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all the useless information you don't really need Eyes: Blue Hair: Red Favourite Colours: Purple, Green (various shades from emerald to teal), Black, and Pink (fucshia to ashes of roses) Favourite Foods: Canada Dry Ginger Ale (Yes, it's a food. Back off...), Olive Garden food (I drove through California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma in 1998 and ate in one Olive Garden in every state. The quality of the food is incredibly consistent, except in OK City, where it was fine but seemed somehow to lack liquid - the sauces were thicker and the food was a little dry - still, it was the Olive Garden and that means it was dang good. Their salad is fabulous.), Thai food, Japanese food, vegetarian chili - especially green, coeur a la creme, the pickles from Canter's Deli in LA (they're not like any other pickle - utterly amazing. Ambrosia), Artichokes, tomatoes, Dreyer's Black Raspberry Avalanche ice cream, spinach, Cream of Wheat, Eggs Benedict sans canadian bacon, and soup. Fabulous soup. I also had a Napoleon in 1990 at a little coffee shop in Manhattan the likes of which I have never experienced before or since. I think about it a lot. Foods I detest: beets, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce with chunks, milk, mushrooms, freshly caught trout (when I ate creatures at all, mind you), raisins (especially baked, like dead bugs, into perfectly nice puddings, cakes, and cookies), sweet pickles (vile things), carrot cake and the rest of its nasty ilk, the spice cakes Favourite Actors: (male) Charles Laughton, Gene Kelly, Jimmy Stewart, Sir Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Paul Lynde, Sydney Greenstreet, Alan Ladd, Charlie Chaplin, Gary Oldman, Daniel Day Lewis, Michael Morgan, Tim Roth, Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce, Roberto Benigni, Ralph Fiennes, Brendan Fraser, Harvey Keitel, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Martin Landau, Johnny Depp, Dustin Hoffman, Chow Yun-Fat, Carroll O'Connor, Alan Alda, Rod Steiger, Steve Martin, John Lithgow, Robin Williams, Kevin Spacey, Patrick Swayze (only in "Wong Foo") Kevin Kline, Mike Meyers, John Leguizamo (an absolute genius), Eddie Izzard, Greg Kinnear, Denzel Washington, Phil Hartman (we miss you, man) (female) Bette Davis, Tallulah Bankhead, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Monroe, Carole Lombard, Marjorie Main, Maria Ouspenskaya, Hattie McDaniel, Teresa Wright, Elizabeth Taylor, Thelma Todd, Veronica Lake, Vivien Leigh, Agnes Moorehead, Billie Burke, Elizabeth Montgomery, Barbara Stanwyck, Julie Newmar, Anne Bancroft, Claire Daines, Cate Blanchett (she was a goddess in "Elizabeth"), Minnie Driver, Jane Leeves, Lisa Kudrow, Julianna Margulies, Alex Kingston, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Jean Stapleton, Olympia Dukakis, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, Dixie Carter (people occasionally compare me to her, especially in 'Designing Women,' which I take as a great compliment) Favourite Movies: "Gone With the Wind," "The Exorcist," "Exorcist III" (NOT II. What a piece of crap. The other two are masterpieces.) "Life is Beautiful," "My Life," "Like Water for Chocolate," "The Little Foxes," "Some Like it Hot," "The Misfits," "Sunset Boulevard," "Jezebel," "Saving Private Ryan," "The Hairdresser's Husband," "Spinal Tap," "Ed Wood," "To Wong Foo, Thanks for everything! Julie Newmar" "The Graduate," "The Evil Dead" trilogy, "Tales of Manhattan," "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," anything with Agnes Moorehead in it, anything with "Star Wars" or "Indiana Jones" in the title Movie I Think Everyone Should Watch: "Schindler's List" Favourite Documentary: Rory Kennedy's "American Hollow," which follows a year in the life of an Appalachian family Favourite Music: Classical, Choral, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Black Sabbath, Johnny Cash, The Kingston Trio, early David Bowie, The Beatles, Elton John, Led Zeppelin, Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, Kid Rock, Kathleen Battle, Billie Holliday, Mel Torme, Nat King Cole, Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Beastie Boys, Mountain, Deep Purple, the "South Park" soundtrack, Bobby McFerrin's "Paper Music," Esquivel, Southern Culture on the Skids, They Might Be Giants, Combustible Edisons, The Indigo Girls doing Jesus Christ, Superstar, Mozart, Mozart, Mozart... ahhhh, Bach... Favourite Books: "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Naked Ape" by Desmond Morris, "Charlotte's Web," (is it E.B. White? Shame on me) anything by Shakespeare, "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll, "The Exorcist" by William Peter Blatty, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson, "Where the Red Fern Grows," "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood, "Ivanhoe" by Sir Walter Scott, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" and "Illusions: Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah" by Richard Bach, "Kitchen" by Banana Yoshimoto, "Duncton Wood," anything by Stephen King, anything by John Irving, anything by Toni Morrison, anything by Austen, Dickens, W.H. Auden, E. E. Cummings, Thackeray, or Oscar Wilde, "Our Lady of the Flowers" by Jean Genet, "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole (An absolutely stunning masterpiece. Maybe the funniest thing I've ever read), "What the Bible REALLY says about Homosexuality" by Cardinal John Spong, "Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality" by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, "Strip City" by Lily Burana, poetry by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, Percy Shelley, Swinburne, Goethe, Dylan Thomas, Rudyard Kipling, E.E. Cummings (yes, it's