Books, music, movies, reading, writing, Yoga, skiing, swimming, laughing, eating, breathing. Those are the basics.Specific obsessions: The Wizard of Oz, Freaks (the movie and the real thing), Atlantic City (pre-casino), Lucy The Margate Elephant, old New York City and new New York City, Florida's Weeki Wachee mermaids, San Francisco, hot bread and real butter, chocolate, coffee, trains, black and white movies about trains, pirates, fairies, blizzards and other extreme weather, the molasses flood in Boston, ghosts, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, A Charlie Brown Christmas (the soundtrack and the show), Halloween, learning to surf, skiing without breaking any bones, any beach or ocean, the moon over any ocean, carousel horses, old amusement parks, drive-in movie theatres that look like skeletons, art that touches my heart, antique circus posters, cuckoo clocks, snow domes, cool cars from the '50s and '60s, giants and midgets, vintage advertising, cowgirls, the Roller Derby of the 1970s in Philadelphia, Tastykakes (yay, Philly!), off-Broadway, on-Broadway, old guitars, black and white photography.
I'd like to meet:
Louisa May Alcott, JM Barrie, Jerry Garcia, Sylvia Plath, Elvis, John Lennon, Harry Chapin, JFK, Abe Lincoln, Jackie Kennedy. Hey, wait a minute, they're all DEAD! Maybe I'll meet them someday, somewhere over the rainbow.In the meanwhile, here on Planet Earth, I'd like to meet writers, readers, teachers, librarians, publishers, musicians, Nice People, and my First Love, David Cassidy:
Music:
So much music, so little time:Mazzy Star, Harry Chapin, Jen Chapin, Steve Chapin, Tom Chapin, (am I little obsessed with the Chapins?!), Ken Shane, Donna Upson, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Mary Gauthier, Son Volt, Springsteen,Counting Crows, Stevie Nicks & old Fleetwood Mac, Innocence Mission, old ELO, Antigone Rising, Maybe Pete, old Matchbox 20, Goo-Goo Dolls, Yo La Tengo, George Wirth, Days Awake (now re-formed as Paperback Radio), Sons of Ivy, Gram Parsons, Jay Farrar, Whiskeytown, Cowboy Junkies, and a billion others.
Movies:
The Green Mile, Somewhere In Time (sigh), At First Sight, Dead Man Walking, Jesus's Son, Before Sunset, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, When Harry Met Sally, The Wizard of Oz, Little Miss Sunshine, Freaks, Mermaids, A Christmas Story, It's a Wonderful Life, Harold and Maude, and zillions of others.
Television:
Girlmore Girls (best-written show ever), Six Feet Under, Sex And The City, Charlie Brown holiday specials, Seinfeld, old classics like Petticoat Junction and That Girl and Mary Tyler Moore. I wanted to throw my hat in the air like Mary. Someday I will.
Books:
Anne Tyler, Elizabeth Berg, Chuck Pahlaniuk, Scott Spencer, Jack Kerouac, Laurie Halse Anderson (I knew her BEFORE she was nominated for the National Book Award!), Betty Smith, Alice Hoffman, Aimee Bender, Raymond Carver, John Updike, Ray Bradbury, Vonnegut, Francesca Lia Block, Lolly Winston, Elizabeth Gilbert, Abigail Thomas, and trillions of others.
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Heroes:
My grandmothers Minnie and Emma, Harry Chapin, John Lennon, Mrs. Severs (the wacky teacher who told me that I should think about writing), my 1st grade teacher Mr. Overly, Sally Starr, Catwoman, Kent Brown (Highlights For Children/Boyds Mills Press guy who believed in me from the beginning), my agent Deborah Warren, Nancy Drew, the chicks from the Gilmore Girls, John F. Kennedy and other assorted dead presidents, my cuz Karen The Hippie (now resting in peace), my friends in Heaven: Clarkie, Patty, Billy, Russell, Regina, the lifeguard who saved my life at the Morgantown Pool in 1969.
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