dancing (swing, salsa and anything old fashioned where the boy gets to hold the girl), architecture, the law, adventure, our Fair City of Angels, antiques and vintage clothes, entertaining, the emerging revival of the salon and intellectual thought, classic cars (especially my dream car - the Sunbeam Alpine), anything cubist or Russian avant garde, chatty people, WPA murals, neon signage, late afternoons in the golden hour, undiscovered gems of all varieties.
Some zip to go with my vavoom.
janet klein, cab calloway, gene vincent and the bluecaps (and other early rock and rock or Rockabilly), astor piazolla (and other classic and contemporary tango), yousef lateef, the buena vista social club, robert johnson, the anonymous 4, gabriel faure (and other french romanticists), big band, doo-wop, anything that prominently figures the cello.
it happened one night, paper moon, guys and dolls, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the piano, pandora's box, chicago, the shawshank redemption, edward scissorhands, pleasantville. some favorite actors: paul newman, jodie foster, louise brooks, susan sarandon, holly hunter, johnny depp, toby mcguire
i don't watch television. no. wait. that's not true. i used to watch 2 and 28 (CBS and KCET), because those were the only channels i could get without cable. i was perfectly content. but now i only get channel 13 (UPN) and it's awful fuzzy.
Where to start? "The Big Bang" published by Nerve.com
Essays by Emerson have a soft spot in my heart.
Did you know that before the Da Vinci Code there was Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco? And well before that there was, A Vision by William Butler Yeats?
I read Kavalier & Clay in almost one sitting. Tonight I finished Barack Obama's autobiography (very good) and All the Pretty Horses (not so good, but then, I'm a city girl ... ).
My 92 year old red haired grandmother. I love the fact that she got her ears piered at the body piercing parlor four years ago and that she has a "gentlemen caller." She was also a Rosie the Riveter.