art, travel, outdoors, snow, mountains, photography, sushi,
merlot, APPLE products, dancing at RSC, Strongbow cider, cultural anthropology, violin (which I want to start playing again), my 2 boys, supporting local (talented) bands.
Learning different languages:
thus I'm starting a collection of phrases from people I've met here on MySpace, if you see a language not listed and you know a phrase....please send it my way!-----------------------------------------------
ICELAND = hvath segir thu? = what's up?---------------------
FRANCE = tu es mon chou chou = you are my little cabbage---------------
CHINA = "knee-how" = hello-----------------
SPANISH = "Piensas que soy feo, yo peinso que eres una estupida." =
"You think im ugly, I think that youre stupid"-----------------
BELARUS = pryvitanne = hello----------------
GREECE = Kalio arga para pote = Better late than never.-------
FINLAND = Hiljaiset tiet eivt tapaa missn. = Silent roads meet nowhere.------------------
NORWAY = ye for ye frer bare til at verden blir blind. = An eye for an eye only makes the world go blind.------------SLOVENIA = Ne boj se delati sprememb v svojem z ivljenju, lahko ti prinesejo nepri..o. = Don't be afraid to make changes in life, they can bring you unespected joy." -------------- GERMANY = Sorry, waar is de dichtstbijzijnde chocola? = Excuse me, where is the nearest chocolate? -------------- TURKEY= bir dilim pizza alabilirmiyim? = May I please have one slice of pizza? -------------DENMARK = En Carlsberg, Tak = One Carlsberg, Please.-------------
ESTONIA .. = Ma armastan unu, anna mulle khku ks un!! = I love apples, give me one apple quickly!!----------------POLAND = Czesc, jak sie masz? = Hi how are you?----------------JAPAN = Ippai-me wa ito sake o nomi, hihai-me wa sake sake o nomi, sanbai-me wa sake hito a nomu = With the first glass a man drinks wine, with the second glass the wine drinks the wine, with the third glass the wine drinks the man.
I'd like to meet:
BONO, the band OK GO.
Music:
U2, The Smiths, Bjork, Stone Roses, Charlatans UK, Cake, Nitzer Ebb, Die Warzau, New Order, Consolidated, Bob Marley, Depeche Mode, Front 242, Adam & the Ants, David Bowie, Cocteau Twins, Blondie, Oasis, Roxy Music, Ministry, Morrisey, Love & Rockets, Psychedelic Furs, Madness, Bronski Beat, Missing Persons, Berlin, Cibo Matto, They Might Be Giants, Violent Femmes, Elvis Costello, Beck, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Pop Will Eat Itself, Duran Duran, The Cure, Talk Talk, Peter Murphy, Sisters of Mercy, The Clash, The Cult, Coldplay, Quadrophonia, KLF, The Rasmus, eL, John Ralston, Legends of Rodeo, The Stills, Bloc Party, The Postal Service, The Kooks, Hooverphonic, OK go, Arcade Fire, The Shins, Band of Horses, Interpol, Editors, Cold War Kids, Division Kent, Spoon......and whatever else I'm newly discovering!
Movies:
Life is Beautiful, Amelie, Life in America, Garden State......wish I had more time to watch movies....
Television:
Now that we have Satellite, yes finally, we seem hooked on National Geographic or Science Channel and I LOVE the Dog Whisperer show......our dog needs to be on that show badly....
Books:
- The Hobbit series, up to Silmarillion.
- "Bel Canto"
- anything by Agatha Christie
- Holy Bible
Heroes:
**DR. SEUSS**
Be who you are and say what you feel, because
those who mind don't matter and those who matter
don't mind.
-Theodor Seuss Geisel
