See various media below. Also friends; sunshine; good vegan eating; the ocean; really good thrift stores; impractical shoes that sit in my closet; dogs; art (Edward Hopper; Van Gogh--like everyone and her monkey uncle, I know; the Expressionists; Art Nouveau); love independent bookstores; the Legend of Zelda (the video game, not wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, sadly); Amy's frozen burritos; Albertson's generic-brand microwave popcorn; Heineken beer; travel.
I'd like to meet:
I'm an INFP, so I'd like to meet ENFJ or ESFJ people. (See www.personalitypage.com)
People who think the band name "Satanarama" is witty word play
T.S. Eliot (from beyond the grave), Sherlock Holmes, Asta (the dog from The Thin Man movies)
Young George Bush so I could follow through on his plan to colonize Mars and make him the first permanent resident
.. HIGH-FIVE! on FunnyOrDie.com ..
Music:
the Cure, David Bowie, Trent Reznor, Sarah Vaughan, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Kiri Te Kanawa, Aerosmith, Bjork, Radiohead, Cranes, Lush, Lamb, Bach (particularly the Goldberg Variations), baroque in general, Lola Beltran, Annie Lennox, Portishead, Gene Harris, Joseph Arthur, Ron Sexsmith, Nick Drake, the Flaming Lips, Beck, GNR's Appetite for Destruction, funk in general, the songs "Mustang Sally" and "Susie Q"
Movies:
Anything with Catherine Deneuve (Yes, even April Fools).That said, I also like David Lynch, Tim Burton, Gong Li movies, Daniel Autieul, Johnny Depp, the Ice Storm, Mindwalk, Friday Foster, Ghost World (Hello, my teenage years!), Bowling for Columbine, the South Park movie, the Sound of Music, Fred Astaire, The Thin Man series, The Lion in Winter, Bette Davis, still thinking . . . .
Television:
Sopranos, Rome, Deadwood, Alias, the Simpsons (I still smile whenever those cartoon clouds part at the beginning), Family Guy, Futurama, King of the Hill, Absolutely Fabulous (more than I can say), Carnivale, Star Trek: Voyager, Hawaii 5-0, Perry Mason, Columbo, Streets of San Francisco, the Young . . . and the Restless, French and Saunders, Six Feet Under, Battlestar Galactica, Daily Show, and Colbert Report.
Books:
New Year: For the past five or more years, I've begun each year by reading T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets. I read it each New Year's Eve when I get home, even though I'm not always alert enough to finish it. Then I read it again in the morning.
This Week: Romola
General: Sadly, Harry Potter and the related fanfiction; Hermann Hesse, particularly Steppenwolf; Clive Barker; LOTR; bell hooks; transnational feminism; Tom Robbins; Jane Eyre; Little Women; Salman Rushdie; Sherman Alexie; Robin Hobb (I set no boundaries on my love); Sherlock Holmes; Edith Wharton (poor, sad Lily making those horrible hats); E.M. Forster; From Hell graphic novel; academic satire; Virginia Woolf; John Webster; Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus; Agatha Christie (only Poirot--not Miss Marple); Wilkie Collins; mindless chick lit of the Shopaholic and Bridget Jones variety. Hate Moby Dick, Hawthorne, and 19th Century American novelists.
Heroes:
We can all be heroes--just for one day.
