My interests… I think I went over some of them earlier. Books, theatre, intelligent, philosophical discussions, D/s in all its aspects. I also enjoy scuba diving (I was at one time, when I lived in Florida, a certified open water diver. Unfortunately, I’m sure my license has expired by now. There are just not a lot of places to dive in Texas.)
Actually, a side note, I've started diving again and got my cerification back. Yay! I'm trying to get my instructors certification now.
Horseback riding, renaissance fairs and festivals, industrial music, paintball. What the hell, I’ll try anything once. Actually, more than once because who knows, it might be an acquired taste. If you really want to know my interests you should read the entire profile, it will probably tell you more about my interests there and in a more natural way than me wracking my brains trying to think of all the things I enjoy.
I’d like to meet a height weight proportionate, intelligent, intellectual man that lives within an hour’s drive from me. A college educated, financially secure, relationship minded man. Around my own age. Though I have started to realize that men are pretty useless until they’re in their late 20’s early 30’s I’d still feel a bit uncomfortable dating anyone that could be my father. No older than 40. Even 40 is pushing it.
I don’t want a man that’s gotten all of his knowledge of culture from video games and bad television series’. I’ve known people whose only knowledge of Evita was that it was ‘That movie with Madonna in it’ and whose only exposure to 'Moonlight Sonata' was that it was used in the video game Resident Evil. I enjoy the theatre, opera, plays, musicals. *Anything* anything at all. I can’t say that I am the most well versed person in those areas, I am however, always willing to see just about anything. Hell, my first date with my ex-husband was a college production of Lysistrata. Talk about unforgettable first dates. :)
In dating the largest problem that I have is men that fall in love with the idea of me. I'm an attractive, youngish, charming bartender/stripper. I've got a overly friendly, flamboyant personality. (I have to, I bartend at a strip club. I can't exactly be shy.) I throw away a good 5 telephone numbers a night and keep at least one every shift. I've been told that I'm intelligent and witty etc. etc. Men see this and they say 'Wow, would my friends be impressed if I were bangin' that.' They pursue me, things go great for a while and then I tend to find out that they've either A) got the brains God gave a goat or B) were only interested in the idea of me and that the reality is a bit more than they can handle. It's a whole conquest thing I guess. Very depressing. I'm tired of being used as an ego boost for guys.
I'm also a romantic, I expect to be spoiled by my lovers. I don't mean that they have to bring me expensive gifts and interesting baubles. I do, however, like to be the center of their attention when I am around. Like every other woman I have a real weakness for sincere compliments but I can see through cheap flattery pretty quickly. It not only annoys me, it makes me nervous because I tend to wonder what it is that the flatterer wants from me so badly. I prefer to be spoiled through an excess of time and attention rather than tangible gifts.
Music. Wow, this is such a tough one.
I love the heavy, gritty, vicious sound of Industrial music. KMFDM, Rammstein, Sister Machine Gun, Sisters of Mercy. It would be a little grating to have to listen to nothing but that though. I'm also a big fan of classic rock. Bob Dylan is fantastic and his son Jacob Dylan shows promise. It's gratifying to see that sometimes talent can run in families. Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Simon & Garfunkle, Jim Croche Those are some of the best all around classic rock musicians that I can think of. You can't forget the newer music though, Eminem, Nickleback, Puddle of Mudd, Saliva. All fantastic artists. I'll listen to just about anything but I'm not so hot on a lot of rap or country. I'll just list some of my favorite songs and singers.
10,000 Maniacs - Because The Night
50 Cent - Candy Shop
Aerosmith - Dream On
Anything done by The Beatles
Bon Jovi - (I almost hate you admit it, you know? It's like one of those guilty little pleasures. It's the kind of music you keep hidden in a secret file buried somewhere in your computer.)
Boney M - Rasputin (I don't know why I like this song so much. I giggle every time I hear it. It's got such a catchy beat but it's so patently ridiculous. No one I've ever played it for has been able to listen to it just once. It's a bit like Lay's potato chips... or a bad car wreck. You don't want to look/listen... but you have to.
