Sports (playing, coaching, watching), Movies, Reading, Writing, Poker, Driving, Relaxing
I'd like to meet:
This is where everyone writes that they want to meet Ghandi or Mother Theresa or Albert Schweitzer to impress everyone with how enlightened and educated they are --- I want to meet porn stars, CIA agents, Kelly Clarkson and Bill Clinton.
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Music:
GNR, Zep, Stones, Audioslave, The Killers, Hendrix, Clapton, Cream, Allman Bros., Billy Joel, Britney, The Boss, Bowie, D. Mode, Duran Duran, Jay-Z, Linkin Park, Kanye, Kelly, Lou Rawls (Barry - overrated, Lou - underrated), Metallica, Aerosmith, The Moody Blues, Pumpkins, The White Stripes, Pearl Jam, Prince, RHCP, Velvet Revolver, The Who, Queens of the Stone Age, Elvis, Heart, Johnny Cash, STP, Wolfmother
Movies:
Young Frankenstein, The Producers (original), MASH, 1776, Hoosiers, Viva Las Vegas, Full Metal Jacket, 25th Hour, Swingers, Anchorman, King of New York, Tombstone, Hoodlum, Slapshot, Caddyshack, The Jerk, Glengarry Glen Ross, Old School, Wedding Crashers, North Dallas Forty (the movie Any Given Sunday tried to be and failed miserably), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, The Cable Guy, Bad Santa, Trading Places, The Big Lebowski, Private Parts, Where the Boys Aren't 7 and 10, South Park, The Bad News Bears (original), Best in Show, Back to School, Easy Money, Fletch, The Odd Couple, Arthur, Office Space, The Last Samurai, Braveheart, Batman Begins, Interview With The Vampire, Mary Poppins, Debbie Does Dallas, Se7en, The Godfather I,II (I'll get whacked if I list III, but I did like it), A Few Good Men, Goodfellas, Fight Club, Snatch, True Romance, Glory, Fetish Fanatic, New Jack City, Star Wars IV,V,VI (I,II, III were ok), Rocky I,II,IV (III was good and was where the franchise turned from drama to action/adventure, V was not bad), Showgirls, Lord of the G-Strings, The Usual Suspects, Bad Girls 6, X-Men I,II (III was garbage), Napoleon Dynamite, Spider-Man I,II, Basic, Field of Dreams, The Waterboy, Forced Vengenance, Bitch Banging Bitch, The Octagon, The Life Aquatic, Kill Bill Vol. I and II, Evil Pink, Bloodsport, Clerks, Silence of the Lambs, The Dead Zone, The Shining, Me, Myself and Irene, Beer League, Borat, Wall Street, Beerfest
Television:
Boston Legal, Rescue Me, Heroes, Dexter, 24, Amazing Race, Project Runway, Family Guy, The Simpsons, My Name Is Earl, Bones, South Park, CSI: NY, Celebrity Fit Club, The Closer, Surreal Life, House, Las Vegas, King of the Hill, Everybody Hates Chris, Entourage, 30 Rock, Drawn Together, Venture Bros., 'Til Death, The Winner, Futurama repeats, Curl Girls
Books:
Hannibal (so much better than the movie), Journey Into Darkness (true tales from an FBI profiler), Jihad In Brooklyn (how the NYPD broke up the plans of extremists to bomb the subways), Stranger Than Fiction, Choke, Lullaby, Fight Club, Dead Center (true story of a sniper in the Viet Nam War), Timothy Zahn's Star Wars trilogy (takes place after Jedi, with Lucas's blessing), Interview With the Vampire (different ending than the movie), The Dead Zone (movie and book were equally good), On The Beach (a classic), Hammer of the Gods (Led Zeppelin), The Godfather (a little long), The Natural (better than the movie), North Dallas Forty (movie was very different, both were good), The Exorcist (a scary read), Underneath It All (Traci Lords), Sex, Lies and Headlocks (behind the scenes of pro wrestling, very entertaining), Pitching Around Fidel (Cuban baseball), History of Colored Base Ball (the title says it), Cinderella Story (Bill Murray), William Wallace (the real story), The Silence of the Lambs (book and movie equally good), Shadows of the Empire (another Star Wars book, set in the time between Empire and Jedi)
