animal rights/animal welfare, anything sweet, atheism, ATS bellydance, being me, books, burning hot showers, chronically bad spelling skills, church bells, control, crochet, cruelty-free toiletries, DANCE, dichotomy without duplicity, dry humour, eastern tribal jewelry, escapism, euphamisms, finding beauty in unexpected places, german shepherd dogs, happiness, HONESTY, iconoclasts, integrity, intelligence, japanese/indonesian/middle eastern decor, justice, kindness, LANGUAGES, literature, making beauty in unexpected places, manekineko, medical instruments, medicine, metal, MY DAUGHTER, nag champa, night, PACIFISM, piercings, poetry, PSYCHOLOGY, reading, religion, religious artifacts, rosaries, sexual psychology, sharp things (including tongues), skulls, sleeping, sugar, superstition, tarantulas, TRANSCENDENCE, treating people well, tribal fusion bellydance, TRUTH, vanilla, veganism, volunteer work, wit, yoga.
Everything. All inclusive. Anything that helps me grow and anything that helps me better myself. Or, yanno, is just fun.
...the inspired, the kind, the hidden, the honest, the strange...
Oh, and Circus Folks, too!
...Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong...
And just because this makes me snort-FARMA SUTRA!!!-
Industrial, EBM, New Wave, Dark Wave, 50's, 60's, Motown, Classical, Hip Hop, Eastern/Eastern Fusion, Tribal Drums
Delicatessen, Gummo, City of Lost Children, Cube, Modern Times or any Charlie Chaplin flick, La Strata, Happiness, The Professional, Rabbit Proof Fence, Dogma, Pi, any Shirley Temple flick, Sleepy Hollow, Dark City, Back to the Future, Storytelling, Eternal Sunshine... et cetera. I like them dark and disturbing... or really silly but really intelligent.
No. Really, NO! Okay, well... I have no willpower when it comes to Law & Order and Family Guy. Damn you, cable! Its really not my fault. Really.
The landmarks, for one reason or another and briefly: Man's Search for Meaning, Ender's Game, The Human Zoo, Masochism in Modern Man, The Myth of Neurosis, Faust, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Deviant Behavior, Dibs in Search of Self, A Brief History of Time, No More Prisons, The Myth of Sisyphus, Groundwork for Metaphysics, The Sparrow, The Great Gatsby, Reviving Ophelia, The Inferno, Ender's Shadow, Justine, Justine (yes two books, same name), The Stranger, Habit of Fear, Flatland, The Hundreth Monkey, Wicked, Men Who Rape, Church Bells and Ball Gags, The Safety of Objects, The Virtue of Selfishness, Women Who Run With Wolves, The Sacred Prostitute, Education of a Felon, Villa Incognito, Another Roadside Attraction, The Rum Diary... and many, many more books that I'm forgetting, to be sure. For Poetry- forget it, just too many to list! But I will reccommend The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, a seriously good modern anthology.
Myself. Its hard enough to be me, truly and fully, why would I want to model myself after somone else? I am the perfect me, just as you are the perfect you.