POLITICS ( War theories, military strategy, military cases, tribunals, monumental wars, Von Clausewitz and all other German theorists, Japanese militarism )
COOKING ( I am the main cook in the family and I LOVE to cook. It relaxes me and actually is a very exciting thing to do )
ART
READING / LITERATURE( I am a voracious reader - name an author and I would probably know at least ONE of his/her works )
EXERCISING AND STAYING ACTIVE ( Outdoorsy stuff )
FINDING OUT EVERYTHING ABOUT JAPAN
BLOGGING
TRAVELING ( I have lived / been in Cyprus, Greece, Egypt, Israel, Bahrain, Dubai, Finland, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, US and now Japan. On my future traveling list is Germany, South Pacific islands and every single European country that I have not been in ).
MEETING PEOPLE ( I love having a diverse group of acquaintances )
BEAUTIFUL MEN
DOGS ( I walk, train dogs that are not " easily adoptable " at the Toronto Humane Society and I have 2 dogs. I also bake for them - lucky f*ckers )
ECCENTRIC PEOPLE
CHRISTIAN BALE - YOWWWZZAAA!!!
BEAR WITH ME ...BC IT IS ONE LONG, STRANGE LIST :
PUNK ROCK / ROCK / ALTERNATIVE ( The Killers, My Chemical Romance, Deathcab for Cutie, A Perfect Circle, Beck, DMB, David Bowie - late 70s stuff, Depeche Mode, Foo Fighters, Greenday, Matchbook Romance, Oasis, NINE INCH NAILS, U2, Beastie Boys, Rage Against the Machine, Sublime, Strokes, Pink Floyd, Janice Joplin, Radiohead, MUSE, Bloc Party, The Tragically Hip, Weezer, White Stripes, Pearl Jam, Our Lady Peace, New Order, Jimi Hendrix, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Neil Young, Simply Red, All American Rejects, Franz Ferdinand )
TRIP HOP/ LOUNGE / BOSSA NOVA / ACID JAZZ ( Massive Attack, Aphex Twins, Portishead, Tricky, Anjali, Lamya, Thievery Corporation, Bjork, Bebel Gilberto, Stan Getz, Benassi Bros, Underworld, Esthero, Kid Loco, Kid Koala, Mono, Sneaker Pimps, Verve-remixes, Fila Brazilia, Brazilian Girls )
JAZZ / OLDIES ( Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Artie Shaw, Roy Orbison, Connie Frances, Buena Vista Social Club, JOHNNY CASH - LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, JOHNNY CASH! )
RABID, FOAMING-AT-THE-MOUTH MOVIE FAN
Sin City, Fight Club, Kill Bill Vol. I & II, Requiem for a Dream, Trainspotting, Spun, Jarhead, Green Street Hooligans, Lord of War ( Nicholas Cage ), The Shining, Raging Bull, Godfather, The Manchurian Candidate, Crash, Forrest Gump, The Sixth Sense, The Village, The Signs, Batman Begins ( Christian Bale ), The Machinist, The Green Mile, Gladiator, Walk the Line, The Usual Suspects, Shawshank Redemption, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Goodfellas, Leon The Professional, Silence of the Lambs, American Beauty ( Kevin Spacey ), The Talented Mr Ripley ( for its scenery ), Apocalypse Now, Pulp Fiction, Dusk 'Til Dawn, The Big Blue, Match Point ( Woody Allen ), Closer, Love Actually, Stay, The Island ( Ewan McGregor ), Great Expectations ( Ethan Hawke ), Samurai Fiction, Fight Club, American History X, Malena, The Sea Inside, Amores Perros, Dot the I, Il Crimen di Padre Amaro, Bittermoon, The Secretary, Motorcycle Diaries, Sex and Lucia, Like Water for Chocolate, Devil's Backbone, City of God ( Brazil ), Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Run Lola Run, Chocolat, Mala Educacion, House of Flying Daggers, The Piano ( Adrien Brody ).....I can't get enough of movies. I've watched some of these more than twice.
Survivor - The News ...and THAT'S IT. I already have my Sex and the City DVD collection so I'm set!
Von Clausewitz - Political/philosophical works ( Mill, Hobbes, Machiavelli, Hegel, Engels ) - Three of my best professors' works - American Writers ( Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Arthur Miller, Henry Miller, Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe - Beatnik writers ( Kerouac - Capote ) - Feminist Lit ( Sylvia Plath, Woolf, Wurtzel ) - 18th century - Victorian & Gothic ( Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Gaskell, Lewis, Jane Austen, Byron, Shelley, Godwin, Milton, Thackeray ) - Marquez - Euro Writers ( modern and post modernist - Anais Nin, Duras, some of Henry Miller's works when involved with Nin ) - Political / sociological / psychological journals - National Geographic - Trash celebrity magazines - Erotica - Contemporary / mass literature ( Anne Rice, Dan Brown ) - writings on the bathroom walls, desks etc - ANYTHING that has the alphabet on it.
MYSELF.