Watching my script "Pet-of-the-Week" turn into a movie
Pat Mastelotto
Obnoxiously beautiful women
paintings
writing
The I Ching
books
genius in all forms
open bodies of water
Sundays
The Sun
plants
Astrology (only personality and relationship stuff--no fortune telling)
Oh yeah...music.
Arshile Gorky, Cecily Brown, Nora Ephron or Nancy Meyers (either one will do), and anyone who will teach me a word I don't know.
I love...
Cute, depressed boy groups
Jazz (even the hard stuff)
Mariachis singing sad love songs in Spanish on a mexican beach in the moonlight
Girl singer-songwriters
Loud, obnoxious rock-n-roll
(especially in my car, especially in the spring)
Friends picking guitar in my living room
Good rap
Bad karaoke
Show tunes (sorry)
Old standards like my mom used to sing while she did the dishes at the kitchen sink
Hip-hop
And I'm loving prog-rock these days
...but my favorite musical experience is falling asleep on the sofa in Pat's studio while he's working on something new.
My dark secret : I LOVE really cheesy romantic comedies with happy endings--I know it's wrong but I can't stop.
I never watch T.V., except by accident.
Name a book, and I'll tell you if I haven't read it. I go through phases, genres, authors. Right now, it's working scripts. Actually I'll read the back of a cereal box...
Single parents or anyone who makes a living as an artist.