Theatre, of course.
Also, philosophy, theology and metaphysics. I know next to nothing about any of them, but they seem like worthy disciplines of interest.
I'm very much interested in astral projection. In fact, I've read many books on the subject, practiced all the suggested exercises, but still remain unchanged and within. I guess I am not willing to enter the state of mind that would actually allow belief. Perhaps my interests are purely academic and I'm not as adventurous a soul as I pretend.
I enjoy browsing yard sales and thrift stores. I've never met a movie I couldn't find something good about. I love "pithy" conversations where I'm free to giggle and be silly. I enjoy photography and graphic design. Among my guilty pleasures are fairs, carnivals and amusement parks.
Producers with deep pockets, Directors with inspired vision, Publishers who read through all the layers, Lovers of Theatre, Slaves to Thespis . . . an Audience.
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My taste in music is extremely eclectic. What I listen to is pretty much determined by mood and what side of the bed I get out of on any given day. 'Though I am very fond of Damien Rice.
However, on any day of the week and at any hour I am most always in the mood for Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie, Dinah Washington and all the divine ladies of blues, jazz and swing. And let us not forget Mel Torme.
I am most interested in directors. Some of my many favorites are Ken Russell, Lars Von Trier, David Cronenburg, Luchino Visconti, Robert Altman, David Lynch, Pedro Almodovar, Julie Tamor, Wim Wenders, Mel Brooks . . .
I believe Michael Moore ought to win a Nobel Prize, but then I believe that I ought to win a Pulitzer!
I love 50's science fiction and everything Vincent Price.
Some of my topmost watch-again-and-again movies are: The Thief of Bagdad (Alexander Korda, 1940), Le Ballon Rouge, King of Hearts (Le Roi de Cœur), This Island Earth (predecessor to Close Encounters), 2001: A Space Odyssey, Titus (Julie Tamor’s Felliniesque Shakespearian romp), Women in Love (great screenplay by Larry Kramer), Tommy (seeing Anne Margaret covered with and rolling in beans and chocolate is worth the price of the rental), The Music Lovers, Wings of Desire (brilliant screenplay by Wim Wenders and Peter Handke), The Lives of Others (magnificent screenplay and direction by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck), Videodrome, eXistenZ, Zentropa, Dogville (life-altering screenplay by Lars Von Trier). That’s just a small taste of my very, very favorites.
I watch far too much TV and all of it junk—like pizza, Cracker Jacks, Mounds, 3 Musketeers and ice cream, I am addicted. Would somebody please slap me?
What with my poor old diabetic eyesight I don't read much anymore. When I did, among my favorite writers were Thomas Mann (favorite is The Magic Mountain), Gertrude Stein, Saki (H.H. Munro), D.H. Lawrence, Proust, E.F. Benson, Joyce (the short stories), Gore Vidal, Anthony Burgess (Earthly Powers is my favorite), Anne Rice (the vampire books)....
I was raised by my grandparents on a small dairy farm in Harriman, NY and they are my heroes. We were financially poor, yet I had everything I needed. They were an example of selfless love and common sense. I think the idea that we are all somehow connected and that this planet is a living and conscious entity comes from their influence.
I don't know that I'd call Williams, Albee, Orton and Peter Shaffer "heroes," but they are the quartet of writers whose work I most admire and to whose level of accomplishment I aspire.