The arts: music, dance, art, literature, theater. Sewing, knitting, obscure and archaic needlework (like torchon lace and pulled-thread linen openwork), wigs, corsets, tea, fairy tales, camping, hiking, cactus gardens, The Oriental Trading Company catalogue, slow food, more to come.
I'd like to meet:
More wonderful friends...people who love theater, art, and music...people I have lost contact with...people who don't feel the need to martyr themselves and others.
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Music:
Mazzy Star, Portishead, Tool, Led Zeppelin, Aphex Twin, Gogol Bordello, Firewater, The Innocence Mission, Billy Idol, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, more when I think of it...
Movies:
I love movies that combine reality with fantasy: The Princess Bride, The Laybrinth, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Mirrormask, The Science of Sleep, and most recently, Pan's Labyrinth (the best movie I saw in 2006), also I like movies about weird people and weird events: Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, SLC Punk, then I also like movies that are just beautiful: Jane Eyre (Zefirelli's version- the cinematography makes up for what the script is lacking...), Then some movies just KICK ASS: Grindhouse, Black Mask, 300, True Romance. Anything with Gael Garcia Bernal. He's beautiful. The works of Hayao Miyazaki. His animation is beautiful and the stories are heartbreaking and wonderful.
Television:
I no longer have cable...but I like Cartoon Network, TLC, and Food Network.
Books:
Children's picture books (the illustrations have to be good), Lemony Snicket, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Margaret Atwood (A Handmaid's Tale, The Edible Woman, Cat's Eye, Oryx and Crake), Edward Abbey (The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road), Wally Lamb (She's Come Undone), Paolo Cuehlo (The Alchemist, By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, Veronika Decides to Die), Jane Eyre, White Oleander, The Bunnicula Series, The Lovely Bones, The Alchemist, my new bible: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Heroes:
My parents and AJ- she kicks ass and is the bestest friend I've ever had. Maya Deren, Margaret Atwood.
