Music, Classical singing, Jazz singing, Foreign accents, Foreign films, Provençale culture, Cafés, Hindu Philosophy, Costume Jewelry, Romance, Atmosphere, Anais Nin, Exercise, Running until my veins feel like battery acid is flowing through them, Family, Rum and coke, Vintage clothing, Roasted cherries, Color, Persian kitties... it just goes on and on!
"For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds..." Anais Nin
I like... all kinds of music: opera, symphony, jazz, bebop, hip-hop, doo-wop, folk, classic rock, indie rock, trip-hop, electronica, 80s, German lieder, the list of strange bed fellows goes on and on! Favorite artists include Renee Fleming, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Mos Def, Tribe Called Quest, Van Morrison, Nick Drake, Crosby Stills and Nash, Pink Floyd, Rufus Wainwright!!!, Portishead, DJ Shadow, Bjork, Aphex Twin, Elvis Costello, Depeche Mode, Jesse Cook, Apples in Stereo, Modest Mouse, Beck, Gus Gus, Gorillaz, Jeff Buckley, Bobby Dylan, Beastie Boys, Cassius, Air, Daft Punk, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Weezer, Mirah, Radiohead, Stereolab, Basement Jaxx, Belle and Sebastian, Built to Spill, Caetano Veloso, D'Angelo, Smoke City, Dmitri of Paris, Digable Planets, Earth Wind & Fire, Erykah Badu, Frente!, Fifth Dimension, Kronos Quartet, Les Nubians, Spiritualized, Stevie Wonder, Sly & the Family Stone, Schubert's "Gretchen am spinnrade," Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder," Wolf's "Kennst du das land," and others who seek to rip my heart out, like the great Ludwig van, Berlioz, Holst, etc.
Ohhh, my! Amelie, Talk to her, Horseman on the Roof, Life is Beautiful, Snatch, Intermission, the Count of Monte Cristo, The Notebook, LA Confidential, Shawshank Redemption, Goonies, Ferris Bueller, Hannah and her Sisters, Mighty Aphrodite, the Purple Rose of Cairo, the Fifth Element, Basquiat, Beauty and the Beast, the Sound of Music, the Neverending Story... and on!
Confederacy of Dunces, Delta of Venus