Long walks off short piers, making theater happen, cooking and eating quality food, reading, everything about books, writing, singing in the shower, spending as much time out of the house as possible, sleeping, filling out online profiles.
Someone like me - funny, over it, smart and argumentative. Being passionate about something would be good, too. Someone who's in life for the long haul, who realizes that sometimes today is as good as it gets, and that today may be all that we get.Make me think, dammit. Defy my worldview. Get down to business. And if you can cook, I'm sold.Oh, and I'd like to meet the fools in this video (below) at some point, too.
The Tiger Lilies are my latest obsession.Overall, whatever you're listening to is OK by me - but if you're at all interested in keeping my attention, turn on the jazz. Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington...OR: CRUNK FOSSE!
The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sunset Boulevard, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Waiting for Guffman, Rope, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Young Frankenstein, The Producers, High Anxiety, Clue, early Disney, The Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Lord of the Rings, American Beauty, Ghostbusters, Gremlins, 30's Universal Horror flicks, Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Miracle on 34th St., A Christmas Story, A Christmas Carol (1984 - George C. Scott), Dead Alive, Murder on the Orient Express, Noises Off!, Shakespeare in Love...This one looks cool:Here's hoping they hold a candle:
No more TV at home. It's amazing the number of books I've been putting away ever since...
JUST FINISHED: "You Suck" by Christopher Moore, the author you ought to be reading all the time but aren't. READ HIS SHIT. IT ROCKS.WRITING: "Pandora's Children" Ask me about it. :-)My faves: The Phantom Tollbooth, A Christmas Carol, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Fast Food Nation, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, anything Dr. Seuss, Was, Alice in Wonderland, Wicked, Ragtime, Working, most Stephen King, David Sedaris, Agatha Christie, any play I can get my hands on - well, not ANY play, but I promise to read to first ten pages or so...
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