I spend 90% of my life in dance clothes.
Dancing, making dances, breaking bottles, watching and talking about movies, pretty words, phallic imagery, pink bakery boxes, street performers, taking pictures, hearts, sipping Sprite through a straw, reading while marking up my books with notes & underlines, Art Deco, cultural anthropology, driving with the windows down, making mix CDs, standing in the rain, hot chocolate, black & white, technicolor, baristas, criminology, learning and speaking foreign languages, laughing (a lot), sleeping, tattoos, portraits and close-ups, flowers, the color black, backs and shoulders and hands, drag queens, claddagh rings, fight scenes, poi spinning, cafés, corsets, fishnets, The 7 Deadly Sins, making wishes at 11:11, spelling, kitsch/raunch, accents, Russian propaganda posters, gaudy earrings and costume jewelry, Europe, cracking creme brûlée, the fashion industry, eyes, Pellegrino with lime, going to concerts, poetry/quotations/song lyrics, cats, acting like a cat, making collages, writing, listening to music, editing papers, and eating chocolate after a really long day.
"I have no idea what I am doing. But incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm."
--Woody Allen
Multi-linguists and people with accents.
Movie soundtracks, jazz, swing, rock, Broadway showtunes, some hip-hop, international (mainly Irish music), ska, classical, bluegrass, opera, classic rock, Disney music, Mash-up remixes, acoustic, a cappella, String Quartet Tributes, random guilty pleasure pop songs.
REGINA SPEKTOR, ELLA FITZGERALD, THE DECEMBERISTS, FLOGGING MOLLY, THE WHITE STRIPES, LED ZEPPELIN, THE BEATLES, SUBLIME, SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS, THE CHIEFTAINS.
The Andrews Sisters, Johnny Cash, Van Morrison, Edith Piaf, Judy Garland, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone.
Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Roisin Murphy, Kate Havnevik, Inara George, Bjork, Daniela Mercury, Anna Vissi, Joss Stone, Gwen Stefani, Ani Difranco, Damien Rice, Imogen Heap, Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morissette, Linda Eder, Jason Mraz, Madonna, Cher, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Mika, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Beyonce, Andrew Bird, Sufjan Stevens.
ABBA, Queen, The Rolling Stones, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Cake, OutKast, The Postal Service, Dropkick Murphys, Death Cab for Cutie, Save Ferris, Ozomatli, No Doubt, FourPlay, Flight of the Conchords, The Blanks, The Dresden Dolls, The Streets, Pink Martini, Vocal Ease.
"Poetry has no place for a heart that's a whore.
And I'm young and I'm strong,
but I feel old and tired...overfired.
And I've been poked and stoked
it's all smoke, there's no more fire,
or no desire,
For you, whoever you are...
For you, whoever you are..."
--Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole, Martha Wainwright
Amélie
Kill-Bill
The Boondock Saints
Pulp Fiction
Grindhouse
Moonstruck
Garden State
Sin City
The Nightmare Before Christmas
All About Eve
Pleasantville
Almost Famous
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Serenity
The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
Young Frankenstein
Run Lola Run
Finding Nemo
Drop Dead Gorgeous
DISNEY MOVIES
Guilty Pleasures: A Cinderella Story, Bring It On, Raise Your Voice, What a Girl Wants, Stick It, Take the Lead, Mona Lisa Smile, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Crossroads, The Da Vinci Code, Center Stage, Two Weeks Notice, The Wedding Planner, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Head Over Heels, Orange County, The SAW franchise!!!!
Julie Taymor directing Salma Hayek.
Filmmaker Love: Quentin Tarantino, John Waters, The Coen Brothers, Wes Anderson, Baz Luhrmann, Christopher Guest, Mel Brooks, Julie Taymor, Federico Fellini, Kevin Smith, Tim Burton, Robert Rodriguez, Danny Boyle, Stanley Kubrick on occasion, David Fincher, Mike Nichols, Peyton Reed, Pedro Almodovar, Eli Roth, Sam Raimi, Joss Whedon, Zach Braff.
"Is it true that when you were born, the doctor turned around and slapped your mother?"
--The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
Gilmore Girls
Grey's Anatomy
Supernatural
Miami Ink/L.A. Ink!
Intervention
Mythbusters
Man vs. Wild
The O.C.
Scrubs
Firefly
Sex and the City
Veronica Mars
Project Runway
Flight of the Conchords
And I'm currently getting more into The West Wing, House, and The Office.
"You're so pretty...Like a tree, or a high-class prostitute."
--Jemaine, Flight of the Conchords
White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
Dangerous Angels (Francesca Lia Block)
Necklace of Kisses (Francesca Lia Block)
Echo (Francesca Lia Block)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (David Sedaris)
The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Rebecca Wells)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
Romeo & Juliet (William Shakespeare)
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Valley of the Dolls (Jacqueline Susann)
Good Omens (Neil Gaiman & Terry Prachett)
Memoirs!
Essays by Susan Orlean, Debra Ginsberg, and the incomparable David Sedaris,
Poetry by Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, Dorothy Parker, Sappho, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, William Shakespeare, and Anna Akhmatova.
"All was black, gloomy, and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel--or if there was, it was an oncoming train."
--Good Omens
ELLA.
The Choreographers that blow my mind: SUSAN STROMAN, Mia Michaels, Paul Taylor, Bob Fosse, Lar Lubovitch, Hinton Battle, Alvin Ailey, Busby Berkeley, William Forsythe, Nacho Duato, Todd Wilson, Kevin Hermann, Lena Lauer, César Rubio, Lia Griesser, Sheryl Oden.
Other people in a constant state of kicking ass: Dr. Albrecht Classen, Dr. David Soren, Dr. Mary Voyatzis, Justine Marie Piscitello, Olly Medlicott, Halfmann, Koppy, Govern, My Parents, Bunny Edmonds, Mink Stole, Allison Janney, Amy Goodman, Salvador Dali, Jonathan Larson, Joss Whedon and his strange mind, Jon Stewart, Alan Cumming, Bruce Campbell, Audrey Hepburn, Queen Latifah, Francesca Lia Block, Regina Spektor, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Katharine Hepburn, Eddie Cantor, Kelly Bishop, FDR, Quentin Tarantino, Hubbard Street Dance Company, Andrea Martin, Salma Hayek, Annie Leibovitz, Frida Kahlo, Tim Gunn, and Meryl Streep.
And of COURSE:
Patsy Stone and Karen Walker. Duh.
"ROSARIO: LISTEN, lady, in my country I was a schoolteacher!
KAREN: Yeah? Well in this country, you wash my bras."
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