Edgar Allen Poe
Shakespeare
Sappho
Pablo Neruda
Jorge Luis Borges
Edwin Alrington Robinson- check out his book/poem Tristram, he's not just famous for "Richard Cory"
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Longfellow, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Joyce, Kilmer, A.E. Houseman, John Masfield (for "Sea Fever' on it's own), George Perkin Morris (for "Woodsman, Spare that Tree), Edmund Vance Cooke (for "Rags" a poem that will rip your heart out) and many more masters but I am trying to limit my favorites
Music
Beethoven- "Moonlight Sonata" is my favorite, closely followed by "Fur Elise," '"The Fifth," and "The Seventh"
Marilyn Manson- "Minute of Decay" being my favorite but it's really hard to choose with his variety. He's my favorite modern musician. He's My Man.
Nirvana- Kurt Cobain and Manson are my idols. (They are both My Men) Courtney killed him--that bitch. Watch the movie Kurt and Courtney, then you'll know the truth..
Bob Dylan- He's The Man. Best damn lyricist ever. I have come to appreciate his voice as a unique musical instrument much like the bagpipes. Apparently not for most, except die hard fans.
Nine Inch Nails
White Zombie
Alice Cooper
Rage Against the Machine
Lords of Acid
Thrill Kill Cult
Aerosmith
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Counting Crows
Madonna
Cher
Joni Mitchell
Liz Phair
Alanis Morisette
Meredith Brooks
Juliana Hatfield
Jewel
Fiona Apple
Sarah McLachlan
Loreena McKennitt
Dave Matthew's when he sings Johnny Cash's "Long Black Veil" is hypnotic. (Not so when Johnny Cash sings it.) I also like "Grave Digger" and "Greystreet" a lot. Richard Thompson's "1952 Vincent Black Lightning " goes on a list of it's own.
I like most music. I am even learning to like some country. Nix bluegrass and jazz though. Otherwise most of the big hits from the 50's, 60's, some funky 70's like "Kung Fu Fighting" (hell yeah, reminds me of Caine), 80's, and 90's. Little today. Lot' s of up and coming folk singers- Jeffery Hyde Thompson, Jodie Manross, Ellis Paul, Matraca Berg (her song "Lying to the Moon" is haunting), Phillis Tannerfrye ("Gypsy Woman" rules), Brooks Williams, and Laurie McClain.
Movies
The Hobbit- 1978 animated version
The Lord of the Rings- 1979
animated version by Ralph Bakshi.
Everyone seems to hate it but me. I even
talked to Anthony Daniels (the voice of my Dream Prince- Legolas) once about it andhe regretted it. What a heartbreak! But atleast Arwen isn't chunky and all the elveshair matches their eyebrows in this one.Orlando Bloom is hot but the animated Legolas is by far the hottest. Plus John Hurt (bio) is in it. He's in like 6 out of mytop ten favorite movies. He is The Man too.
Return of the King- 1980 (the year I
was born) animated version. Don't get me wrong the new ones are good too but I wasbottle fed on these movies since I was like 3.
Watership Down
Plague Dogs
The Last Unicorn- see pics
Flight of Dragons
Interview with a Vampire- But not
Queen of the Damned. Horribly shoddy
work! Didin't follow any of the books at
all. Plus minused Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt,
Antonio Banderas, and Christian Slater. I
mean, can you fit more hot guys into one
movie than that?
Pirates of the Carribean- Jack can be my Captain any day! He is totally My Man,savvy? Johnny Depp rules in every part and he always plays my fave types-gypsy, pirate, writer (twice), druggie (twice), biker, Nat. Am., recluse, misunderstood freak, dreamer, noble who is a porno poet, hit man. There's nothing sexy left besides vampire. He needs to play a vampire, badly!
Vampire Hunter D and the sequel BloodLust
Star Wars Trilogy- only the original
three. Before Darth there was nothing.
Darth Vader is my Daddy! Take that as
you will. But seriously is he not the
supreme Daddy of the universe? There's
never been more ado made about someone being someone else's father.
Indiana Jones Trilogy
The Godfather Trilogy- Yes, I like
the third movie. It wraps things up and
besides Vincent is HOT.
Silence of the Lambs Trilogy-
Hannibal is pretty much The Man but he's
not My Man. But as far as cannibals go, he rocks hard! Admit it. He's charming.
The Little Mermaid- 70's anime
version. Please, she is suppose to DIE at
the end. That's the whole damn point.
Legend
Labyrinth
The Princess Bride
The Black Cauldron
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus- a Rankin/Bass claymation
Dead Poet's Society
Memento-There's a mind fuck for you.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas-
Reminds me of my teenage years. Hunter
S. Thompson is also pretty much The Man but not My Man. Johnny Depp is though. This just happens to be the only movie he doesn't look painfully beautiful in.
Chasing Amy
Threesome
Close runner's up are Willow; Dune; Bed
of Roses; Untamed Heart; What Dreams
May Come; Toy Soldiers; Finding
Forrester; Dances with Wolves; Robin
Hood (Disney or with Costner); Sliding
Doors (trippy); Run, Lola, Run (trippy); 12 Monkeys (trippy); Seven; All the Little
Animals; and the Harry Potter Series
(especially Prisoner of Azkaban--I love
trippy movies). I just love too many
movies. I could name lots more. Just about anything John Hurt is in rules. Not
Midnight Express--unless you like the idea
of being stuck in a Turkish prison for about a decade--freaky bad mojo.
Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion,
The History of Middle-Earth Series
(especially The Lays of Beleriand), The
Unfinished Tales, anything the man has
ever written or is written about him
Anne Rice - The Vampire
Chronicles, her new vampire series
Richard Adams - Watership
Down, Tales from Watership Down,
The Plague Dogs, Shardik
Jane Yolen - The Pit Dragon
Trilogy, her short short stories and
children's picture books (like Encounter
and Dove Isabeau)
Patricia C. Wrede - The
Enchanted Forest Chronicles, her short
stories
Tanith Lee -needs no introduction,
mostly read her short stories or books of
short stories like Red as Blood and The
Sister's Grimmer
Robin McKinley- needs no
introduction, but faves are her less
renowned works like Spindle's End,
Rose Daughter, Beauty, Deerskin, Outlaws of Sherwood and
her short stories, rather than her most acclaimed The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown
Anne McCaffrey- her Harper Hall Trilogy (Dragonsinger, Dragonsong, Dragondrums), yet to read ALL the Dragonriders of Pern books
Susan Fletcher - Dragon's Milk,
Dragon Kyn, The Sign of the Dove,
Shadow Spinner
Ellen Datlow and Terri
Windling- as editors for the fairy tale
anthologies-- Snow White, Blood Red;
Black Thorn, White Rose; Ruby
Slippers, Golden Tears; Black Swan,
White Raven; Silver Birch, Blood Moon;
and Black Heart, Ivory Bones--check
these books out for stories from
awesome writers like Anne Bishop,
Patricia McPhillip, and Nancy Kress
whose books I've never seen
???
Andrew Lang - colored fairy
books
Marie de France- her Lais of
Marie de France, (James Reeves does a
great retelling in Shadow of the Hawk)
Rudyard Kipling- The Jungle
Book, The Just-So Stories
James Howe- The Bunnnicula
series (for children but great)
Dr. Seuss- The Lorax, The
Sneetches, The Butter Battle Book, other
classics
Walter Farley- The Black Stallion
Series
Steven Cosgrove and Robin
James- The Serendipity Series
Gail Carson Levine- The
Princess Tales
Vampire the Masquerade- the
series of most of the books and the
role-playining game
The Enchanted World Series-
by Time Life
Ayn Rand- Anthem; yeah her full novels are just loooong and about her dream men, too industrial- even the movies are kind of slow
Peter S. Beagle- The Last
Unicorn, The Unicorn Sonata (not quite as good)
Peter Dickinson- Flight of
Dragons
Jack London- White Fang, Call of
the Wild
Mercer Mayer- more for his little
known but beautiful book The Sleeping
Beauty than for Where the Wild Things
Are or There's a Nightmare in my closet,
though those are classics
Also good are Stardust (Neil Gaiman),
The Changeling (Zilpha Keatley Snyder),
The Moorechild (Eloise McGraw), A
Rat's Tale (Tor Siedler) and I, Houdini
(Lynne Reid Banks).
Tons of children's books- The Giving
Tree (rules for us hippies); One Unicorn,
Sarah's Lion, Sarah's Unicorn, The
Rough-Faced Girl, The Seal Prince, new
fairy tale picture books like Rapunzel,
The Twelve Dancing Princesses, and
Sleeping Beauty.
Old sagas like Beowulf, The Elder
Eddas, Parzival (Wolfram Von
Eschenbach), Tristan (Gottfried Von
Straussburg) and other older Authrurian
tales.
Good distopias--Animal Farm, Brave
New World, and Feed (1984 is too
depressing-see the movie starring John
Hurt). Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan
Swift)--the part with the Whynnins and
Utopia (Thomas Moore) are good for the
opposite effect
T.V. Series
The Mysterious Cities of Gold-
A great but mostly forgotten
French/Japanese animated series which
totally rocked and even had historically
acurate facts about the European invasion of South and Central America. Very cool to learn about the Incas, Aztecs, and Mayas when you're 6.
Brother's Grimm Fairy Tales
Conan the Barbarian
Thundercats
He-Man and She-ra- the 80's one
G.I. Joe
My Little Ponies- also the 80's one
The Storyteller- Jim Henson's,
starring John Hurt --The Man.
Young Riders- Buck is totally My
Man.
Sea Quest- Lucas and Tony are both
My Men. (I am greedy. I have a whole
harem.)
Quantum Leap
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Kung Fu- Caine is The Man all on his
own without my help.
Fushigi Yugi- The Mysterious
Play- Anime series in which Emperor
Hotohori is My Man
Space Ghost: Coast to Coast-
Zorak rocks and could rule the universe ifit weren't for my dad (Darth Vader).
Queer as Folk- Brian is an ass but
he's HOT. Michael is cute and sweet.
Debbie is the coolest mom.
Hobbies
Writing- poetry and prose
Reading- fantasy; poetry; myths; sagas; fairy tales; archaic plays-Greek,
Shakespearian; history and culture-
Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Celtic, Norse,
Native N. and S. American; philosophy-
Greek (Socrates through Plato especially), Neitzche, utopias/distopias; psychology
Art- drawing, collages, painting figurines
Dancing- contra, waltz, belly dancing, swing, fire dancing, techno
Gaming- D&D, Magic, P.C., Nintendo
Philosophy- seeking for meaning and
the Answers, meditation, rituals, lucid
dreaming, altered states of consciousness
Playing- creating fantasy worlds for
stuffed animals, Breyer horses, My Little
Ponies, etc.
Extreme Sports- bungee jumping,
white water rafting, rock climbing,
repelling, mosh pit; crowd surfing
Outdoor Pastimes- swimming,
diving, hiking, camping
