Photography, vintage clothing, shoes, shoes, and yet again shoes, tattoos, rockabilly, spending time with my nephews while they are still young enough to think I'm cool, modern art, literature, wanting to learn to surf and hoping some day I'll just get off my ass and do it, music, old cars, old movies, lazy Sunday mornings drinking coffee and reading the paper, staying up late, trying to resist sin and thankfully failing....
How to make a gillian
Ingredients:
3 parts success
3 parts courage
3 parts beauty
Method:
Layer ingredientes in a shot glass. Add caring to taste! Do not overindulge!
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Personality cocktail
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I'd like to meet:
Other cynics, sarcastic optimists, malcontents, dissidents, and people with a well developed sense of the ridiculous. Oh and Joan Didion.
What is your sexual appeal?
Girl Next Door
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Music:
Social Distortion, The Reverend Horton Heat, and The Supersuckers top out my favorites list. Some of the others that have a regular place in my playlist are: The Demented Are Go, The Paladins, The Swingin' Utters, The Clash, The Damned, Demented Are Go, Godless Wicked Creeps, The Pogues, Flogging Molly, The Lucky Devils, Bad Religion, Portishead, Massive Attack, The Cows, Johnny Cash, Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, The Specials, Madness, the Space Cadets, The Go Getters, Midnight Cruisers. But really just throw in any punk, ska, rockabilly/psychobilly, jazz/swing/big band or, if the mood is right, opera and I am happy camper.
Movies:
I love Hitchcock, always and forever. Also Amelie, Gosford Park or anything else by Robert Altman, and almost anything based on Jane Austin can usally be found in my D.V.D player. Run Lola Run, L.A. Confidential, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Well hell almost anything by Ang Lee.) The Thin Man movies 1-3 (although if you need a good laugh watch 4-6), Cape Fear (the original), Night of the Hunter, the Manchurian Canidate, To Have and To Have Not, The Third Man (really depressing movie with really happy music), Frank Capra (especially Arsenic and Old Lace), Film Noir, 30's and 40's screwball comedies, Roman Holliday, Sabrina, To Kill a Mockingbird, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Dear Frankie, The Painted Veil, the Illusionist...
Television:
The Simpsons, of course, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Dr. Who Inside the Actor's Studio (yes, I am a total geek),The Family Guy, CSI, mainly for the cool sciencey effects. I almost cried when I learned OZ wasn't coming back for a seventh season. God bless reruns on HBO. Anything else that sparks my interest for more than half a second.
Books:
Anything by Yeats, Joyce, Wilde, Beckett, Behan, Camus,
de Beauvoir, Sartre, Didion, Austin, Elliot, any of the Brontes, Turginev, or Tolstoy. Madness and Civilization, Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Bleak House, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Old Man and the Sea, Catcher in the Rye is an absolute must, as is 1984 and Brave New World, Nickle and Dimed: On (not) Getting By In America, Fast Food Nation, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Bell Jar, for purely sentimental reasons, Little Women, A Room of One's Own, The Bone People (I couldn't put it down.), Reading in the Dark (A great story about the way the I.R.A. effected a family in Belfast), The Borstol Boy, The Communist Manifesto, Common Sense, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Terese Roquain, The Man with the Golden Arm, Founding Brothers, Lies My Teacher Told Me, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Women in Hollywood: from Vamp to Studio Head,Siddhartha, The Time Travelers Wife, The Devil In The White City, The Rape of The Masters, The History Of Beauty, The Sisters, Love in a Cold Climate and the Pursuit of Love, The Road, The Jungle, .....Jesus this could go on for a while.
Heroes:
The Hollywood 10, for keeping their integrity and refusing to testify despite it ruining their careers.The Suffragettes and all the women before them, who fought for my right to vote.W.B Yeats, for just being and the Wild Swans at Coole Park.James Joyce for the birth of the modern novel.Brendan Behan for proving that Irish Exestentialism can and does exist.
Joan Didion, for proving that writers can be sane, like their families, love their spouses, be happy and still be an amazing influence and outraged by humanity in general.
And finally my mom for teaching the kids that no one else wants...
