Hello There!
Nicknames:
Jackson, Legs, Lady Thightremble, Bubbles McGee, BabyDoll, Joy O'Joyachevitz, Patsy Rufflebottom, Muffin.
Learning something new every day - Traveling - BellyDancing & Burlesque! Art - Wine - Herbalism/Herbology- Building Vinyl & Resin Model Kits, Painting, Pen & Ink Drawing(+other fellow Artists)- Honesty (My only hate is of LIARS- the most dispicable pig low skunks (not to badmouth skunks) on Earth), helping others when they can't help themselves - TIKI TIKI - Inventing cocktails! (I mean to brag: have won awards) - Parodies of the Mona Lisa (please see My PICS for some ML favourites)
I have had the great fortune, pleasure, honour (and amazement)to meet many fine folk- famous, infamous, friendly and/or fascinating - Am riding a Grand Wave.
Joan Armatrading, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Loreena McKinnett, The 5,6,7,8"s, Weird Al, Pink Martini, Burl Ives, Laurie Anderson, Lucinda Williams, anything with whistling (Ronnie Ronaldo Rules!), Exotica, PUNK (old & new), BlueGrass, Soul or R&B, World, Ancient, Celtic, Hawaiiana, Bach, Metal, The Leon's (Redbone and Russell), Ramones, Nat Cole, Tunisian Throat Warbling... ANYTHING! as long as it speaks to me and is honest.
Horror is preferred (no SLASH)- FRANKENSTEIN is the BEST EVER. The Haunting, Onibaba or any Guilliermo DelToro, William Castle, Roman Polanski or Shimizu Takashi, any Myazaki (Totoro!!), O'Brother Where Art Thou, Some Like It Hot and Arsenic & Old Lace.
Ghosthunters, Flight of the Conchords, Boston Legal. Everything these days just woefully painfully sucks.
ADDAMS FAMILY, Honey West, BOZO, Heckle & Jeckle, HE-MAN, FUN!!... I loved when there were only 9 channels, especially here in Chicagoland- Everything HAD to be good.
Where the Hell are the variety shows? Can't just ONE Producer and/or Network follow their hearts and take a leap of FAITH???
Textbooks, fiction (Shirley Jackson, Mr. KING, Tom Berger, Clive Barker, Michele Paver, Diana Gabaldon, Richard Matheson and much more), non-fiction, graphic novels, comic books (Little LuLu, Popeye, Speedball, GI Joe...)
Any subject, Any authors, Any time. BRING IT ON! I eat books... yum yum.
My Papa - Honest, true, dedicated to family & friends, came from the Irish slums of Chicago and supported his Being and family with Song, taught me how to live right, fish, eat well, drink well and garden.
The Dalai Lama - Akira Kurasawa - Heroes are plentiful in this World; just pay attention; we are surrounded by them.
Each person I have met at every American Red Cross disaster (local, national or international)I have ever served with (I am a volunteer and PROUD to work with the ARC).