THINGS I LOVE
In no particular order...
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Dancing
- New York City
- PVC clothing
- Riding on the back of a motorcyle
- Movies: (I will see almost anything. My favorites change a lot.)
- Alfred Hitchcock (fave: Strangers on a Train)
- Almost any documentary
- Stanley Kubrick (fave: 2001)
- John Sayles (fave: Lone Star)
- John Ford (fave: The Searchers)
- Akira Kurosawa (fave: The Seven Samurai and Ran)
- Carlos Saura (fave: Carmen)
- David Lynch (fave: Lost Highway)
- "Mi Vida Loca"
- "Heavenly Creatures"
- "Personal Best"
- "Top Hat"
- "The Cat People" (Val Lewton version)
- "The Wild Bunch"
- Maya Deran
- "Tender Mercies"
- "Nosferatu" (silent version)
- "Night of the Hunter"
- "To Kill a Mockingbird"
- "All About Eve"
- "Harold and Maude"
- Jane Campion (fave: An Angel at my Table)
- "Entre Nous"
- Martin Scorsese (faves: Raging Bull and The Last Waltz)
- Disney (fave: "Snow White")
- Ray Harryhausen (fave: The Golden Voyage of Sinbad)
- James Cameron (fave: The Abyss)
- Documentaries about filmmaking (faves: Hearts of Darkness and Under Pressure: Making of The Abyss
- Singing
- Colors and raw materials
- Long talks
- Walking
- Paintbrush-tipped markers
- Sex
- Pumpkins
- Reading:
- Margaret Atwood (fave: "Cat's Eye")
- True Crime and biographies
- e.e. cummings poems
- "Haywire" by Brooke Hayward
- "Sybil" by Flora Rheta Schreiber
- Stories by Ray Bradbury
- "West with the Night" by Beryl Markham
- Sylvia Plath poems and biographies
- Tom Robbins (fave: Still Life with Woodpecker)
- "Ariadne" by June Rachy Brindel
- "Altas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand
- Anne Rice (faves: Exit to Eden, Sleeping Beauty Trilogy, Belinda)
- "Alive" by Piers Paul Read
- Greek mythology, epic poetry and related fiction
- "Sex Tips for Girls" by Cynthia Heimel
- Dorothy Sayers (fave: Gaudy Night)
- Algernon Blackwood stories
- "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" by Joanne Greenberg
- "The Synthetic Man" by Theodore Sturgeon
- Peter Straub (fave: Koko)
- P.D. James
- Peter Hoeg
- Elizabeth George
- "The Perfect Storm" by Sebastian Junger
- "How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood..." by Roger Corman
- Frog and Toad books by Arnold Lobel
- Tintin books by Herge
- "Maus" and "Maus,Part II" by Art Speigelman
Food:- CHEESE
- Popcorn
- Indian food
- Chocolate
- Caffeine-free Diet Coke
- Gummi rats and worms
- Broccoli
- Mashed potatos
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Steamed pork dumplings
- Cheese enchiladas
- Kraft macaroni and cheese
- Herbal tea with honey and cinnamin-raisin english muffins
- Candy-cane Tootsiepops
- Carrots
- Quarter Pounders with cheese
- Turkey
- Building bookcases
- The sound of a good crop whistling through the air
- Ceramics
- Music:
- Nine Inch Nails, Sister Machine Gun, Pigface, Sisters of Mercy, Hate Dept., The Cure, Dead Can Dance, Sunshine Blind, Marilyn Manson, Bauhaus...lots of other goth/industrial/techno/whatever bands
- Elvis Costello, Freedy Johnston, ani difranco, Joni Mitchell, various assorted singer/songwriters
- Go-gos, Squeeze, Duran Duran, Gary Numan and other 80's pop stuff.
- The Band, The Doors, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, lots of other 60s-type stuff
- Patsy Cline, k.d. lang and Hank Williams
- Billie Holliday, Louis Armstrong, Fred Astaire, Porter and Gershwin, some "show music" (mostly Sondheim, fave: Pacific Overtures)
- Irish traditional music
- Quilting, knitting, sewing...handcrafts
- White zinfandel, strawberry daquiris, kamakazis, snakebites and screwdrivers
- Being immersed in water
- Holidays, birthdays and parties
- Spalding Gray
- Ruins, especially Mayan
- Edward Gorey
- Flowers (faves: tulips and roses)
- T.V.
- X-Files
- Millenium
- NY1 channel
- A&E Biographies
- Documentaries on ancient cultures
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- The Simpsons
- NYPD Blue
- Lately I have a nostalgic urge to watch "The Waltons" that I can neither fight nor explain. I hope it goes away soon.
- Unsolved Mysteries
- Mad About You, Frasier or Friends, whatever's on...
- Shopping
- Museum or gallery hopping
- Falling into a deep train of thought and losing track of time/space/reality
- Legos
- Jigsaw puzzles
- Gloves
- Yes & Know books
- Flannel sheets
- Comics: Prince Valiant, Shana the SheDevil, Flash Gordon, Spiderman, etc.
