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Variety

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designer, music promoter

Music (I'm learning to play electric guitar), comedy, anything mid-century 1950s, old Hollywood glamour, VELVET, brocade, satin, lace, damask, all things Victorian (mostly furnishings and some fashion), I am of the light and of the dark, all things computer, graphics, photography, I love pin-up art (Vargas, Elvgren, Olivia), anime, different cultures esp. Native American, Asian and all European countries, Fruity Loops, poetry, psychology, I collect leopard things, eyeglasses/sunglasses, and things with maps on them from the 50s and 60s, eBay, animals and nature, movies, books, writing, research, learning copyright law and the 'bones' of the music business, aromatherapy, anything to do with guitars Guitars GUITARS!!! :)

I can't get off Turner Classic Movies!...sooooo...Double Indemnity, Vertigo (and every Hitchcock movie), Gaslight, Now Voyager (and every Bette Davis movie), Metropolis, Jane Eyre (Orson Wells and Joan Fontaine), Days of Wine And Roses, The Apartment, Lost Weekend, Niagara (and every Marilyn movie), and soooo many more...and then, all Jim Carrey, DiNiro, Nicholson, Gary Oldman (esp. Bram Stoker's Dracula), Cage (esp. Leaving Las Vegas, Valley Girl, Adaptation and Matchstick Men), anything with Alan Rickman in it, A Year in the Life of Metallica, Some Kind of Monster, This is Spinal Tap, Bad Santa, Penn and Teller Get Killed, Rattle and Hum, It Might Get Loud, Young Frankenstein, Kurt and Courtney, School of Rock, Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, Hurricane, Monster's Ball, Sense and Sensibility, Sling Blade, Monster, Sid and Nancy, The (original) Nutty Professor and all Jerry Lewis. COMEDY: (I added my own category here) Favorite comedians include Jim Carrey, Jerry Lewis, Paypurrboy, Kathy Griffin, Sam Kinison (R.I.P. dear Sammy), Sandler, Comedy Magicians Penn and Teller, Brian Regan, Dane Cook, Monty Python, Chris Rock, Steve Sweeney, Steve Martin, Kevin James, Seinfeld, tv show Family Guy, comedic actors Jack Black and Ben Stiller...more to come more than likely :)

Another eclectic category! JOE SATRIANI!!!, KEANE, Muse, Dylan, Hendrix, Smashing Pumpkins (James Iha! yes!), Simple Minds, Incubus, The Stranglers, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, TNT, newly in love with Yngwie!!!, VH, John 5, Children of Bodom, Blue October, U2, BLS/Zakk Wylde, Type O Negative, Motley Crue, Paul Gilbert, NEVERMORE, JOURNEY, Billie Holiday, Beach Boys, Aerosmith, Metallica, Clapton, Shawn Lane, Pretenders, BOSTON, Steve Vai, Alice in Chains, the WHO, Suicidal Tendencies, Zepp, SRV, Three Days Grace, Annie Lennox, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Paul Winter, Cocteau Twins, Band of Susans, Iron Maiden, The Stones, Weird Al, The Neighborhoods, RHCPs, The Ramones, Velvet Revolver, Ozzy, Sade, Judas Priest, The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite, A Perfect Circle, The Darkness, Steely Dan, KISS, Gorillaz, Queen, ZZ Top...sheesh...too many...But also...Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, JP Rampal, Mozart, Chopin, Gregorian chant, Dvorak...and Tom Jones...I LOVE Tom Jones!

The Bible, All Steinbeck, Wm. Burroughs, Amy Tan, Ayn Rand, E.L. Doctorow, Lisa See, Joyce Carol Oates, Baudelaire..The Bell Jar, All Souls, Geek Love, Sea Glass, Your Best Life Now, the Nancy Drew mysteries, Jane Eyre, Slash by Slash, The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx, Everybody Wants Some - the Van Halen Saga, Mustaine, My Appetite For Destruction by Steven Adler, The Dirt by Motley Crue, I Am Ozzy, I Slept With Joey Ramone - A Family Memoir, High on Arrival by McKenzie Philips, Full Moon, Hello He Lied, and RollingStone, Guitar World and Guitar Player magazines are required reading at my house :)...just endless, I never stop reading!