| General | writing, reading, singing, music, linguistics, literature, etymology, genealogy, The Cousin's Club, France and all things France-related, traveling, cultures and countries completely foreign to my sphere of knowledge, trying new foods (particularly non-Western), the smell of old books, cathedrals, making gingerbread houses, rain, thunderstorms, chocolate, badminton, autumn (particularly October), William Bouguereau, laughing so hard I can't breathe, Wisconsin sunsets and harvest moons, Palmer chiropractors, snow, Camille Claudel, synesthesia, Nutella, cynicism and satire, photography and photo albums, Hand-and-Foot, jacks, Godiva, natural birth, men's formal hats (god I love Fedoras...), Tim Curry and Alan Rickman, fountain pens, journals, Halloween, and foreign languages | | Music | Stiffs, Inc. - The favorite for over 13 years.
2nd Nature, Adiemus, Beaut, The Bel Am, Catatonia, The Cranberries, Deep Forest, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Dresden Dolls, Elizaveta, Funland, Gravity Kills, Hum, HUMANWINE, Machines of Loving Grace, Manau, Mephisto Walz, Moos, older NIN, Pearl Jam, Screams For Tina, Self, Sick of it All, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, Stabbing Westward (the B's on the thumb!), Stolen Babies, Sunny Day Real Estate, Switchblade Symphony, Tool, Tre Lux, Two Witches, Umbrella Brigade, Usherhouse, Voltaire, etc.
I have recently acquired a taste for Middle Eastern music through my sister and son's insistence. In furthering that, along with my newfound craving for foreign cultures, I've been listening to a lot of world music, both modern and traditional.
Classical: requiems (especially Braham's and Faure's), choral pieces, symphonies, and piano sonatas; Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Schonberg; Russian State Chorus, Vienna Boy's Choir, Choir of King's College, etc.
| | Movies | The favorite: The Hours.
To name just a few others: Mordent Matinee, Field Day (I want a copy, Flloyd!!!), Les Enfants du Paradis, But I'm a Cheerleader!, Finding Neverland, Bride of Boogedy, Clue, The Incredibles, Little Women, Enemy of the State, Camille Claudel, Veggie Tales, Airplane!, Metropolis, Enchanted, Home for the Holidays, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Child of Glass, The Thin Man, Brain Donors, Arsenic and Old Lace, Dogma, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The Illusionist, Pirates of the Caribbean (only the first one), Notes on a Scandal, The Villain, MST3K, M, Wheels of Terror (hee hee...if you know this one you're probably already sorry)
And a couple of my favorite plays: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme ["L'autre laquais!" - thank you Madame!], Rumors, Players in a Game, The Zoo Story, Fortinbras, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), The Bad Seed, The Good Doctor, Our Town, The Diviners | | Television | NCIS!!! | | Books | How about authors instead?
Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Pearl S. Buck, A.S. Byatt, Deb Caletti, Albert Camus, Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, Karen Joy Fowler, Arthur Golden, Edward Gorey, Joseph Heller, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, Maureen Johnson, Franz Kafka, Lois Lowry, William Somerset Maugham, Vladimir Nabokov (and Vivian Darkbloom), George Orwell, Sylvia Plath, JK Rowling, Betty Smith, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, John Steinbeck, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scott Westerfeld, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf | | Heroes | Anyone who knows me can probably correctly guess the answer to this. |
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