Jed's Interests: Art Appreciation
(Last change:
23 December, 2003.)
My tastes are somewhat eclectic. Here are some forms of art I enjoy:
- reading fiction, especially literary sf; also especially the works of
these authors (among many others):
- listening to folk, a cappella, bluegrass, and other music—favorite performers include:
- eating at such highly-recommended places as
- Pasand (Santa Clara)
- Sue's Indian Cuisine (Mountain View)
- Palermo (Palo Alto)
- La Costeña (Mountain View)
- Señor Taco (Palo Alto)
- The Opposition (Stratford Upon Avon)
- theatre in general—some favorite shows include:
- A Little Night Music, by Stephen Sondheim
- Deathtrap
- Equus
- Our Country's Good, by Timberlake Wertenbaker
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard
- Sweeney Todd
- Talking With...
- The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
- Yeomen of the Guard, by Gilbert & Sullivan
- movies
a few of my favorites (with links to the IMDB) are:
- comic books, including
- A Distant Soil
- Albedo (specifically the Erma Felna stories)
- Amy Unbounded
- Castle Waiting
- older Cerebus
- Finder
- Flaming Carrot
- Love and Rockets
- Sandman
(and anything else by Neil Gaiman)
- Stinz
- Strangers in Paradise
- Stray Bullets
- reading poetry, especially if it's by
- Margaret Atwood
- Wendy Cope
- ee cummings
- T. S. Eliot
- Robert Frost
- George Hitchcock
- A. A. Milne
- Dylan Thomas
- Sharon Olds
- Richard Wilbur
Jed Hartman <logos@kith.org>