knitting, lighting fires, being creative, writing, singing, dancing, acting, Ashtanga yoga, Tai Chi, riding bikes, making my own clothes and costumes, dressing up for no reason, trying to be a good person, meeting like-minded people, making a mark on the world, photography, horticulture, psychology (abnormal and regular), the 1960s, hell, even the 1860s, British history, anything French, learning languages, swearing in foreign languages.
I'd like to meet:
   
Franz Kafka, John Lennon, Charlotte Brontë, Audrey Hepburn, Voltaire, Lewis Carroll, Sylvia Plath.
Music:
I hate this. I'm influenced by everything I've ever heard, and I like too much to list. Well, I'll try the ABZs again and see how this goes:
Arcade Fire
Belle and Sebastian
Cardigans, the
Dory Previn
Emitt Rhodes
Franz Ferdinand
George Harrison
Henry Mancini
Ike Turner
Jens Lekman
Kinks, the
Leonard Cohen
Muse
New Pornographers
Ocean Colour Scene
Peter Sarstedt
Queen
Roy Orbison
Stereo Total
Tom Jones
Unicorns, the
Vaselines, the
Weezer
X - alright, you got me. I don't listen to XTC.
Yann Tiersen
Zombies, the
Movies:
Actors:
Audrey Hepburn, Adrien Brody, Cary Grant, Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett, Peter Sellers, Louise Brooks, John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson.
Directors:
David Lynch, Jacques Demy, Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard.
Film types:
Anything Criterion Collection (I'm going through their catalogue); political/social commentary documentaries; Noam Chomsky documentaries; musicals; Wes Anderson films; Eddie Izzard specials; Chris Rock specials; Monty Python; pre-code films; Mystery Science Theater 3000; foreign art house; Japanese horror; zombie films; Nouvelle Vague; mod films.
Films specifically:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Mulholland Drive; A Tale of Two Sisters; Being There; Closer; Breakfast at Tiffany's; Dawn of the Dead; Lost in Translation; Alice in Wonderland; Les Parapluies de Cherbourg; Jules et Jim; À bout de souffle; Happiness.
Television:
The TV is only used to watch DVDs, but I may watch CSI, Monty Python, Little Britain, Louis Theroux, Fawlty Towers, Fooly Cooly, and The X Files at times.
Books:
Authors:
Charlotte Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Haruki Murakami, Sylvia Plath, Iris Murdoch, Dean Koontz, Jane Austen, Paulo Coelho, David Sedaris, Gregory Maguire, John Lennon, Thomas Hardy, Shel Silverstein, Dr. Seuss, Chuck Palahniuk, Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde, Voltaire, Colette, Anaïs Nin.
Subjects:
Abnormal psychology, biographies, historical fiction, knitting (Stitch n' Bitch), music books, excellent fiction.
Heroes:
Audrey Hepburn, Dory Previn and John Lennon. Make of that what you will.
