BOOOOOKS, people! Cats, dogs, music, FASHION!!!!!!, English Premiere League football ESPECIALLY LIVERPOOL, NHL Hockey, cats, dogs, music, style, SHOES SHOES SHOES SHOES SHOES, rollerblading, traveling, WORDS!!!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE languages, linguistics, cultural anthropology, Japan, France, England, Scotland, make-up (as in cosmetics), New York City, desolate urban landscapes, high desert, mountains and oodles of greenery, rocks, stones, reptiles, fabrics - especially silks and rayon brocades, animal print fabrics, the color blue in all vivid shades (but I dont really enjoy pastels that much except in certain contexts), reading lots and lots (and lots more) really good books, watching really really good movies in fact, cinema in general! comic books especially 8Ball, Hate, Love and Rockets, old Doom Patrol, old Animal Man, Sandman, Stickboy, anything by Crumb or Harvey Pekar, playing music, hanging out with my cats and dogs, long fingernails painted beautiful colors, fine art, comic art, sculpture, napping with my Smedley stretched out in my arms purring, watching and observing the behaviors of many different animals, blah blah blah...
Well, I'd say I'd like to meet B-Real and Eric Bobo, but since I already met them, I dont have to wish for it anymore!!! I am absolutely in LOVE with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, so I'd like to meet him. Thomas Hardy, of course. Jean Paul Belmondo, yesss! I'd also LOOOOVE to meet Carl Sagan, Desmond Dekker, Toots Hibbert, Derrick Morgan, Ashley Jensen, Bon Scott, Dame Diana Rigg, Tadanobu Asano, Takeshi Kitano, Takashi Miike, Ricky Gervais, Bertrand Russell, Somerset Maugham, Philip Roth, Steve Marriott, George Orwell, George Carlin, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Michael Chabon, Marilyn Monroe, Joyce Carol Oates, Christian Bale, all the Premiereship footballers, and cool people with similar interests!
Some new faves, most notably The Answer and Los Fuckin Sombreros. What can I say but wow, people.AC/DC, Jamaican music 50's through 70's, more rock and punk, specifically punk rock, traditional Indian sitar and tabla music, 60's girl groups - Brill Building, Motown,Shadow Morton, Ellie Greenwich, you name it, 60's garage, power chords, surf music, big band swing, doo wop - LOVE Dion Dimucci, LOVE HIM!!!!(Can you listen to 'The Wanderer'and hear that sexy rasp in his voice without excitement?) I mean it really depends on what I am doing but then again, I cant imagine a time when I wouldnt want to hear Public Enemy's Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos, Cypress Hill's Black Sunday in its entirety, Rancid's Roots Radicals or Randy's Win or Lose, Concrete Blonde's Still in Hollywood...Okay, some specifics: BOBBY DARIN!!!!!!! (May he rest in peace), Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent and the Bluecaps, Carl Perkins, Cab Calloway, Harry Belafonte, The Dwarves, The Ramones, Randy, Rancid, The Detroit Cobras, Anything Billy Childish such as Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoatees (Whee! These girls rock!), The Pop Rivets, The Milkshakes, Billy Childish and the Blackhands, etc., The Specials, The Godfathers, Redd Kross, The Pretty Things, The Yardbirds, Radio Birdman, Compulsive Gamblers,The Oblivians, Motorhead, The Hellacopters, Jet Boys, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, Guitar Wolf, The Marvelettes, The Shangri-la's, The Shirelles, Sly and the Family Stone, Jimmy Reed, anything Lou Reed - Velvets, etc., The Heptones, Toots and the Maytals, Desmond Dekker and the Aces, anything Derrick Morgan, The Sweet, T-Rex, The Easybeats, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, NIKKI CORVETTE OF COURSE!, o' how could I forget my absolute faves? THE BEACH BOYS!!!!!!!!!!Also, The Dictators, Lars Fredericksen and the Bastards, The Nekromantix, The Havenots (love 'em love' em love 'em!), The 5-6-7-8's, The Beatles, The Kinks, Bob Dylan who is God, Joan Baez, Curtis Mayfield, The Damned, The Sex Pistols, The Clash...My other faves, you know who you are.
Zatoiichi, Bong Joon-ho's The Host!!!, American Beauty, Blue Velvet, Chicken Run, Bad Guy, Gozu, The Machinist, Silence of the Lambs, Full Metal Jacket, Soylent Green, The Five Pennies, This Is Spinal Tap, Ichi the Killer, 300, Reservoir Dogs, Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Sin City, Walter Mitty, Fargo, Wings of Desire, The Wizard of Oz, Napoleon Dynamite, Old Boy, Cinema Paradiso, The Fourth Man, Hana Bi, Faces, Shadows, Finding Nemo, Lock Stock and 2 smoking barrels, etc, etc, etc
JOHNNY STACCATO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, Project Runway - which is my new obsession, Extras, The (British) Office, The Avengers especially with Emma Peel, Six Feet Under (R.I.P.), the Sopranos, TLC's What Not to Wear, American Justice, Cold Case Files, NHL Hockey, English Premiere League Soccer, EPL Preview Show, Iron Chef
ALL Harry Potter books - LOVE 'EM, LOVE 'EM, LOVE 'EM!!!!!!!! Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Kiplings Jungle Books, This is Reggae Music:The Story of Jamaica's Music by Lloyd Bradley, ALLLLLL of the James Bond books by Ian Fleming, both Gilmore's and Wolfe's Black Dahlia books, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, other true crime books - specifically Dead Reckoning by Michael Baden, ghost stories, anything by Arthur Conan Doyle, anything by W. Somerset Maugham - especially Of Human Bondage and The Razor's Edge WOW!!!!! The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Wonderboys, The Velveteen Rabbit, The Satanic Verses, The Master and Margarita, A Wrinkle in Time, anything by Philip Roth most especially Portnoy's Complaint, EVERYTHING by Joyce Carol Oates, I could go on forever...
The people in the Coast Guard that risk their lives to rescue people and animals whose lives are endangered, Bon Scott, Bertrand Russell, my parents, Frank Serpico, all kitties because they ROCK!!!! and all doggies 'cause they're noble - but most of all, my mom (rest in peace) and dad.