travel (I'm a city stroller), music (including a bit of singing, occasionally; and I once played the flute in a rock band), reading (preferably intelligent hilarious stuff, like Irving, Pratchett, Douglas Adams and Fry), cooking (I even won a prize, decades ago *blush*), field hockey (yes, in the civilised world that's also very much a male game!!!); and charming ladies, of course, especially if they possess some of these traits: smartness, beauty, wit and weirdness...
All of my Myspace friends, but I would never survive it :)...
Angela Gheorghiu, Janis Ian, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, Norah Jones, Coldplay, Jacques Brel, Marlene Dietrich, Barbara, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Drs. P, Anne Murray, Roberta Flack, LeAnn Rimes, Mahalia Jackson, Mathilde Santing, Shirley Bassey, Pointer Sisters, Gene Pitney, Percy Sledge, Elvis, Ray Charles, Creedence, CSN&Y, Kate Bush, Melanie, Queen, Marisa Monte, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Shirley Bassey, Eagles, Stereophonics, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Pink Floyd, Tori Amos, Lovin' Spoonful/John Sebastian, Kinks, Stones, Berlioz, Gounod, Shostakovich, Bartok, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Sibelius, Bizet, Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Bellini, Ravel, Grieg, Rimsky Korsakov, Borodin, Prokofiev, Massenet, Glinka, Mussorgsky, Satie etc. etc.Some of my all time favourites:Whole lotta love (Led Zeppelin) Suzie Q (Creedence) Pearl's a singer (Algie Brooks) Black Velvet (Alannah Miles) What have they done to my song (Melanie) House of the rising sun (Animals) Son of a preacher man (Dusty Springfield/Aretha Franklin) Tommy (Who) Child in time (Deep Purple) Shboom (Crew Cuts) Proud Mary (Creedence, Ike and Tina Turner, Bryan B.) White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane) Black magic woman (Santana) Killing me softly (Roberta Flack) Me and Mrs. Jones (Billy Paul) Nostradamus (Hans Teeuwen) Wonderful life (Mathilde Santing) Beautiful people (Melanie, Mathilde Santing) Sitting on the dock of the bay (Otis Redding) Nights in white satin (Moody Blues) At seventeen (Janis Ian) Jesse (Janis Ian) Susanne (Leonard Cohen) Ne me quitte pas (Brel) Fiets (Clouseau) Une petite cantate (Barbara) Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen) Harper Valley PTA (Jeannie C. Riley) House of the rising sun (Animals) Take five (Dave Brubeck) Unsquare dance (ditto) Magical connection (John Sebastian) Waterloo sunset (Kinks) Méditation from Thais (Massenet) The cor anglais solo in La damnation the Faust (Berlioz) Humoresque (Dvorak) Peer Gynt - especially the theater version with vocals (Grieg) Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix from Samson et Dalila (Saint Saens) Silent night (Mahalia Jackson) Mercedes Benz (Janis Joplin) Belle nuit, o nuit d'amour (Offenbach) Requiems (Fauré, Verdi, Britten)
Der Untergang, Goodbye Lenin, Cabaret, One flew over the cuckoo's nest, The Pianist, Novecento, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs, Life of Brian, Schindler's List, Die Blechtrommel, La vita e bella, Silence of the lambs, The remains of the day, Godfather trilogy, The Big Lebowski, Mulholland Drive, Mary Poppins, Blues Brothers, Dolores Claiborne, The world according to Garp, Hotel New Hampshire, The Cider House rules, Soylent Green, Groundhog Day, anything with Peter Sellers (Being there, Casino Royale, Dr. Strangelove, Pink Panther). I've got no silver screen heroes or heroins; but I DO like Julia Roberts *blush*But I literally fell asleep during LOTR *yawn* :)...
Abfab, Twin Peaks, Blackadder, Young Ones, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, Dame Edna, Yes (Prime) Minister, Frasier, South Park, Frost, Morse, Muppets, MASH, Red Dwarf, The Chef, Klokhuis, Jiskefet, Ederveen in al zijn gedaanten, Rozengeur & wodka lime, Gooische vrouwen, Evelien *blush*
Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, John Irving, Michael Chabon, Stephen King, Stephen Fry, Kafka, Dahl, Waugh, Wilde, Milne, Ruth Rendell, Nicci French, Elsschot, Bordewijk, Heeresma, Hotz, Nescio, Koot, Midas Dekkers, Heleen van Royen, Annie M G Schmidt, Piet Paaltjens, Kees Stip/Trijntje Fop, Lévi Weemoed, John O'Mill
"What he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk." (Terry Pratchett)