Things I'm not ashamed of

Movies I love and get pissed off when they're on TV because of the crappy editing/dubbing: Heat; Goodfellas; Casino; The Big Labowski; the worst offender, Office Space.

Movies I love: Dodgeball; Sin City; Snatch; Equilibrium; Bad Santa; and some James Bond movies, too many to list or remember.

Bands I love and every one else is an idiot for not doing the same: Pearl Jam; Who; Doors; Queen; Tool; Floyd.

Bands I like and am not ashamed to admit: Collective Soul; Guster; Goo Goo Dolls; Stabbing Westward; Filter.

Books I have read and loved: The Hobbit and LOTR; anything by Toni Morrison; Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash; Richard Adams' Watership Down.

Books I have read, enjoyed, but am only now coming to appreciate: Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age. It's set in the immediate future, before Snow Crash, and world events of the last year or so have really made me realize what an accurate sense of the development of civilizations he has. All these books were written in the 90's, but you'd swear they were up-to-the-minute current. Oh yeah, he's f'ing hilarious too (scroll to the excerpt).

My husband is trying to get me to read Stephenson's Baroque Cycle books, I just haven't gotten there yet.

Those are all literature type books. I enjoy a good Tom Clancy now and again.

That reminds me:

I am also not ashamed to admit that I own an Xbox 360, and am currently about to finish Splinter Cell: Double Agent. Then it's on the the other game I got for Christmas, Call of Duty 3. Then I'll rent the latest Hitman one. Then maybe Halo 3 will be out finally.

Crafts I have going on in the background pretty steadily, it's just a matter of finding the time to do it. I have a cross stitch going for my Grandma. I am honestly worried she won't be alive when I finally get it done. It's got butterflies on it. It's purty. I also have a mosaic going. I am currently only using glass tessarae, but I think I may give marble or unglazed ceramic tile a try too. I am also in the design stages of a washi project (that link is an example of what I'm talking about): making a bill organizer that goes on your desk. Yes, you can buy those for less than I'll probably spend on paper, but I'll have made it with my own hands! I have also decided that the foyer needs an origami mobile. A big one. We're talking two stories to fill here. It will probably be tall and skinny, because a lot of the space is tall and skinny. Makes sense, right?