Art, Music, Poetry, Theater, Film, Cooking, Genealogy, History, Ren Fairs, Daydreaming.
J. Loren - Introspective violinist, dreamweaver - Hurt (Okay, okay! I met him once! How about I say that I want to meet him again?) Photo courtesy of Adam Tibbott at Revenant Media. Thanks Adam! . Ville Valo - singer, songwriter - His Infernal Majesty - HIM . Richard Z. Kruspe - musician, guitar god of Rammstein . Eicca Toppinen - classical metal cellist/composer of Apocalyptica . Laurie Anderson - performance art pioneer . Patti Smith - punk poet, feminist, rock and roll n***** . Dale Chihuly - glass artist, shapeshifter Persian Window, blown glass by Dale Chihuly 1999–2000 and 2005 . . .
HURT, HIM, HURT, HIM, HURT, HIM, HURT, HIM - and Rammstein, Apocalyptica, Entwine, 30 Seconds to Mars, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Patti Smith, Kill Hannah, The Rasmus, The Violent Femmes, Gogol Bordello, Bauhaus, Laurie Anderson, The Pogues, The Doors, Depeche Mode, Metallica, The Velvet Underground, The Clash, Queen, Iggy Pop, The Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Smashing Pumpkins, My Chemical Romance, Nine Inch Nails, R.E.M., Mediaeval Baebes, Lacuna Coil, The White Stripes, Pearl Jam, Black Sabbath, Evanescence, Philip Glass, Peter Gabriel, Green Day, The Bloodhound Gang, Machinae Supremacy, Classical Chinese Opera, Mozart, Beethoven...
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Forbidden Zone, Foreign Films
Human nature in action - give me the Amazing Race and Survivor. People are strange... I could not live without Invader Zim either.
Dark History is my favorite - plagues, genocide, Inquisition. I also love George Orwell's Animal Farm, Frank Herbert's Dune and anything by Robert Heinlein.
Juliette Gordon Low, Olave Baden Powell, Margaret Sanger, Hildegard von Bingen, Artemisia Gentileschi, Patti Smith, Frida Kahlo, Kathe Kollwitz, Laurie Anderson, Georgia O'Keefe, Judy Chicago, Arthur Rimbaud, William Blake . National Organization for Women . AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL . World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts . .