we've already established that i love drawing and painting and taking photos, i love reading (mostly non fiction), i play guitar but only by myself, i love to sing when i'm driving, i like to go on long drives by myself to think (and sing), i watch alot of movies (i've become a film buff from dating two film majors), again, i love traveling. i love cats and trick or treating on easter weekend with my friends. i like themed parties and bad puns. i like pun themed parties, recreational psychadelia and dancing in my under wear whe no one's looking. i collect coins from antiquity and other countries (but not stamps cuz that's lame...), i love sushi and vietnamese food, organizing other people's things (but not mine) and life in general...
... my grandfather, for starters. i hear he wasn't such an interesting person but family is family. i would love to meet leonard shlain (i think he's still alive), he wrote all three of my favorite books. the dali lama seems like an incredible person. um, cindy sherman, george harrison, cleopatra, susan b. anthony, virginia woolf, andy warhol (to kick him in the shin), picasso, dali, francis bacon, amedeo modigliani, egon schille, mucha, gustave klimt... i don't know i'm bad at this game, i think a more appropriate question for me would be places i want to see before i die: prague, st. petersburg, thailand, rio, peru, ireland, scotland, sweeden, switzerland, germany (for the chocolate), amsterdam, israel, spain (madrid in particular), venice, vienna, the grand canyon, mammoth caves, the redwood forest. places i have seen and will never forget until i am old and senile: nyc, chicago, boston, paris, giverny, lyon, rome, sarento, pompei, florence, london, destin in florida, mt. rushmore, montana, washington state, arizona, mexico, whistler/blackcomb/vancouver in canada, bonnaroo in tenn., northern california, basically everything in between texas and michigan, texas and washington, texas and florida and from michigan to boston.
ani difranco, tv on the radio, buena vista social club, radiohead, penguin cafe orchestra, brian eno, smashing pumpkins, dresden dolls, ween, beck, joanna newsome, royksopp, lemon jelly, the cure, animal collective, eels, david bowie, nick drake, elliot smith, wilco, cat power, the islands, of montreal, blonde redhead, american analog set, modest mouse, neutral milk hotel, iron and wine, calexico, califone, the kinks, devandra banhart, sufjan stevens, that's just scatching the surface...
the seventh seal, the tin drum, the graduate, eraserhead, twin peaks fire walk with me, mulholland dr., a.kurosawa's dreams, amelie, the triplets of belville, wings of desire, city of lost children, eternal sunshine, goodfellas, the princess bride, the fifth element, fight club, finding nemo, being john malkovich, a league of their own, a clockwork orange, metropolis, taxi driver, seven, twelve monkies, the adventures of baron munchausen...
this is where it gets embarassing... i watch way too much tv so i'm going to get this over with quickly, 24, desparate housewives, sopranos, simpsons, that 70s show, house, the daily show, colbert report, nova, antique roadshow, mythbusters, cosmos (carl sagan, 1980s), arrested development, seinfeld, x-files, the office... there, i said it, now let's not dwell...
i read alot of non fiction because it holds my interest longer. i loved the alphabet vs. the goddess, and sex, time and power by leonard shlain (both of which i think every one should read), art and physics, the elegant universe, the (history of the) golden ratio, the mummy at the dining room table, angels and demons, the davinci code, devil in the white city, the giver, slaughter house five, breakfast of champions, a clockwork orange.
stay puft marshmallow man, beeltegeuse, ghandi...