fashion especially Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, music, film, travel, travel and more travel (with my husband), visual arts, literature, philosophy, flea markets, Hello Kitty, vibrators, Hello Kitty vibrators, Cirque du Soleil, Paris, London, Italia, New York City (the best thing to happen to America), Trader Vic's tiki drinks, embracing eccentricity, observing people's ideosyncrasies, serendipity, juxtaposition of naughty and nice, anachronisms, cultural immersion, epiphanies, metaphors, threshold between dreams and consciousness, accordians, forensics/behavioral science, Freudian slips, achieving clarity through intoxication, spirituality, self-realization, Junko Mizuno, www.tokidoki.it, cloning John Taylor, constantly evolving but staying the same, warps in the time/space continuum, discovering things off the beaten path, Island of the Misfit Toys, Venetian masks, secret gardens, cuckoo clocks, sugarcubes, Leonidas chocolate, warm analog sound of records, stellar evenings of: mouth-watering food, hypnotic music, intriguing company, captivating conversation, and potent cocktails. And I love bunnies!
People who think outside the box. People who are not ego-centric and are at peace with themselves. People who are not programmed by societal standards and dogma. Real people who do not need to hide behind an on-line
facade. People who have a streak of nihilism and subversiveness. Innovators, visionaries, catalysts. Do you fit in my world? "Only when I lose myself in someone else, that I find myself." Si vous êtes
français, écrivez-moi s'il vous plait. Je dois pratiquer la plus belle langue du monde. IF I DON'T ALREADY KNOW YOU, PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ADD ME UNLESS YOU EXTEND THE COMMON COURTESY OF INTRODUCING YOURSELF FIRST. And ABSOLUTELY NO SLIMY NASTY ASIAN FETISH GUYS ARE WELCOMED HERE!!!!!!!
adopt your own virtual pet!
electro, new wave, punk, industrial, rockabilly, big band swing, doo wop, jazz, progressive house, classical, french accordian music---Yann Tiersen is a fucking genius! 70/80's: Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Bauhaus, Siouxsie, New Order, Joy Division, Kraftwerk, Cure, Missing Persons, Berlin, Book of Love, Nina Hagen, Echo and the Bunnymen, Jesus and Mary Chain, OMD, PiL, Chameleons UK, Alphaville, Smiths, Cocteau Twins, Altered Images, Ultravox, Sex Pistols, Clash, Killing Joke, The Cramps, Buzzcocks, Stranglers, Ramones, Les Rita Mitsouko, Indochine, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Nitzer Ebb, Front 242...and all that. Current: Miss Kittin, the Hacker, 2 Many DJ's/Soulwax, The Knife, Cold Play, Ladytron, Client, Adult., Scissor Sisters, Keane, Snow Patrol, Goldfrapp, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand, VHS or Beta, Royksopp, Stellastarr*, Alpine Stars, Moby, Peaches, Killers, Fisherspooner, Swayzak, Kasabian, the Bravery, Futureheads, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, Arcade Fire, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Editors, the Sounds, Nouvelle Vague, Robots in Disguise, Chemical Brothers, Underworld, the National, Digitalism, LCD Soundsystem...and much much more. The Classics: Beatles, Beach Boys, Bee Gees, Led Zepplin, ABBA, Simon and Garfunkel. The Immortals: Frank Sinatra, Mozart, Beethoven, Offenbach, Chopin, Vivaldi, Nat King Cole, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Patsy Clyne, John Lennon, Nina Simone, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington. I love music too much to be able to name everyone damn it!
Before Sunrise and Before Sunset (LOVE them!!!!), Diving Bell and Butterfly, Moliere, A Very Long Engagement, I
With all those channels out there you would think there were more shows with substance on tv, but tv pretty much sucks. I pretty much watch movies and news including BBC news, French, Italian, and German news. And how can I leave out Jon Stewart's Daily Show? I always end up resorting to Discovery Channel, History Channel, Food Network, Fine Living Network, TCM, National Geographic, and Animal Planet. I absolutely love travel shows on Travel Channel like, Globetrekker (love Ian Wright), Passport to Europe and especially No Reservations. Anthony Bourdain fucking rocks! And thank you to OLN for full coverage of Tour de France and Speed Network for Formula One! But then I have my days when I watch all that mindless crap too, when I'm too tired to think. Ah...tv...a major contributor to the dumbing of America.
Milan Kundera:The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting; Anais Nin: Delta of Venus, Henry and June, Diaries; Hunter S Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Mary Shelley: Frankenstein; Albert Camus: The Stranger, The Rebel; Jean Paul Sartre: Nausea, Age of Reason; Antoine de Saint Exupéry: Le Petit Prince; Consuelo de Saint Exupéry: The Tale of the Rose; Chuck Palahniuk: Choke, Inisible Monsters (Chuck P Rules!), Percy Byshe Shelly; Lord Byron; Edgar Allen Poe.
Those who believe that altruism isn't dead, it's just waiting to be rediscovered. Those who would never compromise their integrity. Those who prevent ignorance from breeding hate and fear. Those who abandon the ego for inner peace. Those who are constantly resilient from adversity. Those who value human dignity over money. Those who risk their lives to fight injustice. All the amazing artists in Cirque du Soleil who bust their fucking asses to do what looks humanly impossible, especially Asa Sokol Kubiak and Jérome Le Baut performing the Vis Versa in Quidam. Absolutely mind-blowing! And finally, those whose passion is a force to be reckoned with: .. .. ..