Favorite things: angels, antique stores, art deco, attics, Autumn, Badtz Maru , baking, baklava, the ballet , going barefoot, Ben & Jerry's Karamel Sutra, Betty Boop, boating, books, bookstores, Burberry, candlelight, candy corn, cashmere, Chagall, Chanel No. 5 , checkerboard floors, cheese, cherry pie, Chinese lanterns, Christmas lights, Christmas movies in black and white, The Chrysler Building , city skylines, cocktail hour, coconut, Cole Porter, collecting old cookbooks, creating collages, crosswords, Dawn dolls, dancing in the rain, Degas, Diet Rockstar, dresses, fairies, Felix the Cat, figure skating (especially Caryn Kadavy and Christopher Bowman), Fiestaware, 45s, gargoyles, Hello Kitty, honey and honey bears, libraries, Life in Hell, Limoges, magazines, Makeup Alley.com, making lists of almost every dumb thing, movies, Ms. Pac Man, walking around in museums, neckties on men, newspapers, NFL Football (Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers!!!), nutcrackers, the ocean, Patrick Nagel, PerezHilton.com, parquet floors (hey, floors are what are ALWAYS under you, thus the appreciation!), the colour pink, politics, rootbeer floats, rubies, Rudy's Tacos, seafood (almost any kind that's not heavily breaded), shopping, silver, skeeball, a sky full of stars, strip clubs where the women have real boobs, tennis, Tom Tomorrow, traveling anywhere, especially just the getting there part - love trains, planes, and automobiles (as long as I'm not the one driving), trenchcoats, turquoise, tuxedos, The Wayback Machine, vodka tonics , good wine
I'd like to meet:
Bruce Springsteen, to thank him for writing such great material. Bill Clinton, to ask him why he had such a great presidency going and then went and fucked it up for something that would play right to the idiot Republicans. Natalie Maines... after watching "Shut Up and Sing" how could anyone not respect someone who so stuck to the idea of freedom of speech over commerce?? Love or hate what she says/stands for, FREEDOM OF SPEECH is what we're looking at here, people!!! Courtney Love, for "Live Through This". Kurt Cobain, for all the music. Paul Newman. John Lennon. Maureen Dowd. Helen Thomas. Molly Ivins. Jane Austen. Anne Sexton. Al Gore. Michael Moore. Bill Maher. Harry S Truman. Richard Clarke. All my liberal political heroes. Thomas Jefferson. Abraham Lincoln. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Tina Fey. Chelsea Handler. The Troika of George W Bush/Dick Cheney/Donald Rumsfeld, as well as their neocon cronies, just to let them know there is a place in hell for all of them. My crushes: Jason Priestley, Chris Isaak (again), Maria Bello, and Paz Vega...
Right now I'm seriously crushing on January Jones in Mad Men:
Music:
To me, music is music... stop talking about who's better or more deserving or whatever and just be lucky to have it in your lives. Imagine your lives without music. Would you be so all up in your face about which artist is better suited to be recording than another?? I like what I like. I had a guy who works with me start in on the Paula Abdul songs on my iPod. He's 10 years younger. Thinks he goes to all of the latest concerts, is into all of the latest bands. He's not far behind me and he doesn't even know it. It's just music. But it's more than that. So shut your piehole when you want to start criticizing someone else's tastes. Just sit back and feel lucky you get to listen to all the music that's out there and shut up.
Abba, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Aimee Mann, Air Supply (yeah, you read that right...), The Alarm, Arcade Fire, The Babys, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The B52s, Billy Joel, The Black Crowes, Blondie, Bobby Darin , Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, The Cars, Chris Isaak, Christina Aguilera, Chuck Berry, The Clash, Clint Black, Concrete Blonde, The Cult, The Cure, Darlene Love, David Bowie, The Decemberists, Def Leppard, The Dixie Chicks, Don Henley, Donna Summer, Doris Day, Duran Duran, The Eagles, Echo and the Bunnymen, E.L.O., Elton John, Elvis Costello, Fiona Apple, Fleetwood Mac, The Foo Fighters, Fountains of Wayne, The Four Seasons, Frank Sinatra, Franz Ferdinand, Go-Gos, Green Day, Guns n Roses, Hall and Oates, Heart, Hole, Icicle Works, INXS, Jack Johnson, Jane's Addiction, Jesus and Mary Chain, John Lennon, Judy Garland, Juliana Hatfield, Kanye West, Kelly Clarkson, The Killers, Liz Phair, Lorrie Morgan, Lucinda Williams, Madonna, Marvin Gaye, Mary J. Blige, Matthew Sweet, Merle Haggard, The Miracles, Missing Persons, Neko Case, Nirvana, No Doubt, Oasis, Pavement, Pearl Jam, The Pixies, The Plimsouls, The Police, The Pretenders, Prince, The Psychedelic Furs, Public Enemy, Queen, R.E.M., Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Replacements, Rick Springfield, The Rolling Stones, Ryan Adams, Salt N Pepa, Scissor Sisters, Shelby Lynne, Simon and Garfunkel, Sinead O'Connor, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sleater-Kinney, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, Stevie Nicks, Stevie Wonder, Stone Temple Pilots, Sublime, Tears For Fears, The Temptations, TLC, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Tori Amos, Trisha Yearwood, U2, Van Halen, Vince Gill, The Violent Femmes, The White Stripes, X
