supporting my music addiction (opera, "indie", dancy-pop, whatever the kids are listening to), slurpees, museums, bacon, comic books (Los Bros Hernandez, Astro City, George Perez, Alan Moore), cheeses of the world, flamenco, claudia gonson, nigella lawson, NPR (especially thisamericanlife), fine (and not-so fine) dining experiences, frilly knickers (on others), travelling (around the world AND in my head), painters (always: Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Vermeer...currently: Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, Lisa Yuskavage, and Eric Fischl), offending people online (and in general), clean sheets, baking tasty treats ("a cup of teeaaaa, a coooookie, and yooooooouuuuuu!!"), making mix tapes/cds, british comedy (French & Saunders, Eddie Izzard, Little Britain, Nighty Night, Catherine Tate et. al.) fulfilling my geekiness to its fullest potential.
I'd like to meet:
(1) Those who can appreciate beauty in imperfection.
(2) People who can see what other people can't yet imagine.
(3) All my friends again because it was so fun and wonderful and great getting to know them the first time around. A little nostalgia goes a long way for me.
(4) The ghetto fabulous version of me...asian hottie with a naughty karate body, rockin' giant white Fendi sunglasses & throwin' ice like rice to all my bitches on ninja bikes! Ha.
(5) Someone who's like a combination of Eddie Izzard crossed with Cate Blanchett. Wouldn't that be interesting? Acutally, I wouldn't mind meeting Eddie or Cate separately either.
(6) People who are willing to give me their interpretation of The Pretenders' "Brass In Pocket"...through dance.
(7) People who can appreciate my ever growing collection of concert t-shirts...in which Madonna has a large-ish presence.
(8) People who can laugh at themselves, misfits, square pegs, fabulous drag queens (fabulously-fabulous ones and fabulously-messy ones), and those who are secure with the fact that they have insecurities.
(9) Ann Reinking dancing Fosse and directed by Fosse...oh, stop.
(10) Sister Wendy...we could talk about art and stuff. Or just take a leisurely stroll across the Brooklyn Bridge?
Music:
the usual old school new wave/brit pop/indie suspects, ABBA, Angelo Badalamenti, Belle and Sebastian, Bellini, Bjork, Cure, Deborah Voigt, Dusty Springfield, Eurythmics, Feist, girlsareshort, Go-Go's, the Go! Team, Heavenly et.al., Figurine, Jesus and Mary Chain, the gloriously demented Kiki and Herb, Kylie!, Madonna, the Mamas and Papas, Pixies, Pizzicato Five, Pretenders, Primitives, Pulp, Rufus Wainwright, Saint Etienne, Smiths, Sundays, Stone Roses, Stephin Merritt et. al., and BURT BACHARACH!!
Movies:
After Life, todo Almodovar (esp. Matador, Bad Habits, Women On The Verge, All About My Mother, and Volver...he makes me laugh, cry, think and celebrate being human, warts and all), Anne of Green Gables, Annie Hall, Arthur, Auntie Mame, Better Off Dead, Blade Runner, Cinema Paradiso, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Heathers, The Hours, Imitation Of Life, Lion In Winter, Napoleon Dynamite, Nashville, Rushmore, Singin' In The Rain, Tootsie, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Wet Hot American Summer, almost anything with Will Ferrell or Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Television:
America's Next Top Model, Battlestar Galactica, Dog Whisperer, Everybody Hates Chris, Falcon Crest (watch out for that Angela Channing!), Fantasy Island, Freaks & Geeks, Little Britain (because "i'm a laaaaaaady!"), Moonlighting, Northern Exposure, Project Runway ("sixteeeeeen designers!"), Strangers With Candy, Wonderfalls, those sassy Golden Girls ...and my newest of super-guilty pleasures, Gossip Girl !
Books:
Age of Innocence, Lynda Barry, Calvino, Count of Monte Cristo, Griffin & Sabine et al., Henry James' stuff, my blind boy James Joyce, Kavalier & Clay, Middlesex (and, why not, Middlemarch too), Prince of Tides ("Lowenstein, Lowenstein!"...guilty pleasure), Time Traveler's Wife, the funny gay Davids (Sedaris & Rakoff), Ruth Reichl, books about design (fashion...esp. Balenciaga and Schiaparelli, architecture, industrial, graphic, interior, anatomy...like, "human design"), loved DV by Diana Vreeland because she was SO out there.
Heroes:
Grandma, for real.
Cyrano, for fiction.
