"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter." Mark Twain
General mischief, all things Shakespeare, fuzzy things, watching a great movie from the balcony, good music, fiction, walking all over LA, art deco, hiking with Sue and Fran, boots, Wyatt, jazz, Hugh Hefner, the Playboy Mansion, corduroys, rollerskating, writing, language, slang, copy editing, anthropomorphism, Girls' Night, live music, Emilio Pucci, Christian Louboutin, www.newtexture.com, good coffee (not Starbucks), Unnecessary Censorship, things illegal in Alabama.
sleep
Brandi Carlile, Miles Davis, Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderly, Duke Ellington, David Axelrod, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, Prince, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Sam Cooke, Zappa Quartet, Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Otis Redding, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Ted Hawkins, Marlena Shaw, Aretha Franklin, Laura Lee, Billie Holiday, Betty Davis, Peaches, Ani Difranco, Bobbie Gentry, Fiona Apple, UA, Ajico, Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis, Iggy Pop, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, The Drive-by Truckers, The Thrills, Tom Waits, Jane's Addiction, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Charlie Terrell, Minibar, Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, Flaming Lips, Oukast, Justin Warfield, Beastie Boys, Tupac, Willie Hutch, Isaac Hayes, D'Angelo, The Cure, Jeff Buckley, The Pretenders, X-Ray Spex, Adam Ant, The Dirty Three, The Rentals, Hair, Hedwig, PJ Harvey, The Killers, Hall & Oates, Billy Bragg, Denzil, Beulah, Paul Jones, Music for Elevators--Anthony Stewart Head and George Sarah
The Bear, The Killing, Ball of Fire, The Swimmer, The Day of the Dolphin, Some Came Running, Kiss Me Kate, Walk the Line, The Hustler, Fight Club, Zardoz, Logan's Run, Psychomania, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, Taps, Legends of the Fall, Faster Pussycat...Kill! Kill!, Sukeban Guerilla, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Modern Girls, Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Living Dead Girl, True Romance, Dreamchild, Empire Strikes Back, Martin, 28 Days Later, Waking Life, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Being There, Perdita Durango, Incubus, Babe: Pig in the City, Bambi, Escape to Witch Mountain, Return from Witch Mountain, Omega Man, The Last Man on Earth, Sunset Boulevard, Dominick & Eugene, Dead Poet's Society, Scarface, Carlito's Way, Driver 23, High Fidelity, A Clockwork Orange, Secretary, Love Streams, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jacob's Ladder, G.I. Jane, Private Benjamin, The Jerk, Going in Style, Office Space, The Wrong Guy, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Kung Fu Hustle, Natural Born Killers, Lost in Translation, School of Rock, Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare adaptations in film in general, Theater of Blood, Shakespeare in Love, Memento, Goodfellas, Frida, Sylvia, The Anniversary Party, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Suburbia (1984), Repo Man, City of God, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, M, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Days of Wine and Roses, Thriller: A Cruel Picture, Where the Wind Blows, The Magdalene Sisters, Imitation of Life, Carnal Knowledge, Closer, Blue Collar, Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Electra Glide in Blue, Anna Quel Particolare Piacere, La Dolce Vita, The Sea Inside, El Crimen Perfecto, Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story, All Night Long, The Wild Party, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Gilda, The Lady Eve, His Girl Friday, Metropolis, The Long Goodbye, Mad Love, The Professional, Cat People, Walk on the Wild Side, The Getaway, Night of the Hunter, Unmade Beds, Naked, All That Jazz, It's All Gone Pete Tong, Scarlet Street, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Border Radio, Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, The Hired Hand, V for Vendetta, The Game, All About My Mother, The Thin Man, Hard Candy, Christmas in Connecticut, Paradise Lost 1 & 2, Black Snake Moan, The Bridge, Monsters, Inc., The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Ace in the Hole, Idlewild, Badlands, No Country for Old Men, Body Heat, The Mist
Buffy, Angel, The Shield, Jeeves and Wooster, The Sopranos, Freaks and Geeks, My So-Called Life, NewsRadio, Queer As Folk, TV Funhouse, The L Word, Wonder Showzen, House, M.D.
Shakespeare, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Grapes of Wrath, Catcher in the Rye, Fear of Flying, Crime and Punishment, Paris Trout, Omaha, Love and Rockets, From Hell, L.A. Bizarro, Lolita, Choke, Survivor, Invisible Monsters, Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk, Raymond Carver, James M. Cain, Bukowski, Erica Jong, Tom Robbins, Tom Stoppard, Tennessee Williams, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Oxford American, Truman Capote) especially Music for Chameleons
My mom who was in the Womens' Army Corps, and my dad, an Army/Navy vet who served in three wars.