All life had to offer. Cake and fine wines (I'm a sucker for a nice shiraz), mashed potoato, music + dancing + music + dancing, the company of friends old and new. Dancing. The great outdoors. Sunsets. Anything to do with the ocean. Roadtrips. High places. Seeing. Experiencing. Learning. Living. Oh and in case this makes me sound far too energetic, I probably love my bed most of all - aah can't really beat just chilling and do absolutely nothing from time 2 time :-)
Anyone willing to share their world and teach me something new (assuming I'll listen!). People who make me laugh. People who shout at the TV when the world makes them mad. Anyone that talks to themselves in public. People that are passionate about something/anything. People who give a dam about some stuff and don't give a shit about lots of other stuff. Anyone that own a winery!
Ooh hard one. All sorts of stuff from the Beatles White Album (well I am from Liverpool) to Kraftwerk to Krautrock and post-rock to all things electronica. Don't mind a bit of folkism thrown in with this and have a special place in my heart for Papa M/Pajo. Godspeed you Black Emperor and Explosions in the Sky fill me (nothing dirthy there!). Spacemen 3 rocked (big time). Have a penchant for reminiscing with some of the classics of the Manchester Scene - The Stone Roses' "Resurection' is one of the best tunes EVER and the Happy Monday's Hallelujah sums up my coming of age in the north west of England in 1988's Summer of Love. Detroit techno (the more minimal the better) still has a special place in my heart. Love a bit of angst - Joy Division have a special way of making my smile and want to cry simultaneously. Also have a long-standing love affair with the Doors. Currently listening to Yo La Tengo (saw live again last week - great as ever!)Kasabian and Nouvelle Vague a lot. If you haven't herad bossa nova versions of New Wave songs you should - definitely music to drink martinis by (and that's got to be a good thing!).
Blade Runner for beautiful future city scapes, some real poetry (as per the LED scroller) and making you think about what it means to be human. Solaris - the Russian version - for enducing a mood like nothing else I've ever seen. Apocalypse Now for the absolute trauma and intense thoughts and questions it enduces every time I watch it. Laurence of Arabia for the desert. Bit of a documentary freak too but there are too many to mention. I'll list more as I go along.
Used to be anti TV but now watch all sorts. Any docs, especially sci stuff as I'm a bit of a geek. Strangely drawn to programmes with acronyms for titles - CSI, NCIS, CI, SVU. Love all the 'Idol-esque' progs, mainly for the delusional auditionees - call me cruel but oh how funny!
Ah this is where I could write for ever. So many books and so little time. Dostoyevsky, Vonnegut, Eco, Kafka and Camus are all-time favourites. Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino are geniuses. Jose Saramago is worth checking out. Milton's Paradise Lost is an amazing read - out loud just 4 the sound. Tao te Ching for it's wisdom. But musn't forget Monkey (magic!) on that front too. Oh and I can't leave out Shakespeare's tragedies - fantastic. Many more but I'll try reading anything and everything really and love nothing more than suggestions for must-read books. Trying out some Oz lit while I'm here and also love a good non-fiction book. One fiction and one non fiction on the go at all times so that I can pick and choose to suit my mood. A girl has always got to have choices...
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." Albert Einstein - the man was one wise dude, and I mean don't just mean clever, although I guess he was that too!