Reading, eating, music, theater, Hawthorne, academia, people, life, laughter, brains, humans, and stuff of which I don't know.
I'd like to meet:
Anyone who would entertain: "...time and eternity, things of this world and of the next, and books, and publishers, and all possible and impossible matters." Hawthorne
Also, good friends who get me:
Music:
Everything from the 70's, some from the 60's, Jeff Buckley, and some new musicians I'm discovering through Myspace.
Movies:
Lots, but here are a few notables: "Something's Gotta Give," "Full Metal Jacket," "The Big Lebowski," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "The Shining," "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles," "Bad Santa," and "LA Story."
Television:
All in the Family, Three's Company, Project Runway, Rollergirls, Inked, America's Next Top Model (guilty indulgence), Mad TV, and Sex and the City
Books:
Oh my. This is what I get trying to see if there was offending code on my page. No pics, and I get to do the whole list over again.
Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, "Young Goodman Brown," (LOVE THAT STORY.) "The Artist of the Beautiful," "The Minister's Black Veil," and "Rappacini's Daughter"
Flannery O'Connor: The Violent Bear It Away, "Good Country People," "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," "A Good Man is Hard to Find," and her personal essays. Smart lady. Loved Hawthorne. Made her even smarter.
Herman Melville: "Bartleby the Scrivener," (Someone pass me some tissues, now, please.)and "Billy Budd."
Edgar Allan Poe: "The Raven," "The Black Cat," "The Cask of Amontillado," a short story that's related to faces in the crowd, "The Tell-Tale Heart," "Alone," and "Annabell Lee." (Sorry if I spelled that incorrectly.)
Kate Chopin: "The Awakening"
Tillie Olsen: "I Stand Here Ironing"
Gertrude Stein: "The Gentle Lena"
Willa Cather: Oh, Pioneers! Death Comes for the Archbishop, My Antonia
T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and various others I've enjoyed.
Dickens: Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities
Emerson: "Circles," and any of his essays, or college commencement speeches. The man was brilliant.
Heroes:
My Dad. I love him lots.Literary heroes: Hawthorne, Flannery O'Connor, Melville, Poe, Chopin, and Tillie Olson
