.. Film Festivals, Art, Music, Travel, Immigration, Ellis Island, Chinese/Japanese Relations, Pacific Northwest, Medieval Art History, Latin American Art, Nature, Tulips, Hematite, Slate, Marble, the feel of Obsidian, Bird of Paradise, Pine Trees, Photography, Musicals, Theatre, Opium War, Japanese Internment Camps, Leather, Industrial Music, Freestyle, Electronica, Blue Velvet Doc Martens Boots, Patchouli, Sandalwood, Kite Flying, Mountains, Waterfalls, Surrealism--in art and film, GLAAD, Red Cross,The Trevor Project, Los Angeles Art Show, Black & White Photography, Galleries, Museums, Art Collecting, Walking down Melrose, Silver Lake
Funny, sexy, smart, confident people!..In my dreams....
Depeche Mode, INXS, PJ Harvey, Tweaker, Sinead O'Connor, Ani DiFranco, Peaches, Chopin, Grieg, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Ravel's Bolero, NIN, Cesaria Evora, Sigur Ros, Mum, Alice in Chains, Bush, KORN, Hole, Eminem, Muse, Tegan and Sara, Pet Shop Boys, Sade, Mazzy Star, Morrissey, The Smiths, Live, Beck, Underworld, Sarah McLachlan, Collide, Frank Sinatra, Soft Cell, Kansas, Al B. Sure, Janet Jackson, Britney Spears, Madonna, Journey, Erasure, Rufus Wainwright, The Decemberists, Earth, Wind and Fire, Chicago, Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane, The Brothers Johnson (Strawberry Letter 23), Billie Holiday, Patsy Cline, Leonard Cohen, The Prodigy, Simple Minds, Smashing Pumpkins, Fuel, Godsmack, Stone Sour, Chevelle, Styx, Foreigner, Expose, Debbie Gibson, English Beat, UB40, The Cult, The Cure, Frontline Assembly, VNV Nation, Nickelback, The Doobie Brothers, Janis Joplin, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Creatures, Social Distortion, General Public, The Communards, Bronski Beat, The Faint, R.E.M., David Sylvian, Japan, Bjork, The Cover Girls, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, Stevie B., Public Image Limited, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Hoodoo Gurus, Portishead, Razed in Black, Nina Simone, Skinny Puppy, Severed Heads, Athamay, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Zeromancer, Bigod 20, Puscifer, Leather Strip, Apoptygma Berzerk, Duran Duran, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Company B. (I'm fascinated by your love toy), Morcheeba, The Kills, Essan Laurent
All Kurosawa, The Pillow Book, Hideous Kinky, Sunshine, The House of Sand...and The House of Sand and Fog, The Letter, A Place in the Sun, The Heiress, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Judgement at Nuremberg, Stealing Beauty, Boxing Helena, The Killing Fields, The Last Emperor, Raise the Red Lantern, Diabolique, Camille Claudel, Juno, Realm of the Senses, Unfaithful, Ken Park, I Want to Live!, Emperor of the Sun, Farewell My Concubine, The Sheltering Sky, The Spanish Prisoner, Singles, Longtime Companion, Born in East L.A., Dead Ringer, Orlando, Undercover Brother, The Jerk, Gaslight, Ethan Frome, Kinky Boots, Breakfast on Pluto, Quiz Show, Oscar and Lucinda, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Ninth Gate, The House of the Spirits, The Man Who Cried...., There Will Be Blood, The Owl and the Sparrow, Derek, The Quiet Man
Golden Girls, Seinfeld, Fawlty Towers, Family Guy, Reno 911, Law and Order-The Brand, 120 Minutes, King of Queens, Felicity, CSI- Miami, CSI, Nip/Tuck, Profiler, Crank Yankers, Tales from the Darkside, Monsters, LOGO Channel, Travel Channel, Ovation TV, Globe Trekker, Samantha Brown's Passport Series
Crime and Punishment, War and Peace, anything written by Isabel Allende, Rape of Nanking, The Death of Ivan Illyich, any books on the Cultural Revolution, Cinematography and Russian History. Currently reading a book on the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.