One of my passions is travel -- I always have a bag packed and can be at the airport ready to go practically anywhere with an hour's notice. I'm also passionate about movement -- skiing, scuba diving, being a gym rat, and of course, X-Yoga. Dipping a timid toe into bellydance. Closet chef -- creating with my sautee pan (secret crush on Tyler Florence). Garden art. Mind, Body & Pole. Obsessive shoe collector. Okay -- it's borderline festishist. Slave to fashion. Vin Fatale. Alcolete. Zoo Diver.
I'd like to meet:
JD Salinger, Lynda Barry, James McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde, Franz Lizst, Dorothy Parker. Oh, and Manolo Blahnik. I would beg him for shoes.
Music:
Ambient electronic alternative stuff that lets me float away -- Moby, Massive Attack, Fauxliage, Sigur Ros, Evanescence, Sirconical, Rob Dougan, and Amethystium.
I'm also a huge fan of industrial rock, especially NIN, Filter, Stabbing Westward, and X-Fusion. I play a lot of Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, and Coldplay in my classes.
Movies:
I see about one movie every two years because I can't sit still that long.
Books:
Where do I start? Anything and everything by JD Salinger, David Sedaris, Wally Lamb, Vladimir Nabokov, and Ellen Gilchrist. One of the most chilling and provocative books I have read in years is "We Need to Talk About Kevin" by Lionel Shriver. I am obsessed with brilliant humorous illustrators like Edward Gorey and Lynda Barry. Love you, Marlys!
