adventure, alchemy, alf, alfred hitchcock, andy kaufman, angus young, ann arbor, anne sexton, antiques, aphrodisiacs, art nouveau, athena, atomic '50s, austria, ballet, bauhaus, beatles, belting notes, being a real sweetie pie, bettie page, big league chew, billie holiday, bird calls, blue footed boobies, bob odenkirk, boston terriers, brandy alexanders, buddy holly glasses, busby berkeley, cabernet, catholic saints, mackintosh, checkhov, chicken vindaloo, chocolate, cindy sherman, comedic acting, comic book nerds, coming up with ditties and hooks, craftsman bungalows, cream soda dum dums, david lynch, deco, decoupage, detroit, django reinhardt, duane hanson, eames, edgar cayce, edwardians, ella fitzgerald, environmental activism, esoteric studies, fat cats, flamenco dance, foxes, frank lloyd wright, frank sinatra, frida kahlo, gardening, gershwin, getting sassy, getting vibes, gilbert adrian gowns, gourmet cooking, halifax ns, harps, high glass breaking notes, high heels, improv comedy, indie films, intellivision, ireland, italy, jim carroll, johnny depp, johnny green, journey, kids in the hall, laguna beach 1919, larkin, listening to music on old records, london, los angeles, love, lyrical dance, lyrics, magic, making jazz hot again, math, mary tyler moore, metaphysics, michigan, michigan state university, mies van der rohe, modern dance, modernism, mucha, mushrooms, musicals with great dancing, norwegian wood, nostalgia, npr, opera, owls, patsy cline, patton oswalt, paul taylor, pecan pie, pentwater, persian food, photography, physics, plasticman, poetry, pointe shoes, pop culture, pugs, questioning gimmick snack foods, ringo, rosicrucians, rubies and garnets, ruth etting, sapphires, scary old abandoned houses/buildings, scotland, screwball comedies, scrying, sensuality, shakespeare, simpsons, singing in my car, sit-ups, sketch comedy, smiling, soft skin, sondheim, spirits, stained glass, stratford, tap dancing, tarot cards, tennessee williams, the beach at dusk, the fifth contingency, the groundlings, thunderstorms, twyla tharp, uncabaret, victoriana, watching the detectives, wax seals, wind chimes, words, writing letters, xanadu, young hipsters, zingers
Oh I already met them... and they are divinely exquisite!!!:
Piazzolla, June Christy, Arcade Fire, Danny B. Harvey, Nan Wynn, Kay Star, Dean Mora, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Dawn Upshaw, David Bowie, Don Redman, Janet Klein, Connie Boswell, The Beach Boys, Ezra Reich, Lemon Demon, Anthony Sunseri, Dolly Parton, Suzy Williams, LCD Soundsytem, Lambert Hendricks and Ross, Brad Kay, Beatles, The Beach Boys, John Reynolds, Purcell, Debussy, ELO, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington, Lena Horne, The Boswell Sisters, Journey, Frank Sinatra, The Byrds, Mozart, Bows, Etta James, Patsy Cline, Copeland, Stevie Wonder, Lavern Baker, Billie Holiday, The Detroit Cobras, Doors, Irving Berlin, Beatles, Woody Herman, Johnny Green, Mirah, AC/DC, Weezer, Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee, Dean Martin, Goldfrapp, Charlie Parker, Bessie Smith, Violent Femmes,They Might Be Giants, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Johnny Crawford, Maude Maggart, Fiona Apple, Chet Baker, Erykah Badu, Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, Django Reinhardt, Gonzalo Bergara, Raymond Scott, Ruth Etting, Jane Green, Dr Dre, Dick Powell, Johnny Mercer, The Go, Big Sir, Rasputina, Doug Kershaw, Artie Shaw, Kay Kyser, Doors, Steely Dan, Queen, Christine Nelson, Jennifer Keith, Royal Crown Review, Led Zepplin, The White Stripes, Bix Beiderbecke, Sammy Davis Jr, Amon Tobin, Daniel Johnston, The Raconteurs, linnzi Zaorski, Loretta Lynn, Pet Shop Boys, Ella sweet Ella Fitzgerald, Bach, Bizet
The big Lebowski, American Movie, Anything Harold Lloyd, Class of 1984, Streets, Long Hot Summer, Red Headed Woman, Slaughterhouse five, Giant, Jacob's Ladder, Wet Hot American Summer, Dancemaker , Poison Ivy, Old School, The Virgin Suicides, The Loved One, Alphaville, The Apartment, Harvey, Written on the Wind, His Girl Friday, Lobster Man from Mars, Rushmore, Adaptation, Being John Malkovitch, Rejected, Sex Education for Trainables, Superbad, Chicago, Cabaret, Spirited Away, The Sweet and Lowdown, Swingers, Office Space, Rear Window, The Royal Tennenbalms, Citizen Kane, It Happened One Night, Ocean's Eleven (original rat pack), Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Vertigo, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Run Lola Run, Gold Diggers of 1933 and 35, Harold and Maude, The Big Sleep, The Notebook(sorry but I think I saw this one like 5 times in one summer!!), Shop around the Corner, College, The Apple, The Stuff, The Wind, The Crowd, Village of the Giants, Earth vs Flying Saucers, 20 Million Miles to Earth, IT, On our Merry Way, Somewhere in Time, You Can't Take it With You and many many more!
I haven't had cable in at least 2 years now so basically I don't ever watch TV unless I rented it on Netflix or downloaded it. It's a great way to live because there's never ever time for commercials. Six Feet Under, Stella, The Office (both versions) Mary Tyler Moore, Arrested Development, Dick Van Dyke, The Wonder Years, The Twilight Zone(old school), TV Funhouse, Futurama, Mr Show, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Daily Show, The Family Guy, Chapelle's Show, The Colbert Report, Quantum Leap, Little House on the Prairie, Freaks and Geeks, Weeds
At any given point I have about 10 books I'm currently reading. Mostly I love juicy biographies and various antiquarian books. My dear grandmother was an alcoholic librarian and I miss her. Not all these are actually novels: Seamus Heaney selected poems, In the Name of the Rose, Any Norton anthology of collected poetry or anything, The North Ship, Slaughterhouse Five, The Virgin Suicides, No Logo, Love in the Time of Cholera, Blindness, Echoes from the Void, The Great Gatsby, The Quaker City; or The Monks of Monk Hall by George Lippard, Black Elk Speaks, Catcher in the Rye, Narnia Books, Choose Your Own Adventure books, Tennessee Williams plays, The Yellow Wallpaper, Anne of Green Gables etc there are too many to name!!