anatomy, binary, bones, butoh, cellular physiology, continuum movement, delicacy, details, diving, drawing, ecstasy, electricity, empathy, euphoria, explosions, fae, fashion design, filmmaking, floral anatomy, glass art, good-enough-to-be-true, hypersurrealism, infinity, insanity, intensity, joy, love, magical realism, making music, molecular biology, music, obscure musical instruments, painting, photographing, saturation, sculpting, sewing, sex, singing, snow, stop-motion animation, reality, synaesthesia, symbology, systems, the _ of _, the difference, the present tense, until you, white noise, wishing on everything, x&0
I'd like to meet:
~meetings
I've come to appreciate variety personality-wise.
That said, I will always have a soft spot for the gloriously deranged.
&Prefer to associate most with people who are passionate & calmly practical.
Nearest & dearest ~ people who happen to be gloriously deranged, passionate, and calmly practical.
Music:
From classical to unclassifiable. Particularly music so happy &/or so sad I feel like my heart is breaking / so intense/weird I feel like my mind is breaking - or just really fun to dance to. A few favourites: Depeche Mode, Mr. Bungle, The Magnetic Fields, Nurse With Wound, Death in June, Andrew Bird, Imogen Heap, Swans, The Residents, Tom Waits, Pet Shop Boys, Tones on Tail, Goldfrapp, Kate Bush, Portishead, Aphex Twin, KMFDM, Hank Williams Sr., Siouxsie & The Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus, New Order, Coil, Cocteau Twins, Death Cab for Cutie, Wolfmother, Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Charlie Jordan, Scott Joplin, Ennio Morricone, Whispering Jack Smith, Ludwig Von Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Claude Debussy, Negativland, People Like Us, The Beastie Boys, David Bowie, Queen, ETC!
Movies:
Sunset Boulevard, The Shawshank Redemption, Seven Samurai, Chinatown, Magnolia, Adaptation, Jesus Christ Superstar, 12 Angry Men, The Sand Pebbles, Network, Se7en, A Clockwork Orange, Shaolin Soccer, Naked Lunch, Taxi Driver, Ran, Pulp Fiction, Tron, Legend, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Big Lebowski, Cry Baby, Tetsuo the Iron Man, Conspirators of Pleasure, Serial Experiments Lain, Liquid Sky, Dr. Strangelove, Three Seasons, Jean Cocteau's Orpheus, Xanadu, Brazil, Batman Begins, The Shining, UHF, Wayne's World, Top Gun, Young Frankenstein, Beetlejuice, Big Trouble in Little China, The Producers, Ice Pirates, Real Genius, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Howard the Duck, & the others I haven't time to list.
Television:
Don't watch tv all much, but there are programs I like.
Usually something surreal &/or humorous &/or informative. I occasionally go out of my way to watch Venture Brothers, local political tv, forensic criminal investigations, or manic Japanese cartoons & if I happen on the Daily Show, sit through all of it. etc. I've gone without tv though... and wouldn't much mind doing so again.
Books:
The Outsider, A Romance of Two Worlds, The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, The New Inquisition, The Schroedinger's Cat Trilogy, Undoing Yourself with Energized Meditation and Other Devices, Hidden Beauty - Microworlds Revealed, The Velveteen Rabbit, Street of Crocodiles, Be Here Now, Illusions, The Rose, The Black Book, The Nature of Personal Reality, Nymph, Escape From Freedom, Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion, Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach, The Fourth Dimension, Principia Discordia, Breakfast of Champions, Baby BeBop, Weetzie Bat, The Little Prince, Sensory Exotica, Beyond OK, Zen Mind Beginner's Mind, Another Roadside Attraction. & other things by: Robert Anton Wilson, Tom Robbins, Richard Bandler, Hunter S. Thompson, Robert Heinlein, P.L. Travers, L. Frank Baum, Roald Dahl, Jane Roberts, E.E. Cummings, Francesca Lia Block, Beatrix Potter
Heroes:
Santa Claus
Otherwise, I don't necessarily admire or wish to emulate - but am intrigued by... Nikola Tesla, Hildegard Von Bingen, Hypatia, George Patton, Hunter S. Thompson, Thomas Edward Lawrence, Luther Burbank, Pythagoras, Dr. King, Robert Owen (1771-1858), Mary Wollstonecraft, Milton H. Erickson, Jesus, Muhammed, Siddartha, as well as people I meet on a daily basis - & enjoy the art~work of Joel-Peter Witkin, Maxfield Parrish, Salvador Dali, David LaChapelle, the Brothers Quay & others.
