My boyfriend Paul, our cats and our home. I have a special place in my heart for horror movies -- with a special penchant for lesbian vampires, giant monsters and zombies. World cinema, with a special place for Japanese and French filmmakers. Films by Ozu, Renoir, Satyajit Ray, Lubitsch, Bresson, Bunuel, Fellini, Altman and Lynch are among my favorites. I love music; especially dance music: 70s disco, Kylie, Kristine W., Billie Ray Martin, trance, etc.; and any song that has hand claps or a big "whoooo!" right in the middle of it. I have nothing but love for Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Annie Lennox, Blossom Dearie, kd lang, & the fabulous cocktail lounge band Pink Martini. I also like naps in the afternoon, European painting and sculpture -- especially in the years 1880-1940, the history of the Holocaust, Japanese TV superheroes of the 1960s-70s, and the two greatest TV shows EVER: The Sopranos, & (the new) Battlestar Galactica. I love smart abrasive funny women - like Sandra Bernhard, Rosie O'Donnell, Kathy Griffin & Jamie White. I love animal rights advocates, dinosaurs, and rainy weather (don't know what any of those have to do with each other, but there you go.) I have big love for Julia Sweeney -- whose one-woman shows are eloquent, funny, enlightening, and might change your life; Johnny Cash -- whose voice never fails to make me cry, cry, cry; and Mia Farrow, whom I love as an actress & her incredible autobiography, and who is now doing great work educating people about the genocide in Darfur. Finally, I'd like to see human beings treat the world's other living creatures with respect and love. (Of course, it would be good to treat the world around us, and the rest of the human race with love and respect as well.)
I'd like to meet:
...Or wish I could have met: Johnny Cash; Oprah Winfrey; Terry Gross; Mia Farrow; Meryl Streep; Yasujiro Ozu; Julia Sweeney; Orson Welles; Ella Fitzgerald; Francois Truffaut; Jean Renoir; Kylie Minogue; Errol Morris; Frederick Wiseman; Edward Gorey; Wong Kar-Wai; Blossom Dearie; Maggie Cheung; Quentin Tarantino; Robbie Williams; Sandra Bernhard; George Clooney; David Cronenberg; Satyajit Ray; David Lynch; Bob Dylan; Luis Bunuel; Alice Sebold, Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, etc.Nick Cave - Death is not the end
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Music:
ABBA, Herb Alpert, The Animals, The Ark, “Someone†by Ascension, Shirley Bassey, The Beatles, Bee-Gees, The B-52's, Bjork, Blondie, Kate Bush, John Cale’s rendition of “Hallelujahâ€, Captain & Tenille, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Roseanne Cash, C.C.R., Tracy Chapman, Leonard Cohen, John Coltrane, “That’s Allright†by Ed Crook, The Dandy Warhols, Miles Davis, Blossom Dearie, Rebekah Del Rio, “A Waltz for a Night†by Julie Delpy, Duran Duran, Bob Dylan, Eurythmics, Marianne Faithfull, Ella Fitzgerald, EBTG, The Five Tops, Aretha Franklin, Franz Ferdinand, Gloria Gaynor, The Go-Go's, Emmylou Harris, “White Rabbit†by Jefferson Airplane, Joan Jett, “Come to Me†by France Joli, Eartha Kitt, Mark Kozelek, kd lang, Annie Lennox, Jenny Lewis, Julie London, Love, Madness, Madonna, Billie Ray Martin, Dean Martin, Dannii & Kylie Minogue, Moby, Alanis Morrisette, O.M.D., Dolly Parton, Pet Shop Boys, Phranc, Pink Martini, Elvis Presley, Prince, Psychedelic Furs, Radiohead, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, Rihanna, The Rolling Stones, The Ronettes, Sade, Bob Seger, Simon and Garfunkle, Nina Simone, “Summer Wine†by Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood, The Smiths, S.C.O.T.S., Bruce Springsteen, Gwen Stefani, Sufjan Stevens, early Streisand, Donna Summer, Diana Ross & the Supremes, 10,000 Maniacs, Talking Heads, Travis, U2, “Someone to Hold†by Veronica, Kristine W, Tom Waits, Walkie Talkie, Dinah Washington, Robbie Williams, Amy Winehouse, and The Zombies. Also: any soundtrack commandeered by Scorsese, Tarantino or David Chase; soundtracks for MGM musicals, as well as: The Sound of Music, Cabaret, Hair, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Radio Days, and Streets of Fire. Japanese TV soundtracks for The Go-Rangers and Ultra-Man. Movie scores: Angelo Badalamenti, Carter Burwell's score for "Fargo," Georges Delerue, Eliot Goldenthal’s score for Frida, Bernard Herrmann, Krzysztof Komeda, Ennio Morricone, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass and Nino Rota.
