Books; Music; Writing; Cooking; Opera; Theater, String Theory; British History; Edison Recording Cylinders; sexy guys; old movies; eating out; learning French; travel to Europe; Chocolate; Red Wine; Baking; Ice Cream; Boston Terriers; Pastisse; Hedgehogs.
Intelligent and creative people who'd like to talk, meet for coffee, discuss life, art, music, and the sad state of the world, watch DVDs, play old records, go to the beach, to the opera, to movies, go out to eat, hang-out, walk dogs, bake cookies, go camping, eat cookies, work-out, go to the beach, etc.
I am also the moderator of two mySpace Groups!
One for Gay Opera Fans.
OPERA QUEER Group
And one for lovers of very old records.
ANTIQUE RECORDINGS Group
If you want to IM me I use Yahoo Messenger.
Friends can e-mail me for my Yahoo ID.
Several thousand CDs: lots of Opera! plus various LPs, 78s, and wax cylinders. Also lots of Musical Theater, Classical, Met Opera Broadcasts; even "Eddie Smith" records. 1970's French Pop; Unusual fondness for little-known operas and foreign cast albums.
COMPOSERS:
Wagner, Puccini, Strauss, Verdi, Janacek, Korngold, Zandonai, Donizetti, Beatles, Sondheim, Adam Guettel, William Finn, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, Max Steiner, Victor Herbert.
FAVORITE OPERAS:
Meistersinger, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Turandot, Der Rosenkavalier, Aida, Don Carlos, Roberto Devereux, Light in the Piazza, Caroline or Change.
FAVORITE PERFORMERS:
Cass Elliot, Karen Carpenter, Helen Reddy, (young) Michael Jackson, Beatles, Barbara Cook, Diana Montague, Wet Spots, Amelita Galli-Curci.
Lots of Foreign films; early silent stuff; others include: Lawrence of Arabia; Casablanca; Shortbus; Europa,Europa; Planet of the Apes (orig); Triplets of Belleville; Far From Heaven; Can't Stop the Music; Studio Ghibli films; Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (orig); Maurice; Room with a View, Bringing Up Baby; Singing in the Rain; King Kong; Gods and Monsters; Blue Velvet; All About Eve, Fanny and Alexander; I, Claudius; LOTR; Birds; North by Northwest; Errol Flynn; Bette Davis; Myrna Loy; Submarine movies; Space movies; much else, too.
I, Claudius; Jewel in the Crown; Star Trek DS9; Firefly; Lost in Space; Nova; Pufnstuf; That Girl
Lots of Gay fiction; kid's books; AGE OF BRONZE, MAWRDEW CZGOWCHWZ, QUEER STREET, ELEGANT UNIVERSE, Augusten Burroughs, David Sedaris, François-René de Chateaubriand; Eric Shanower, Armistead Maupin; Eloise Jarvis McGraw; Felice Picano, Robert Rodi, Edward Einhorn, Ethan Mordden, Julia Child, Jordan Crane, L. Frank Baum and Oz books, books on music, opera, theater.
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