Creativity!
Atypical public performances, images conveying intense emotion, physical genetic trait patterns, ball pythons, costuming, animation, bunnies, stockings, film/video editing, the mechanics of quadrupeds, music videos, culinary arts in the dessert department, creative outlets....
BUNNIES!!!
My Favorite Mime, Johann Lippowitz, aka David Armand:
Whoever invented the idea of combining mint & chocolate, god bless 'em, & give 'em a hug.
More performers, costume designers, travellers, musicians (especially those who are vivacious, spontaneous, & dynamic stage performers!), chefs, craftsmen, creators...
Such as these INCREDIBLE deaf performers of this Thousand-Hand Guanyin dance!!:
Read more about this dance & the group here!
I have The Sparkliest friends in the world!
Godforbid & That Handsome Devil
TV on the Radio
David Armand
Brainsturbator Dot Com
Bitter Films
Regina Spektor
Ditty Bops
Mr. Scruff
Eddie Izzard
The Dirty Business Brigade
Midnites at the Coolidge
Ma Jie
Amanda!
Paco!
Liana!
Jake!
Wazzat doooooooo??
Everything except most country & "gangsta" rap & smooth jazz. (I really fucking HATE smooth jazz) Ok, so to be more specific & in NO particular order.........The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, TV on the Radio, Mr. Scruff, the Magnetic Fields, World/Inferno Friendship Society, the Faint, the Postal Service, NIN, MSI, Violent Femmes, Modest Mouse, Bjork, the Talking Heads, the Decemberists, Squirrel Nut Zippers, the Eels, BNL, Tom Waits, Godforbid and That Handsome Devil, David Bowie, the Pogues, APC, RATM, the Flaming Lips, 2 Skinnee Js, the Chemical Brothers, Soul Coughing, Jimi Hendrix, the Presidents of the USA, The Dresden Dolls, Beck, Clutch, the Cure, That One Guy, Of Montreal, the Beatles, Bloodhound Gang, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Billy Joel, Meg Lee Chin, Rolling Stones, Joao Gilberto, Ani Difranco, Pink Floyd, Daft Punk, the Tiger Lillies, Johnny Cash, 2 Skinnee J's, Pulp, Dave Brubeck, Yann Tiersen, Saul Williams, Gogol Bordello, the Politicks, Ella & Louis, Iva Bittova, Incubus, Tin Hat Trio, the Ditty Bops, Snoozer, Weezer, Gorillaz, Bloc Party, KT Tunstall, Marisa Monte, ...I'm always searching for new music...
--one of my fave songs of all time
Trainspotting, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Where The Buffalo Roam, Young Frankenstein, 'The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover', Delicatessen, The Green Butchers, The Fifth Element, Boondock Saints, Amadeus, The Big Lebowski, Office Space, most Mel Brooks films, The Desperado trilogy, The Saint, Tombstone, The Ghost & The Darkness, Dangerous Liasons, Animal House, Caddyshack, Chocolat, both Pirates of the Caribbean, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Raise the Red Lantern, Farewell My Concubine, Eat Drink Man Woman, Snatch, Moulin Rouge!, The Pillow Book, A Dirty Shame, But I'm a Cheerleader, The Princess Bride, Sleepy Hollow, Beetlejuice, Willow, The Man Who Cried, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Velvet Goldmine, Blues Brothers, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, Pink Floyd's The Wall, City of God, The Muppets movies, The Pink Panther movies, The Ghostbusters movies, the Indiana Jones movies, Shakespeare in Love, Cry Baby, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Wallace & Gromit flicks, Gremlins, Critters II, Four Rooms, City of the Lost Children, Never Cry Wolf, Batman Returns, Sin City, the 40 Year Old Virgin, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, 300...
Boston Legal, Nature, Family Guy, South Park, Invader Zim
Mary Roach's "STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers"
^SO good, highly recommend it to anyone remotely interested in science, our lives & the way the dead have helped to shape them. Truly intriguing stuff!!
Storytellers like Rudyard Kipling, The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Joe Harris aka Uncle Remus...
Richard Adams: Watership Down
(because I totally live in Bunny-land, & also because the cover reads: "Astonishing...Everyone who can read English should read it." ~St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Christopher Moore: A Dirty Job, Bloodsucking Fiends, You Suck, Practical Demonkeeping, Lamb
Dave Eggers: How We Are Hungry(Stories), A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Richard Preston: The Hot Zone (I have a weird affinity for Ebola stories, I'm absolutely fascinated by the virus & the interesting science & nature surrounding its development)
Anything Edward Gorey!
David Quammen: The Boilerplate Rhino (essays), Monster of God
"JT Leroy": The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, Sarah (I don't care WHO wrote these books, they are a fucking GREAT read regardless!)
Kurt Vonnegut: God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Welcome To The Monkey House, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five
Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes, A Graveyard For Lunatics, Death is a Lonely Business
Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Trilogy(5 books), The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
George Orwell: Animal Farm
The Book of Bunny Suicides I & II, Great Lies to Tell Small Kids, Alice In Wonderland, Trainspotting, The Tao of Pooh, The Opposite of Fate, Everybody Poops...