The basic stuff: reading, watching movies, listening to music, gardening, cooking, travelling, current events and keeping up on what's going on in the world, being green and the other liberal-type stuff that annoys so many. ************************************************************ ************** More specific stuff, but in no specific order: raptor birds, science, atheism, cats, public transportation, history, feminism, sex, gender roles, dictionaries, languages, volcanoes, singing, hot guys, organic agriculture, odd clothes and fabrics, sociology, anthropology, art, symmetry and recurring patterns, poisonous plants and venomous animals, kaleidoscopes, the Chesapeake Bay, evolution, learning to do stuff with my impossible hair, make-up and glamour, being childfree, suburban sprawl and gentrification, being fat and body image in society, tobacco's place in US history, watching others smoke (I quit four years ago!), equal access to a good education for all children, rocks, gems and geology in general, finding the perfect walking shoe, shiny things (esp. chrome and patent leather), raising butterflies, mental illness and how its treatment has evolved over the centuries, sending out cards, photography, symbols. I'll add more when I think of them! ************************************************************ ************** "I call myself a feminist when people ask me if I am, and of course I am 'cause it's about equality, so I hope everyone is. You know you're working in a patriarchal society when the word feminist has a weird connotation." —Ellen Page in The Washington Post ************************************************************ ********* CURRENT MOON about the moon
I'm not that picky; drop me a line!
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Some Flight of the Conchords vids for your enjoyment:
Yes, these are my cassettes, and this isn't even all of them. I just can't get rid of them. I keep meaning to get mp3 or CD copies of them, but there's so much other music to buy and my tape player still works so....
Too many bands and singers to list, but my favorite genres are: that which was once called alternative, goth, glam rock, soul singin' divas like Aretha and Gladys, blues, punk, big band, 60's Motown and rock, 70's funk, old country, disco, hip hop/R and B, techno/house/ambient and classical. In short, everything. And FotC. Oh, and Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen, because they're in categories all by themselves.
I watch A LOT of movies. I tried to narrow it down but my list is still ridiculously long: Murder By Death, L.A. Confidential, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Brokeback Mountain, How to Marry A Millionaire, Lost In Translation, Murder On the Orient Express, V For Vendetta, The Constant Gardener, Gone With the Wind, The Big Sleep, L'Atalante, Casablanca, Secretary, The Wicker Man (original), Anna Christie, The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, Belle de Jour, All Quiet On the Western Front, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Apartment, Hero, Mr. Mom, L'Avventura, Big Night, Ghost World, The Ten Commandments, Labyrinth, The Manchurian Candidate (original), The Man With the Golden Arm, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Au Revoir Les Enfants, Superman II, The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Double Indemnity, Across the Universe, The Maltese Falcon, Disney's Robin Hood, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (original), All About Eve, Clue, Days of Wine and Roses, Fight Club, Mystery Men, Sense and Sensibility, Ghostbusters, Moulin Rouge!, Snatch, Say Anything, High Fidelity, A Fish Called Wanda, Some Like It Hot, Dirty Dancing, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Before Sunrise, Zoolander, Stand By Me, Hot Fuzz, A League of Their Own, A Room With A View, The Princess Bride, Cabaret, Fried Green Tomatoes, Moonstruck, Ed Wood, Laura, Desperately Seeking Susan, Chinatown, Reversal of Fortune, A Streetcar Named Desire, Anatomy of a Murder, Life of Brian, Fargo, the Molly Ringwald trilogy (The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink and Sixteen Candles) plus tons more. Love movies by Alfred Hitchcock (except Frenzy, possibly), Robert Altman, Christopher Guest and Wes Anderson. I'm also a big fan of James Bond and Gene Kelly movies. I am currently working on seeing all the movies on the NYTimes Top 1,000 Movies list. So far I've seen over 170 of them, and I just finished all the movies on the list that begin with the letter A!
I cannot wait til November 14th! I'm dyin' here!! I MUST see this movie!!!!!!!!
I haven't had cable in a number of years so I'm not really into T.V. Most of the shows I love are old and/or cancelled. I like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, MST3K, The Simpsons, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Sex and the City, The X-Files (sometimes), Voltron, the original Star Trek series, pretty much anything on PBS, The Daily Show and I love The Colbert Report! I am also a big fan of David Tennant as Dr. Who, and in case you've not noticed, I ADORE Flight of the Conchords!
I've read a lot of books, and many of them were of the high falutin', smarty-pants variety. However, the ones that really struck me or that I turn to over and over again aren't necessarily of that illustrious group. Then again, a few are. Here's the list--A Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Catcher In the Rye, Gone With the Wind, Fear of Flying, Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By In America, The Age of Innocence, Song of Solomon, The Awakening, The Martian Chronicles, Nausea, The Thornbirds, Bridget Jones's Diary, The Collected Plays of Oscar Wilde, The Bell Jar, The World According to Garp, The Grapes of Wrath, The House of Mirth, The Stranger, Scruples, The Windmill Summer, Animal Farm, Rebecca, My Uncle Oswald, Freakonomics, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, James and the Giant Peach, the His Dark Materials series, the Dragonlance books and Doonesbury collections. I also like several of the books and stories of Neil Gaiman, H.P. Lovecraft, Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood, Terry McMillan and Dr. Seuss. I like Alan Moore's works as well.
Recently I have gotten into the works of Dr. Ronald Chevalier. I can't wait til his new book, The Chronicles of Brutus and Balzaak, comes out! For more info, visit him on MySpace at www.myspace.com/ronaldchevalier or at www.ronaldchevalier.com. He looks so much like someone I've met before, but I just can't put my finger on it.....
In no particular order (see photo album for pics and more info): Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Galileo, Oscar Wilde, Lisa Simpson, Johannes Gutenberg, Annie Oakley, William Tyndale, Margie Gunderson, Émilie du Châtelet, Bono, the Pill, Jules Verne, Rosie the Riveter, Pablo Neruda, Holden Caulfield, Tom Waits, Miss Piggy, my maternal grandfather, my brother and sister, my mom and last but never, ever least, my husband, because it takes a whole lot of man to love a woman like me!