Abstract expressionism, Abandoned buildings, Animal rights: I hate animal cruelty and believe the punishment for it should be far worse than other crimes, Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Atlanta, Bat conservancy, Bicycles, Bicycling, Blacksmithing, Cats, Cemeteries, Cloves, Cocktails, Collecting tombstone inscriptions, Craftsmanship, Cubism, Dreams, Edward Gorey, Environmentalism, Erotica, Fencing, Fetish art&fashion, Film noir, Fine art, Furniture design, Gardening, German expressionism, Hearses, Heliophobes, Integration of sculpture and architecture with ada accessability, Jack in the Black Box Theater group, L5P, Moderne design, Modernism, Nightmares, Nosferatu, 1920's design&fashion&films, Piercings, Pinhole photography, Pirates, Old Photographs, Rene Magritte, Roses, Sacking Rome, Sailing, Salvador Dali, Science fiction, Sculpture, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Surrealism, Thunderstorms, Tiki & exotica, Victoriana, Woodworking.
Ailurophiliacs, heliophobes, artists and artisans, "non-spandex clad" lovers of bicycling, and those who appreciate, truly appreciate, the spork.
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."- Ludwig van Beethoven. "My top five:Siouxsie Sioux, Jill Tracy, Johanne Senastian Bach, Charles Marie Widor, Gabriel Faure" and others: Penderecki, Ligeti, The Machine in the Garden, Big Band, 1920's, the Cure, Janet Klien, Bauhaus, Nena, Conjure One, and much more which I might list later. I do despise rap and its related styles of thumping drums and crassness.) "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer
Night of the Hunter, The Village, Wisconsin Death Trip, Metropolis, M (and most everything else by Lang), Nosferatu, Diary of a Lost Girl, Pandora's Box, A Bucket of Blood, Bram Stoker's Dracula, La Jetee, Roman Polanski's Pirates, The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello, Wallace and Gromit, Sweeney Todd, The Hurricane, Lost Horizon, The Road to Wellville, 2001 Space Odyssey, City of Lost Children, Institute Benjamenta, Parents, Alice/Little Otik and other films of Jan Svankmajer, Undertaking Betty, Dead Man, Shadow of the Vampire, Pillowbook, When Worlds Collide, The Hobbit, the Three Musketeers/Four Musketeers/Return of the Musketeers, Funeral in Berlin, zombie movies frighten me-I like them.
I do not own a TV but watch Doctor Who weekly via the internet. The Avengers and Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett are others I have enjoyed. Watching at a friend's house I have been introduced to "True Blood', I like it.
Currently reading as of 20JUN08: "Art as Experience" by John Dewey. My favorite fictional work: "A Canticle for Leibowitz" but a few others are(and not limited to): Farenheit 451, The Poetics of Music, Turbulent Mirror, Under the Black Flag, Goblin Market and other Poems, Importance of Living by Lin Yutang, The works of Edward Gorey, Lovecraft short stories, Poe, When Worlds Collide, Art and Fear, Scream Against the Sky:Japanese Art Since 1945, Alice in Wonderland, Beyond the Looking Glass, Dracula,......
Humans are fallible and heroes are unrealistic. There are those individuals that I admire for their accomplishments and have infulenced my thoughts and ideals: Jacob Bronowski, Sir Kenneth Clarke, Graham Chapman, Jonathan Miller, James Randi, Alan Watts, Penn & Teller, Rene Magritte, Man Ray, Salvador Dali, ..........and then there are the fictional ones: Doctor Who, Zorro, Puss in Boots(not the Disney crap)