Playing the saxophone (and flute and stuff), writing fiction and poetry, reading and/or hosting at open mic nights, playing soccer, watching polar bears, the color green, wandering aimlessly, falling in love with boys, dissecting life to the most minute detail, observing others (great fodder for fiction!), laughing uncontrollably and seemingly without reason (especially with my sister).
I'd like to meet:
I'd like to meet: Thinkers, creators, laughers, lovers. I like to learn new things and share what I know with others. People who share my interests are always attractive to me. But if you really want to light my fire, you must be a boy who has a way with words and a musical instrument. I'm a sucker for musicians and writers. And boys in general. :P But if you catch me while I am in a relationship, then I only have eyes for that one boy.As far as actual people whom I'd like to meet: Johnny Depp, Harry Connick, Jr., Lenny Kravitz, Tori Amos, Trent Reznor, Thom Yorke, and Kathryn Harrison.
Music:
Jeff Buckley, Bela Bartok, Radiohead, the Bulgarian Women's Choir, Thelonious Monk, the Daktaris, Nine Inch Nails, Janis Joplin, George Winston, Tool, Stan Getz, Queens of the Stone Age, Led Zeppelin, Spaceman Spiff, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, the Police, Weezer, Fela Kuti, the Beatles, Bill Withers, the Cure, the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, Morphine, Incubus, Nick Drake, Harry Connick Jr., (old school) Lenny Kravitz, John Coltrane, Stevie Wonder, Charlie Parker, Blondie, Thom Yorke, Jenny Scheinman, Muse, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mulatu Astatke, Bobby McFerrin (not the obvious one), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Foo Fighters, Depeche Mode, Peter Paul and Mary, (old school) Smashing Pumpkins, Bjork, the Jackson 5, Portishead, Spoon, Lisa Loeb, Jamiroquai, Hamza El Din, Pinback, anything that doesn't sound like cookie-cutter bands and musicians, and... whoever is standing next to me on stage...
Movies:
the Princess Bride, L.A. Story, Amelie, the Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Napoleon Dynamite, the Big Lebowski, Rushmore, the Royal Tenenbaums, When Harry Met Sally, Legend, A Beautiful Mind, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Whale Rider, Best in Show, the Basketball Diaries, Office Space, the Red Violin, Juno, American Beauty, Nightmare Before Christmas, the Triplets of Belleville, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, the Green Mile, A Room with a View, Donnie Darko, the Fisher King, the Piano, Dead Poets Society, Romeo and Juliet, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Shawshank Redemption, Good Will Hunting, the Untouchables, Big Fish, This is Spinal Tap, any Monty Python, Memento, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars (old school), LOTR, Bird, the Dark Crystal, Au Revoir Les Enfants, Frida, Bend it Like Beckham, the Lion King, the Virgin Suicides...
Television:
I try to avoid it, really. But if it's on, I might watch the news, and I have some guilty pleasures (like Lost), but I'm not hooked.
Books:
Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger), the House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros), the Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood), A Separate Peace (John Knowles), Where the Sidewalk Ends & A Light in the Attic (and/or anything by Shel Silverstein), Beloved (Toni Morrison), Diary (Chuck Palahniuk), short stories by Dan Chaon, lots of stuff by Edgar Allan Poe, anything by Kathryn Harrison, or T. Greenwood, or Aimee Bender, John Irving's earlier works, Henderson the Rain King or Herzog (Saul Bellow), Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak), the books about Lars the polar bear (by Hans de Beer), and I have been reading a lot of Alice Hoffman (to whom many people compare the style of my short stories). Hopefully someday my own novels will be on the shelves to be others' favorites... I have attended the Maui Writers' Conference three times, the San Diego Writers' Conference once, and I am continuing the search for the perfect literary agent (turned down two offers so far). Keep your fingers crossed for me!
Heroes:
Kathryn Harrison and Aimee Bender, John Coltrane and Paul Desmond, Tori Amos and Jeff Buckley, Pele, my sister...
