When I'm not wacking Santa over the head with a pair stilletto heels, I teach, read, write, and play Dungeons & Dragons.
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There's other stuff too, like cooking, bad movies, kitties, and D&D, but I gotta get my life together. At 96, I've got my future to think about. ;-)
Roleplaying gamers, children who have led previous lives, people who see dead people, and Richard Adams. And possibly you, if you're reading this and think you might want to meet me...especially if you're Orlando Bloom...or Johnny Depp...or Angelina Jolie.
I have removed aliens from the list: after seeing War of the Worlds...are you kidding me? I don't want to meet those tripedal bastards. I have also removed spies. Screw spies. They're too mysterious.
Trancy electronica gothy industrial new wave ambient new age to sixties and fifties classics with an occasional classical or metal or punk or disco streak mixed in, and whatever I can grade papers to without feeling like I want to shoot the singer.
I LOVE kick-ass chick flicks:
The House of Flying Daggers; Hero; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Kill Bill 1 & 2; Resident Evil; The Replacement Killers; Run Lola Run; The Matrix; Terminator 2; The Long Kiss Goodnight; X-Men & X-Men 2; The Fifth Element; Blade Runner, Tomb Raider, Charlie's Angels... need I go on?
Also love the Return of the Living Dead movies. And have a fondness for zombie movies in general...see my photos for me as a zombie at Romero's Land of the Dead in June.
Favorite vampire movie: The Lost Boys. 2nd favorite vampire movie: Near Dark.
Fantasy movies: Labyrinth, Legend, Ladyhawke, Willow, The Dark Crystal, and of course the Peter Jackson LotR movies.
Anime: My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Monoke and generally anything else by Miyazaki.
Though I generally abhor the television, it's mostly because I'm a tv zombie. You put me in front of the thing and I will watch for hours. And it pretty much doesn't matter what. I've been known to ask others in the room to lower their voices so I can find out what's happening in the commercial. Pretty pathetic.
Aside from all that, there are some shows, no longer made, that I've enjoyed:
Buffy, Farscape, The Monkees, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, The Munsters, and The Addams Family...of course.
I was also pretty into M*A*S*H*, The Carol Burnett Show, I Love Lucy, Gilligan's Island, The Odd Couple, and The Price Is Right. Then the A-Team came along, then Miami Vice, and V. I want to watch V again. I still remember Robert Englund pretending to eat a mouse on screen.
Oh yeah, and big shout out on Firefly. Also over, I might add. :-P
I own far too many.
If you haven't, you should read Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series of graphic novels.
One of my favorite books is Richard Adams' The Girl in a Swing.
Recently read Ender's Game and wish I'd read it when I was twelve. His Dark Materials triology by Pullman. Harry Potter, of course. If you like horror/fantasy I recommend Clive Barker's Weaveworld.
Anything with time travelling in it, such as: Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson, The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon or The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
If you're into vampire novels, or erotica, you might check out Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, or her other series (which although sans vampires, is still erotic) which I call the "Meredith Gentry, Elven American Princess" series. (Hamilton's epithet, not mine.)
Literary-wise, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest & The Bell Jar are great. And since I'm teaching a class on Monsters in Literature, I recommend Beowulf, Grendel, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Hannibal, and I Am Legend.
If you have a favorite novel that you think I'd like, please recommend it to me, and I'll read it next year...when I'm not teaching five classes...
Anyone who pursues a dream, anyone who makes the most of their talent, and anyone who has patience with the rude, dumb, and/or absurd of humanity.