music, movies, art, conversation, realizing how wonderful my family is, spinning/spinning around
I'm looking to connect (and re-connect) with amazing peeps who are considerate, make me smile, can shake a tail feather AND hold a meaningful conversation...and Elizabeth Berkley.
My Overall Top Artists
Showgirls (bringing "camp" to a whole new level), Before Sunset, Passion Fish, The Heiress, Strait-Jacket, The Misfits, Donnie Darko, James Bond/007 , Tilsammans (Together), You Can Count On Me, Network, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Miss Firecracker, Muriel's Wedding, Orlando, The Vertical Ray of the Sun, Wonder Boys, Being John Malkovich, The Crying Game, Like Water for Chocolate, The Last Picture Show, Gosford Park, Cry-Baby, Lord of the Rings, Peter Pan (the PJ Hogan version makes me cry like a baby), Coffy, Heathers, Sofia Coppola films, Metropolitan, La Dolce Vita, It Happened One Night, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, GalaxyQuest, My Own Private Idaho, Mildred Pierce, Sex Lies and Videotape, Dangerous Liaisons, All About Eve, Switchblade Sisters, Now Voyager, Imitation of Life, Girls Just Want To Have Fun, Fast Cheap and Out of Control, Parenthood, Party Girl, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice (the B&W version with Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier. Ok, and the Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth version too. Ok ok, and maybe I have a soft spot for Bridget Jones' Diary. Dammit, sometimes I just can't get enough Jane Austen!), Young Frankenstein, The Royal Tenenbaums, All That Heaven Allows, Code Unknown, Lady Snowblood, Wild at Heart, To Be and To Have, Ali: Fear Eats The Soul, Merchant Ivory films, and movie musicals...including Xanadu.
Freaks and Geeks, Sex and the City, Arrested Development, The O.C., Desperate Housewives, The Simpsons, AbFab, Ugly Betty, Seinfeld, Brothers & Sisters, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Daily Show, and the first Tales of the City mini-series.
*But let's talk artists: Naomi Fisher, Hernan Bas, Mark Rothko, Edward Hopper, Egon Shiele, Elizabeth Peyton, William Eggleston, Juan Munoz, Luis Gispert, Alexia Stamatiou, Rachel Whiteread, Julian Opie, David Shrigley, Phillipe Halsman, Gregory Crewdson, Alex Katz, Elizabeth Withstandley, Edward Degas, El Greco, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Christian Marclay, Nan Goldin, Dan Flavin, Sam Taylor-Wood, explodingdog, etc.
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronté), Sula (Toni Morrison), The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton), Persuasion (Jane Austen), Tales of the City (Armistead Maupin), Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), LOVE IS A DOG FROM HELL (Charles Bukowski), Maurice (E.M. Forster), 84 Charing Cross Road (Helene Hanff)
David Bowie, Mariah Carey, Enrique Iglesias, Bonnie Tyler, Philip Glass, Nico, and pretty much any other person who performs songs with "Hero" or "Heroes" in the title (and maybe in the lyrics, you never know)
On a more serious note...
...you should really rent "To Be and To Have"