My Main Loves:
I love to read.
I love to write.
I love to knit.
Computer and console games are my passion.
I'm in love with my TAUREN on World of Warcraft.
I love my job as a HALLOWEEN HAUNT MONSTER (Boo!)
I love the music forum on Gaia.
I love movies.
I love RPGS.
Magic.
Ponies.
Penguins.
Stuff.
You.
Since there is no slot for me to list my favorite artists, I've decided they belong here, for all to see.
Top 3 Movements:
1)German Expressionsim - Die Brücke and Die Neue Sachlichkeit only
2)Early Surrealism
3)19th and early 20th Century French Realism
Top 5 artists:
1)Amedeo Modigliani
2)Honore Daumier
3)Otto Dix
4)Goya
5)George Grosz
Other favorites:
Puvis de Chavannes; Bacon; Ensor; De Chirico; Hopper; Lautrec; Millet; Courbet; Gericault; Magritte; Duchamp; Rothko; David; William Blake; Luca; Fra Fillipo Lippi; Botticelli; Giordano; Pisanello; Giorginone; Piero della Francesca; Early Byzantine(inparticular Iconoclasm and Palaiolagan images) and international Gothic paintings(mainly devotional paintings)
TOP PICKS
Helium, Rilo Kiley, Cursive, The Shins, The Lucksmiths, The Moldy Peaches, The Mountain Goats, The Blow, Bright Eyes; Elliot Smith; Jets to Brazil; the Microphones; Mirah; The Most Serene Republic; Neutral Milk Hotel; The Residents; Toad the Wet Sprocket; Xiu Xiu
I tried to lump the rest as best I could so they'd be easier to read:
The Postal Service; Cold Play; Yo La Tengo; Radiohead; Death Cab for Cutie; Pinback; Thee Spivies; Modest Mouse; Ben Folds Five; Jack Johnson; Barenaked Ladies; Polyphonic Spree; All Time Quarterback, Badly Drawn Boy; Belle and Sebastian; Flogging Molly; Gorillaz; Kings of Convenience; Mike Doughty; Of Montreal; Moby; New Amsterdams; Radiohead; Weezer; the Wallflowers
Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack(Tank!), POLYSICS, Melt Banana, Boredoms, Cornelius, Shiina Ringo, Tokyo Jhen, Tokyo Ska Orchestra; Luna Pop; De Palmas
The Smiths; The Cure; New Order; Depeche Mode; Oingo Boingo; The Bagnles; Echo and the Bunnymen; Tears for Fears; Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark; Duran Duran; Portishead; Ace of Base; The Bangles; Spin Doctors; Deep Blue Something; Oasis; R.E.M.; Men at Work; B-52's; The Clash, Smashing Pumpkins; ABBA; America; The Band; Blue Oyster Cult; Jamiroquai; Neil Sedaka; Paatos; Paul Simon; Queen
Anathema, Opeth, Porcupine Tree, Bass Communion; The Cramps; Cruxshadows; Deadsy; Helmet; KMFDM, Mr. Bungle; Orgy; Portishead; The Prodigy; Queensryche, The Ramones; Sleepy Time Gorrilla Museum; Blackfield; Stream of Passion; VNV Nation, No Man
Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen; Elvis; Miles Davis; Louis Armstrong; Abba; The Band; Cat Stevens; Simon and Garfunkel; The Beatles; The Mama's and the Papa's; Abba; Bob Dylan; Electric Light Orchestra; Buffalo Springfield; Bread, Chicago; Creedance Cleerwater Revival; The Temptations; K.C. and the Sunshine Band; John Lennon; Steve Allen; The Moody Blues; The Who; The Rolling Stones; Fats Domino; Fats Waller; Benny Goodman; Glenn Miller; Frank Sinatra; Bobby Darin; Buddy Holy; Dean Martin; Fred Astaire; Peggy Lee; Mary Martin; Billie Holiday; Sarah Vaughan; Duke Ellington; John Coltrane; Tommy Dorsey; Johnny Mercer; Bebel Gilberto; Wanda de Sah; Martin Denny; Cole Porter; Wayne Newton; Perry Como; The Cramps; Cherry Poppin Dadies; Big Bad Voodoo Dadies; Squirell Nut Zippers
You're "Cemetary Gates" ! You're smarter
than other people, with their trite
romanticized ideas about things. You have a
wicked sense of satire.
