculpting, dogs, museums, making A's, fashion, jewelry, feminism, the fourties and fifties, the Middle Ages, Renn Faires, etymology, nerdy boys, classic movies, library science, gender studies, philosophy, history, vampires, zombies, organized crime, elegance, color, beauty, tae kwon do, kung fu, martial arts, chocolate, culture, Japan, blogging, religion, Disney movies and parks, Scottish heritage, mythology, science fiction, urban legends, sparkly things, big cities, human sexuality, film noir, psychology, sociology, animals, the good life
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Anne Rice, Nancy Pearl, Garrison Keillor, Michael Moore, Gloria Steinem, Naomi Wolf, Quentin Tarantino, Danny Boyle, Max Brooks, Elizabeth Taylor, Kate Mulgrew, Steve Tyler, Norah Vincent, Michelle Yeoh, myself in fifty years. Also, authors, artists, beatniks, bohemians, philosophers, comedians, free thinkers, and worthwhile, interesting people of all walks of life."The only people that interest me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing ... but burn, burn, burn like roman candles across the night." --Jack Kerouac, "On The Road"
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Music:
Aerosmith, Blue Oyster Cult, The Eagles, U2, Depeche Mode, Guns N' Roses, Motley Crue, Foreigner, Heart, Journey, Whitesnake. Also Sade, Chaka Khan, Cheryl Lynn, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Mo'Rockin, Garbage, Natalie Cole, and Peggy Lee. I love Eric Satie for relaxation. Plus Justin Timberlake and rap by Busta Rhymes, Twista, and Kanye West. And Frank Sinatra is a perinneal favorite.
Movies:
Kill Bill volumes I and II, Goodfellas, Gilda, Ever After, Desk Set, Steel Magnolias, The Matrix, Sunshine, Planet Terror, 28 Days Later, Boxing Helena, Gattica, Kinsey, Moulin Rouge, Sweeney Todd, Casino Royale, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Fight Club, The Prestige, Double Indemnity, all of the Star Trek Movies (but especially First Contact) anything by Quentin Tarantino, all of the classic Disney animated films with princesses (and some non-Disneys like Anastasia and Thumbelina), Michael Moore documentaries, andCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Television:
Star Trek: Voyager, House, Sex and the City, Tartan TV, South Park, Family Guy, and MST3K
Books:
Memoirs of a Geisha, Wicked, World War Z, The Mists of Avalon, Alias Grace, The Red Tent, Blackmantle, anything by Garrison Keillor, Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, or Friedrich Nietzsche, as well as Patricia McKillip, Anne McCaffery, Anne Rice, Naomi Wolf, Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Rumi, Omar Khayyam. I adore Bulfinch's Mythology and The Bombshell Manual of Style. I love the classics--The Odyssey, The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Decameron, Dream of the Red Chamber, 1,001 Arabian Nights, etc. I also love non-fiction about history, culture, animals, psychology, feminism, etc. My favorite young adult book is The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. I love autobiographies and biographies. And way too much and too many others to name. Reading is my life.
Heroes:
My playwright mom, my friend Cassandra (for her big heart and her big brains), my brilliant, beloved soldier, My sabumnims and Sensei, Nancy Pearl, Bunny Watson (fictional librarian extraordinaire), Anne Rice, Friedrich Nietzsche, Naomi Wolf, Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Captain Janeway (I don't care if she's fictional; she's still my hero), Grace O'Malley, a couple of my amazing, brilliant professors, and hard-working (radical militant) librarians everywhere.
