Art Galleries in Denver, Colorado(especially the opening receptions on First Fridays); Reading books and magazines; Energy and healing work; Dream Intepretation; Painting; Writing; Travelling (Road trips, overseas, camping, etc.); Advocacy and Politics; Films (Indie, foreign, occasional Hollywood); Friends; Typography; Conversations (I love talking with people from different walk of life); Cars (Encyclopædic knowledge and maniac about them!); Avant-Garde, Surrealism, Experimential people and things; Languages; Cooking (not the Mac-&-Cheese box type!) and experimenting with vegan/vegetarian cooking; Dining out with friends
Pretty much everybody from different walk of life.
A friend (or perhaps a lover) possessing a 1963 Studebaker Avanti R3 receives a special attention from me! So do the people who are trafficking in avant-garde...
I don't listen to music as I am deaf. Yet, I enjoy dancing to the music as long as I can feel (and sometimes hear) the music.
If I'm inflicted upon to listen to the music, I'd say mostly tribal music, drumming, experimental/avant-garde, techno, industrial, and occasionally classicals.
I enjoy Philip Glass Ensemble, too. In Dallas, my deaf friend and I attended the screening of Powaqqatsi with his ensemble playing the score. Being the starving students, we bought the cheapest tickets, meaning the nose-bleed area in the auditorium. The sound was mediocre and film tiny from our vantage point. Once the ensemble commenced, the thundering sound catapulted the people from first three rows and deafened them. We scurried down to stake the claim there. Weird to sit in the middle of empty rows as if the ensemble was performing for two most important people in the world: me and my friend.
Most intense experience of feeling the energy from the speakers! After the show, we felt we had met God...
Since my IQ exceeds what is the norm, I like the films that are cerebrally challenging. Bizarre and surreal films are brilliantly plus. Here's the list:
Metropolis, Steam Boy, What the Bleep Do We (K)now? (YOU MUST SEE THIS FILM! YOU'LL NEVER BE THE SAME AFTERWARD!), Mad Max Trilogy (that film trilogy made me obsessed about the rare right-hand drive American cars and Australia!), City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, Amelié, Run, Lola, Run, Films by Akira Kurosawa, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Goonies, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Matrix Trilogy, Lord of the Rings Triology, Colour Trilogy (Blue, White, Red), Goonies, Moulin Rouge, Nasty Girl, La Femme Nikta, Dogme 95, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Clockwork Orange, Brazil, Donnie Darko, Memento, Satan's Brew (German), Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., Shrek, Shrek 2, Cinema Paradiso, Exocrist, A Fish Called Wanda, Four Weddings and a Funeral, All About Boy, Requiem For A Dream, Bourne Identity, Strange Days, Ronin, American Beauty, Tampopo, Minbo, Adrenaline Drive, Star Wars, Fifth Element, Godfather Trilogy, Taxing Woman, Taxing Woman Returns, Ring (Japanese version), Spirited Away, Ocean's Eleven, Trainspotting, Willy Wonka and Chocolate Factory! (they filmed in a town 20 miles from my parents' home in Germany), Come Undone, ad infinitim.
No television in my domicile. Doctor's order ..cos I exceed the human threshold of radiation from vegetating out in front of television set too much and absorbing the radiation. Yep, I glow in the dark!
Well, I do have particular favourites if I ever bum at friend's or my brother's house: Real World, Road Rules, Trading Space, Keeping up the Appearance, Are You Being Served, Will and Grace, Star Trek (that vintage campy 1960s variety), Taxicab Confessions, Speed Racer (I gotta have that car! I would even sell my soul for that car!), Cops (I'm fascinated by the mephitic human nature on that programme), Iron Chefs, Simpsons, Malcolm in the Middle, Futurama, The Nanny, Tiny Toons (best cartoon ever!), Twin Peaks (I humble before David Lynch, the O Holiness Avant-Garde), Murphy Brown (especially that episode about stupid art patrons blaring out the nonsensial art critiques), Anything But Love (I gotta have that bizarre boss!), and mostly BBC America, TLC, MTV, Discovery Channel, Food Network, Sci-Fi.
Too bad Comast is not carrying the International Channel with morsels of curious and bizarre programmes from Japan. C'mon, Comast, don't be so cheap! Now that I've moved back to Germany, the German television programmes are pretty shitty and don't have lot of subtitles so nothing to see on German tube.
I devour on the average of four to five books a week so I dunno what to include and exclude without making the list longer than the amazon.com or Library of Congress.
Here's my favourites in no particular order: Greg Iles (Sleep No More will make you paranoid schizophrenic so consider yourself duly warned), Douglas Coupland, Dan Brown (Angels & Dæmons is better than Da Vinci Code), JK Rowling (gimme credit for connecting with my inner child), Ayn Rand (not for faint-headed readers), George Orwell (quite fitting to-day), Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Christopher Rice (ah, he's so adorable! I'll never forget his gentle hand shake!), Franz Kafka, Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum novels for comic relief), virtually all of Calvin & Hobbes books, many non-fiction books on current events, spirituality, softwares, dream interpretations, deafness, cooking, art history, finances, whatever fascinates me.
I also collect wallpaper* magazines, too. Anyone have vintage wallpaper* magazines to give away? I've been good boy this year so lemme have ..em!
Nikola Tesla
Frida Kahlo
Salvador DalÃ
Thierry Mugler
Alexander McQueen
Laura Anderson
Muhammand Ali