Performing, entertaining, music, comedy, improv, traveling, cooking, my amazing and gigantic cat Mistress Kahlua Queen of the Kittencats, the supernatural,sculpting, astrology, several incredible females including my wife, my Mama, my sister, my niece, my friends, and my chosen sisters. There are some males I love and appreciate, too, I'm not one of THOSE, but I consider them more hobbies than interests...
More chill, laid back, happy people, you know? I don't think there are enough of them around. I'm more of what you might call a "shiny happy" person- enthusiastic, effervescent, energetic loud joy emanates from my very pores, but I have a deep appreciation for the chill, laid back, happy types. They make the world go around. Why don't more people get that happiness is a choice made in small increments? Smiling over scowling, good-natured chuckling and head-shaking over flipping that idiot in the sportscar off, extra strength over the regular dose- it's just not that difficult to choose happiness every day.
Raised on rock and roll, the daughter of two drummers I have a deep love of classic 60s rock,and being a big-haired head banger in high school fed my Heavy Metal need enough to last a lifetime. My first wife had a degree in jazz, so I know more than most women do about jazz- did you know that the majority of jazz fans are men? I found that interesting and I totally get it. Of course, the performer in me has emotional ties to most of the musicals, so I will listen and re-listen to soundtracks, I make more gay male friends this way, too. My new wife is only 24 and a hippie folk guitarist, so I have a new appreciation for emo. My sister has an incredible gift as a singer and I have accompanied her to karaoke, I will tolerate some country music if she's singing it, but honestly?..My grandmother was a concert pianist and she had a bumper sticker which read "I have nothing against Country music, it is an outlet for those who cannot sing".. Sure, it was printed in the days of Tammy Wynette, not Shania Twain, but I'm still with Grandma on that one. No offense, man, my sister sings the HELL out of that stuff, but...(insert Sideshow Bob shudder here)
Love them, can't get enough, will watch and rewatch favourites. I'm usually REALLY annoying to those who can just suspend their disbelief and absorb the story for what it is, I'm busy picking apart performances or bits of business, costumes, set, or direction, and I LOVE catching continuity errors. That said, there are times when I DI suspend my disbelief and just watch the story, but that invariably ends badly. Like, my wife had to turn off the Horse Whisperer (I know, I know) ten minutes in because I was already crying that last-20-minutes-of-Philadelphia cry that hiccups like a tired child, you know the one. She was even explaining that she had MET the stunt animals performing in the scene- they routinely throw themselves down twisting and writhing like they've been shot because a good performance merits them an apple...damned manipulative horses, I cried real tears!
I haven't watched TV for a year. I know how that sounds, but it's true. I realized they were taking the jobs of actors away and giving them to idiot civillians who will live together and eat whatever you say for money. Reality TV is the lowest form of entertainment, say what you will. My redneck father is a bow hunter hillbilly who eats the testicles right outta the animal they're branding and HE watches Survivor. He thinks he and his hunting buddy would be good on that show, s'long as they could bring their weapons..Yep, survive THEM, you upwardly mobile bikini moron, sleeping your way to the middle, then we'll talk.I really like watching a whole season all at once and so I watch the nine seasons of the Simpsons I have a lot, South Park, Weeds, and such finished favourites as Six Feet Under and Freaks and Geeks (I wish they had done that one ten years later, it was just ahead of its time!). I rented the first 2 seasons of L Word and then accidentally saw one in season whener Dana died, that kind of clinched the TV thing for me. I avoid them at friends houses and stay strictly away from the display of idiot boxes in department stores. If I was sitting in a waiting room like at Jiffy Lube or the Doctors office, I would probably watch the tail end of Jerry Springer, just to make sure nobody I know shows up there, and childrens' programming is usually okay for a few minutes, but I miss Jim Henson a great deal... South Park and Family Guy are completely acceptable television, I support the watching of these shows and more people should do so.
Big Stephen King fan- the Dark Tower epic was pure genius, along with the Stand and It and Misery and so many others. Didn't like Insomnia, though, it kept me up. Just recently learned about the Dark Materials trilogy and loved it so much. Harry Potter, you know, after the third film came out I had a dream I was auditioning for a part in the fifth film (?dreams, man, who knows?) as the Dark Arts teacher, a love interest for Snape. I woke up thinking that would be awesome, a female Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher who could lead Snape to distraction.. Um, as a pre-pubescent girl I read the Clan of the Cave Bear books but lost interest after the fourth one or so. Somehow, the increasingly horny fantasized outdoor sex scenes wrapped in furs with the lion and the horse looking on by the firelight weren't doing it for me. 12 year olds!Oh, and I passed around the Diana Gabaldon Outlander series with all my aunts and cousins, too, but now I can't see the word "Outlander" without hearing Cartman call, "We have your woman outlander!" and Stan or Kyle, I can't remember which one, saying "No foolies, outlander" to the same guy. I can't even look at the cover of the damn thing, let alone re-read it..anyone interested in a second hand copy of a book series?
I try to avoid having heroes, they always disappoint you."A person should not believe in an ism.." That, and you never know what kind of sense of humour God has about that whole idol worship thing, you know? I'm not really a religious girl (anymore, that's a whole other story) but I do believe in Jebus, for sure. Hey, does He count as a hero, you know, just in case He's online right now and reading my MySpace page? It can't hurt to curry favour...