~ Lao Tzu ~ undiluted love ~ naked trees ~ silent conversations ~ plunging my tongue into barestript hearts ~ passionate kisses that make me forget where I am and who I am ~ building a mansion of thoughts ~ comedians (hardest thing on the planet to master) ~ writing ~ art ~ music ~ literature ~ film ~ theater ~ photography ~ painting ~ philosophy ~ physics ~ laughter ~ wild thunder storms ~ learning ~ having original thoughts ~ sand between my toes ~ waves ~ seeing connections (they are always there) ~ wild strawberries ~ museums ~ rain ~ learning ~ pondering ~ always longing for those moments when I know I am exactly where and with who I am supposed to be ~
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I have very eclectic taste in music. I mostly love jazz, blues, classical, and rock. I sometimes listen to two different songs from different rooms to see what happens when they mingle (sometimes it can be wonderful ~ most often not so much). A few I like: Bach (my fav composer ~ so specific), Jimmy Swan, Jimi Hendrix, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Marvin Gaye, Robert Johnston, White Stripes (modern day version of Robert Johnston), etc.
I like all types of film (great, good, bad, ridiculously bad) – I do prefer films where the plot flows authentically from its characters (versus an intricate plot that is being rammed down their throats). Anything that can make me laugh and be horrified at the same time is always interesting. I love sitting in a dark theater watching a thought-provoking idiosyncratic film that makes my brain and body tingle.
A few I adore: After Hours, Being John Malkovitch, My Dinner with Andre, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, High Fidelity, Mind Walk, American Beauty, Momento, Fight Club, Margaret’s Museum, Shawshank Redemption, Good as it Gets, Goodwill Hunting, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The Godfather, Sunset Boulevard, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Usual Suspects, North by Northwest, A Clockwork Orange, Amadeus, City Lights, Pulp Fiction, LA Confidential, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Out of the Past, The Exorcist (haha mostly for the memory of the time my mom took me and my little brother to see it at the drive-in). I could go on, but lucky you, I won’t (it would only include a bunch of movies you've never heard of) :)
LOVE DOCUMENTARIES: Rivers & Tides, Fellini: Born Liar, Wordplay, Born into Brothels, Crumb, Super Size Me, Bowling for Columbine, Lost in La Mancha, Control Room, American Pimp, etc.
I don't watch a lot of television; I mostly like movies, documentaries, and educational stuff. But, I do like the following: Daily Show, Charlie Rose, Inside the Actor's Studio, Planet Earth, Nova, Kids in the Hall, Deadwood, Six Feet Under, Sex & the City, Seinfeld, and I'm sure there are others (just drawing a blank)
I'm a bookaholic ~ I read a little of everything. Right now, I'm reading a lot of philosophy and history. I adore Virginia Woolf on so many levels ~ too many to spill here. I love 'Taoteching' and 'Alice in Wonderland' (these two books had a huge impact on my life). Also, I really dug the books 'Art and Physics' and 'The Goddess Versus the Alphabet' ~ I read 'The Good Earth' when I was 8 years old and that turned the switch on in me as far as realizing the magic of the weight and flow of just the right words.
Off the top of my head, some novels I have really enjoyed: Einsteins Dreams, The Alchemist, On Beauty, Lolita, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Portrait of a Lady, Wuthering Heights, The Grapes of Wrath, To the Lighthouse, The Wings of the Dove, Atlas Shrugged, Howards End, The Sun Also Rises, 100 years of Solitude, The Catcher in the Rye, A Clockwork Orange, A Room with a View, Waves, The World According to Garp, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and on and on and on (if I could have more time to read, I would be in heaven)..
Read a lot of: science, physics, philosophy, math, nature, biographies, history and can sometimes be found just flipping through a dictionary or encyclopedia for the fun of it (yes, I am a nerd or is it geek or maybe it's dork? Or, possibly all of the above. Probably).
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..A great dinner party (yes, I know most of them are technically dead ~ but I can have this party in my dreams or I can write something ~ so there!): Caravaggio, Chaplin, Garbo, Da Vinci, Dalai Lama, Einstein, Hepburn, Jesus, Raphael, Wilde, Woolf, Whitman (good for a start).
I would have a much smaller party for Emily Dickinson and invite, oh let’s say Howard Stern. I actually started a play musing what this dinner would be like years ago. I should finish it ~ I would totally go see this play (but, that’s just me).