Reading, reading, reading, writing, writing, writing (I really plan on getting back to that at some point this year!) Then of course there's the socialising and the cocktails, and dancing, and watching old black and white movies... Oh, and I'm quite partial to eating too...the richer, the better.
Anyone who's interesting enough to keep my attention
Since opening Volupte (it's not even a month old yet!), I've become quite partial to the music of days gone by...the Charleston, the Shimmy, the Bunny Hop, the Black Bottom..I also like Big Bands, old romantic songs a la Old Blue Eyes himself...but to be quite frank, there's a raver still lurking inside me who takes over on more than the odd occasion. So add Drum & Bass to that list, as well as jungle, dirty house, funky house, prog house, techy house, mambo-latino, trance, psy-trance, electro, hard hard, blistering house...anything, in fact, except Reggae.Yes, anything, Even Girls Aloud.
I love all black & whites, particularly anything with my old heroine in it - Bette Davis. Many a Sunday evening was spent with my Nanna in Wales as a child, sat in front of her clunky old telly with a box of Milk Tray.In fact, I love anything that transports me into a different world, although not a different timezone (anything Trekky, and I'm out that room quicker than a horny Jack Russell chasing a hastily-retreating ankle).My favourite films are Gone With The Wind and When Harry Met Sally. Although Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas comes a definite third.
I hate television, apart from reality shows (sometimes), because humans are nosy, right?
Anything and everything...from biographies to commercial Nick Hornby fiction. Hunter S Thompson was a genius, though - and nothing quite prepared me for The Color Purple.
Madonna.Who else? Although there's also Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind. I read a biography on her recently, and wow - what a diva...although she was batty as hell, of course (and no, I don't mean gay). I also read Laurence Olivier's biography, and most of it was taken up with his involvement with Vivien (well, he was married to her). Still, anyone who can invade the lifestyle of such a great icon of the theatre to the extent that half his biography totally ignores him in her favour... must be worth hero-worshipping in my book.