Poetry (good from others, bad from myself), Reading (good from others), writing (bad from myself). It's difficult to write sections like this, as my wife has frequently pointed out that I suffer from acondition which we call "Nova-Scotiaosis", in which I'll find myself insanely, irresistably interested in some random, more or less, topic that I will then research out (research is probably mroe suggestive of something scholarly than what I actually do), until I find a new one. Examples : Hessian soldiers in the revolutionary war, Saint Agnes, and the Pied Piper of Hamlin
Oh dear, hard to say... do they have to be alive? I mean, I wouldn't neccesarily want to meet, say, Emily Dickinson as she is now - that'd be pretty creepy, and I'm quite sure it would only happen ot me in the worst of all possible circumstances...I suppose I'd like to meet Steve Linscomb, to gently let him know a few things about his stage demeanour. And while I'm not at all fond of my wife's favorite band (the Stiffs) I begin to think I wouldn't mind meeting the lead singer, just so I have some other personality to think of hiim by than the one he portrays on stage. Who else, who else? I'd love to meet anyone I'd get along well with, I'm not the best at getting along and meeting new friends, so, there you are...
Another toughie... lots of different stuff, I suppose. I love old swing, much to my wife's dismay, particularly Ella Fitzgerald. I tried for a long time to really like Bop music, like Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, but I'm afriad its mostly just a very ignorant interest, I'm not smart enough to get it well enough to be passionate. I like children's songs, and honestly truthfully that predates having children. And musicals, which I think I like better as audio than as an actual stage production.
Hrm.... hard to say. I love Breakfast at Tiffany's, I like some old movies from when I was a kid, that I probably like mostly because I liked them when I was a kid. I like a lot of movies once, and then never again (see Nova-Scotiaism, above)
Never watch it anymore. I used to watch Who's Line is it Anyway, and I have admittedly seen every episode of Saved by the Bell ever made, but really that's more a consequence than a conscious choice - it was easier than actually doing something in high school. I also know the theme song to "The Fresh Prince of BelAir"
Books! I love books. Not that I ever read them, now, but I love them, I just want to hug them sometimes I love them so much. Poetry, lots of different kinds, lately particularly epic poetry like Spenser's Faerie Queene and Elizabeth Barret Browning's Aurora Leigh. And a lot of just good novels. Les Miserables I've only actually read once, and yet it comes to my mind extremely frequently.
Hard to say, and too awkward to venture