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adopt your own virtual pet!Books... I love them. I hug my books once a day. Okay, maybe not, but I do in spirit. Writing, mostly fiction though I do the occasional blog thing. Hiking, the outdoors, bike riding, the ocean, my feet, poetry, "Neverwhere", travel, Irish literature, eggrolls, animals, music, Mozart, comfy pjs, tea, the occasional good movie, "Invader Zim" cartoons, Dropkick Murphys... and more.
I'd like to meet:
Who would I like to meet, living or dead? Now that is a difficult question to answer... It would depend on my mood. If I am feeling particularlyl argumentitive, I might choose some historical figure whose views are contrary to my own. Not so much Aristotle, but I would LOVE to talk to Kant. I am ALWAYS in the mood to meet Neil Gaiman! Maybe next time there is a book signing I'll be able to go. Does this person have to be famous? I would have loved to have known my grandmother when she was well. I only have vague memories of her. Heck, I wouldn't mind simply meeting a group of people who read! That is a rare meeting indeed.
Music:
Almost everything expect most rap and REALLY twangy country music. (I do like blue grass though!) My current over-played mix would be Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes, and Interpol (along with others of the sort). Dropkick Murphys, Mozart, Duke Ellington, Breaking Benjamin, Five Iron Frenzy, Dashboard Confessional, U2, Deep Forest, Dead Can Dance, Staind, Flogging Molly, John Mayor, Jimmy Eat World, Taking Back Sunday, Kula Shaker, Ten Years, Indigo Girls, Mastidon, Spanish guitar anything... and, well, too many others to list really. You get the picture.
Movies:
My favorite movie is still Joe Vs. The Volcano because I feel there is a lot of metaphor and life lessons hidden in the little movie, but I have a pretty wide range of tastes. I REALLY liked Cloverfield recently, and Pan's Labyrinth (the fairies were real!). I LOVE old black and whites and feel that clever banter in recent movies can't compete with Katherine Hepburn and Carry Grant in The Philadelphia Story, and Arsenic and Old Lace is simply hilarious! Ridley Scott anything!!! The movies are beautifully shot, the fight scenes are wonderfully gory and choreographed like horrific dances, and of course though the history is inaccurate at least it may get someone INTERESTED in history. And I want Balian's sword... really, I do. I LOVED "Narnia: The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe"! (Big Lewis and Tolkein fan!), I enjoyed "The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", the first Matrix (which was the best really).
Television:
I don't really watch television, but I WILL watch shows if the season is out on DVD. So here are a few I've watched that way. Heroes is a HUGE favorite! The Office, Battlestar Galactica... I think that's it so far.
Books:
I read everything!!! EVERYTHING! From Melville to Marvel Comics, reading is fundamental. What to list? "Neverwhere"!!! Big time! And "Stardust"! Both by Neil Gaiman. "The Eyes of the Dragon" by Steven King, plus "Salem's Lot" and "Talisman". (Hated the "Black House", it was NOT as good a book!). Anything by Jane Austen or Louisa May Allcott, or Shakespeare for that matter. Poems by Ogden Nash, or Yeats, or Byant... Anything by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. "Dragon Knights" or "Berserk" or "Planet Ladder" for manga.... I read the occasional "X-Men" comic, but I only follow a few characters really. (LOVED the series written by Neil Gaiman, that rocked!) I read a lot of mythology and folklore, mostly Irish, though I enjoy just about anything. I am currently reading "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and I recenly finished the sixth "Harry Potter" book. OH, wait, and I am reading through the Narnia series, but that is taking no time at all since the books are really small. Soooo... yeah, you really don't want me to go on, I have ten boxes or so filled with books!
Heroes:
My Mother. Cheesy, I know, but it's true. I don't KNOW the writers I enjoy. I might admire their work, but maybe I wouldn't admire THEM completely. No... out of everyone I know, I would have to say Mums is the one I would list as a hero. *In a Gilgamesh kind of way too!!!*
