Well I'm rediscovering more and more lately my love for dancing and singing, I like getting full of paint and making stains on my clothes that let me remember what I created later on. I like being able to climb a scaffold when I used to look up at it and think I could never climb up or back down it. I like singing, all the time, anywhere, with anyone but I've grown used to being told to be quiet. I like all the stuff I can do in theater that makes me feel versatile and challenging even though I can barely hold my own in the literal, common sensical, daily life world. I like playing my violin, though at this point I'd have to dust it off. I like walking barefoot in grass, jumping in the ocean when everyone else thinks it's gotten too cold, riding in the backs of trucks, exchanging ideas... yadda yadda yadda.
EE Gawds, almost anything, anything that has strong musicianship behind it or significant lyrics, or strong emotion, not just noise. Showtunes, of course, and then there's stuff like... well everything else, except for too much country, rap, metal, or opera.
Serenity, Art School Confidential, CAMP!!!, Lucia y el Sexo, KINSEY, Chasing Amy, But I'm a Cheerleader, Y Tu Mama Tambien, **Shawshank Redemption**, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Labyrinth, Ladyhawke (if you've seen it and can sit through it give me a buzz :-D it's a wonderfully awful movie), Waiting for Guffman, Waking Life, Liberty Heights, Garden State (I know, me and every other person in my generation), Sideways (though I can't quite figure out why) While You Were Sleeping, Powder, What Dreams May Come, American History X, BENNY AND JOON!!!, In Search of Debra Winger
when it's possible for me to have time to WATCH TV, it's only ever movies or Queer as Folk, Sex and the City, or the L Word.
Gold By the Ince, Valencia, My Gender Workbook and Gender Outlaw, Stone Butch Blues, The Hite Report (AWESOME FUCKING BOOK FOR ANYONE, specially for males who have a thing or two to learn about women and *ahem* don't know it yet), Can't Buy My Love (read it EVERYONE) Bridge to Terabithia, Sherwood, Once and Future King, Brave New World, Les Miserables, A Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Song of Solomon, Book of Merlyn, anything by T.S. Eliot (poetry mostly, though)
My two bestest friends Kathleen and Ashley, for more reasons than I could ever ever list here, newer and astoundingly wonderful friends like Calli, Zak, Olivia, Whitney, oh the list of those heroes goes on and on and on and on... Kate Bornstein (she friggin' rocks) Mmm... My mother, people who never give up, people who don't apologize for themselves, or let what people say about them affect them, assorted carpenters, painters, theatre technicians and aspiring actors I've met at BTF, ECU, and Gateway. My closest and most wonderful friends who stick by me and somehow find the patience to deal with me at my worst AND at my best, I don't know. everyday people really are my heroes, people who have a fire in their belly and don't let it go out no matter what happens to them, and care about making even one person's life better.