capitalized), and Poe (I collect antique books - especially poetry, history, and books on theatre), any biography on Elizabeth I, Jane Grey, Mary Stuart, Richard III, Edward II (look up his death sometime. Horrible.), William Wallace, Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Lucrezia Borgia, Erszebet Bathory, Sarah Bernhardt, or Marilyn Monroe. Favourite TV shows: The Evening News with Dan Rather, 'Frasier,' 'Star Trek,' 'Sex in the City,' 'The Sopranos,' 'ER' (I was an extra on the Halloween '98 episode - look for the redheaded med student in the bridal gown at the party when Dr. Carter makes them turn the music off. I don't care if it makes me a geek - I'm still excited to have been on one of my favorite shows), 'Politically Incorrect,' 'Northern Exposure,' 'Newsradio,' 'The X-files,' 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show,' 'Bewitched,' 'Malcolm in the Middle,' 'The Crocodile Hunter,' 'G-string Divas,' 'Will & Grace,'(it's my life. No, I mean it's really like my life.) 'Ren and Stimpy,' and 'South Park,' among others. I love any of the sex documentaries on HBO - especially 'Real Sex,' and I really love Desmond Morris' series on human sexuality, "The Human Animal." I watch Oprah occasionally, and really like her a lot. I watch MSNBC a great deal and called in once to defend Larry Flynt. I got on the air, too. I'll watch any news show - I'm obsessed with the news. Also, though I never kept track of her in life, I watched the coverage of Princess Diana's death and funeral for hours with a terrible feeling of sadness that I couldn't explain at all. I still don't know why, really. It surprised me. Favourite Artists: Monet, Marie Cassat, Seurat, Matisse, Hopper, Rembrandt, Bougereau, Bob & Kat Tudor, Renoir, Maxfield Parrish, Michelangelo, Degas, Waterhouse, Klimt, Norman Rockwell, Toulouse-Lautrec People I admire: Timothy Leary, Doris Wishman, Dr. Susan Block, Janet Reno, Jane Goodall, Joan of Arc, Larry Flynt, St. Francis of Assisi, Cardinal Spong, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Helen Keller, Mary Magdalene, Hillary Clinton, Annie Sprinkle, Florence Foster Jenkins, Frederick Douglass, James Carville, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ben Stein, John Walsh, Arianna Huffington, George Carlin Things I Adore: anything furry, ginger ale, playing pool, watching dolphins (and other porpoiseless wastes of time), hearing beautiful music, driving through the Southwest at night, touching baby creatures, eating fondue, changing people's minds Things I Abhor: Liars (especially the ones who are too pathetic to own up to it when you both know the truth), people who wear fur (why? they're insensitive, cruel, shallow, self-involved, vain losers), those who are incapable of insight who can't learn from their mistakes or empathize with others, people who won't use their turn signals, irresponsible drivers of SUV's, meanness, hypocrisy, getting spiderwebs on my face, people who ask women if their hair colour is real (it's not that there's anything wrong with colouring hair - it's that, whether it's real or not, it's a tremendously invasive and cheeky question and none of your bleeding business... who the hell do you think you are? Bugger off.), touching unidentified liquids on public surfaces, cruelty or indifference of any kind to animals - including failing to spay or neuter your pet, thoughtless breeders (of innocent babies both human and otherwise), poor hygiene, presumptuous behaviour, women who smoke during pregnancy, married people who cheat on their spouses, people who think they lose face by saying they were wrong when an apology is what they owe, that stupid Debbie Shutthef***upolis who used to be on "The View," her prissy, tight-assed replacement (which is why I quit watching), rodeo, veal ranchers, people who ogle others of the opposite sex when they're on a date (it's just rude.), direct sunlight, people who spit tobacco juice into ashtrays at bars, organizations that want to maintain tax-exempt status and still manipulate legislation to their liking, stepping in cat puke, that horrible bitch on the Carl's Junior commercial who eats her meal in the college library - I always picture slamming the heel of my hand into the hamburger just as she puts it to her mouth... who the hell does she think she is?? Also, people who say "Feb-YOO-ary" instead of "Feb-ROO-ary," "IN-surance" instead of "in-SUR-ance" and "nuc-YOO-lur" instead of "nuc-LE-ar." Cretins (crEH-tins, not crEE-tins, by the way). People I'm secretly attracted to: Bill Maher, John O'Hurley, Patrick Stewart, Kelsey Grammer (I really like men with quick wits and good diction), LL Cool J, Dennis Miller, David Blaine, Annie Lennox, K.D. Lang, Chow Yun-Fat, Arianna Huffington, Lyle Lovett, Ashleigh Banfield (from MSNBC), Lily Burana ;) Also, although it isn't sexual, I'm overcome with love for Dan Rather. Update: after September 11, I only love him more. Things I'm afraid of: Flying, choking to death on hard candy, contagious disease, antibiotic resistant bacteria, terminal illness, sudden death, War Odd facts about me: I order 3 beverages whenever I go to a restaurant - coffee, ginger ale (or OJ if it's breakfast), and water; I'm a terrible hypochondriac and always believe myself to be terminally ill; I keep the cremated remains of two people who were very dear to me on a Shelfmaster in the living room; I can't drink a canned soda if I leave it open and unattended for even a moment - I swallowed a bug that had fallen in once and it scarred me for life; if someone's pet doesn't like me it really, really hurts my feelings; I like to eat Gerber's rice cereal. It's good. Also, I once ate nothing but Cream of Wheat for a month. No one knows I'm: a) thinking of running for office at some point; b) an ordained minister, c) named after a stripper. |