I LOVE... DAVE... & the beach, dresses, Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, hats/ shoes/ purses, darts, laughing till I have to pee, vodka tonics, Paris, Venice, poetry, art (French Impressionism especially), daisies, poker, baking, Scrabble, pretending that I could stand a chance on Jeopardy, hats/ shoes/ purses, dogs, foreign films, trivia shows, board games, chess, coffee-coffee-coffee, Greek Mythology, gambling, horoscopes, dancing, pretending to be the next American Idol on the 405 for 2 hours, stripper poles & what have I forgotten? ... oh, hats/ shoes/ purses.....................I HATE... liars, running out of gas, fitting rooms, pickles, the DMV, thunder, getting sick, running out of cigarettes, whiskey, stupid people, stupid people who think they know everything, Geometry, not getting sleep, not being able to go to sleep, getting hungry, computer & printer malfunctions, pop-ups, pork, bad breath, stupid pointless movies, being home alone, bad endings in books or movies, sitting in the front or side of a movie theater, coming up with something witty to say long after it's happened, and most especially... being lied to, tell me the truth and see what happens.
Hypothetically?!..... Jesus & Mary Magdalene (did they really have a thing?!), Ghandi, the Dalai Lama, Confucius, Mother Teresa (I'd give her my shoes, ask me if you don't know why), Edgar Degas, Frederic Chopin, Prince, Tom Hanks, a herbivorous dinosaur, my auntie Rosanna, Gianni Versace
EVERYTHING!!! i.e.: CHOPIN!!!! PRINCE!!! A lot of Classic Rock, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, AC-DC, Aerosmith, The Doors, Eagles, Bee Gees (pre-disco), etc. Other favorites: Radiohead, Muse, The Killers, Biz Markie, Mos Def, Outkast, Ludacris, Mariah Carey (pre-Tommy Mottola divorce), Santana, No Doubt, Al Green, Billie Holiday, Etta James, BB King, Belle and Sebastian, Enigma, Enya, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Nine Inch Nails, Prodigy, Ramstein, Faith Hill, Garth Brooks, Black Eyed Peas!, Pussy Cat Dolls, Gorillaz, Howie Day, Missy Elliot, and so much more that I can't think of right now!
An American Tale, Anastasia, The Professional, French Kiss, You've Got Mail, Joe & the Volcano, Sleepless in Seattle (any Meg Ryan+Tom Hanks movie really), It Happened One Night, Les Parapluies des Cherbourg, Amelie, Little Mermaid, Toy Story, The Bicycle Thief, My Mother the House, Children of Heaven, A Chorus Line, RENT!!!!, Les Mis, Harry Potter, Sweetest Thing, Curly Sue, The Ring, Matrix, A Time to Kill, Miss Congeniality, Multiplicity, Life Sucks (classic!), A League of their Own, Braveheart, Ocean's Eleven, Dancer in the Dark, Memento, Run Lola Run, Angela's Ashes, Green Mile, Sin City............. love me my romantic comedies, indie movies, foreign and musicals and Mel Brooks..... there haven't really been any really good action movies since Braveheart (tear)
My new obsession: CSI Las Vegas!!!(Love Spike TV) Jeopardy, Everybody Loves Raymond, Will and Grace, Friends, the Discovery Channel, Charmed, foodtv channel (I love my food), HGTV channel (those home makeover shows are so addicting!).... and infomercials
Pablo Neruda "100 Love Sonnets" (favorite poet), anything to do with Greek Mythology, travel books, Harry Potter series, Da Vinci Code, Frank McCourt "Angela's Ashes" and "Tis", ee cummings, Robert Frost, Edgar Alan Poe, Alice Walker "The Color Purple", Sylvia Plath, C.S. Lewis "Till We Have Faces" and "Four Loves", Ernest Hemingway "A Farewell to Arms", Shakespeare "King Lear", Shel Silverstein, hmmm... so many, TOO MANY to mention
My mother.... even though she occassionally drives me crazy. Her love is the only love that I trust.