Movies:
VISIT MY FILM BLOG "Notes in the dark..." at: http://notesinthedark.blogspot.com / ............. / [The Top 20:] Tokyo Story, The Rules of the Game, 8½, Pather Panchali, One Hour with You, Au Hasard Balthazar, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Persona, Citizen Kane, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Psycho, Annie Hall, The 400 Blows, Blue Velvet, The Third Man, Seven Samurai, Sansho the Bailiff, The Awful Truth, Un Chien Andalou, & Casablanca. [followed by] Adaptation, Ali -- Fear Eats the Soul, All About Eve, Andrei Rublev, Battleship Potemkin, The Best Years of Our Lives, Bonnie and Clyde, Boogie Nights, Born Yesterday, Bringing Up Baby, The Burmese Harp, Celine & Julie Go Boating, Children of Men, City Lights, Claire’s Knee, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Conformist, The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover, Cops, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Dead, Dead Ringers, The Devils, Double Indemnity, Faces, Fargo, For a Few Dollars More, Gates of Heaven, The Gleaners and I, The Godfather, Heart of the World, High School, The House of Mirth, In a Lonely Place, In the Mood for Love, The Innocents, Killer of Sheep, King Kong ('05), The Lady Eve, M, Madame de..., The Man Without a Past, Mean Streets, Meet Me in St. Louis, Menilmontant, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Mothlight, Night and Fog, Night of the Living Dead, A Nos Amors, Oliver Twist ('48), On the Waterfront, Open City, Out of the Past, The Painted Lady, Paris Texas, The Piano, Pinocchio, Playtime, Pulp Fiction, Red Desert, A Room with a View, Rosemary’s Baby, Salo, Shanghai Express, Singin’ in the Rain, Spirit of the Beehive, Stagecoach, Sunrise, Swing Time, Talk to Her, 3 Women, Topsy-Turvy, Vivre sa Vie, Wages of Fear, The War Game, What’s Opera Doc?, The Wild Bunch, Winchester ‘73, The Wizard of Oz, Yi Yi, & Zero for Conduct. Also -- some more films by some of the above directors: Boudu Saved from Drowning, Grand Illusion, Nights of Cabiria, Devi, Charulata, Trouble in Paradise, The Shop Around the Corner, A Man Escaped, The Killing, Barry Lyndon, Rear Window, Vertigo, Hannah & Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Day for Night, Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Viridiana, Belle de Jour, Holiday, Ugetsu, Osaka Elegy, How Green Was My Valley, Dodsworth, The Heiress, Chungking Express, Jackie Brown, & Kill Bill. And more Ozu: I Was Born But..., An Inn in Tokyo, Late Spring, Early Summer, Equinox Flower, & An Autumn Afternoon.
Television:
I LOVE LUCY (1951-1957); ULTRAMAN (1966-1967); THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW (1970-1977); FAMILY (1976-1980); CHEERS (1982-1993); thirtysomething (1987-1991); THE SIMPSONS (1989 - ???); TWIN PEAKS (1990-1991); SEX AND THE CITY (1998-2004); FREAKS AND GEEKS (1999-2000); THE SOPRANOS (1999-2007); THE FAMILY GUY (1999-???); SURVIVOR (2000-???); SIX FEET UNDER (2001-2005); BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (2003-???); MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 (1987-1996); THE OFFICE [US](2005-???). --And I have massive love for: Johnny Carson, Phil Donahue, David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey and Rosie O'Donnell. Made for TV: THE "UP" SERIES [UK] (1963-???); CULLODEN [UK] (1964); THE WAR GAME [UK] (1965); and I CLAUDIUS [UK] (1976).
Books:
100 Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez); No Beast So Fierce (Edward Bunker); Time's Arrow (Martin Amis); Oliver Twist(Charles Dickens); A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick); The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton); A Year in Van Nuys (Sandra Tsing Loh); The Diary of Anne Frank; The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold); Wyoming Stories (Annie Proulx); Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll); James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl); and Are You There God, It's Me Margaret? (Judy Blume).
Heroes:
In my life: Paul LaVoie, Ned Rodriguez, Mary Grant, Marc Beart, Steve Katz, Jeff Anderson...Also: Anyone who takes a stand for something they believe, especially when the cards are stacked against them. Anyone who overcomes adversity. Anyone who survived rape, molestation, prejudice, oppression, or any other injustice. People who care for those who can't care for themselves. People who go against the grain of society and follow their own dreams, rather than what society dictates. People who inspire, teach, and enable other people to make good choices. ....those are the real heroes.
