Opera, theater, music, books. I enjoy getting around the bay area.
Too many people to list here. But enough about them, here's more about me.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name:
Jim
Birthday:
December 14, year of the tiger
Birthplace:
Santa Monica, CA
Graduated from:
Santa Barbara, CA
Current Location:
San Francisco, CA (sticking with the saints)
Eye Color:
Hazel
Hair Color:
Brown
Height:
6' 1"
Right or Left Handed:
Right
The Shoes You Wore Today:
Were stunning
Your Fears:
From Lily Tomlin:
If olive oil comes from olives, and peanut oil comes from peanuts, just where does baby oil come from?
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
Your Perfect Pizza:
Low fat, low cholesterol. In other words... NONE!
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year:
To age gracefully or not at all
Thoughts First Waking Up:
Is it morning yet?
Your Best Physical Feature:
Eyes
Your Most Missed Memory:
Just a minute.... it's on the tip of my tongue
Pepsi or Coke:
Diet
MacDonalds or Burger King:
The one with the nearest exit
Single or Group Dates:
Single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea:
Oh, please. I may be into instant relationships, but tea should be brewed
Chocolate or Vanilla:
Vanilla (and not the imitation flavoring either!!)
Cappuccino or Coffee:
Lattes
Do you Smoke:
No way!
Do you Swear:
When I drive
Do you Sing:
That's a matter of opinion
Do you Shower Daily:
Every time I sing
Have you Been in Love:
Let me count the gays
Do you want to go to College:
Only for dates
Do you want to get Married:
Forever hopeful
Do you belive in yourself:
Usually, but sometimes I think I'm an illusion
Do you get Motion Sickness:
Depends on the motion
Do you think you are Attractive:
I think I'm sweet
Are you a Health Freak?
Do you like Thunderstorms:
Yes, from a warm, safe place
Do you play an Instrument:
Let's not go into that here
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol:
Yes (and I think the word is drunk )
In the past month have you Smoked: No, but I've burned
In the past month have you been on Drugs:
No
In the past month have you gone on a Date:
Yes
In the past month have you gone to a Mall:
Of course. Oh wait, that's with an M.
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos:
No
In the past month have you eaten Sushi:
Yes, yes, yes!
In the past month have you been on Stage:
The closest I've been to the stage is sixth row center
In the past month have you been Dumped:
No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping:
No
In the past month have you Stolen Anything:
Do kisses count?
Ever been Drunk:
Of course
Ever been Beaten up:
Only emotionally
Ever Shoplifted:
Never
How do you want to Die:
Rich, quickly and clueless
What do you want to be when you Grow Up:
Retired
What country would you most like to Visit:
Too too many
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color:
Anything but black or red
Favourite Hair Color:
Black or red
Short or Long Hair:
Yes
Number of CDs I own:
In the thousands
Number of Piercings:
One
Number of Tattoos:
None
Number of things in my Past I Regret: I don't go there
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!
Love opera. Also Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen and of course Stephen Sondheim, to name just a few.
12 Days of Christmas (Marilyn Michaels)
White Christmas (Barbara Cook)
SINGERS:
Juan Diego Flórez
Rolando Villazon
Natalie Dessay
Ramon Vargas
Dorothy Kirsten
Montserrat Caballe
Leontyne Price
Barbara Cook
Ella
Sarah
OPERAS:
Eugene Onegin
I Puritani
Ariadne auf Naxos
Don Carlo
Don Giovanni
MUSICALS:
Follies
Into the Woods
Carousel
Kiss Me Kate
Chicago
SONGS:
Someone to Watch Over Me
I Got Lost in His Arms
It Never Was You
I Can Cook Too
Glitter and Be Gay (of course)
A FEW FAVORITES:
Auntie Mame
The (first) Manchurian Candidate
Witness for the Prosecution
The Wizard of Oz
Rear Window
Charade
Midnight Lace
An Affair to Remember
Tom Jones
The World of Henry Orient
Lawrence of Arabia
The Pirate
Harvey
Breakfast at Tiffanys
A SPECIAL FAVORITE:
Dreamchild
Though I seem to have Law and Order streaming out my ears, most of my favorites are not on any more, so I content myself with reruns of Frasier.
Anything by David Mitchell, Orhan Pamuk, Haruki Murakami. And I still read the Oz books af if they were current fiction.
MOST RECENT READS:
Kinshu (Teru Miyamoto)
My Antonia (Willa Cather)
The Arabian Nights (Richard Burton translation)
The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
Kokoro (Natsume Soseki)
The Clerkenwell Tales (Peter Ackroyd)
My Life as an Emperor (Su Tong)
Passarola Rising (Azhar Abidi)
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (James Shapiro)
The Turquoise Ring (Grace Tiffany)
The March (E.L. Doctorow)
Shipwrecks (Akira Yoshimura)
River Town (Peter Hessler)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See)
Crawling at Night (Nani Power)
Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
The Unwanted (Kien Nguyen)
From the Land of Green Ghosts (Pascal Khoo Thwe)
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Ghostwritten (David Mitchell)
Waiting (Ha Jin)
My Name is Red (Orhan Pamuk)
OTHER FAVORITES:
Kafka on the Shore
By Haruki Murakami
 
My Name is Red
By Orhan Pamuk
What a book! A murder mystery that is much more than that. In 16th century Istanbul, a sultan commissions the greatest illuminators to create a book. One of the illuminators disappears, and the illuminations hold the mystery's answers. Each chapter is told first-person by a different person or thing: people, animals, things in the illuminations, even the dead person.
Juan Diego Florez