My friends, romance, Love, reading, movies, parks, camping, Ren Faire ('cuz I can be a geek), Burning Man ('cuz I can be a hippie), photography, poi spinning, dancing, spelunking, snowboarding, the Colfax Gun Club, hotels, drum circles, river rafting, horses and horseback riding, art, travel, Ireland, Scotland, kitties, showers, being a beauty product whore, napping, the infamous Love Sac, cuddling in said Love Sac, boxes and containers (I've got a real thing for organization), THE coffee shop, THE bar, pinapple-flavored tequilla and 7-UP (you really should try it), woodworking, kite flying, chivalry, music, random things that entertain me, theater, kissing without the need for it to go further, comfortable silences, candles, writing, the Ocean, the Forest, MILK!!, erotica, making people laugh, laughing at myself, laughing so hard that you cry, clean bed sheets, lip balm, dreams, having my hair brushed, massage, mangos, cheesecake, amber, pirates, house plants, BBQs, inpromptu parties, being swarmed by dragonflies, sunrises, enjoying a nice glass of red over dinner, rollercoasters, incense, people watching, holding hands, strong men who know how to be men, surprises, silliness, dodgeball, REAL connections, Christmas lights, entertaining others, sailing, roadtrips, the little things in Life, tattoos, piercings, falling asleep to the sound of thunderstorms, a pair of wool socks that I "borrowed" from my Dad something like 12 years ago...
Look, I'm not a trading card. For the most part, I'm really only here as an added way to keep in touch with those individuals that I already have included in my life, so if you're looking to lump me into your group of 70,000 myspace friends, well then, no offense, but you can just bugger off. With the exception of a VERY few, I actually personally know and interact with those I have listed as "friends". If you find that you are intrigued by my profile and would honestly enjoy getting to know me beyond the basic bare facts, then by all means, feel free to send me a message. I'll not guarantee a response, but at the very least, you won't have annoyed me. And for the love of all that is good, do NOT begin said message with any variation of proof of your socially-inept idiocy; it's called an introduction, not a pick-up line. I can generally be a very sweet and considerate person, but I find that I have to employ a few of my more skeptical and cynical traits when it comes to dealing with those over the internet. Please understand this, else I'll be forced to throw a frozen, pudding-filled pygmy elephant at yer head at mach looey.
Whatever I'm listening to at that moment in time. Whatever stirs my soul, and entices my body to move. Actually, I'm a bit embarassed at some of my musical tastes, so I'm really just declining to list specifics...
300, Atonement, Becoming Jane, Beetlejuice, Blood Diamond, The Boondock Saints, Braveheart, The Breakfast Club, Brokeback Mountain, The Color Purple, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Dark Crystal, Dazed and Confused, Dirty Dancing, Eastern Promises, Edward Scissorhands, The Flight of Dragons, Forrest Gump, Gangs of New York, Gladiator, The Goonies, Heathers, The Holiday, Kill Bill vol. 1 and 2, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Labyrinth, Ladyhawke, Last King of Scotland, Last of the Mohicans, The Last Unicorn, Legend, The Lost Boys, LOTR Trilogy, Moulin Rouge, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Neverending Story, The Notebook, Pan's Labyrinth, Pretty Woman, The Princess Bride, The Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy, Pump up the Volume, The Ring, Roadhouse, the entire Rocky collection, The Shawshank Redemption, Six String Samurai, Sliding Doors, Snatch, Titanic, V for Vendetta, Varsity Blues, Walk the Line, The Wedding Date, What Dreams May Come, most Disney and Pixar films... Oh, crap. You know, there are just too many; individual films and genres. So, let's just leave it at that. Although, you would be surprised at the sheer number of movies that I HAVEN'T seen because I grew up under a rock, in a cave. It's pretty sad. I don't know how many times someone's screamed at me, "WHAT?! YOU'VE NEVER SEEN ________?!!"
Angel, Beauty and the Beast (THERE'S an old one for you), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Friends, Grey's Anatomy, In Treatment, LOST, The Nanny, That 70s Show, Sex and the City, Whose Line is it Anyways? (British AND American version), Will and Grace, a lot of what the Discovery Channel puts out, and the random reality show to round out the rotting of my brain...
"The Mists of Avalon" by Marrion Zimmer Bradley, Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" series, Jacqueline Carey's "Kushiel" series, George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, "Atonement" by Ian McEwan, Terry Brooks "Shannara" series, C.S. Lewis's "Narnia" series, "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden... Basically, the same thing applies here as with with my musical preferences. For those of you who are familiar with some of these novels, go ahead, laugh it up; I don't care. Reading, for me, is escapism, and these books have taken me farther than any other, and have evoked more raw emotion than I ever could have prepared for.
I've actually come to realize that I have no heros. Not to sound pessimistic, but when I sat down and thought about the meaning of the word "hero", and more importantly, the meaning that I, personally, place on the word, I came to the aforementioned conclussion. There are many people who I look up to and admire, for many different reasons, but to qualify them as actual heros would be to belittle the definition that I have placed on the term.