Slavic paganism and fairy tales; politics (b/c it's never dull to debate whether the country was hurt more by the lie about the cigar or the lies about the WMDs); history, esp. ancient Rome (well, the fall of the republic to be specific, ancient rome went on for over a thousand years technically), American Civil War, Ptolemaic Egypt, Julius Caesar, medieval times; reading in general; my dogs and cats and ferrets (oh my); internet message boards (my current addiction from hell) . . . my own fantasyland.
Someone who can differentiate between singular and plural in ancient latin and yet also digs punk rock. There simply has to be someone else who can do that!
I suppose i ought to have favorite movies, i should probably lie and list some arty bullshit, but in reality, just give me some eye candy - johnny, brad and orlando are always nice to look at - put more than one in a movie, especially if it's an historical epic, and i am SO there. I do like the "normal" movies everyone likes (tarentino, kubrick, shit like that) i guess, but I much prefer to read.Gods, I'm really a bit shallow!
Not much right now. I will, naturally for all those who know me, be watching Battlestar Galactica when it starts back up in a few weeks. I'll watch Lost when it comes back on too, if only to figure out how Anna Lucia died when Michael apparently cannot . . . . .
Fantasy (Marian Zimmer Bradley is good, re-read LOTR occasionally, have actually read the simarillion and some of the lost tales, liked the Earthsea series but hated the movie); Jane Auel's clan of the cave bear series is fascinating; loved Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series and re-read it periodically; got into the O'Brian Jack Aubrey books; have everything ever written by Anne Rice; diana gabaldon's jamie and claire saga; read secondary history often - i prefer to make my own interpretations from the primary sources, but i don't speak Latin and Greek, so i have to live with translations, which of course have their own spin; finally gonna read me some Cicero and get edumacated; I'm currently rather catching up on literary scifi - just read Dune, just read some Phil Dick, I dunno, I get into moods, and right now, it's rather scifi oriented - go figure!
there is no such thing as a hero - unless there is.