Dancing to lift the spirit, Food cos it tastes good, running and yoga to keep the twitching to an acceptable minimum, swords and sticks and shiny things. Stretching on the grass on a sunny, breezy summer day and glitter, lots of glitter. Mired in the '80s I am, can't help it.
Oh and I like Norway.
I'd like to meet:
Eddie Izzard. Now here's a rare beast: an attractive, articulate man who appreciates the importance of make-up and shoes...Speaking of articulate, Bill Hicks is another intriguing character. Trouble is of course he's dead, but if there is an afterlife I suppose there'll be plenty of time to try and find him then.Bothers me the thought of life after death though. I'm bored and agitated enough now that I know I've only got a finite number of years in which to do stuff, what the hell am I going to do with myself for eternity? Hope it's nothing to do with accountancy.
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Music:
Loud is a good start. Anything you can dance to as long as it's not whiny r&b or hateful rap. What really floats my boat is metal and punk and folk and dirge and perky latin stuff and Vivaldi, how can you live without Vivaldi. Metal was my first love though, and that you never forget. A bit like Bach.
Movies:
Cheese in Space! Explosions, unfeasibly stupid plots and stunts, swashing and buckling and space monkeys attacking (thanks Eddie) are the stuff of which my entertainment dreams are made; don't know about you, but IMO real life is so serious and such a drag that the last thing I need to watch in my spare time is Bicycle Thieves, work of art that it is. Might as well beat myself with a stick while I'm at it. I've a thing for martial arts movies though, did I say I like swords? The Wicker Man wins the "Highest Number of Cool Quotes" Award, and anything with Gary Oldman in a wig turns the volume up to 11. And the Blade films, vampires and shiny!shiny! swords and Wesley Snipes leaping about. Oh, and Callum. OK the last Blade is a bit crap but what the hell, it's got Callum in it. Couldn't go wrong with that if you tried. Even if you tried *really* hard. Here he is.
I trust I need to say no more.
Television:
Don't really watch a lot of it. Have the music channels turned on when I do, but I get fidgety when the music's crap so I could do with an automatic channel changer that knows to stop when something good turns up. But there has been stuff on tv I do like: Northern Exposure, Sherlock Holmes, Buffy, Jeeves and Wooster and Due South. Did I say Due South? Oh well, have another look at Callum. I can see a pattern forming here.And do you know? There's nothing quite like Cricket on the telly - no, honestly, hear me out - you put it on, do your own stuff, read a book, maybe even a bit of tidying up (OK, that's unlikely) and you only really need to look up when you hear a noise. Yeah.
Books:
Are my salvation, possibly the only thing that keeps me from listening to too much loud stuff and going completely deaf. Mostly fantasy and science fiction, because I have to read so much soul destroying stuff for work - accountancy manuals were designed for character building and nothing else - that by the time I get home all I want is dragons and spaceships, or maybe a good whodunnit. On a good day I can hack non fiction, and Brunelleschi's Dome wasn't bad. When I'm in the mood for giving my roots a bit of a dusting a bit of Dante or Calvino never hurts, but when I really want to retreat to happyland it's Salgari all the way, no child that was deprived of his pirate stories could ever grow up right, believe me. Ok, so there's more swords, but now we're talking sailing ships and capes as well, and Jolanda (that's the daughter of Il Corsaro Nero, please do keep up)really kicks bottom, which was quite something for books of that time. Mind you, now that I've discovered fanfiction I don't even have to go to the library any more, glued to the screen as I am. A strange development indeed, I'm going to need glasses at this rate.
Heroes:
Marie Curie. She was intelligent and persistent at a time when such qualities weren't exactly encouraged in a woman. Galileo, because he was right and how exceedingly generous of the pope to apologise in what was that? 1996. Incidentally Galileo's "middle digit" sits in a reliquiary in the museum of science in Florence, and I could swear it's aimed at the bishop's residence. And this is all ever so serious so I will have to include Xena Warrior Princess because...OK, she's got a sword and other sharp implements and she looks like I'd like to. And yes, I KNOW she's a fictional character, but I get to say what goes in here, so there. Xena rocks. I mean, hello, who wouldn't want to look like this? Even without the sword, you know.
