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MUSIC...Art...Art that was made with music...movies...watching movies in bed...artsy romantic movies with subtitles...cheesy 80s movies about high school life...relaxing with a few close friends...tea (iced or hot)...sports that don't get enough respect (Badminton, Curling, Lacrosse...), travelling (my passport is almost full), cooking, road trips with great music in the car, doodling, views from mountain tops, fresh air (yeah, I do live in L.A.), and probably more stuff each day.
Both Russell Brand (again...and again...and again...) and his famous kitty Morrissey, too.**Please, no blind add requests if I don't know you in person or we haven't met. I might have met you at a party or at a bar, but the brain doesn't work that great sometimes. Please send me a quick introductory how-do-you-do. Thanks...
First and foremost: and ... then Black Flag, The Stones, Bowie, Beatles post-mop top phase/after India visits, Pulp, Japan, Kinks, Visage, Pink Floyd (with Syd mostly), Belle & Sebastian, campy 60s pop, The Smiths, Bauhaus, GN'R, things with theramins or Moogs, Nick Cave, Spiritualized, Air, Joy Division, Wire, 13th Floor Elevators, the Pogues, Stone Roses, Einstuerzende Neubauten, New Order, Black Flag, L.A. Guns (yes, I'm serious), Siouxsie and those Banshees, Skinny Puppy, James Brown, Marion, T. Rex, Elvis, Echo & the Bunnymen, Leg. Pink Dots, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, the Cult, Mercury Rev, Led Zep, Super Furry Animals, Dandy Warhols, The Cars, Velvet Underground, Lap Top, Hanoi Rocks, Roxy Music, Hawkwind, Black Flag, Sisters of Mercy, Tom Jones, Queen, NIN, Beachwood Sparks, Slowdive, Duran Duran, Mojave 3, the Doves, the Animals (Eric Burdon!!!), The Warlocks, Kasabian, The Damned, BJM, the Undertones, the Stooges, The Black Angels, Silver Apples, and way too many others.
All sorts of stuff. Concert films. Anime. "Office Space" is my life. "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" and "House of Flying Daggers" still make me cry at the end. Lately "The Science of Sleep" and "Pan's Labyrinth." Also, "Godfather II", "Goodfellas," John Hughes 80s movies that make me wish that was what high school was really like, "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." "Kill Bill" Vol. 1 and 2 (mostly 2). Almost anything by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu or Wes Anderson. Italian cinema currently provides me with more hope than American moviemaking ("Romanzo Criminale"). Movies with cool costumes and music ("Amadeus," "Rock n' Rock Circus," "Velvet Goldmine," etc.), almost anything with Christopher Walken, Benicio del Toro, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Ralph Fiennes, Rodney Dangerfield, or Sean Penn.
mostly PBS, Food Network, and History Channel and whatever British nuggets I can get from BBC America and You Tube
Mostly European, Roman and Greek Archaeology, Historical biographies, and Art books because I like to look at the pretty pictures. Oh--and books about Astrology, Feng Shui, tarot cards and cookbooks.
My Gran-ma (RIP), Chrissie Hynde Paula Deen (who kind of reminds me of my Gran-ma) and Nigella Lawson (Yes, I'm a Food Network Nerd)