Hell's Kittens, my all greasy-girl car club!
CARS!
Hot rods, customs, classics, muscle...pretty much anything pre-'72 and American made, with a few exceptions (I can't stand Cougars or most Mustangs - unless you have a Mustang like the Bullitt car, that I can handle.)
My girl, Emma Jean, back in better days
My truck Violet
ART!
Always art. Highbrow to lowbrow, small galleries to the Getty...I love a variety of art, from a variety of genres - painting, sculpture, photography (of course), poetry, dance, and some art that has no previously defined genre.
BOOKS!
I couldn't live without books. They are my companions, my friends, they soothe my soul, tease my imagination, feed my brain and heart.
ANIMALS!
I love just about any critter covered in fur, but especially dogs and horses. I kill plants, I kill fish, but any animal under my care will thrive. I have a furry thumb, not a green one.
My dogs, Samwise on the left (yes, he's named after a hobbit) and Molly on the right (also named from a favorite childhood book - the Last Unicorn, and after the "unsinkable" Molly Brown).
Unfortunately, my sweet Samwise left this lifetime last winter. He will always be missed.
and my new dog, Savannah...she came with that name, but I kept it for several reasons...it's pretty, it fits her, Savannah, GA is one of my favorite places, and she is the color of the grasses of the African Savannah.
TATTOOS!
Tattoos are art I can take everywhere. Painted poetry embedded in my skin. Permanent, yet as temporary as my body is. My tattoos make me feel more complete, more beautiful, and they mark me in ways that go far beyond my skin.
Also...
The earth, the sun, the moon, the stars...the cycles of nature, the power of the energies all around and within us...the merging of science and the Craft - they are more alike than most people realize. Secrets revealed in the dark, strength drawn from the light...ancient knowledge and arcane practices.
CURRENT MOON lunar phase
I'd like to meet:
Other folks (girls and guys) who have similar interests, especially in regards to cars, art, books, etc....people who use their brains and are smart-asses like me...interesting people with imagination...people who are interested in more about me than my tattoos...people who mean it when they say "friend", people who like to just hang out with good friends and enjoy each other's company.
And anyone who can and will talk sciencey stuff to me...speak to me of the stars, converse on the cosmos, expatiate the ethereal, ramble about robotics, whisper the whys, whats, and hows of the world, noodle about Nikola, discuss discoveries, iterate the intersecting of art and science, spirit and mind...
I WILL NOT ADD YOU IF YOU DO NOT MESSAGE ME BEFORE YOU SEND ME A FRIEND REQUEST!!! IF YOU'RE A GUY WHO'S JUST TRYING TO HIT ON ME AND WE HAVE NOTHING (or very little) IN COMMON - KICK ROCKS, BUDDY! I AM NOT HERE TO GET LAID AND I AM NOT INTERESTED IN BEING ANOTHER TROPHY GIRL TO ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION!!
World Visitor Map
this makes me smile
Music:
BLONDIE!!!
Also -
Garbage; Damned; Jane's Addiction; White Zombie; Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry; The (English) Beat; The Clash; X; Bow Wow Wow; Love and Rockets; Bauhaus; Tones on Tail; Cyndi Lauper; Tom Waits; Nina Simone; Chris Isaak; Stiff Little Fingers; Pretenders; The Doors; Pink Floyd; Cramps; Throwrag; Original Sinners; Beastie Boys; Prince (before that stupid symbol name); older Chili Peppers; older Social D.; No Doubt; old Cure; Elvis Costello; Siouxsie and the Banshees; Sneaker Pimps; Iggy Pop; Pink Martini; Leonard Cohen; Joan Jett; Lena Lovich; Nina Hagen; David Bowie; the Jam...
*I don't like a whole lot of new stuff, every now and then something will strike my fancy, but I find it mostly a lot of rehashed, unoriginal silliness. Some exceptions are: Gorillaz (the Gorillaz groove me no end! I could listen to them all the day long...); White Stripes; Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Jet; Audioslave; Queens of the Stone Age; the Donnas; random songs here and there; and I absolutely adore adore ADORE Gogol Bordello!
*Old (and some new) punk - Pistols; Peni; DK; Dead Milkmen; Rancid; Adicts; U.S. Bombs; Smut Peddlers; Toy Dolls; Buzzcocks; Ramones; Ill Repute; Heathens; Descendents; Dickies; GBH; D.I.; Bad Religion; Vandals; etc. etc. etc.
*Old, Southern black blues - Leadbelly; Bessie Smith; Howlin' Wolf; Memphis Minnie; Robert Johnson; etc. etc. etc.
*Hard Rock - NIN; Clutch; Rage; Tool; AC/DC; Motorhead; Rammstein; SiX - give me good lyrics and good bass, rock it out, and I'm a happy girl.
*Lots of 80s tunes - Duran Duran; ABC; XTC; Heaven 17; Adam and the Ants; New Order; Joy Division; Alphaville; INXS; Billy Idol; Violent Femmes; Plimsouls; early Police; Fishbone; the Cult; Stray Cats; Men at Work; etc.
*Classic Rock - Hendrix; Joplin; Who; Beatles; Stones; Creedance; Kinks; etc.
*Old (real) Country - Johnny Cash (duh); Patsy Cline; Willie Nelson; Loretta Lynn; Tammy Wynette; Charlie Daniels, etc. etc. etc.
