My Current Loves: Dancing, film, writing, reading, painting and sketching, laughing until I ache all over, wine, sculpture, meeting new people, wearing and collecting marvelous pieces of clothing, learning about all of history, buying and making elaborate costumes, collecting comic books and smutty novels that aren't generally allowed, my friends and people I love, being loved, expressing myself without fear of recrimmination, self-actualization, the fight for the equality of all humanity, and deep, philosophic conversation about everything from theology to history to love to humanity to life and death. Let nothing be sacred!!!Dislikes and Peeves: Narrow-mindedness and ignorance, bad acting, discourteousness, rude kids, Hummers and Hummer limos (so tacky), unrequited love, reality TV, merchandising, and the general degradation and dumbing-down of society.
All of my Muses. Suffering children and people. Survivors of war and human tragedy. The persecuted. Teachers who really teach. Artists of all sorts. Nerds and geeks. Romantics. Travelers and people with fascinating lives and experiences. Lovers and hellions. Ladies with pale skin and smoldering red lips. Gentlemen with silver cigarette cases and salt and pepper hair. Corset-makers in atelliers. Philosophers and geniuses long dead. A cobbler with cunning designs. Burlesque dancers/enthusiasts and ballet company principals. Visionaries who argue in cramped cafes. Those who are old-fasioned at heart. People fluent in long-forgotten languages and practitioners of long-forgotten arts. Knowers of secrets. A friend.
In no particular order: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mich & Tich, The White Stripes, Blur, Oasis, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, BB King, Louis Armstrong, Regina Spektor, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Jefferson Airplane, Robert Plant, Cream, Eric Clapton, David Bowie, Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Alice Cooper, Velvet Revolver, Rob Zombie, Franz Ferdinand, Queen, Jet, The Killers, The Doors, The Cars, Aerosmith, Rammstein, The Rogue Traders, Guns n Roses, Foo Fighters, Tom Petty, Nirvana, Paul Weller, Flogging Molly, Heart, Journey, Billy Joel, The Clash, The Decemberists, The Dresden Dolls, The Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Dido, Green Day, Pink Floyd, Etta James, Glenn Miller, The Stone Roses, Benny Goodman, Beyonce, The Kinks, Mika, The Scissor Sisters, Norah Jones, Danny Elfman, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Santana, Sarah Vaughn, Sean Paul, Soundgarden, The Beach Boys, The Strokes, as well as innumerable classic artists (Mozart being my favorite) and several movie/musical soundtracks...Anything that gives me a kick and that I can pretend I'm in a music video to while driving my car late at night.
Moulin Rouge!, Life is Beautiful, V for Vendetta, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Pan's Labyrinth, The Fountain, Gone With the Wind, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Dangerous Liasons, Dr. Zivago, Schindler's List, Everything is Illuminated, Bonnie and Clyde, Reds, The Grapes of Wrath, To Kill a Mockingbird, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Dirty Dancing, Center Stage, Strictly Ballroom, Taking Lives, The Thomas Crowne Affair, Lawrence of Arabia, Casablanca, Six Shooter (short), Fight Club, The Haunting (original and Zeta Jones version) Meet Joe Black, Interview with a Vampire, Legends of the Fall, Witness, El Mariachi, Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Sleepy Hollow, Crank, Marie Antoinette, Girl With A Pearl Earring, What About Bob?, Life Aquatic, The Corpse Bride, Firelight, the original Star Wars Trilogy, Clerks I & II, Dogma, Wedding Crashers, Old School, School of Rock, The Bourne Series, Man on Fire, Brokeback Mountain, Notes on a Scandal, Signs, The Sixth Sense, The Village, Unbreakable, Spiderman I and II, X-Men I, II, and III, Batman Begins, Superman Returns, Fantastic Four I and II, Ocean's 11 and 12, First Knight, Back to the Future I & III, The Fast and the Furious I, Ghostbusters I and II, Vertigo, Metropolis, The Man That Knew Too Little, The Birds, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Sabotage, The Lady Vanishes, Rear Window, Psycho, The Haunting, The Shining, As Good As It Gets, One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest, The Illusionist, The Prestige, American History X, Superbad, Little Miss Sunshine, Cider House Rules, City Slickers, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part I, Under the Tuscan Sun, Backdraft, Boondock Saints, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill I and II, Reservoir Dogs, Grindhouse (Death Proof and Planet Terror) Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Titanic, Pride and Prejudice, Flashdance, Footloose, The Matrix I, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, The DaVinci Code, A Beautiful Mind, Kung Fu Hustle, Castaway, Mulan, Tarzan, The Emperor's New Groove, Toy Story I and II, Finding Nemo, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Edward Scissorhands, House of Flying Daggers, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, Memoirs of a Geisha, Glory, Sahara, Indiana Jones I and III, Pirates of the Carribean I and II, Forest Gump, Platoon, Saving Private Ryan, Underworld, The Untouchables, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Monty Python's Holy Grail, Wayne's World, JFK, The Doors, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, The Fifth Element, Fantasia, Camille, Teacher's Pet, A Touch of Mink, The Wizard of Oz, and many, many, MANY more.
I don't own a TV. What I like sometimes is this: The Highlander Series, Doctor Who, SNL, PBS (I don't get cable/satelite), hours long BBC productions of classic literature, historical accounts, etc., Adult Swim on youtube, and Seinfeld.
Anything and everything. I eat them. I gobble them up. They sit in stacks around my room, I read them in the bath, in the car, in bed, at the dinner table, and they frequently cause me to go broke.CURRENTLY READING:www.whofic.com
My best friends Lauren and Gary, my paternal grandmother, Audrey Hepburn, JK Rowling, JRR Tolkien, Dita von Teese, Albert Einstein. And this guy: