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   What
Turns Me on?
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What turns me on?
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GOOD POETRY |
- Metaphysical: (John
Donne & his ultimate
defiance,
Andrew Marvell,
Robert Herrick)
- Romanticism: (John Keats,
William
Wordsworth)
- Transcendentalism:
(R. W. Emerson, H. D. Thoreau)
- 20th, Modern and Post-Modern: (Walt Whitman,
T. S. Eliot,
e. e. cummings,
Edgar Lee Masters,
Sojourner Truth); eserver.org; Thai literature,
prose and poetry and so on. (Oh, I kind of like
Shakespeare,
too!)
- Writing Thai poetry. |
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GOOD PROSE |
Marcel
Proust's
À la recherche du temps perdu,
Edith Wharton's The Age of
Innocence, Tagore's Gitanjali, a literary technique called
"stream of
consciousness," stylistic prose, etc. |
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LANGUAGES |
Thai, English, Pali, Sanskrit, Khmer,
BIG words, writing prose and poetry, reading,
translating Thai poetry, Thai songs
and Thai texts into English and
vice versa,
English and Thai grammar rules |
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BOOKS |
Annual book fairs, bookstores, good Thai-Eng & Eng-Thai dictionaries
(I have more than 50 in my collection), the smell of good & new
books, stationery obsession |
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FINE & VISUAL
ART - DESIGN |
All of
Frank Lloyd Wright's works, Gustav Klimt's paintings, graphic
design, painting, the arts of make-up,
minimalist graphics design,
straight lines, curves, Hogart's Line, stained glass art,
Christianity art, Greek sculpture, ancient ruins all over the world, colors, color theories,
color applications,
traditional Thai art, Indian art, Hindu art, Bali art, Native
American art, Modern art, primitive art,
H.R. Giger, the Surreal & the Fantastique.
More here
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FOOD & COOKING |
Thai, French, Italian, hearty America, indigenous, good bakeries & desserts, pastries, spices, herbs, sharp quality chef knives, kitchen
gadgets (e.g. Ingenio
non-stick cooking set -- I own and love it!), tequila-lime-salt,
margarita |
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MUSIC |
All thing Madonna, Enya, Kitaro,
Marilyn Manson, Jazz, New Age, Instrumental, solo violin, medieval
choirs, Beethoven's Ode to Joy,
Carmina Burana,
Michael Nyman (esp. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her lover's
Soundtrack), Eyes Wide Shut's Soundtrack, traditional
Thai verse chanting, Indian chanting,
religious chanting, Japanese Bamboo flute,
Twin Peaks TV Soundtrack, Julie
Cruise |
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FILMS |
Peter
Greenaway's The cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover,
surrealistic films, art films,
Dead Poet Society
&
this note, Baz Lurhmann's
Romeo
and Juliet, Fosse's All That Jazz, West Side Story, Les Mis,
Cabaret, gay male
adult flix, gay flix (Beautiful Thing, I Think I Do, Longtime
Companion, Maurice, The Object of My Affection, etc.)
Jacobean plays & films (Titus), and so on |
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MUSICALS |
All that Jazz, Bye Bye Birdie, Cabaret,
Chicago, A Chorus Line, Evita, Fame,
Fiddler On the Roof, Flower Drum Song, A Funny Thing
Happened On the Way To the Forum, Gigi, The Goodbye Girl,
Grease!, Hair, Hello, Dolly!, Jesus Christ
Superstar, The King and I, La Cage Aux Folles,
Les Misérables, Little Shop of Horrors, The Music Man,
My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, Oliver!, On the Town,
Paint Your Wagon, The Phantom of the Opera, Pippin,
Ragtime, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The
Sound of Music, South Pacific, Tommy,
Victor/Victoria, West Side Story |
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TV PROGRAMS |
Queer as Folk,
Discovery Health,
TLC,
HBO Documentaries (e.g.
America
Undercover),
MTV, Oscar,
Golden Globes,
Grammy,
the Olympics opening & closing ceremonies, Miss Universe
& Miss USA telecasts,
Ballroom dancing contests, Frank Herbert's Dune, Food TV (esp.