Burden Brothers and their other band The Toadies. I look forward to hearing more from them.
Bush - Gavin Rossdale, besides being a hottie is an amazing lyricist. He has lines in some of his songs that just blow me away. The first one that springs to mind is the line that goes 'I felt you like electric light.' Must be nice to have talent like that. I live in envy.
Butthole Surfers
Cat Stevens - He did a song called 'The Wind' I love this song.
Cat Stevens - The Wind
I listen to the wind
To the wind of my soul
Where I'll end up well I think,
Only God really knows
I've sat upon the setting sun
But never, never never never
I never wanted water once
No, never, never, never
I listen to my words but
They fall far below
I let my music take me where
My heart wants to go
I swam upon the devil's lake
But never, never never never
I'll never make the same mistake
No, never, never, never
Charlie Daniels Band - I loved The Devil Went Down To Georgia as soon as I heard it.
The Chemical Brothers - I recommend a song called Orange Wedge. It's super sexy.
Cherry Poppin Daddies - I love swing, there's just something so *fun* about it.
The Clash - I'm a big fan of punk music.
Concrete Blonde - If you listen to them, don't just listen to 'The Vampire Song.' Listen to some of their other stuff as well. It's worth it.
CCR - It's impossible to be unhappy while you're listening to Midnight Special.
There's more but I'm going to move onto the next section. I'll finish this one later if the mood strikes me.
I don't watch much in the way of movies and television but my favorite movies are, since you asked; Night of the Iguana. (No, it's not a cheesy B-horror movie. It's a Tennessee Williams play and one of my absolute favorites.)
Boondock Saints, I've heard that they're coming out with a sequel. This idea fills me with both fear and elation. I just hope that they do it as well as they did the first one.
Snatch
Lock,Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels
Quills
Gone with the Wind (I've always wanted to be Scarlett O'Hara when I grew up... or at least look like Vivan Leigh.
Baz Luhrmann's version of Romeo & Juliet
Clue (Maybe it's just something about Tim Curry?)
Requiem for a Dream (I will never, ever,ever watch this movie again as long as I live but still, you have to give credit to a movie that can have such an effect on you.
Again, this is another area that I will have to add things to later.
Again, as I said before, I'm not a big television or movie person. My television is almost always on because I enjoy the background noise and I have to have it going if I want to sleep. The only things that I actively watch are History channel, Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, The Boondocks, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Venture Brothers, Robot Chicken, Moral Oral and Harvey Birdman are my favorites.
I have also been known to watch Spongebob Squarepants, in fact, another thing that I'm almost ashamed to admit. I own all the season DVD sets... but then again, I own the entire collection of HBO's Oz as well.
A friend of mine just hooked me on a Showtime series called 'Weeds' so far I've only seen the first four or so but it seemed pretty amusing. I'll keep you posted, we'll see if it holds out well in the later episodes.
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anias Nin
I just realized that I left this blank. I don't remember why. Perhaps it's because that all the other categories talk about books and maybe I thought that I didn't need to fill this out because I already had. I'm reading Marlowe's Faust, Voltaire's Bastards, some Terry Pratchett. Oh, and Roger (kisses to you handsome) loaned me Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
I don't know. I'd really have to think of specifics on this one. Just about anyone that encouraged people to think for themselves rather than simply accept what the proverbial 'They' say is correct. Anyone that has the balls to be an individual, anyone that isn’t frightened of questioning things or asking ‘why?’. I don’t know if I could say that I have any heroes, if you put someone up on that pedestal you’re setting yourself up for disaster. People are after all, only human and they tend to disappoint the people that look up to them. I don’t mean that in an angry, cynical, I’ve been hurt before way. I mean that my idols are just as prone to make mistakes as I am. I don’t have heroes so much as I have people that I try to learn from or pattern an aspect of my life after their philosophy.