Writing, reading, photography,cooking and food, the outdoors, camping (when I can), travel, movies, TV, music, live music and shows, just having fun.
Oh, Jimmy Buffett, Clive Cussler, Gordon Ramsay, Angelina Jolie, Robin Williams, Louis L'Amour (if he were alive), Johnny Depp, Jerry Bruckheimer (just to find out how he does it all), John Wayne (if he were alive), Paula Deen, Rachael Ray, Stephen King, just to name a few
Everything (except opera, at least the vocal part -- I like the orchestral music -- and most hip-hop; it all sounds the same). I particularly like country, Southern rock, blues (you can tell by some of the friend connections)-- especially female blues singers who have really big voices (I like women's voices, not little girl voices)-- movie music, folk and Celtic (which can make you want to cry and dance at the same time). I like listening to local performers and those talented folks who haven't made the "big time" but sound better than those who have.
There's not enough space to name them all. Forrest Gump, Casablanca, Titanic, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Magnificent Seven, Tombstone, The Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre, all the Indiana Jones and Star Wars movies, anything with lots of action, adventure and witty dialogue. I like comedies, even some musicals. I'll even watch chick flicks.I also have guilty pleasures, such as Kill Bill, From Dusk to Dawn, Andy Sidaris movies, lots of B-movies and videos, the kind that usually go straight to DVD then to cable (often Cinemax), then to the five-for-$5 bin.
The Food Network, all CSIs, Criminal Minds, Bones, Two and a Half Men, American Idol, My Name is Earl, Survivor, Hell's Kitchen, Gordon Ramsay's The F Word, MASH and -- surprise - 7th Heaven and Days of our Lives.
Again, almost anything. Cussler, Clancy, L'Amour, Bernard Cornwell, Matthew Reilly, Stephen King, Ernest Hemingway, Richard A. Knaak. I have a weakness for adventure stories, fast-paced novels, historical novels as well as nonfiction. I also like Dan Jenkins and comic novels, and I enjoy reading the works by the folks at Authors Den. I adore old pulp stories, too. You'd be surprised how much of that stuff carries over into today's books, movies and TV... to HTML for AuthorsDen.com --
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My Dad and Mom. There are lots of folks I admire, but few I'd call my hero.