So many to choose from.....I love movies. Watching them, discussing them, making them. Whatever. I also feel the same about Television, Music, Theatre, Art, Books, People, Memories. Wait. Back it up. Making People? Umm, not so much making them. But I do like being with them and having fun and experiencing as many new things as I can and being exposed to culture, intelligence and humor every day. I love to travel and learn. If I won the lottery, I'd be a student for life and on my breaks, I'd tour the world. I try to always be reading a book. I watch way to much t.v., but it makes me happy so I'm not too worried about it right now. Most of my best friends all have babies, or ones on the way, so I'm an unoffical "Auntie" and I couldn't be happier about that. My bed, TiVo and digital camera are my most prized possessions. I love to be out and about with my friends, but when I'm home, I like it calm and quiet. I love all kinds of art, and wish I could draw or paint, but I really can't. I like to sing, but I'm not really sure if I'm any good or not. One thing I am pretty good at is doing Improv, but I'm too scared/lazy to find a troup to join so I can keep doing it. Maybe someday I'll find the guts. When I "grow up" I want to be a writer, but I don't know what kind. Probably an entertainment journalist, but I also would like to write some fiction every now and again. I love to eat. I should be on a diet, but diets make me a very mean person, and life's too short to go around angry at something that's so easy to fix, especially when there's so many things that can anger you that you can't help at all. People say I'm overly dramatic, and I know it. I'm retardedly afraid of heights and spiders. I spend way too much money on going to see plays, musicals and concerts, but I don't care. Again, it makes me happy and you only live once. I wish I could go to the Day Spa more often. I love Christmas, but I like Thanksgiving Dinner more. I wish I could get a cat, but my building doesn't allow pets. Besides, I'm never home and that isn't fair to leave an animal home alone all the time. One of my greatest ambitions in life it to own a washer and dryer because I hate using communal ones since I'm kind of a germaphobe. I never make my bed. I love living alone, especially since I can walk around in my underwear... or less! I have had a huge crush on Jude Law ever since I saw his episode of Inside the Actor's Studio and I still have it saved on my TiVo for the past few years. Okay, that's all for now. I have to go to sleep. Ciao!
People who are funny, intelligent, open minded, passionate, creative, fun loving, adventurous, well read, well traveled and tolerant. Someone that could go with me to a broadway show one night and stay home all day watching retarded reality shows the next would be ideal!
Comfortably Numb is one of my all time favorite songs!!!!
I've been told by numerous people that I'm sort of a human jukebox. I've also been told that I must know some of the words to every song out there, but not all the words to any of them, which is very true. A lot of people brag that they like "all kinds" of music, so I guess I'm like lots of people but I attribute it more to my fickle/multiple personality, more than my broad tastes. Looking down a column in my CD collection reads like this: Coldplay (all three CD's baby. I even have the DVD), Jamie Cullum (gotta support my boyfriend, sorry Jude), The Soundtrack to Miss Saigon (sniff), Scissor Sisters (my latest obsession!), John Mayer, Booty Shakin Hits (a little concoction I put together), Sugarland (yee-haw), The Beatles (most of the great ones, though I'm still working on my collection), Britney Spears (only the first two, the last ones are crap), Beastie Boys!, Classical Masters, Ultimate Dance Party 1998 (brings back ragin' college party memories!), Bob Marley, Paul Simon's greatest hits, The Soundtrack to Hairspray, Hollywood Christmas Hits (love me some Yule Tide tunes), Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, Hip Hop's Greatest 1 AND 2 (gotta represent the 90's), George, Elton and Billy (move over the Three Tenors, these are my three greatest male voices of all time) etc, etc, etc. So you see, I either have a great appreciation for all types of music..... or I need to start on medication immediately before I become a danger to myself and those around me.
Being a film school graduate, I totally should be a movie snob, but I'm not. The only thing a movie needs to be good in my eyes is to keep me entertained. I like everything from comedy to documentaries and from black and white classics to ultra post modern non-linear art house flicks. A few of my favorites are: The Goonies, The Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects, The Sound of Music, Memento, Dazed and Confused, Good Will Hunting, So, I Married an Axe Murderer, Fight Club, Amelie, My Best Friend's Wedding, movies with Jude Law in them, 50 First Dates, American Beauty, The Indiana Jones trilogy, American History X, Life is Beautiful, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Almost Famous, A Bug's Life, What Lies Beneath, most anything by Alfred Hitchcock, Office Space, Christmas themed movies, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Being John Malkovich, Boogie Nights, Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Breakfast Club, Garden State, Ocean's Eleven and Dumb and Dumber. Just to name a few.
Hello, my name is Vanessa and I'm a realityshowaholic. Okay, the first step is admitting it. Currently, it's Survivor, the Amazing Race, The Apprentice and (gasp) American Idol. Say what you will, but I LOVE THEM! I'm also completely obsessed with: Lost, Scrubs, the below mentioned The Office, How I Met Your Mother, My Name is Earl, Prison Break, House and Sex in the City. Thank God for inventing the most amazing piece of technology, the TiVo, so that I can enjoy my shows whenever it strikes my fancy. Viva La Boob Tube!
My new favorite sitcom is The Office. I've watched it from the first episode last season, but I just decided it's my favorite over the last few weeks. I can't get enough of the whole Pam and Jim sexual tension thing, and Dwight makes me pee my pants a little sometimes. Hee-hee.
I've also decided to revisit my alltime favorite show ever....Sex and the City. I decided last week to start watching one or two episodes in order, season 1 through 6, every night before I go to bed. I was getting so irritated seeing what a hack job KTLA does to the episodes every night at 11:00pm that I just had to see them again in all their profanity ridden, gratutious nudity showin, utterly candid discussions about men talkin, natural glory. The show may be cancelled, but the ladies live on in my heart forever!
I've read so many that I love, I know I'll never be able to list them all, but here are some title from my bookshelf: A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham, The Stand by Stephen King, Angles & Demons and The Da Vinci Code both by Dan Brown, The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling, Running With Scissors and Dry by Augusten Burroughs, Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Good in Bed and In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner(heh heh), and Jurrasic Park by Michael Crichton. I'm sure there are tons more, but it's late and I can't think of any at the moment. Heh heh, I'm still thinking of the fact that her last name is Weiner.
Tina Fey, the first female head writer/News anchor on Saturday Night Live. I would do anything to be on that show someday. I also love the way Stephen King's brain works, and how talented M. Night Shyamalan is. He and I have very similar ways of looking at life. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one.....