TASTES:Hollywood Regency, Googie, Mid Century Modernism, Art Deco, Raoul Dufy, Mary Blair, Turner, Matisse, historic architecture, tiki, retro pop culture, kitsch, Impressionism, vintage fashion, old record albums, girly flowery stuff DOINGS: puttering, estate sale-ing, throwing parties and entertaining, Disneyland, stay up all night, sleep in late, sew, thrift Stores, museum and museum cafes, playing music (piano and melodica), singing, going on spontaneous domestic safaris and road trips, landscape design, interior space planning, surfing the net, riding with the top down on a warm summer night in Bonnie Blue - my 63 Falcon Futura convertible
DANCING: Swing, Fox Trot, Waltz, Disco, Rave, Rhumba, Freestyle HAPPY THINGS: waterfalls, fire, candles, good feng shui, coincidences, luck, the force, baking, eating great gourmet vegan/vegetarian cuisine, having my duckies in a row, wearing gloves and pearls, color, silliness, walks by a stream, afternoon tea, organization, musical theater FAV SPOTS: My Home, Trader Joes, Whole Foods, the cottages on Balboa Peninsula, Tiki Ti, Agape choir nights, Bellagio fountains, Real Food Daily, Lynn Creek Canyon, Vancouver, B.C., Roof Garden Cafe at the New York Met, Hearst Castle, Evening fountains at Buschart Gardens, Delano Hotel pool, park at the top of Nob Hill, a room with a view at the Fairmont Hotel in S.F., Sutton Place NYC, California Gold Country
Loyal, honest, abundant thinking, creative, fun-loving people.
CLASSICS: Cole Porter, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., Les Baxter, Dean Martin, Henry Mancini, Burt Bacharach, Antonio Carlos Jobim, John Coltrane, Quincy Jones
CLASSICAL: Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven, Shumann, the score to "You Only Live Twice"
COOL: hippy rock, k.d. lang, cowboy, surf, Everything but the Girl, The Eagles, Outkast, Eminem, the Tubes, Jack Jones, Green Day, Beatles, Zepplin, Joni Mitchell, Donald Fagen, Mr. Steely Dan
FUNKY: 60s Boogaloo, Motown, 70s disco and dance music, B52s, Funkadelic, Sly and the Family Stone, Tom Jones
FAR OUT: Esquivel, electronica, Drum and Bass, chillout tracks, ambient lounge
FRIENDS: Cherry Capri, Martini Kings, Ape, Lushy, King Kukulele, Mai Kai Gents, the Mellocads
and just about everything else...
“Music is the best" (Frank Zappa)
CLASSICS and COMEDIES: MGM musicals, Guys and Dolls, Westside Story, Singing in the Rain, High Society, Breakfast at Tiffanies, Rebel Without a Cause, The Party, Great Gatsby, Austin Powers, Roman Holiday, Ball of Fire, anything with Cary Grant, Sinatra or Gary Cooper; and anything by Billy Wilder
ETC: Valley of the Dolls, mysteries, and sci fi, James Bond, In Like Flint, Dracula, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, The Great Gatsby, Annie Hall, Bladerunner, Elvis movies on a Sunday afternoon, Disneyland documentaries, Eames films, And any movie with a happy ending that makes me laugh really really hard.
I LOVE TV! In the right hands - it's high art.
COMEDY:Sex and the City, Will and Grace, Queer Eye, Monk, Fun old stuff on TV LAND or Nick at Night
DRAMA, Etc.: The Avengers, LETTERBOXED movies on TCM, DIY home improvement, travel and history shows, the Apprentice!
True Hollywood Stories: I find celebrity gossip shows are oddly inspiring...
I grew up down the street from a public library. My first solo expeditions in life were there.
PERENNIAL FAVORITES: Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Mists of Avalon, Sun Signs, Sark, Isaac Asimov, Los Angeles Magazine, Sunset Magazine, CA Modern Magazine, One Minute Millionaire, The Virtue of Selfishness
OTHER MISC. READS: Walden Pond, Hit Men, Ender's Game, Devil in the White City, Big Bang (from Nerve)
COFFEE TABLE BOOKS: Tiki Magazine, architecture, Las Vegas, pop culture, Charles Phoenix, cocktails, Disneyland etc.
Not necessarily all "heros" per se, but people whose "images" I like are mixed in with people whom I admire:
GIRLZ: Number 1 with a bullet Emma Peel, then there's Doris Day, Ray Eames, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Ayn Rand, Elizabeth Taylor, Julia Morgan, Madame Curie and Judy Jetson
GUYZ:Jack Lalane!!! Cary Grant, John Steed, Hugh Hefner, James T. Kirk, Derek Flint, Wayne Dyer, James Bond, Charles Eames, The Professor, Roy Disney, Walt Disney, John Galt, David Viscott, Howard Roark, Fred Rogers, Mark Victor Hansen, Gomez Addams (tv show version), and the Founding Fathers of our country AMERICA!