Reading: Historical biography, art history, 19th Cen. Romantic Poetry, novels, comics, nonfiction on various esoterical matters--Faerie, Tarot, comparative mythology, etc.
Art: Embroidery, crochet, sketching, drawing, painting, making jewelry, sewing, inciting mayhem. I devotedly visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art at least twice a month.
Music: Seekng out new music, following interesting local bands when I can.
Tea: Earl Grey, spiced chai...actually, I've never met a tea I didn't like (except for Lapsang Souchong).
I used to be heavily into collecting Dolls, but not so much now. For the most part my collection consists of Pullip, Asian Ball-Joint dolls, Bratz, Bleeding Edge Goths, Blythe, whatever else happens to catch my eye.
Practicing the fine art of Discordianism.
I'd like to meet:
Interesting people. Deceptively simple, no?
Music:
* I have recently developed an (what some might call unhealthy) obsession with baroque works for solo harpsichord. That's just about all I'm listening to these days. Favorite composers include Rameau, Couperin, Scarlatti, Jacquet de La Guerre, and of course Bach. I still love everyone listed below, I just haven't been giving them much (or any) attention lately.
Tori Amos, Hannah Fury, Faith and the Muse, Rasputina, Emilie Autumn, David Bowie, Happy Rhodes, Miranda Sex Garden, Bjork, Julia Othmer, Regina Spektor, Auf Der Maur, The Von Bondies, Queen, Pink Floyd, The Moody Blues, HIM, Phantom Of The Opera (most versions), Jane Eyre the musical, J.S. Bach, Poe, Sarah Brightman, Courtney Love, Hole, Dead Can Dance, King Crimson, Sarah Fimm, Trace Fury, Stevie Nicks, Wanda Landowska...dammit, this is going to take forever. Put it this way--I own several hundred CDs. I'm willing to give just about anything a chance, though my tastes tend toward female vocals and punk/rock/prog/goth/glam/ethereal/darkwave--and anything with CELLO and HARPSICHORD!. Usually if it's LOUD and the musicians are competent I'm happy.
Movies:
* Note to self--update this!Moulin Rouge, ALW's The Phantom of the Opera, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Labyrinth, A Life Less Ordinary, A Clockwork Orange, The Last Unicorn, Velvet Goldmine, The Dark Crystal, Sleepy Hollow, The Serpent's Kiss, Angels and Insects, Anne of Green Gables, The Secret Garden (1993), The Princess Bride, Shaun of the Dead, Down With Love, The Philadelphia Story, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet (Branagh), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, This is Spinal Tap, Finding Neverland, Almost Famous, Serenity, Highlander (1,3, 4. NOT 2)
Television:
PUSHING DAISIES, DOCTOR WHO, Find!, Antiques Roadshow, Firefly, Buffy, Highlander: The Series, Red Dwarf, Coupling (UK), Road to Avonlea, Masterpiece Theater, various anime series
Books:
Principia Discordia , The Mists of Avalon , The Sea Priestess , The Phantom of the Opera , Phantom , Jane Eyre , Wuthering Heights , H~. , Wicked , White As Snow , Posession , The Snow Queen , The Wood Wife , The King of Elfland's Daugher , The Last Unicorn , The Worm Ouroboros , The Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath
Comics/Manga:
JML's Dawn, Promethea, Artesia, Little Scrowlie, Meat Cake, Nightmares and Fairy Tales, Tarot Witch of the Black Rose, School Bites, The Witching, Black Orchid, Sandman, Wonder Woman, Jim Balent era Catwoman, Harley Quinn, Emma Frost, Sailor Moon, Princess Ai, Fushigi Yugi, Inu Yasha, Neotopia, most series by CLAMP, more.
Writers:
Neil Gaiman, Patricia A. McKillip, Marion Zimmer Bradley, the Bronte Sisters, A.S. Byatt, Joseph Michael Linsner, Robin McKinley, Pamela Dean, Ursula Le Guin, J.R.R. Tolkien
Poets:
Percy Bysshe Shelley; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Fiona MacLeod; Edgar Allan Poe; Christina Rossetti; Oscar Wilde; Emily Bronte; Sir Walter Scott; John Keats; Algernon Charles Swinburne; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; William Shakespeare; Edmund Spencer; William Blake; William Butler Yeats; Alfred Noyes
Artists:Huh, I should finish this...
Heroes:
Tori Amos, Madame de Pompadour, Marie Antoinette, Mary Robinson, Wanda Landowska, LM Montogomery, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Fiona MacLeod
