reading, sleeping, art, sleeping, laughing, sleeping, la musique
[pet peeves: lack of common sense combined with bad perfume; hysteria combined with ANY perfume; snobs; holier-than-thous; liars and bullies; spies; people who do the 12 step thing (and more power to ya!) but who then feel it's their mission to preach to you about your addicted ways; know-it-alls; gatekeepers; condescenders; guilters; social climbers; fakers; overachievers who refer to the rest of us as underachievers; folks who thinks they is better than the rest of us and people who are "involved" in the arts primarily to be invited to the chic soirees and be seen with the "right people" ... it's reprehensible, knock it off, EVERYone can see through it, even those people without enough self-respect to stop kissing your ass...oh, and just one more (for now): i must be old-fashioned, or maybe just old, but this whole thing of men shaving their chests, their legs and whatever else?...seriously: ewww! the whole shiny hairless oiled-up man phenomenon is gruesome in the extreme and like a nightmare out of some hairphobic sci-fi writer's utopia. it's gross and creepy. stop with all the shaving already! as claire simms would say, "ick and double ick!"]
Idle Caution: i haven't used this:
yet. [It's a voodoo doll.]
People like Robert Benchley. As I recently said to Mr. Benchley, "Why, Bob, can't people behave more like you? I know it's a lot to ask at any time, and especially a lot of the world in its current state, but just a few more cutting yet self-deprecating remarks and witty bon-mots here and there on this journey would make the whole thing seem so much more worthwhile." I sulk regularly at the lack of worldwide Benchley. And frankly, so should we all.
I would also like to meet the non-judgmental and hilariously bizarre, people who neither condescend nor do the "smile in your face, all the time they wanna take your place" thing. Not that there's any place to take mind you, I'm just saying. Speaking of smiling, I also prefer those who don't require that I smile unless I actually feel like smiling. And I like nothing better than laughing. Guffawing, actually. I also believe in the rule (whose it is I can't remember) that there are only two circumstances under which you're allowed to complain: 1. If your complaining leads to a solution; and/or 2. If your complaining is really bloody funny. Since I complain all the time, I'm sincerely hoping I fall into category 2.
Things that make me laugh:
William Shatner singing Rocket Man, circa 1978
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Also a hoot:
Willy Shatner and the Chocolate Factory
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As is this:
Boston Legal Parody
Okay, that's it, Shatner is the funniest damned man alive. I'm gonna have to add him to my list of heroes. Check out this one, in which he plays himself in a spoof of his career:
My two favourite funnymen, Shatner and Hartman:
Classic SNL: The Restaurant Enterprise
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Nothing to do with Shatner, just a clip from my favourite episode of Arrested Development, featuring Martin Short:
Best Birthday Greeting Ever:
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The Beatles, Yann Tiersen, Pixies, Stevie Wonder, the Breeders, Björk, Ratatat, Les Nubians, Tin Hat Trio, ELO, The Police, Interpol, Paris Combo, Julee Cruise, Jesse Cook, Oscar Lopez, Sandy Brechin, Robert Michaels, James Venable, Nellie McKay, Stan Ridgway, Fiona Apple, Jane Siberry, Didjits (praise god, the christmas fish!), Peggy Lee, Sly and the Family Stone, Air, Kate Bush, Low, Cocteau Twins, Beck, XTC, Tinariwen, Esthero, Citywide Vaecüüm (spelling from the near past), Los Lobos, The Gotan Project, Tanghetto, Juanes' first solo album, anything Spanish guitar. My all-time favourite drummer is Stewart Copeland, then Brad. And one of my all-time favourite CDs is Shatner's "Has Been."
Some favourites: Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain, Big Night ("bite your teeth into the ass of life and drag it to you!"), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Blade Runner ("i want more life, fucker"), Brazil, Frida, Lara Croft (the first one), Mirrormask, Life of Brian, Sleuth (with Caine and Olivier), The Philadelphia Story (no, i mean the one with Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart NOT "Philadelphia" with Tom Hanks), The Incredibles, I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Gosford Park, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers, Kung Fu Hustle, Chocolat, Kill Bill, A Knight's Tale (Paul Bettany as Chaucer almost makes me want to read Chaucer. Almost.), Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, All About Eve, Don Juan de Marco, Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, Hero, Witness for the Prosecution, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Spiderman (esp. 2, but can't wait for 3 with Venom...and am i the ONLY one who thinks clancy brown should have played venom?...) and everything X-Men...loads of others I'm currently forgetting because it's time for sleep. Oh, forgot to mention that I love both Kevin Spacey's acting and Joanna Cassidy's laugh. NOW sleep.
I've no idea what this thing below is or when/where I happened across it, but I like it. So there it sits. Hopefully it's not something concocted by Satan.
Don't get any channels, don't have cable, satellite, or network TV. Do, however, rent/buy/otherwise "obtain" copious DVDS. Some old and new favourites include: "The 3 Stooges," "The Andy Griffith Show," "The Beverly Hillbillies," "Columbo," "Fawlty Towers," "The Rockford Files," "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "The Avengers," "Star Trek," "Seinfeld," "Northern Exposure," "NewsRadio," "Samurai Jack," "Arrested Development," "Corner Gas," "Six Feet Under," "Dead Like Me," "Carnivale," "Scrubs," "Boston Legal." Most just moment in television history: when "and the rest" was changed to "the Professor and Maryann."
oh, yes, lots please, everywhere and all the time...can't get enough...some favourites: "einstein's dreams" by alan lightman, "forms of devotion" by diane schoemperlen, "vurt" by jeff noon (which reminds me...vurt does...that I spent my entire masters year reading nothing but kurt vonnegut instead of the crap i was supposed to be reading) and ALL essays by robert benchley. yes, all. every one of them. "good omens" by pratchett/gaiman. "his dark materials" by philip pullman. quirkiest and most interesting book i picked up based solely on its cover: "observatory mansions" by edward carey. currently reading "physik" by angie sage to my son, book three in the septimus heap series. my favourite poet is e.e. cummings, but my favourite poem is eliot's prufrock ...love anything by dr. seuss, maurice sendak and edward gorey [and must also admit to loving j.k. rowling's potter novels]
my friend Susan D., and she always will be. and Phil Hartman, of course. and William Shatner, naturally. my two favourite cartoon heroes are Plankton and Ron Stoppable.