I am a Francophile and a Russophile. I am also interested in all things French and Russian. Native American culture, especially the musical aspect, is fascinating to me. I love the performing and visual arts...especially music and theater. And I want to be an Egyptologist in my next life...unless I'm in ancient Egypt in my next life (in that case, I want to be Pharoah).
I'D LIKE TO MEET: Dame Julie Andrews, Anderson Cooper, Sir Ian McKellan, Stephen Sondheim, Colm Wilkinson, Gandalf the White, Isabella Rosselini, Troy Aikman, Brett Favre, Andy Roddick, Bigfoot, Fudgey the Whale, Bryn Terfel, Heidi Klum, Tsar Nicholas II (before the execution, of course), Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, "W" (just so I can get one good shot in)
Bobby Darin, Frank Sinatra, KISS, '80's New Wave especially those Queens of androgeny Adam Ant and David Bowie, Rufus Wainwright, Morrissey, The Cure, Broadway Musicals, opera (my favorite is Puccini's "Tosca"), The Madison, Dragged Below, Dame Shirley Bassey, Nina Simone, Sir Elton John, Seal, Indigo Girls, Ella Fitzgerald, French pop songs from the 50's-70's
Victor/Victoria, Contact, Waiting for Guffman, My Own Private Idaho, The Cure, Auntie Mame, V for Vendetta (check out clip at right), Beautiful Thing (That ending still makes me cry every time), Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Zorro The Gay Blade, The Departed (it's like going home again), Underworld & Underworld Evolution
Lost, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Amazing Race, Project Runway, Heroes, America's Next Top Model, Smallville, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, Extras, The Graham Norton Show
Favorites: "Watership Down" and "Plague Dogs" by Richard Adams, "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond and "The Hobbit," "The Fellowship of the Ring," "The Two Towers." "The Return of the King" and "The Silmarillion" by J.R.R.Tolkien. Recent good reads: I am just about through 1700 pages of Neal Stephenson's 2600 page "Baroque Cycle" and I am loving it; "Collapse" by Jared Diamond, "The Kitchen Boy" and "Rasputin's Daughter" by Robert Alexander, "In the Company of the Courtesan" by Sarah Dunant, "The Children of Hurin" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Batman sans that blood-sucking leech Robin, Gyros