Screenwriting, creating board games, poetry, reading novels, movies, walks, travelling, hikes, good food, great music, guitar, percussion (I play a mean spoons solo among other things), working out, Pilates (stretching more than toning). Anything that has the word art in it, like rat or tar or spider, I also like. And big ass burritos.
I have travelled to Cuba (which, of course, our government prohibits), Belize, Spain, England, Ireland and other interesting places around the world, as well as to almost every state here in the United States. I look forward to more exotic travel adventures. I'd like to see the pyramids soon, go on a safari in the next couple of years, maybe see the Great Wall of China.
I'd like to meet:
Whatever the tides may wash ashore. People who stare at the stars or tell pointless stories or kick off their shoes and run through the park, or eat big ass burritos and say nothing.
Music:
From Monteverdi to the Damned, from Judy Garland singing "Over the Rainbow" to NWA belting out "Fuck the Police" (which I first heard while wearing a pumpkin on my head--I swear). All kinds, really, including rap, country, techno/dance, gospel, classical, jazz, pop, world, blues, ballads, new age, folk, you name it. I still tend more toward pop/rock, which makes up about 1/3 of my collection. In the pop world I love Van Morrison, The Strokes, the Streets, White Stripes, Sufjan Stevens, Wilco, Radiohead, REM, the Clash, David Bowie, They Might be Giants, Velvet Underground, Stone Roses, Love (Forever Changes), and many many others.
I liked Desmond Dekker, Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan, Miles Davis, pretty much you name the style, I'll find something I like there.
Now Playing: Benny Goodman, 1938 Concert at Carnegie Hall
Also: Dorothy Love Coates, Best of Geospel Music
Movies:
Mostly foreign, art house and older movies. Some movies I have liked, A to Z:
All About My Mother, Babe, Breaking the Waves, Closely Watched Trains, Das Boot, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask, Fargo, Goldfinger, Haxan, In Cold Blood, La Jetee, The Killers, The Leopard, M (yes the movie is called "M"), Notorious, Los Olvidados, Pennies From Heaven (BBS Series),Princess Mononoke, Queen of Hearts, Raise the Red Lantern, The Sweet Hereafter, The Thin Man, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Vanishing (original version), Wages of Fear, X-Men 2, Yi-Yi, Zulu.
Wow. There's a lot of great ones I had to leave off, but that's a sample.
Last movies watched at home: Don Giovanni, Italian opera but in movie form, from 1979. An incredible adaptation, Ruggero Raimondi is a great actor and singer
Television:
Don't like it. Don't touch it. Don't watch it. Sometimes I get real near it and sniff it.
Books:
I am always reading, usually novels, occasionally a non-fiction work, and some poetry. I love William Carlos Williams and Neruda, whose beachside home in Paraiso, Chile I have toured, which inspired me to write an ode to the man.
Currently reading: Derrick Walcott, Omeros
Before that:
Nic Belardes, Lords of Bakersfield
In terms of other books and novels, I like William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac (whose daughter I once represented), Fyodor Dostoevski (Brothers Karamavov rocks, if a book can be said to rock). Lots and lots of others.
Heroes:
A good sandwich
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