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burlesque, getting degrees, trivial etymology, performing to showtunes in my living room (or on the stage for that matter), ostrich feathers, high heeled shoes, learning new stuff, screaming my lungs out to "Rock Star" (original version), ballet prectice, undergarments, writing, rhinestones, cocktails, wearing pajama pants, making pie, pralines, watching melodramas in black and white, listening to the drums in "Violet", reading crime novels, doing laundry, finding corny songs to perform to, eating meat or cheese or chocolate, drinking tea, splashing on my perfume The One, which smells like hot, sweet tea...
writers, people I know, Burlesque dancers, historians, pie-maniacs, others of coconut flavour persuasion, those with good tips on detergents, quantum-physicists, old-lady-card-game-fans, people who know stuff about gender studies, old time babydollers like myself
Hole; Dean Martin; Juliette & the Licks; Doris Day; Bikini Kill; Julie London; Frank Sinatra; Sleater Kinney; Mills Brothers; Soundgarden; Rosemary Clooney; Nirvana; Mudhoney; Pearl Jam; Sophie Tucker; Alice in Chains; Amy Winehouse; Babes in Toyland; Glenn Miller; L7; Swing; Lounge; Exotica; Jazz; Big Band; Crooners; Casino Music; Rat Pack; Doo Wop; Showtunes; Hot Jazz; Rockabilly; Rock; Punk; Ska; Grunge; Blues; Old hillbilly music
Breach; The Good Shepherd; Fracture; Jesus Camp; Perfume; Darling; Babel; Syriana; Munich; Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang; Thank You For Smoking; Superman Returns; Fun in Acapulco dubbad till thai; King Kong (nya); the Brother's Grimm; A Good Woman; Batman Begins; Smala Sussie; Wedding Crashers; Skeleton Key; the Jacket; the Constant Gardener; Broken Flowers; Animal Crackers; City of God; Gilda; Sunset Boulevard; Laura; the Desperate Hours; In a Lonely Place; Wild Women of Wongo; Out of the Past; L.A. Confidential; Notorious; Murder, My Sweet; Sin City; Top Hat; Sleepy Hollow; La Cité des Enfants Perdus; A Z and Two Noughts; Bringing Up Baby; Five Graves to Cairo; the Man With the Golden Arm; the Asphalt Jungle; All About Eve; There Is No Business Like Showbusiness; the Philadelphia Story; Mystic River; the Postman Always Rings Twice (1946); Chinatown; Lost Highway; Alien; Faces; Cry Baby; the Lady From Shanghai; Lolita (1962 & 1997);Apocalypse Now; Don't Bother to Knock; Memento; the Breakfast Club; Twelve Monkeys; How to Marry a Millionaire; Rebel Without a Cause; the Girl Can't Help It; Resrvoir Dogs; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; An Affair to Remember; Hairspray; Indiscreet; Gummo; Whitnal and I; Barfly; Pal Joey; the Big Sleep; to Have and Have Not; Bridge over the River Kwai; True Romance; Basquiat; Niagara; Full Metal Jacket; Lost in Translation; Virgin Suicides; Fight Club; Double Indemnity; Murder on the Orient Express; Death on the Nile; All the Presidents Men; Farenheit 911; etc., etc...
Sopranos; L Word; CSI; CSI Miami; CSI New York; The Shield; Oz; Band of Brothers; Family Guy; the Simpsons; Medium; the Closer; Midsomer Murders; Lost; Desperate Housewives; Entourage; Criminal Minds
Raymond Chandler; Harper Lee; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Faulkner; James Ellroy; Marilynne Robinson; Frances Hodgson Burnett; Whitman; Kipling; John Fante; Hammett; Agatha Christie; Nabokov; Joyce; Woolf; Kerouac; Hemingway; Melville; Conrad; Wilde; Garcia Márquez; Dennis Lehane; Ian Rankin; Donna Tartt; Truman Capote; biographies; philosophy; history; crime; whodunits
Stuart, mormor Ester, my mothers-in-law, honest people, Gypsy Rose Lee