Victoria, backpacking, ballet, hiking, camping, fencing, reading, footwear, le français, thrift stores, anthropology/archaeology, photography, history, Ireland, Wales, writing, penmanship, Puget Sound, l'opera, music collecting,etc.
I'd like to meet:
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman! James MacMillan, Beth Orton, Neko Case, or any nice person really.
Jonathan Porretta (Met him but I wouldn't mind meeting him again!)
Music:
Classical:
Beethoven, Bloch, Britten, Byrd, Chopin, Ginastera, Grieg, Haydn, Honegger, Kanchelli, Lawes, Lutoslawski, MacMillan, Mahler, Nielsen, Part, Penderecki, Pettersson, Prokofiev, Clara Schumann, Schurig, Sculthorpe, Shostakovich, Simpson, Stravinsky, Tower, Vaughan Williams, Ysaye, etc.
NEW FAVORITE: I am back to William Byrd
Rock and such:
Bauhaus, Bee Gees, David Bowie, Billy Bragg, Built to Spill, Neko Case, Citizen Fish, Crash Worship, Czars, Dandy Warhols, Dead Can Dance, Death Cab for Cutie, Stephen Duffy, Duran Duran, Genesis, Innocence Mission, Elton John, The La's, Lilac Time, Natalie Merchant, Joni Mitchell, New Pornographers, Beth Orton, Pink Floyd, The Shins, Billy Squier, Supergrass, Talk Talk, Tears for Fears, Linda & Richard Thompson, Emeliana Torrini, etc.
NEW FAVORITE: Josh Rouse
Folk:
Woody Guthrie, Janis Ian, Kate Rusby, Hank Dogs, Bill Jones, June Tabor, Eliza Carthy, Nick Drake, Be Good Tanyas, April Verch, Gillian Welch, Sandy Denny, Fairport Convention, etc.
Jazz:
Jason Moran, Donald Byrd, Don Cherry, Keith Jarrett, Eric Friedlander, Esbjorn Svensen Trio, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Louis Sclavis, Lee Morgan, Uri Caine
Irish Traditional:
Lunasa, Kila, Shooglenifty(Scotland), Chieftans (Claddagh), Dervish, Karan Casey, Ileen Ivers, Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem
Country & Western:
Lefty Frizzell, Dwight Yoakam, Eddy Arnold, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Chet Atkins, etc.
CDs and Vinyl are my addictions
Movies:
Period dramas! documentaries, anti-war-war movies, Very Long Engagement, Highlander, Brazil, Buffalo '66, Last of the Mohicans, The Duellists, Who's that Knocking at My Door?, Passion of Joan of Arc, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Cyrano de Bergerac, Oscar and Lucinda, Lord of the Rings, Ran, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Shakespeare in Love, Muriel's Wedding, Dogville, Master and Commander, Never Cry Wolf, Rushmore, Sound of Music, Tron, Strictly Ballroom, Dead Man, Gallipoli, Dogfight, Grease, The Mission, Tuvalu, Catch-22, Elizabeth, My Life As a Dog, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Long Way Round,Pride and Prejudice (both the Colin Firth and new Knightley versions!) etc.
Television:
Time Team (when I go visit my sister)
Upstairs Downstairs (I am bleedin' hooked), Freaks and Geeks, Monty Python, Rome, Sharpe, Father Ted, The Office (BBC), Bordertown, Burned Bridge, Star Trek: TNG, Here Come the Brides, Prime Suspect, Cracker (Robbie Coltrane), Band of Brothers, Dick Van Dyke Show
Books:
Doctor Zhivago, Worldchangig, The Origin of Species, Pillars Of the Earth, Bel Canto, Lord of the Rings, David Copperfield, nineteen-eighty-four, Otherland, Chronicles of Amber, Scoop, Asimov's Foundation series, Cold Mountain, Long Way Round
Heroes:
Pasha Antipov (Strelnikov), Charles Darwin, Theoden, Billy Bragg, Jonathan Porrretta,Ewan McGregor, and Charley Boorman!
Jonathan Porretta and Noelani Pantastico