Movies:
Your Movie Buff Quotient: 88%
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Against All Odds, All About Eve, All the President's Men, American Beauty, American Graffiti, Arthur, Babe, Baby It's You, Battle Royale, Beauty and the Beast, Boogie Nights, Bound, Broadcast News, Brokeback Mountain, Bullets Over Broadway, Casablanca , Choose Me, Citizen Kane, Clerks, The Curse of the Cat People, Dazed and Confused, Death on the Nile, The Deer Hunter, Desperate Teenage Lovedolls, Dogma, Donnie Darko, Do the Right Thing, Easy Money, The Empire Strikes Back, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Europa Europa, Fanny and Alexander, Fargo, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Fearless, Fear of a Black Hat, Footlight Parade, 42nd. Street, Frances, Full Metal Jacket, Ghost World, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Godfather I and II, Goodfellas, Grand Illusion, Grease, Hairspray, Heavenly Creatures, Howard's End, Ice Castles, The Ice Storm, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, It Happened One Night, It's a Wonderful Life, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, L.A. Story, Ladies and Gentlemen... the Fabulous Stains, The Last Days of Disco, Legends of the Fall, Love Actually, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metropolitan, Muriel's Wedding, My Man Godfrey, Night of the Comet, An Officer and A Gentleman, Our Time, Outside Providence, Party Girl, The Philadelphia Story, The Pirate, The Player, Poltergeist, Radio Days, Raging Bull, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Rapture, Return of the Jedi, Romancing the Stone, The Rules of Attraction, Salvador, Saturday Night Fever, Scrooged, Sex and Lucia, The Shining, Sixteen Candles, The Sixth Sense, The Sound of Music, Star Wars, Stand By Me, Sullivan's Travels, Summer of Sam, Sunset Boulevard, Suspicion, Swing Time, The Talented Mr. Ripley, That Thing You Do!, To Kill a Mockingbird, To Live and Die in L.A., Tombstone, 2001 - A Space Odyssey, Top Hat, Twentieth Century, Valley Girl, The Vanishing, Varsity Blues, The War of the Roses, The Wizard of Oz, Working Girl, Wuthering Heights
Guilty Pleasures: anything with Pia Zadora, Mommie Dearest, Showgirls, Summer Lovers
Television:
Absolutely Fabulous , Arrested Development, Beverly Hills 90210, Bosom Buddies, Cagney and Lacey, China Beach, The Chris Isaak Show, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Dawson's Creek, Degrassi (both old and new), Everybody Hates Chris, Freaks and Geeks!!!!!!!!!, Friends, Frontline, Grey's Anatomy, I Love Lucy, Intervention, Little House on the Prairie, Lost, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Moonlighting, My So-Called Life , Newhart, The Office, Prison Break, Profit, Real Time With Bill Maher, Seinfeld, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, Soap, Square Pegs, The Sopranos, The Twilight Zone, Twin Peaks, What Not to Wear
Books:
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Amphigorey by Edward Gorey, The Art and Flair of Mary Blair by John Canemaker, The Cheerleader by Ruth Doan McDougall, The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, The Cider House Rules by John Irving, The Clothes Have No Emperor by Paul Slansky, The Death of a President by William Manchester, Dreamhouse by Alison Habens, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Richard Biskind, The Girlfriends Guide to Pregnancy by Vicki Iovine, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, I Hated, Hated, Hated this Movie by Roger Ebert, Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, More, Now, Again by Elizabeth Wurtzel, The Nanny Diaries by Emma Mclaughlin and Nicola Kraus, Olive the Other Reindeer by j.Otto Seibold, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann, What it Takes (The Way to the White House) by Richard Ben Cramer, John Saul, Agatha Christie,
the poetry of Langston Hughes, Anne Sexton, Ben Jonson, Ted Hughes, Robert Herrick, any book by Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Amy and David Sedaris, Pauline Kael's collected works
Heroes:
Bill Clinton, Bruce Springsteen, Martin Luther King, Jr., Edward R. Murrow and the Hollywood Ten, Bill Maher, Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman, the woman who blew the whistle on Enron, Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, Paul Newman, Jon Stewart, Natalie Maines, Richard Clarke, John Paul Stevens, Julian Bond, Prairie Dawn (the coolest chick on Sesame Street), my mom, too many of my friends to mention. Maureen Dowd. Helen Thomas.
