If I could create the perfect city , I would drop NYC smack in the middle of Texas - right next to Austin (wouldn't that be a toot?) I'm still a sucker for old, sappy movies, and often watch them with a glass of excellent vino and whatever concoction I created for dinner. I also LOVE to travel (always bring my cowboy hat)and take bike rides along the WSH in NYC. Sleeping outdoors (so long as it isn't 150 degrees), boating. Love motorcycles. Started tae kwon do classes again, and want to get back into riding horses, but NYC is not a great place for that most of the year.I love to curl up on the couch and watch a movie during thunderstorms. Anything outdoors in the Spring (picnic, anyone?) Sipping tea while watching the sun set over the water. Full moons. Working up a sweat. Driving a motorcycle in Santorini (very difficult - don't try this at home). Sucker for Patsy Cline. Pistachio Almond ice cream. Back rubs. Intellectual conversations. Love of tex-mex requires frequent trips home to the Lone Star State - NY has no clue about queso - I've been reduced to Velveeta and Rotel. Sushi is life. Go Longhorns!!!Favorite places are Greece, Belize, Mexico, Bermuda, Istanbul -- anywhere warm that comes with a beach. Paris for the weekend (yeah, like I have time for that anymore.) Boots dancing on the bar at Red Rock West (yee-haw!) or sipping a martini at 21 or some other over-priced NYC hotspot. The meatpacking district in NYC rocks (but don't wear heels.) Visiting my wonderful friends all over the country. I'd love to go back to Egypt -- maybe in a few years.
The usual - interesting, fun people. Folks who bait their own hook and clean the fish (in other words, self-reliant.) Preferably with those with an IQ in the triple digits, but hey, everyone has good qualities. I would love to reconnect with old friends. If your "friends" list is filled with females in an obvious "non" state of dress, chances are we have zero in common. Liars, cheaters and druggies beware - I have no time for you. Furthermore, this is a BAGGAGE-FREE ZONE - leave it at the door or don't bother knocking. We all have our little issues, but I generally have my *%$# together. Only nice people, pretty please...
Anything but rap. Special place in my heart for country. How's this for a song title - Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy. Gotta love it. Absolutely anything that Jack Ingram sings. Jackopierce ain't half bad, either! Rob Thomas and James Blunt. Abba (cheezy, but still cool as hell.) Tom Jones (he still puts on a great concert!) Elvis - no-brainer. Carly Simon is always a good call, as well. Although I'm not 70 years old, I love to chill to Tony Bennett and Sinatra - they go well with vino...
I'm a movie nut, so there are quite a few on my favorites list, but here goes...Princess Bride rocks (men in masks cannot be trusted), Casablanca, Arsenic & Old Lace, Same Time Next Year, Gone With the Wind, How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days (very funny, that one!), Alex & Emma, Harry Potter, Shirley Valentine (only Greeks will know that one) Arthur, Walk the Line, Wedding Crashers, the usual Die Hard, Terminator, Lethal Weapon and other relatively mindless yet entertaining flicks, anything James Bond (Sean Connery rocks) or Pink Panther (OK, so Peter Sellers isn't Sean Connery, but he's funny as hell). The Godfather is a movie-for-all occasions (leave the gun, take the cannoli). I still cry during "The Notebook" - I'm talking a box of tissue, not just a few little sniffles...
Hate network TV (except Fox News) - prefer Discovery Channel, History Channel, TLC, movies, ANYTHING but quasi-drama or miniseries. I miss Ren & Stimpy.
I don't know that it qualifies as "literary" but I read law all day, every day (or so it seems). When traveling, which I do as often as possible, I love Harry Potter, true crime and forensic psychology - odd combination, I know. Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons & Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy rock. Erma Bombeck had the right idea - her books still crack me up. Recently read "The Givenchy Code" - was given to me by a colleague as a joke - only funny if you're drunk on a plane - otherwise, it was just plain stupid. Needless to say, I though it was hilarious...I am proud to say that I do not own a single romance novel. Drippy things, they are. Prefer the real thing.As far as "real" books go, my library contains everything from DSM-IV and The Handbook of Forensic Psychology to The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II and Euripides. I am a geek in disguise.
My family. Our troops.