*Early Rock 'n' Roll - Elvis (how can anyone not like Elvis?); Jerry Lee; Chuck Berry; Little Richard, etc...and lots of old doo wop...
*Motown - Marvin Gaye; Al Green; Aretha; Supremes; etc...
*lots of Soul and Funk - especially '70s soul and funk...and ya just can't beat Parliament Funkadelic, baby!!
*Classical - especially when I have a headache - including classical Flamenco guitar
*Some ska, some reggae, some jazz, some of lots of things...you might be surprised...
Movies:
Good anime
Akira; Spirited Away; Nausicaa; Steamboy; Princess Mononoke; Castle in the Sky; Memories; Howl's Moving Castle; Tokyo Godfathers; Wolf Brigade; Paprika; etc. Yes, I have become an anime geek.
Clint Eastwood westerns
Also, in no particular order:
Time Bandits; Thelma and Louise; A Fish Called Wanda; Mystery Train; Bull Durham (I adore Susan Sarandon); Sid and Nancy; Heathers; Pulp Fiction; Christine; Blue Velvet; Enchanted April; The Warriors; Cat People (with Nastasia Kinski); An American Werewolf in London; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Wizard of Oz; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Slums of Beverly Hills; Star Wars; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; 5th Element; Videodrome; The Professional; Gothic; Pan's Labyrinth; The Prestige; Serenity (as well as the T.V. series Firefly); Romeo is Bleeding; Princess Bride; Moonstruck; Shirley Valentine; The Man From Snowy River; Black Stallion; Into the West (the one about the Irish gypsy kids and their white horse); Pretty in Pink; Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Nightmare Before Christmas; Edward Scissorhands; Little Darlings; the Sandlot; Chinatown; Victor Victoria; Valley Girl; Some Kind of Wonderful; My Fair Lady...I'll add more as I think of them...
I love film noir, from all eras. A lot of 1940s and 1950s movies. I like indies as long as they aren't pretentious, intelligent comedies, intelligent and/or fun action flicks, horror movies that can actually scare me psychologically, drama that isn't overly melodramatic, many foreign films...I like directors with an odd or sideways sort of vision like Lynch, Waters, Gilliam.
Television:
Don't watch the stuff much anymore now that I only have a few local channels - most of T.V. fair is fairly dreadful. But I do enjoy Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Heroes, Bones, Veronica Mars, That 70s Show and used to love watching Buffy (shut up, they had a good sense of humor about it all); CSI; Law and Order and SVU. And since I don't have anything but locals, I also tend to watch quite a bit of PBS...love me some Nova, when I catch it; some of the BBC shows - Fawlty Towers was always a fave, and there are a few others they show now that I enjoy, including Mystery Theater, when I remember it's on.
When I did have satellite I was a big Sex and the City fan
(bite me, I'm a girl)
Oz (yay full frontal male nudity!); Sopranos; Discovery; TLC; Animal Planet; sometimes the History Channel; Speedvision...oh how I miss my Speedvision!
And, I don't watch on T.V., I rent from Netflix, but as in film, good anime series like Fullmetal Alchemist; Ghost in the Shell; Gunslinger Girl; Samurai Champloo; Samurai 7; Last Exile; Wolf's Rain, and of course, Cowboy Bebop...(am I too old to have a crush on a cartoon character? hahahahaa!!)
Books:
I was read to in the womb, and started reading to myself at 4 years old...been non-stop ever since. I have to ration myself or I'd break the bank on books and never get anything done. Hell, I've been known to read the back of a cereal box if I'm bored and there's nothing else available! I've read a lot of great books, some good ones, some bad, and some...eh. So there's just too many to list here but some favorites are:
Watership Down, since I was 11
Tom Robbins; Douglas Adams; Stephen King; Anne Rice; Bradbury; Peter Straub; Asimov; C.S. Lewis; Tolkein; Alice Borchardt; Guy Gavriel Kay; Piers Anthony; Bukowski; Clive Barker (sometimes); Dr. Seuss; A. A. Milne; original Nancy Drew series; Black Stallion series; Maurice Sendak; the Book of the Dun Cow; the Big Blue Books (a beautiful old set of children's books handed down from my mother); a great new series by Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel's Dart, Chosen, Avatar, and Scion.
I love Sci-Fi (currently hooked on William Gibson and Bruce Sterling), Fantasy (with action, not the namby pamby damsel in distress nonsense), and Horror.
I'm on a quest to read as many different takes on the Arthurian legend as I can find...a particularly good series is by Jack Whyte - written with a more realistic perspective...and Marion Zimmer Bradley's Avalon series is great, too.
I dig a good murder mystery now and again - P.D. James; Jonathan Kellerman; Agatha Christie; etc.
I also enjoy good historical fiction from time to time...and have been trying to read more of the 'classics' lately.
Heroes:
My mum-person Bobbie-Frances McDonald! For being the wild woman she is, for teaching me it's okay to be myself, no matter how odd I may be, and for always supporting me and who I am, no matter what.
Shirley Muldowney, for standing up to the boys to do what she wanted most - race cars! For being brave, ballsy, and never giving up.
Debbie Harry, for being a rocking chick in a man's world, for being beautiful and sexy while being as tough and smart as anyone! And for ultimate coolness.
Imogene Cunningham, for being one of the few highly respected women photographers of her era, for creating beautiful art, and for shooting right into little old lady-hood.