Alton Brown's
Good
Eats, Iron Chef and
Anthony Bourdain's
A Cook's
Tour), Sundance
Channel, IFC,
PETA's compassionate late-night shows, Style, National Geographic,
Cirque du Soleil telecasts |
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SPORTS |
Men gymnastics (especially Sean
Townsend:-) and swimming, women gymnastics |
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MALE PHYSIQUE |
Eyes, teeth, sideburns, neck, chest, torso, abs, biceps, triceps,
thighs, buttocks |
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GAY... |
Pride Parades,
Orgy, Ménage à Trois, leather fetish |
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ISMS & CULTS |
Satanism,
Snake Worshipping, Existentialism,
Perfectionism |
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FASHION |
Versace, Thiery Mugler, John Galeano,
Jean-Paul Gaultier,
Alexander McQueen,
fashion shows, Catwalk, satin, chiffon, leather jackets & pants, latex
hot pants, men's underwear, cool tank tops |
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PERFUME &
SCENTS |
Chanel's Egoiste, Davidoff's Cool Water, Dunhill's Desire, Dior's
Salvatore Dali, vanilla, lavender, scent of the soil after rain, scent
of dry hay, incenses, food aroma (freshly baked bread, cooked jasmine
rice) |
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PSYCHOLOGY |
The sciences of left & right brains, self-tests,
O.C.D, Mental
Disorders, a sense of perfection,
order of things |
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THE FOLLOWING
MEN |
-Thai:
some of 'em
- Non-Thai: Lots of 'em:-) To wit:
Anderson Cooper, Keanu Reeves (especially in Speed),
Jeff Conger,
Bill Derringer, Cary Elwes, Matt Keeslar
(esp. in
Dune), Jack Davenport,
Chris Evans (Not Another Teen Movie), Bear Grylls, Josh
Bernstein, David Bromstad, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Gary Cooper, George Peppard,
Gene Kelly, Queer as Folk's Gail Harold, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Guy
Pierce (esp. in Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, Alex
Dimitriades (in this outrageous Greece gay flick Head on),
Austin Peck, Ben Affleck, School Ties guys, Rob Lowe, Colin
Farrell, Michael Weatherly, Luke Wilson, Tim Daly, David Duchovny, Freddie Prinze Jr., Jerry
O'Connell, Jim Carrey, Johnny Depp, Stephen Snedden,
Matthew Mcconaghy, Peter Krause, Tobey Maguire, Tom Welling, Val
Kilmer, Greg Kinnear, Joaquin Phoenix, Johnny Knoxville,
Michael Landes,
male models - male physique,
Final Fantasy:
The Spirits Within's
Captain Gray Edwards,
Will & Grace's Eric McCormack,
David,
cowboys,
International Male models,
brand name male models,
Curt Cobain,
Dr. Brady Barr (NatGeo),
the God Shiva, etc. |
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THE FOLLOWING
WOMEN |
Madonna,
Martha Graham, Bette Davis,
the Goddess Durga (Gali--Shiva's wife), Helen
Mirren,
Hyacinth, Borg Queen, Cat Woman |
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COMPUTER &
INTERNET |
T1 connection, Broadband Cable connection (what I use now), Net surfing, Web page creation,
Collins
COBUILD on CD-ROM, Merriam-Webster
Collegiate Dictionary CD-ROM,
Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary CD-ROM Version 3.0, digital
painting, digital photography, photo editing, my 6 x 8 Wacom Intuos Graphics Tablet Special
Edition, Olympus D-490 Z, MS PhotoDraw 2000 V.2, Corel Painter 6, PC
fonts (old-looking typefaces like Jean Janon's Garamond and all
the modern-looking fonts like those dotted ones), extremely quiet
keyboard, Disk Defraggers (my fave is Norton's Speed Disk), watching
the graphic of a hard disk being defragged, watching PC viruses being
quarantined |
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TRAVELING |
Thailand, USA, Canada, Mexico |
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MISCELLANIES |
Museums, art galleries,
Arts Silpakorn, seas, oceans, steam, bath houses, saunas, Julie Andrew's accent, choreography, calligraphy, people's names
& handwritings, campfires, slumber parties,
snakes,
scorpions,
dancing,
silver-metallic-liquid-looking objects, bags with lots of compartments,
pictures of dead trees, autumn, sunrises, sunsets, dusk, magic |
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