"...of the philosopher, that while he gazed upwards to the stars fell into the water; for if he had looked down he might have seen the stars in the water, but looking aloft he could not see the water in the stars. So it cometh often to pass, that mean and small things discover great, better than great can discover the small..." -Francis Bacon. I like Sparkling things and collecting rocks and shells and whatnot, books with pretty pictures, art that isn't ugly. Reading stuff that is not dull, music and the sky. Painting is my true love and what has kept my life...and a rock n' roll lifestyle and the heavens and my dear ones. Enjoy Learning of many interesting things and would like to be a fountain of knowledge somewhat, of little things i like. Learning things i will really not remember in a few days or so. Make-up, and metallic and iridescent paint and pastels. Gainsborough at the Huntington Library and city libraries that don't suck. Sitting down for coffee. The Griffith Observatory. Europe someday & other travel and little nice local places. Baking things for people i love. The work of Edward Burne-Jones, John William Waterhouse, Edmund Dulac, Maxfield Parish, Arthur Rackham, Herbert Draper. Shopping. The beach in the evening or night with the little lights in the distance or in stormy beauty with clouds. Russian folk art, the old west. I dearly love to laugh!...dearly. the fulfilled moment when i spray varnish on a painting. When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth-George Bernard Shaw. I love hound dogs and i tend to, to attract homeless men, i like looking down the railroad tracks.God the pathways of his purpose are hard to find. and yet it shines out through the gloom, in the dark chance of human life. effortless and calm he works his perfect will. Aeschylus
Humans everywhere..some people that are already dead...really, any one I find inspiring, inspired people. And then i seek an audience with Pope Benedict and would like to see the Dali Lama. Also a pegasus and a unicorn.How dark a woe, yet how sublime a hope! How silently serene a sea of pride! How daring an ambition ; yet how deep- How fathomless a capacity for love! Edgar Allen Poe
“Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.â€
Movies with history in them and or glamourous strong minded women. Beginning to want to start liking old westerns. ¡Three Amigos! Only the first Matrix. I am Sam. Billy Elliot. Alice in Wonderland. James and the Giant Peach. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Monsters inc. Immortal Beloved. Happy Gilmore. The Nightmare Before Christmas. To Kill a Mockingbird. Casa Blanca. Raising Arizona. A Love Song for Bobby Long. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Sense and Sensibility.
I like various travel shows. I like the learning channel somethin fierce. Occasionally wish i had the History channel & Discovery.
The House of The Dead and The Brothers Karamatzof by Dostoevsky. Greek and Roman history and mythology and Folklore..mythology overall. The Count of Monte Cristo. Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. Poems of Anna Akhmatova. The Overcoat. The Doubtful Guest by E.Gorey. The Historian. Many interesting articles. Some poetry is annoying...i like looking words up in the dictionary. The Pope's Ceiling and the Italian Renaissance and The Little Prince. Wormwood and that one prose poem from Baudelaire about being drunk on life and the one about the clouds..everything Bronte. John steinbeck a bit and things for children like Johnathan Stroud and Lemony Snicket. Don Quixote. Map of Bones. Leo Tolstoy and Captain Frederick Marryat. Brilliant biographies and histories and things about lovely stars and planets.
Astronomers..all good musicians, and artists. Creative geniuses of many kinds. Van Gogh. Law enforcement, and people who aren't cynical. Scientists..discoverers. many audacious personalities. Peter Carl Faberge and Louis Comfort Tiffany. Those who feel compassion for others.