Literature, Art, Music, History ('20s, '80s, Medieval, Renaissance, Victorian, Cultural), Friends, Animals, Nature, Volunteering, Russia, Sweden, Scotland, Kazakhstan, Learning on my own, Cooking, Baking, Curling up under my warm covers to sleep, Checking out Antique and Recycle Shops, Fountains, Gargoyles, Music Boxes, Genealogy, Chatting with my dearest friends here and on messenger, Finding new genres and artists from elsewhere...hmm...Meeting new friends, being silly, and just having fun. ^^
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Genres: Dark Cabaret, Darkwave, Medieval, '20s and '30s Jazz/Scat, Jazz (no smooth/elevator stuff), Pop from the '40s up to the '80s, Goth, New Wave, Ethereal, Post-Punk, Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Classical, Neoclassical, Classic Rock, Synth pop, some Metal, Disco, Circus (revival/cabaret), '70s R&B, Funk, Folk, Ethnic, Enka, Experimental/Unique...[Quite] A Few Favorite Artists: Jill Tracy, Helen Kane, Klaus Nomi, Rasputina, Loreena McKennitt, Angels of Venice, Ministry (early '80s), Arc Gotic, Barbra Streisand, Andrews Sisters, Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Stray Cats, The Meteors, Bush Tetras, Koffin Kats, Bad Brains, Unto Ashes, Oingo Boingo, Impressions of Winter, Trobar de Morte, Drolls, Gothart, Krless, Bobby Darin, The Commodores, America, Haggard, Hawaii, Garmarna, Faith and the Muse, Wreckage, 13th Chime, Omnia, Dead Can Dance, Ordo Funebris, Love and Rockets, Tones On Tail, The Bolshoi, Cinema Strange, The Deadfly Ensemble, Zombie Ghost Train, The Cocteau Twins, Foetus, The Dead Milkmen, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, The Beatles, Queen, Advent Sleep, Specimen, Blackmore's Night, Cultus Ferox, Vas, Niyaz, Opeth, Zombina and the Skeletones, Theatre of Ice, Mekons, Rezillos/Revillos, Daemonia Nymphe, Black Tape For A Blue Girl, Cab Calloway, Carpenters, Mamas and Papas, DeVotchKa, Christopher Wilson, and many others.
Miss Potter, Becoming Jane, The Brothers Grimm, The Corpse Bride, The Last Legion, Merlin, Joan of Arc, Hello Dolly!, On A Clear Day, What's Up Doc?, Funny Girl, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Funny Face, Sabrina, State Fair, My Fair Lady, The Music Man, The Sound of Music, Annie Get Your Gun, Gilda, You Were Never Lovelier, The Matinee Idol, Dark Victory, Cinema Paradiso, The Road To Bali, White Christmas, Back To The Future, The Munster's Scary Little Christmas, Goodburger, You Gotta Stay Happy, The Glenn Miller Story...
The History Channel and South Park, both every once in a while.Old shows are cool, too...The Munsters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, all the great shows that were on the Disney Channel during the late '80s and '90s, I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, Bewitched, The Brady Bunch, Hawaii Five-O, etc.
The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova), Dracula (Bram Stoker), The Italian (Ann Radcliffe), Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), Was It Heaven? Or Hell? (Mark Twain), Sevastopol (Leo Tolstoy), The Queen of Spades (A. S. Pushkin), The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield), Saint Joan (Bernard Shaw), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), The Canterville Ghost (Oscar Wilde), The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne), The Misanthrope (Moliere), The Library Window (Margaret Oliphant), Peter the First (Alexey Tolstoy), The Spectre Bride (William Ainsworth), Beyond the Wall (Ambrose Bierce)
Momo (little sister), Amanda (cousin), and all my friends! (Including Treeline, of course =))