Making jewelry! Paganism, gothic lifestyle, the arts, literature, animals. Reading, writing, movies, music, the Internet. Astrology, numerology, Tarot, self-development.
I'm drawn to interesting and unusual people. I like fringe dwellers - pagans, artists, musicians, poets, goths, punks, people who are creative and non-conformist. I like unconventional people, or people who are at least open minded and not judgmental.
Favorite bands: AFI and Green Day. Also, The Offspring, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Bad Religion, The Replacements, Frank Black & the Catholics, David Bowie, Incubus, Social Distortion, The Distillers, Soundgarden, Hole, Staind, Sisters of Mercy, Nine Inch Nails, Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, X.
I love horror and period films. I also love Shakespeare, mostly the original. My favorite movie of all time is The Crow, followed by My Own Private Idaho. Others include, 10 Things I Hate About You, Killing Zoe, A Boy and His Dog, Ladyhawke, Almost Famous, all three Lord of the Rings movies, Andy Warhol's Dracula, Beetlejuice, Mad Max, The Big Easy, The Matrix, Blade Runner, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Blair Witch Project, Blink, Practical Magic, The Prophecy, Dangerous Beauty, Pulp Fiction, Dogma, Reservoir Dogs, Elizabeth, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Excalibur, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Gattaca, Sid and Nancy, Gods and Monsters, Stigmata, Harold and Maude, Strange Days, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Tombstone, High Fidelity, The Virgin Suicides, The House of Mirth, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Hunger, The Wicker Man (the original), Jesus' Son, Zeffirelli's Hamlet.
Oh, man. I have more than 600 books, at last count. A lot of them are non-fiction on Tarot, astrology, paganism, self-development, mythology and so on. As far as fiction goes, my favorite authors are Clive Barker, Poppy Z. Brite, Charles De Lint, Joyce Carol Oates (in gothic mode), Neil Gaiman, Anne Rice (when she's good, she's very, very good and when she is bad, she's horrid), Elizabeth Hand, Tom Robbins, John Irving, Shakespeare, Patricia Kenneally-Morrison, Tom Stoppard, Caitlin Kiernan, Oscar Wilde, Stephen King, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Storm Constantine.I love the Mists of Avalon, the Wraeththu books, the DaVinci Code, Imajica, Moonheart, American Gods, The Mayfair Witches and the first three of the Vampire Chronicles, Please Kill Me, Waking the Moon, Another Roadside Attraction, Silk, The Hotel New Hampshire, The Stand, Pet Semetary and Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books.
Eddie Vedder, for being a man of integrity and compassion. Angelina Jolie, for fearlessly being herself in public in the face of overwhelming disapproval based on misunderstanding. Elizabeth I, for doing the impossible on a daily basis, while dodging attempts on her life. Mohandas K. Gandhi. Nelson Mandela. Margaret Sanger. Oprah Winfrey. Gloria Steinem. Albert Einstein. Carl Jung.