writing, reading, singing, music, linguistics, literature, etymology, genealogy, France and all things France-related, Europe, cathedrals, making gingerbread houses, rain, thunderstorms, chocolate, badminton, autumn (particularly October), William Bouguereau, Wisconsin sunsets and harvest moons, chiropractors, snow, Camille Claudel, synesthesia, Nutella, photography and photo albums, Hand-and-Foot, jacks, Godiva, natural birth, men's formal hats (god I love Fedoras...), fountain pens, Halloween, and the following foreign languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Welsh, Russian, and Romanian
I'd like to meet:
Tim Curry, Alan Rickman.
Because of the amount of spam I receive, I rarely, if ever, look at unsolicited friend requests. I love meeting new people - just please send me an email first.
Music:
Stiffs, Inc. - The favorite for 11 years.
2nd Nature, Adiemus, Beaut, The Bel Am, Bella Morte, The Brides, Catatonia, Chokt, Cinema Strange, Cranberries, The Damned, Deep Forest, Diablo Swing Orchestra, The Dreaming, Dresden Dolls, Elizaveta, The Embers, Folk Implosion, Funland, Glass Doll, Gravity Kills, Hum, HUMANWINE, Lee Press-on and the Nails, London After Midnight, Machines of Loving Grace, Manau, Mephisto Walz, Moos, NIN, Amanda Palmer, Pearl Jam, Richard Bacchus, Screams For Tina, Self, Sick of it All, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, Stabbing Westward (the B's on the thumb!), Stolen Babies, Sunny Day Real Estate, Switchblade Symphony, Tool, Tre Lux, Two Witches, Umbrella Brigade, Usherhouse, Voltaire, etc.
Classical: requiems (especially Braham's and Faure's), choral pieces, symphonies, and piano sonatas; Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Schonberg; Russian State Chorus, Vienna Boy's Choir, Choir of King's College, etc.
Movies:
The favorite: The Hours.
To name just a few others: Mordent Matinee , Field Day, Les Enfants du Paradis, But I'm a Cheerleader, Finding Neverland, Bride of Boogedy, Clue, The Lavender Hill Mob, Gosford Park, Little Women, Enemy of the State (not sure why but I'm extremely attached to this one), Camille Claudel, Airplane!, Child of Glass, The Thin Man, Arsenic and Old Lace, Dogma, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The Illusionist, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Villain, MST3K, Wheels of Terror...oh, wait, no...if you know this one you're probably already sorry
And a couple of my favorite plays: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme ["L'autre laquais!" - thank you Madame!], Rumors, Players in a Game, The Zoo Story, Fortinbras, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), The Bad Seed, The Good Doctor
Books:
How about authors instead?
Dante Alighieri, Jane Austen, A.S. Byatt, Albert Camus, Anton Chekhov, Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, Edward Gorey, Dashiell Hammett, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Heller, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Kafka, William Somerset Maugham, Moliere, Vladimir Nabokov (and Vivian Darkbloom), George Orwell, Marcel Pagnol, Sylvia Plath, Plato, JK Rowling, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, George Sand, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginia Woolf
Heroes:
Any number of my characters. My writing world is often more real than reality to me. Some characters stick around forever; I have one who shows up in 90% of my stories in various disguises. It's very easy to fall in love - metaphorically speaking - with people you create.
