interest ** - Pronunciation Key ( n tr st, -t r- st, -tr st ) n. ** 1. a. A state of curiosity or concern about or attention to something**. b. Something, such as a quality, subject, or activity, that evokes this mental state: counts the theater among his interests.** 2. Regard for one's own benefit or advantage; self-interest. Often used in the plural: It is in your best interest to cooperate. She kept her own interests in mind. ***I could go on and on about my interests, but I do not have enough space...so I suppose I will just list a few****shoes! shoes! shoes! (i have a serious addiction), music, coffee, synesthesia, astronomy, photography, fire, astrology, john william waterhouse, i dig the smell of metal and the smell of wood..but is that considered an interest??, vintage erotic photography, clothing design, sewing, singing & writing songs, chemistry, painting, vegetarian cooking, asian art & design, hockey, soviet art, absinthe, corsets, corset reconstruction, leila waddell, vintage lingerie, jewelry fabrication, erte, comic books, tall boys who wear eyeliner, silent movies, time travel, conspiracy theories, edward gorey, space, wearing makeup, robots, microscopic invertebrates, psychology, gustav klimt, chaos magic, chaos theory, 1920's 1930's & 1940s fashion, victorian fashion and so on and so on
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i listen to all types of music, it is a huge part of my life. without it i would surely die. here are just a few favourites... abba; and you will know us by the trail of dead; arthur brown; bauhaus; the beatles; belle & sebastian; black sabbath; brian eno; bright eyes; the creatures; the cure; david bowie; dead can dance; depeche mode; the ditty bops; the dresden dolls; dressy bessy; duran duran; edith piaf; eels; elvis presley; enon; frank sinatra; fruit bats; the futureheads; gordon lightfoot; hot hot heat; ima robot; iron & wine; jeff buckley; johnny cash; kiss; the libertines;lucia pamela; madonna; maria callas; the misfits (w/danzig); mozart; neil diamond; nick cave; nine inch nails; nirvana; old motley crue; pas/cal; peggy lee; pink floyd; pj harvey; portishead; prince and the revolution; pulp; q & not you; radiohead; rocket science; roy orbison; roxy music; scissor sisters; the shags; siouxsie & the banshees; slayer; spoon; stellastarr*; stiffs inc.; system of a down; ted leo & the pharmacists; tegan & sara; t rex; type o negative; venom; the velvet underground; voivod; wesley willis; the zombies and so on and so on...
Any and Every Mel Brooks; Marx Brothers; John Waters; Woody Allen & Jim Jarmusch movie!! **Horror Movies, Comedies, Musicals, Spaghetti Westerns, Silent Films**A Night at the Opera, American Movie, Annie Hall, Arsenic & Old Lace, Back to School, Big Helium Dog, Blade Runner, Butterfield 8, Cabinet of Dr.Caligari, Crash, Duck Soup, Dune, Easy Money, Edward Scissor Hands, Ed Wood, Empire Strikes Back, Escape from New York, Fight Club, Flesh & Blood (w/Rutger Hauer), Gaslight, Grease, Harold & Maude, Hedwig & the Angry Inch; Kelly's Heroes, Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park, Legend, Logan's Run, Mean Streets, Meatballs, Metropolis (Fritz Lange), Mystery Train, Nightmare before Christmas, Nosferatu, Planet of the Apes (original w/ Heston), Pretty in Pink, Repulsion (Roman Polanski), Rockula, Say Anything, Sense and Sensibility, Some like it hot, Sour Grapes, Star Wars, The Big Lebowski, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Time Machine (1960), This is Spinal Tap, THX 1138, Weird Science, and many more that I am sure I am forgeting.
AbFab, American Idol, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Carnival, Connections w/James Burke, Carl Sagan's Cosmos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Family Guy, Fawlty Towers, Flight of the Conchords, Futurama, Iron Chef, Lost, M*A*S*H* (yes …MASH…I don’t know why, maybe it’s Alan Alda, I am a sucker for tall guys with black hair & light eyes!), Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Physics with Julius Sumner Miller, Project Runway, Queer as Folk, Sex & the City, Six Feet Under, Stella, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, The L Word, The Munsters, The Office, The Young Ones, Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Tom Goes to the Mayor, What Not To Wear
jeez...too many...but here are some faves..Sharpshooter Blues, Sugar Among The Freaks, Anthem, 1984, The Story of the Eye, Normal, Liber Null & Psychonaut, A Bridge Between Us, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, History Laid Bare, Confederacy of Dunces, Dune, Me Talk Pretty Some Day, Burning in Water Drowning in Flame, Siddhartha, The Hobbit, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, The Sadness of Sex, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, An open Life...and tons and tons of Self Help books, Reference books, Photography books and Poetry...
my gorgeous mother... my lovely, nutty grandmother... and the woman of wonder