[I like:]-dappled lighting. vintage photos. japanese orchid;...-chinese erhu. freshly picked ORGANICfruits and semisweet chocolate. green-grey. green-BLUE. casually draped fabric [natural-fibre]. {soft}hair -that's wavy to the point where it becomes loopy, like mine. animals that are both cuddley and ferocious. tastes that are both tangy and sweet. humans that understand that they are animals, too. people who can reach the zen state. women who can growl....and be nice to other women. boys who don't pretend to understand, but instead just accept graciously. beautiful hands. waxy skin..and jet black shiny hair, with fine straight noses...but i hafta watch out for those;-barefeet, baremidriffs. color schemes so awesome they can be worn out of season. nature sounds. reggae//funk. lacy lingerie (that never gets worn). bi girls. thigh girls. fly girls. pretty boys. *strongly DISlike:::that 'cool' fad of taking pics/video of morbid scenes like a homeless person fallen off a bridge[artschool kids w/ probs]; --The fine arts, always: I enjoy singing, dancing, acting, design, sculpting, photography, printmaking, drawing, painting... Profound or quirky foreign or indie flicks that DON"T have alienation, desolation or empty sex as major plot themes... Volunteering to help animals... Doing herbal cleanses obsessively.... Exploring new countries and ways of life... Having wild imaginary love affairs with hot hormonal androids that won't have sex... Taking gambles on business ventures and self-promotional schemes that never pan out. people who can learn from their mistakes. people who can keep up with me. people who can chill & enjoy the good times as well as ride out the stormier times. LIFE. LLOOVEE.
Creative Indiv.s; an interesting,successful band with need of an interesting, capable female singer-...! Like, someone who likes to mix electronic-blips w/ frog-clips. I like frogs...sometimes. ............................................................ .......... ............................................................ ......................................... angular ectoderms. water monkeys. anyone who thinks they'd be optimally inclined toward a wood-rat like myself.;but don't even talk to me if you are a female who*- cannot control her self and feels that she MUST publicly call me 'cute', or if you're a man who CAN'T look hot in drag and/or reach a nice high falsetto*; . ^* ..
I like good music. My tastes change regularly. The Gotan Project, Architecture in Helsinki,Emiliana Torrini, The Innocence Mission, The Cranberries, Neil Young, "Blue Moon" and also "Sweet Jane" from the Cowboy Junkies, some of the Cure, and some Led Zepelin, Queen [Bohemian Rhapsody, YEAH!!!!]Bjork.Lauryn Hill when feeling definant; Erika Badu when trying to just chill; Radiohead for nostalgic days [-raadiohead + medications were what got me thru junior high-*although honestly I could have done without the latter*]. KC & The Sunshine band, Sly & the Family Stone, RHCP. The Vulgar Bulgars, The Amelie Soundtrack, Air, Lemon Jelly, Iannis Xenakis, The Tornados[from what teeny-weeny-little-bit I have heard, now], The Avalanches, Lou Reed, The Verve, Oasis, U2, B52s, Mum, Plat, the Sugarcubes & King Sunny Ade, The Fugees, The French Kicks (One More Time), But I'm a Cheerleader soundtrack (that one fifty's song...), the beachy songs on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, "Angel" song on the Romeo and Juliet soundtrack, Ave Maria (just a beautiful song, especially when sung by Andrea Bocelli), "If you steal my sunshine" by Len (which I otherwise don't listen to), The Harder they Come soundtrack [particularly track #2];"Ceiling Tiles" by Kaitlyn ni Donovan (who I do otherwise listen to and enjoy), Gypsy Kings, one really dark track by Bathyscaphe (none of their others) and another twisted one called "Vampire Sushi" by Old Time Relijun (which I know nothing else about), several Beatles' classics (and not many others), some of the Sneaker Pimps and Gorrillaz, The Strokes and the Decemberists when depressed in a brown sort of way, Gillian Welch when depressed in a slightly different kind of complacent way;-cheezy yoga/meditational cds [the ones that don't talk]-and,lately, for some reason, a lot of Greenday and especially 311, who I find carry a surprisingly uplifting message. Jane's Addiction, the Butthole Surfers, some guy that goes by 'fudgepacker' & George Michael are now also a rare, if guilty, pleasure for me. But honestly: I just wish I had the means right now to be listening to all the new music I know's out there...or better yet...making some myself.
My favorite movies are the standard favorite movies of a lot of people nowadays. I was an 80s kid who liked all those 80s kid movies--the darkly funny ones, anyway, like Little Monsters, The Gremlins, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas...all those except for this one called "The Applegates", which seriously traumatized me (I'm not sure if that was even a kid's movie actually... I also liked, or anyway was profoundly affected by, a number of those really deep-type movies, which definitely were not meant to be seen by a seven year old, like 'The Piano', Schindler's List, 'Farewell my concubine', and something else, too...(?). ~Now I don't watch new movies unless they look like they have something Very Important to Teach Me about Life and Love. But I'm quickly losing all faith in even the most interesting-looking of film covers, and after searching the corners of the globe (German to Japanese filmakers) for new stuff that is DECENT and not degraded, I am sadly dissappointed. So I've just started watching Disney when feeling cuddly and nostalgic. *Or, now, luckily, I may also turn to "Little Miss Sunshine"...but that's about it really. And I think it'll stay this way...unless someone has something amazing to suggest....like, a whole new genre, maybe. {*oh,yeah:} death to smoochie was okay and AMELIE was Special...*Julietta & the spirites Changed me...and Fern Gully was my first introduction to Environmentalist Leanings...and now i really do lean...*also I liked the austin powers + the Harry Potter movies/sequels...and a few others, which i cant think of right now. mostly indie/foreign films.
Comedy Central and certain HBO series...when I am able/willing to watch a tv--which is really seldomly.
Books that I've read and enjoyed lately include: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Wild Boy by Jill Dawson, and The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (parts of it, anyway; too much at a time is maddening). Books that I've started but am not sure that I want to finish include: Uncle Petros and Golbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis and A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilbur. I really liked what I've read of Hegel for some reason, and I'm curious about reading Jung. I didn't like what I've read of Sartre which surprised me...I'm wondering if I shouldn't bother reading all the books I have on existentialism. I've read a little Oscar Wilde, and this is what I think: his character development is kind of interesting, but his plots suck and his message is bland. Still, he has so many great foppish quotes which I just love to post up on my refrigerator. So that makes him cool enough for me. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields and The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa, though I thought well-written, also made me feel empty and depressed after reading them. I don't recommend these unless you think it'll make you change your ways out of fear of becoming like someone who'd write such a depressing book about such depressing characters. Also, "Fifth Born" by Zelda Lockhart was depressing as hell to me. This is why I usually prefer fiction. A book I found really enlightening (at 18) is called "The Invention of Heterosexuality" , by Jonathan Ned Katz. Also I highly recommend "The Botany of Desire" by Michael Pollan--to anyone. Just because (it's fun). Books I might read in the near future include: Introduction to Tantra by Lama Yeshe, something by the Dalai Lama other than an informational brochure, Out of Bounds: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the "Outside" by Cary Wolfe, The Forrest by Edward Rutherford, Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver, A Portrait of the Artist by James Joyce, Your Mouth is Lovely by Nancy Richler, Killing Time by Caleb Carr, a biography of Alexander the Great, The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (someday), and just maybe something by Goethe, too. Although, again, I should really stick to fiction and informational reading for my emotional well-being.
I don't want heros. I'll take friends, though.