art/sketching/writing
collecting books
reading/researching
studying tarot
playing chess with my hubby
playing piano
Tae Kwon Do
running & yoga
gardening (it's gardening season in Florida!)
cooking homemade
Home improvement projects
space exploration
Learning!
Artists, authors, tarot enthusiasts, and other creative people with similar interests, space enthusiasts, mythologists/mythographers, those interested in depth psychology (Jung) and nice people in general. No egomaniacs please!
FantasticalCreatures.com
If you have a moment, feel free to visit the website for my new tarot deck, the Fantastical Creatures Tarot. I once again joined creative forces with D. J. Conway to create a deck that we are both very proud of. It is on sale as of August from the U. S. Games web and from other fine retailers. There is a link to the sale page at the site.
Chopin (my all time favorite classical composer)
Nick Drake
Debussy
Porcupine Tree
Moody Blues
Eels
Mofro
Rush
Marianne
Rick Bain
Faithfull
classical French Romantic, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, Grieg, Ravel, The Blues, an eclectic mix depending on my mood
Right now I'm enjoying:
The Snowman soundtrack by Howard Blake
Mendelssohn
Never tire of listening to:
Chopin: Nocturnes op.9, No.2 Eb major and op.27, No.2 Db major;
Grieg: I love you op.5, No.3;
Mendelssohn: The Venetian Gondola op.30, No.6;
Rachmaninov: Piano concerto No.3 in D Minor, Op.30
science fiction
fantasy
historical
animation
drama
Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan
Terminator
Spirited Away
Blade Runner
Contact
Apollo 13 (the book was good too)
Hamlet (Laurence Olivier 1948 version)
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Galaxy Quest (I crack up everytime)
A Boy and his Dog (based on a Harlen Elison short story)
Shirley Valentine
The Birdcage
Any Terry Gilliam or Tim Burton movie
I don't watch much TV, but when I do:
History Channel
PBS
Sci-Fi Channel
Cartoon network, Adult Swim
TV Shows: Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Futurama, The Prisoner (gotta love it!), Drawn Together (a guilty pleasure),etc.
Lately, Bizarre Foods and History Channel
The Giant All Color Book of Fairy Tales: 50 Best Loved Stories (Golden Books) –Received when I was 4 years old. Worn, but it is still loved.
Dream Animals by James Hillman, paintings by Margot McClean –My all time favorite!
Fairy Tales from South Africa by Bourhill & Drake –I have an original 1908 printing and it is a treasure!
Buffalo Girls, Won’t You Come Out Tonight by Ursula LeGuin, illustrated by Susan Seddon Boulet
Unexpected Journeys: The Art and Life of Remedios Varo by Janet A. Kaplan
Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious by Carl G, Jung
Jung and Tarot:An Archetypal Journey by Sallie Nichols
Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.
Shaman: The Paintings of Susan Seddon Boulet
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson, illustrated by Sulamith Wulfing
Goddesses in World Mythology by Martha Ann Imel et al
Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack
21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card by Mary K. Greer
The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Complete Concrete by Paul Chadwick
Faeries by Brian Froud and Alan Lee
Dragonworld by Byron Preiss and Michael Reaves (illustrated by Joseph Zucker)
Charlotte’s Web by E.B White – A childhood favorite I read over and over again.
When God was a Woman by Merlin Stone
… and so many more, too many to list!
Samurai Jack
Captain Kirk
Joseph Campbell
Carl Jung
Maria Tatar
Jack Zipes
James Hillman
Master Song
Wonder Woman
Dr. Seuss
Jacques Cousteau
Merlin Stone
Terri Windling
A.A. Milne
Beatrix Potter
Sarah Connor
Mecki
Sulamith Wulfing
Remedios Varo
Brothers Grimm
Hans Christian Anderson
Some of my creative influences:
Sulamith Wulfing, Remedios Varos, Susan Seddon Boulet, Salvador Dali, Marilee Heyer, Margot McLean, JW Waterhouse, Women pre-raphaelite artists, The Romantic painters of the 19th century, Adolphe-William Bougereau, Caspar Friedrich, Gustav Klimt, Arthur Rackham, Yoshitaka Amano, Robert Ingpen, David Mack, Alan Lee, Brian Froud, Lisbeth Zwerger, P.J. Lynch, Gennedy Spirin, Kinuko Craft, Trina Schart Hyman, Lauren Mills & Dennis Nolan, Leo & Diane Dillon, Richard Jesse Watson, P.J. Lynch and many more.