reading, cooking, walking my puppy, stitch and bitch groups, good movies, parks, tattoos, learning how to sew, traveling, family, history, needlepoint, hanging out with good friends, kitsch, sushi, music, dancing until the sun rises, fabulous clothing, courtyard parties, crochet, 100 yen shops, spending time with my husband, winter, writing, painting,trying to communicate in Japan, golf, hot tea, concerts, Beat Generation, and super spicy food.
generally, i'm pretty happy to meet most people.
U2, Peter Gabriel, Siouxie and the Banshees, Pouges, 10,000 Maniacs, Cat Stevens, Peter Murphy, Elvis Costello, Concrete Blond, Moby, Mathew Sweet, Stereolab, No Doubt, The Flaming Lips, Rusted Root, Ladytron, Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Leonard Cohen, Audioslave, Scissor Sisters, a perfect circle, Brother, if you want more ask.
Anything by Tim Burton, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Baz Luhrmann. Movies that make me cry: To Live, Fiddler on the Roof, Big Fish, The Road Home. Moveies that make me laugh: Some Like it Hot, Love Actually, Beetlejuice, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein.
Daily Show, Colbert Report, History Detectives, House, Digging for the Truth and Law and Order re-runs
Red Azalea by Anchee Min, The Good Woman of China by Xinran, Red China Blues by Jan Wong, Born Red by Yuan Gao, From Here to Eternity by James Jones, Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates (thank you johnny), Howl by Alan Ginsburg, Venice West by John Maynard, Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels, On the Road, and everything else by Jack Kerouac, Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg by Carolyn Cassady, How I Became Hettie Jones by Hettie Jones, Memoir of a Beatnick by Diane DiPrima, The Cronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, Women of the Pleasure Quarters by Lesley Downer, The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stepehenson, Ahab's Wife, The Snow Fox, The Volcano Lovers by Susan Sontag, and that's just a start.
My father is my hero. He has always been a pillar of strength for everyone around him, is always full of love, and is steadfast in his beliefs (even if we disagree, politically).