interior design! silliness, whimsy, travel, art, living in a fantasy world, SuDoku, movies, reading, writing, climbing volcanoes, ancient ruins, spelunking, crossword-junkie, Bikram yoga, photography, bungee-jumping, buying too much music from iTunes, breathing on my own (if you know about my accident this makes sense), drinking until dawn (drinking at any time, really), archaeology/anthropology, ancient civilizations, medieval history, knitting, dreaming, jigsaw puzzles, learning languages, colonializing weaker sovereign states unto my domain and then assimilating them into the Kingdom of Jah-May; laughing; being in the great outdoors, it's hard to find nature in NYC, but i've scoped it out pretty well, and there's always trips to the great beyond!; oh i love animals too; jumping into maps; detective-ness/mysteries; i want lots of dogs; adventure; NCAA men's basketball; etymology; Scrabble; Trivial Pursuit; mischief challenges; art art art art art art art art art; inventing new recipes for food and drink; drunken badminton games; total world domination; not being cold; puppies that don't tear my flesh off; secret societies; elephants and statues thereof; self-analyzing aka being neurotic; anything creative and fun!
when i was little i wanted to be Indiana Jones...i still do...
i also wanted to be a great explorer, like Vasco da Gama. i was crushed to find out there were no new lands to discover. maybe that's why i tend to live in a fantasy world. go-go-gadget-imagination!
I'd like to meet:
David Wright (in Mets uniform!)... Lorenzo de Medici!... Pan... people who are really members of Fraggle Rock or other puppet programs... literary characters... dead rock gods... Smurfs and Snorks and the like... Dane Cook... the Grinch... Viggo Mortensen... my birthmother... The Wizard of Oz... Bacchus/Dionysus... Einstein... Leonardo daVinci... the Jesus... Jebus... merry pranksters... people who are obsessed with everything Italian... people who have read Lucretius... archaeology lovers... fellow adventurers and explorers of known and unknown lands... spelunkers... history lovers... Alice in Wonderland and all characters within... John McCain though i'm NOT a republican!... Oprah... people whose words can touch my soul... i want to meet the Architect of the Universe and get some freaking answers!
Music:
music is in my soul...
i love music,
all kinds,
from classical to techno, old to new, A to Z,
but my favorite group of all time can only be Led Zeppelin, man...
followed closely by the Beatles... and a healthy dose of Chopin...
i also love to sing. out loud. in private, in public, wherever.
the problem is- i am extremely tone deaf! uh-oh. the world should just wear ear-plugs as a preventative measure for my presence.
i play air drums. and i dabble in air guitar as well. unfortunately, my innate air-instrument abilities don't translate to actual, tangible instruments. it's not that i'm "bad" per se; it's that i'm TOO AWESOME for 3-dimensional drums and guitar. my talent basically exists on its own plane of existence and greatness.
same goes for my dancing style. the phrase "2 left feet" comes to mind...
Movies:
(in no order) Wedding Crashers, Best in Show (et al Christopher Guest movies), Team America, Old School, The Big Lebowski, Godfather, Joe vs The Volcano, Pride & Prejudice, all Gene Hackman, Hunt For Red October, Patriot Games, Amelie, Alice in Wonderland, Donnie Darko, LOTR, Walk The Line, Garden State, Gladiator, The Village, The Philadelphia Story, most old movies, Katherine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Apocalypse Now, Caddyshack, Spaceballs, Monty Python, Coen Brothers, Wes Anderson movies, Amadeus, Princess Bride, Goonies, Bladerunner, Ronin, Tombstone, Something's Gotta Give, The Family Stone, Woody Allen, Jack Nicholson, The Constant Gardener, Strange Brew, and on & on & on....., oh yeah i love Rogers & Hammerstein musicals, Oklahoma, 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, etc. i am cheesy!; all Indiana Jones of course!; anything from the 80's; stop-time Christmas specials by Rankin/Bass, like Santa Claus is Coming to Town, etc. i am strange, what can i say? too many interests. sure to be forgetting tons of great ones. whatevah.
oh, don't forget about Bubba Ho-Tep, Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, & BLASTFIGHTER!
Television:
Lost, 24, etc... thank god for DVR! Lots of HGTV, TLC, & Food Network.
Books:
uhhhhhh...... books. are. my. life. BOOKS ARE MY LIFE!!! enough said. but...
Nietzsche; Camus; Rilke; Goethe; Pride & Prejudice; Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell; Harry Potter; Alice in Wonderland; anything by Tom Robbins, especially Jitterbug Perfume and Still Life With Woodpecker; Voltaire's Candide; The Unbearable Lightness of Being; The Tao of Pooh; The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse; existentialism; The Prophet by Khalil Gibran; The DaVinci Code; Lord of the Rings; David Sedaris; Boccaccio's Decameron; Dante's La Vita Nuova; Woman in White; The Moonstone; Middlemarch; Cryptonomicon; 100 Years Of Solitude; anything from ancient Greece; Life of Pi; Umberto Eco books, esp The Name Of The Rose and Foucault's Pendulum; The Great Gatsby; art books; travel guides; Hemingway; Jasper Fforde; duh my atlas of course!; The Celestine Prophecy; Jonathan Livingston Seagull; and recently the NYC Guide to Jury Duty, it was a compelling read; satire; postmodernism; Discordian Lit; magical realism; anything quirky and surrealist; The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho; etc.etc.etc., always reading a ton of books, covering most genres; Time Traveler's Wife; The Dante Club; Freakonomics; The World is Flat; Collapse; 1491; Blink; The Tipping Point; Under The Banner Of Heaven; George RR Martin series; Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett; autobiographies of extraordinary historical figures; books about cartography; Vanity Fair by Thackeray; Machiavelli's The Prince; The Devil Wears Prada; The Egyptologist; The Other Boleyn Girl; Shakespeare; Narnia; well written, unique, interesting new fiction; ad infinitum!!!
Heroes:
yo momma!
no seriously, mothers are my heroes.
(and Detective Lenny Briscoe, of course)
