Travel, Cooking, Reading, Yoga, Snow Skiing, Surrealism, Live Theater, Flea Markets, Knitting, Burning Man, Renaissance Faires, Corsetry, Eddie Izzard, Dali, Picasso, Magritte, Gorey, Goya, gargoyles, Michelangelo, the Haunted Mansion, Giotto, Tim Burton's art and some of his film, other people's tattoos, driving fast, Halloween and all of it's trappings.
I'd like to meet:
Sting. Urm...Albert Einstein. OH! I mean, Michelangelo. And Veronica Franco. And Tschaikovsky. ANd Dorothy Parker! Perhaps Salvador AND Gala Dali! Or was it THE Dali Lama! Definitely, Eddie Izzard, definitely [EDIT: I met him and he is LOVELY!!]. Or maybe just those people who get that life is way too short not to enjoy it and find a reason every single day to simply smile.
Music:
Best sounds? Laughter (the genuine, spontaneous kind), cats purring, the harmony between wind and waves and last but hardly least, the sounds of a lover. As for actual music: Jazz (Trad, Big Band, Funky Brass Bands), Blues, Trance, Techno, Angry, Ethereal, Ambient, Funk, Sting, St. Germain-Des-Pres-Cafe, Caetano Veloso, Bebel Gilberto, Suzanne Vega, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Edith Piaf, Spanish/Flamenco guitars, Oingo Boingo, Peter Murphy, 80's New Wave, Southern Culture on the Skids and so much more.
Movies:
Princess Bride, Most Monty Pythons, Pirates of the Caribbean, Auntie Mame (Rosalind Russell), Breakfast at Tiffany's, Nightmare Before Christmas, Mary Poppins, Classic Monster Movies (the more "B" the better), Boondock Saints, Topper, The Thin Man movies, Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil, The Three Muskateers and The Libertine.
Television:
Six Feet Under, Carnivale, The West Wing, Sex & The City, Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, most Monty Pythons, The Tudors, Dexter and I'm a huge History Channel Dork. I miss Pinky & The Brain, Freakazoid and Danger Mouse. My true guilty pleasures are those forensic/detective shows.
Books:
Dorothy Parker's poetry, Anne Rice's Witches, Design Annuals, Cookbooks, Dante, Harry Potter, Art & Physics, The Alphabet & The Goddess - both by Dr. Leonard Schlain, Nelson DeMille's John Corey books, James Patterson's Alex Cross books, Socrates Cafe, Bunny Suicides and all of Kevin AuCoin's makeup books.
Heroes:
People who are willing to smile at a stranger. People who live with courage and/or compassion - especially when no one is watching. People who follow their dreams with or without encouragement. People who say "please", "thank you", "I'm sorry" and "I love you" any time it's genuine.
