Actoring, clowning, magic, the American Civil War, Italy, raccoons, reading, writing and music.
Il Barone Rampante. I think he's brave. And quite possibly dangerous...
My new favorite band is Red Light District. I listen to Louie Prima, Johnny Cash, Billy Bragg, Nick Cave, Mel Torme, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Big Band Orchestras, Joe Anthony and the Stragglers - the greatest band to never make it, Luna, Roxy Music, Plimsouls, The The, Jimi Hendrix, Beatles, Stones, Marvin Gaye, Edith Piaf, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Bobby Bland, John Coltrane and Devo, Thelonius Monk, Thomas Tedesco (my uncle!), Stan Getz, Ella Fitzgerald...
L'Iceberg, All Monty Python flicks, Rushmore, anything by Fellini, The Bicycle Thief, Smoke Signals, Glory, Amistad, Badlands, Everything is Illuminated, Ed Wood, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (with Gene Wilder), Raising Arizona, Goodfellas, The Godfather I and II, Harold and Maude, Repo Man, Shaun of the Dead, anything with Chaplin, Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Bros., Abbott and Costello, Mel Brooks films...
Dinner for One..Here is a cartoon someone made about my cat, Buster.
Anything written by Italo Calvino, John Steinbeck, Roald Dahl, Kurt Vonnegut, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, and Shelby Foote. Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird inspired me. I read a lot of non-fiction of the "boring" historical type, like Confederates in the Attic, Killing Custer and Lincoln at Gettysburg
Slava Polunin, Bill Irwin, Charlie Chaplin, Marx Bros., Buster Keaton, Bruce Lee...