Reading, Burlesque, Being a Crazy Cat Lady, Laughing, Reading, Singing whenever and wherever, Hot Shoes, Reading, Acting, Writing the most brilliant addition to the Canadian literary canon (yeah right!), Burlesque, Dancing always and everywhere, Riding Crops, Wreaking Havoc, a Good pair of Pasties, Wreaking havoc with my riding crop, hot shoes and pasties, Silliness, Music, Cooking good food with good friends, Burlesque, Sleeping, Reading, Tattoos, Broadway Musicals, Singing Broadway Musicals, Betty Page, Buying Vintage, Bizarre Magazine, Exotique Magazine, Brunch, Corsets, Spellcasting and Magic, Haunted and Scary things, Ghosties, Yoga, Eating steak frites after yoga, Playing Piano and guitar, Performing, Making people laugh, Meeting new people...Living life. And did I mention Burlesque?
Gypsy Rose Lee, James Joyce and Bob Fosse in the back alley for a smoke and some vodka. Or these geniuses: .. width="425" height="350" ..Or these ones..... width="425" height="350" ..And Definitely these ones...
Pretty much everything. Especially if it makes my feet itch, my belly tingle, and gets me out of my seat. If you want specifics, you'll have to ask. There are too many things to list!
Elvira:Mistress of the Dark, Secretary, Ball of Fire, Lady of Burlesque, Office Space, All That Jazz, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Big Night, Cinderella, Clue, Fame, Aladdin, Best in Show, Topsy Turvy, Spirited Away, Tipping the Velvet, The Muppet Movie, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Great Muppet Caper, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory(Gene Wilder version, thank you very much!!), Lady and the Tramp, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Court Jester, True Romance, Amelie, Crouching Tiger, Young Frankenstein, Sense and Sensibility, Stepping Out, Singin' in the Rain, Some Like it Hot, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind....there's shitloads more. I'll stop now.
TV on DVD. Love it. The Office (UK), Fawlty Towers, The Muppet Show, Six Feet Under, The L Word!!!!!, AbFab. Pride and Prejudice. Okay, and Sex and the City. I admit it.
Joyce's Ulysses. That's a whole lotta good book. And yeah, it's pretentious but I like it, so fuck you. Geek Love, Tipping the Velvet, Lolita, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Historian, Under Milkwood, The Barrytown Trilogy, Griffin and Sabine, Harry Potter, The Neverending Story, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Running in the Family, Skinny Legs and All, Jitterbug Perfume, Autobiography of Red, The Westing Game, The Sound and the Fury, Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, The Time-Traveller's Wife, The Secret Circle series, Half Magic, Anything by Philip Pullman, Paul Auster, Maurice Sendak, Siri Hustvedt, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Rohinton Mistry, John Bellairs, Margaret Atwood, David Sedaris, Madeleine L'Engle, Mordecai Richler, Roald Dahl, Seamus Heaney, Kurt Vonnegut, Roddy Doyle, Djuna Barnes, Anais Nin, Marquis de Sade, Lewis Carroll, Carol Shields, Donna Tartt, Hans Christian Andersen, lots of poetry by lots of people like Ezra Pound, Eliot again, Tennyson, Blake, Leonard Cohen, Marina Tsvetaeva, bp Nichol, ee cummings, Michael Ondaatje, Dylan Thomas, William Carlos Williams, Christina Rosetti, Dante. There are so so so so many more. Plays too. I'm a big book geek. So sue me.
Bernadette Peters. My Momma. Anais Nin. Betty Boop. John C. Willy. Dixie Evans. She-Ra, Princess of Power. Goofy. Eva Gauthier. Gypsy Rose Lee. Laura Leigh McEvoy.