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Favorite Song: "The Girl from Ipanema"
Top picks:
Harold and Maude; Truly Madly Deeply; Pyscho; Rope; Follow the Bitch; Rebecca; The Graduate; Nightmare Before Christmas; Cowboy Bebop; Read or Die; Garden State; Amelie; Jules and JimOthers include:
Horror/Sci-Fi:
Donnie Darko; The Omen; Plan Nine from Outerspace; Rocky Horror (but ONLY at midnight in a theatre - please!!!); Star Wars Trilogy; Pyscho; Rosemary's Baby; Interview with the Vampire; Buba Ho-Tep; The Crow; Plague of the Zombies; ORIGINAL Texas Chainsaw Massacre; Night of the Living Dead; ORIGINAL Dawn of the Dead; Day of the Dead; Carnival of Souls; Dracula; Frankenstein; The Wolfman; The Blob; The Evil Dead; Silence of the Lambs; The Exorcist; What ever happened to baby Jane?; Sleepy Hollow; Jaws; Godzilla vs. Mothra; King Kong; Friday the 13th
Anime
Ghost in the Shell; Bebop(but that's listed about); Inuyasha blah blah blah, Love Hina Christmas Movie; Akira; Tenshi; Read or Die(again thats above); Grave of the Fireflies; Princess Mononoke; Castle in the Sky; Spirited Away; Kiki's Delivery Service; Lupin III; My Neighbor Totoro; X; Vampire; blahblahblah...i'll finish some other time.
Classics/Musicals:
Breakfast at Tiffany's; Paris When It Sizzles; Some like it Hot; The Pajama Game; M*A*S*H*; All that Jazz; Cabaret; Citizen Kane; The Maltese Falcon; Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learnd to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; Tarzan; La Dolce Vita; Metropolis; Orphans of the Storm; Bringing Up Baby; It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World; Arsenic and Old Lace; Haxan (Trust me, you've never heard of it)
Comedy/Romance:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Big Fish; Office Space; Dogma; Bannas; Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Sex *but where afriad to ask; Sleeper; Annie Hall; Brazil; Follow the Bitch
Drama/Suspense/Adventure:
The Pianist; Rain Man; Pi; Titus; Clockwork Orange; Full Metal Jacket; The Adventures of Indiana Jones; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Art/Foreign/Animated:
Dependencia Sexual; Un Chien Andalou; Ghost World; Amelie; Ma Femme est une Actrice; Spirited Away; Castle in the Sky; Akira; Ran; Seven Samurai; Yojimbo; Robin Hood (both live action versions and the Disney animated); The Jungle Book; The Wall; Les Triplettes de Belleville; Lucia y el Sexo; La Cage aux Folles
Top Favs on the Beeb
And yes yanks, Brit telly IS better.
1)Doctor Who (all series)/Torchwood (They go hand in hand am I right?)
2)Top Gear
3)The Graham Norton Show
4)Jeeves and Wooster/ A Bit of Fry and Laurie
5)Wire in the Blood/ Robin Hood
Top 5 American:
1) The X-Files/Star Trek
2) House
3) COPS
4) Quantum Leap
5) The Munsters
Others:
Twilight Zone; The Steve Allen Show; The Adams Family; Mystery Science Theatre 3000; Futurama; The Simpsons; Quantum Leap; M*A*S*H*; Monty Pythons Flying Circus; Fawlty Towers; The Avengers; Mr. Bean; Get Smart; I love Lucy; Gilligan's Island; The Dick Van Dyke Show; Green Acres; Johnny Carson; SNL; My So-Called Life; Aqua Teen Hunger Force; Sex and the City; Transformers; Land of the Lost; Gumby; The Gummi Bears; Planet of the Apes; Columbo; Wolf's Rain, Inuyasha, Witch Hunter Robin, Full Metal Alchemist, One Piece, Case Closed, Love Hina, Dragon BallZ, Ghost in the Shell, Read or Die, Lupin, Tenchi Muyo!, Ninja Scroll etc. etc.
Current Book(s):
"The Secret Language of Eating Disorders" by Peggy Claude-Pierce
"Harry Potter and the whole bloody series" by J.K.
"The Archie Goodwin Chronicles (Oops, I mean, The Nero Wolfe Mysteries") as read by acclaimed voice actor Collin Schrader and as written by Rex Stout
"A Monstrous Regiment of Women" by Laurie R. King.
"Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks" by Terrance Dicks
Favorite authors include:
Albert Camus; Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Tom Robbins; Christoper Moore; Bill Bryson; Robert Browning; Salman Rushdie; Robert Jordan; Edgar Alan Poe; Homer; Plato; Proust; John Steinbeck; Franz Kafka; Billy Collins; Jack Kerouac; Alan Ginsberg; William Burroughs; Charles Bukowski; Tom Wolfe, William Carlos Williams; Chuck Palahniuk; Pablo Neruda; Jean-Paul Sarte; William Faulkner; Herman Hesse; Hunter S. Thompson; Geroge Bernard Shaw; Stephen King; Aldous Huxley; Douglas Adams; Dave Barry, Rex Stout; Agatha Christie; Dorothy L. Sayers.; Laurie R. King
Favorite Books include:
The Plague; The Stranger; The Myth of Sisyphus; The Fall; A Happy Death; One Hundred Years of Solitude; Chronicle of a Death Foretold; Love in the Time of Cholera; The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove; Blood Sucking Fiends; A Walk in the Woods; Even Cowgirls Get the Blues; The Beekeepers Apprentice
Cows. Freckles.
And the occasional
Drowtung.