Music, politics, finance, economics, learning languages, international affairs, global trade, sewing, history, cultures, anthropology and fashion--always fashion. Ballroom dancing and traveling--I'm a gypsy who loves to experience the world. I like writing about the dramedy that is my life on blog at Chez McRae and I like writing about law and politics on my other blog McRae's Politics
I'd like to meet:
I'd like to meet some people, that have a good outlook on life. Consistently, negative people need not apply. People that like to go out and try new things!
Music:
Classical, opera, some hip-hop, Jazz jazz jazz babee, swing, big bands, world music, Brazilian music, afro-Cuban music, rock, British rockI love people such as Rene Fleming, Anna Nebtrebko, Maria Callas, Marian Anderson, Nina Simone, Jay-Z, Sergio Mendes, Ana & Jorge, Sara Tavares, MIKA, Ayo, Angelique Kidjo, Les Nubians, Alicia Keys, Madeleine Peyroux, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Thellonius Monk, Miles Davis, Art Tatum, Benny Goodman, Alcione (a tip from a friend--Thanks), Emily King; Composers such as Puccini, Handel, Bizet, Verdi, Samuel Barber, Mozart, and BeethovenMa liste est considerable...
Movies:
Action, oldies like Casablanca, Harry Potter--all of them but I must mention the fight scene between Volde and Dumbledore was the best scene ever-- The Namesake, Bend it Like Beckham, Why did I Get Married, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, 300, The Great Debaters, Last King of Scotland, Braveheart, Monsoon Wedding, All Guy Ritchie's movies, La Vie En Rose, Paris Je t'aime, foreign films, comedy, some chick flicks--normally don't like that romance crap--let's face it I am a cynic..
Television:
Gossip Girl, America's Next Top Model, Private Practice, Grey's Anatomy, Dancing with the Stars, Private Practice, High Net Worth, CNBC, Ugly Betty, Sex and the City, Heroes, The L Word, ROME, BBC America, Travel Channel, History Channel, The Tudors
Books:
I am a Harry Potter fanatic--don't get me started.. I like authors such as Langston Hughes, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, janet Evanovich, Langston Hughes, Homer, Emily Bronte and J.D. Robb. I like the Kite-Runner, Freakonomics, Devil Wears Prada, Eat Pray Love, Black is the New Bitter, Middlesex, Madame Bovary. I like reading history books, Language books, anthropology books, fashion, and poetry.
Heroes:
C. MarloweCOME live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dale and field,
And all the craggy mountains yield.
There will we sit upon the rocks
And see the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
There will I make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.
A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull,
Fair linèd slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold.
A belt of straw and ivy buds
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my Love.
Thy silver dishes for thy meat
As precious as the gods do eat,
Shall on an ivory table be
Prepared each day for thee and me.
The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May-morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my Love.
