I love books, music, and movies, naturally. I am often fascinated by anthropology, biology, and physics, although I make no claim to understand it all. I'm also interested in all religions, but I don't believe in any as a whole. I love baking, cooking, and creating my own recipes. I like to dance, but only when no one else is around. I love Chinese buffets and bottomless buckets of popcorn. I love beading and metalworking, photography, and writing. I sing all the time, and singing is my greatest passion. I love sci-fi, fantasy, and historical fiction. I love the Renaissance Faire. I read erotica, and I find most slash hillarious. I have a small, but steadily growing comic book collection. I love animals, and I am very interested in Captain Cosmo P. Quivers, my pet rabbit. I'm a big fan of zoos, planetariums, museums, libraries, markets, thrift stores, and parks.
Anyone who shares interests with me, or who likes a good conversation. I'd love to meet some guys who are into pin-up girls, Star Trek, art, books...I'd like to hear about comics I should read or albums I should listen to. I enjoy space pirates, sea captains, hermits and rascals. I am not, however, interested in talking to people who replace words with letters or can't write in complete sentences.Anyway, if I could have lunch with three people, they would be Martian Manhunter, Alton Brown, and Indiana Jones. I think we'd find a lot to talk about.
Ella Fitzgerald, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Paula Cole, Aimee Mann, Etta James, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Rufus Wainwright, Jill Scott, Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell, Yo Yo Ma, Queen, Cousteau, Swing music, Damien Rice, Andre 3000, Tears for Fears, The Louvin Brothers, U2, Ben Folds, The Clash, Sting, Stevie Wonder, Van Morrison, Irish/Celtic folk music, gospel music, Bjork, Simon and Garfunkle, PJ Harvey, John Mayer, Sinead O'Connor, Billy Joel, Patsy Cline, Carole King, Sarah Vaughn, Groove Armada, all that great old Motown stuff.
Star Wars (all of them, on principle, even though generally episodes I, II, and III suck), all the Indiana Jones Movies (Temple of Doom not so much, though.) The Godfather, The Thin Man movies, The Great Escape, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Rear Window, The Muppet Movie, The King and I, The Quiet Man, Robin Hood (the Disney version with the foxes!), The Iron Giant, High Fidelity, The Breakfast Club (shut up.), Gone with the Wind, Singin' in the Rain, Boondock Saints, Mary Poppins, Fight Club, Equilibrium, Batman Begins, etc. I love movies from the Forties, and old patriotic musicals (which isn't to say that I'm actually patriotic), anything thought provoking or full of a sense of place.
Star Trek ( Original series or Next Generation), The X-Files, Late Night with Conan O'Brian, Muppet Babies, Iron Chef, The Oblongs, Good Eats, Nigella Bites, Krypto the Superdog (just because), Futurama, Mission Hill, Firefly, M.A.S.H., reruns of ER, stuff on the History Channel.
Well, you asked for it. Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn; The History of Sex and The History of Food, by Reay Tannahill; Contact, by Carl Sagan; The Narnia Books, by C.S. Lewis; most anything by Madeleine L'Engle; ditto Robert Heinlein; The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger; Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austin, The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley; The Once and Future King, by T.H. White...also assorted poetic works by the likes of Billy Collins, Emily Dickenson, Poe, and Rudyard Kipling. When I was little I liked to read books about whales by Jacques Cousteau, but that's about as far into biology as I can go...Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov; a few books I've forgotten the titles of. I really love the Beatrix Potter books. High Fidelity was a good book. I have a soft spot for sexually explicit historical fiction. The Godfather, by Mario Puzo...I go through phases where I only read cookbooks. I love people who can talk intelligently about food...I like Jeff Smith and Nigella Lawson a lot. I also like reading old, cheesy (not literally), and strange cookbooks. I have a small collection of odd religious books (mostly from the sixties and seventies), and odd books from the fifties (such as Pat Boone Talks to Teenagers), and kid's books. I have boxes, and boxes, and boxes of books. Graphic novels/comic books I enjoy include Kingdom Come, by Mark Waid and Alex Ross; Fables (all), by Bill Willingham, etc.; Fray, by Joss Whedon, Karl Moline and Andy Owens; Batman: Hush, Volumes one and two, by Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee and Scott Williams; Bone (all), by Jeff Smith; Maus, by Art Spiegelman;Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons; Batgirl:Year One by Scott Beatty and Chuck Dixon...Ok, I'll stop now.
Martian Manhunter,Captain Cosmo (my pet rabbit).