music (especially live), yoga, meeting new people, dancing, food, wine, travel, french, dogs, cats, good bad tv, good good tv, walking around san francisco, connecting people (i guess that's networking?), parties (not partying), art, comic books, did i say movies?, there's not a lot i'm not interested in - oh yeah astrology.
I'd like to meet:
anyone interested & interesting.
Music:
joanna newsom, a girl called eddy, keren ann, nellie mckay, polyphonic spree, blondie, go-go's, emmylou harris, joni mitchell, dolly parton, marianne faithfull, disco, x, bluegrass, old country, house, nedelle, kate bush, nina hagen, the late great kirsty maccoll, slits, old linda ronstadt (you know like when the eagles were her backing band, that whole alt-country thang, pretty much anything richard at aron's records is into - or donald or jamie for that matter (love & miss you guys), tilly & the wall, rilo kiley (god that girl is sexy), burt bacharach in the 60s, bettye swann, roches, phoebe snow (awesome voice), saint etienne, stereo total, stereolab, bjork, pj harvey, courtney love (i'll take no crap for this), apples in stereo (fun!), ac newman, neko case, vashti bunyan, jesse sykes & the sweet hereafter, 80s girl & girl fronted groups that haven't been played to death, bossa nova, french pop, bulgarian folk music (i'm not kidding), old skool hip hop, roots reggae - i don't really believe there's any bad music even if i don't like it - i mean come on when i was a kid i bought barry mannilow & barbra streisand - yikes!
Movies:
john waters flicks (especially the old ones), nights of cabiria (oh my god!), x the unheard music, the kid stays in the picture, the exorcist, all horror movies, pre condom classics (hey!), early john hughes, where angels go trouble follows & the trouble with angels, rosalind russell's auntie mame not lucille ball's, fast times at ridgemont high, nomisong, tarnation, any pedro almodovar, any todd solondz, grey gardens - i think movies are the most perfect art form & they never fail to pick me up - also just the experience of visiting a theater & sharing with a group of strangers for two hours can be amazing & taken in the wrong way - don't get nasty.
Television:
sex & the city, strangers with candy, america's next top model, biography, the best week ever, gerhard reinke's wanderlust, mtv's original house of style, the first season of the simple life, early david letterman, soap, mary tyler moore, my so called life, all cooking shows, some travel shows, 80s tv movies, 70s scarey/bad tv movies (like the one with barbara eden who got impregnated by an alien became addicted to coffee & had a baby with two hearts), laverne & shirley, 80s nighttime soaps, simpsons, inside the actor's studio, i don't watch that much anymore but as a child i rarely left it.
Books:
comic books, love & rockets, ariel or any sylvia plath for that matter, anne sexton, judy blume, david sedaris, geek love, tales of the city series, celebrity bios & autobios, ask dr. mueller (so fucking funny!), the sex & the city book cj is gonna get me, that big tom of finland book from taschen, that big perre et gilles book from taschen, dorothy parker, david feinberg - i don't read as much as i should.
Heroes:
my mom, julia childs, any loser who made it big on their own terms, beautiful freaks everywhere, the sisters of perpetual indulgence, probably just about every friend i ever had.
