twins. marionettes. flamenco. mermaids. louise brooks, marlene dietrich and greta garbo. hands. fingers. veins. lucha libre. animation. cold weather. oaxaca. fresh mangos. broken english. pretty good spanish. lilac and stargazers. wong kar-wai women walking up stairs in slow motion. this american life. crossword puzzles (make me late for everything), dance parties til three-thirty am. guitar hero parties with no less than three shirtless dudes in san francisco til four am. yakuza bar, sipping whiskey from a tea cup til five am. frida. tall fellas. reading about and falling in love with dead alcoholic geniuses. muppets. mustaches and beards BUT i say " 'NO, please!' to goatees" and i stand by this almost as strongly as my other dictum "please take off those abhorrent flip-flops and put on some real shoes immediately". cape breton island AND dancin'also, i am interested in this not least because of this.
just added: darts.
I'd like to meet:
1.Knowledge of Literature.--Nil.
2. Philosophy.--Nil.
3. Astronomy.--Nil.
4. Politics.--Feeble.
5. Botany.--Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.
6. Knowledge of Geology.--Practical, but limited. Could tell at a glance different soils from each other. After walks would be able to show me splashes upon his trousers, and tell me by their color and consistence in what part of Los Angeles he had received them.
7. Knowledge of Chemistry.--Profound.
8. Anatomy.--Accurate...
9. Sensational Literature.--Immense. He would appear to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.
10. Plays the violin well.
11. Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.
Unrelated but just as desirable:
Music:
fado, old jazz and blues, flamenco; lhasa, portishead, juanes, lila downs, misia, intocable, julieta venegas, amalia rodriquez, la lupe , gravediggaz, joan sebastian...some other things....black heart procession, billie holiday, mildred bailey, leonard cohen, blonde redhead, tom waits and nick cave (can't have one without the other)...roy orbison, emiliana torrini...patsy cline, calexico...de la soul, johnny cash, ida cox, wayne hancock, smog, modest mouse, rilo kiley, satie, betty hutton and suki tawdry (but of course)
Movies:
slogan, queen christina, what christmas means to me, the legend of a twin princesses, enter the diva (for the lead actress), after hours, the princess bride, may, in the mood for love, it (Clara's), midnight cowboy, cléo de 5 a 7, les glaneurs et la glaneuse, once upon a time in the west, pandora's box, gilda, chinatown, bonnie and clyde, pee wee's big adventure, amelie, most anything with some puppets (BONKERS for puppets, i tell ya), camille (O', Henry Daniell)
Television:
the muppet show, fishing with john, pee-wee's playhouse, the daily show, the office, da ali g show, mst3k, sesame street, thisthisthis GARTH MARENGHI'S DARK PLACE !!!, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job !
Books:
biographies and autobiographies, language books, confederacy of dunces, lady chatterley's lover, the girls, one hundred years of solitude, the heart is a lonely hunter and anything else by carson mccullers, my diaries from days of yore + nice fat bottle of wine
Heroes:
my mummy, my daddy, my twinny, my big-little brother, my precious, precious, precious friends
