Disclaimer: Nobody off of myspace! I like my existing friends, am NOT looking to date and would rather meet folks the old-fashioned way anyway. So, no messages, please! I'm sure you're nice and all... :)
A day without music is a sad thing. The development of mass music storage and mini players is a wonderful thing for someone like me. :)
Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Etta James, John Coltrane, Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, Boyz II Men, Usher, K-Ci & JoJo, Erykah Badu, Aaliyah, Al Green, Babyface, Toni Braxton, John Legend, Black Eyed Peas, Justin Timberlake, Prince (Musicology!), The Bee Gees, Ozomatli, Sean Paul, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Doors, Rolling Stones, Elvis, Chuck Berry, The Beatles, Eminem, Snoop, Dre, Tupac, De La Soul, The Roots, Korn, Green Day, Good Charlotte, Blink 182, Incubus, Nirvana, Bloc Party, Rage Against the Machine, Puddle of Mudd, Juanes, Carlos Santana, Marc Anthony, Frankie Negron, Gilberto Santarosa, Luis Miguel, Ricardo Arjona, Los Panchos, Victor Manuelle.
I really don't know where I have found the time to watch so many movies and remember so many lines. Yes, I'm that person who quotes movies all the time...but I swear I blend it in pretty well! :)
Some of my all-time favorites are:
Back to the Future - "Who the hell is John F. Kennedy?"
Born in East L.A. - "Anything I want..."
The Breakfast Club - "I wear the required uniform!"
*Coming to America - "He's just a man I met in the restroom."
Dirty Dancing - "I carried a watermelon."
El Bello Durmiente - "Paz! Mucha Paz!"
Grease - "Long distance running..." :)
La Bamba - "Bob-o?"
Look Who's Talking - "hehe...lunch!"
The Lost Boys - "You're eating worms, Michael."
Overboard - "I'm not going back in the water barrel!"
Predator - "La selva se lo llevo!"
Pretty Woman - "I would've stayed for two thousand." - "I would've paid four."
Robocop 1 - "Can you fly, Bobby?"
*Rocky (IV is my favorite!) Can we pretend the 5th one never happened and skip to "Rocky Balboa?" - "Ding. Ding."
Starman - "I watched you very carefully. Red light stop, green light go, yellow light go very fast."
Terminator (just 1 and 2--the 3rd sucks arse) - "On your feet, soldier!"
Top Gun - "She's lost that loving feeling" - "I hate it when she does that!"
Twins - "It's like looking into a mirror.."
Then there's:
10 Things I Hate About You
25th Hour
300
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
*The Break Up
A Bronx Tale
*A Christmas Story
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
American Beauty
American History X
*The American President
*Anchorman
Angelitos Negros
Apocalypto
*Armageddon
As Good as It Gets
*Bad Santa
The Basketball Diaries
The Big Lebowsky
Blast from the Past
Blood Diamond
The Bourne Identity
Boyz n the Hood
*Braveheart
Can't Hardly Wait
Cast Away
City of Angels
Closer
*Clueless
Cocktail
Crash
The Crow
*Delirious
The Departed
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Dogma
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Dumb and Dumber
Edward Scissor Hands
Elizabeth
The Emperor's New Groove
Encino Man
Enemy at the Gates
The English Patient
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Father of the Bride (1 and 2)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fever Pitch
Field of Dreams
*The Fifth Element
*Finding Nemo
For Love of the Game
Forrest Gump
Frida
Gandhi
Ghost
*Gladiator
Goodfellas
Good Will Hunting
The Grudge (1 and 2)
*Guess Who
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Happy Feet
*Hitch
*The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I Am Sam
In Her Shoes
*The Incredibles
Interview with the Vampire
The Jacket
*Jerry Maguire - BRINGS BACK A SPECIAL MEMORY :)
The Karate Kid
Kindergarten Cop
*The Last Dragon - Leroy & Sho Nuff!
*The Last Samurai
*A League of Their Own
Liar Liar
Little Miss Sunshine
*Love and Basketball
A Man Apart
*Man on Fire
Master of the Flying Guillotine
The Matrix
Memoirs of a Geisha
Million Dollar Baby
Mrs. Doubtfire
Munich
*My Best Friend's Wedding
Napoleon Dyn-o-mite
North Country
Office Space
An Officer and a Gentleman
Old School
Othello
The Other Sister
The Painted Veil
Philadelphia
Platoon
The Pursuit of Happyness
Ray
*Eddie Murphy's Raw
Redemption Lost - More info
*Remember the Titans
Romeo + Juliet
Saturday Night Fever
*Save the Last Dance
Scarface
Shakespeare in Love
Shawshank Redemption
Short Circuit
*Shrek (1 & 2)
Signs
Sin City
Something New
Speed
Splendor in the Grass
The Story of Us
Stranger than Fiction.
Swingers
Tears of the Sun
Thank You for Smoking
*Troy
V for Vendetta
Waking Life
Walk the Line
We Were Soldiers
The Wedding Singer
What Dreams May Come
What Women Want
*When Harry Met Sally
The Wood
X-Men
Zoolander
It's ridiculous, really.
"Friends" will never be the same for me now, but I will continue to love it for both of us. I will always remember our last Friends Clap. :)
Aside from my favorites above: The Simpsons, Entourage, Sex and the City, Scrubs, South Park, Daria (an old fav), and I get caught up in the ocassional BAD but oh-so-good reality show a la "Flavor of Love."
Everyone should read: The Bible
Favorites:
1984 - George Orwell
Othello - William Shakespeare
The Art of War - Sun-Tzu (Thank you, Chuckles )
Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo (Thanks, Gbrs )
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
(Thanks, Simran !)
The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein
Always Running - Luis J. Rodriguez
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member - Sanyika Shakur
The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Romeo & Juliet - William Shakespeare
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster...
Lieutenant Ehren Watada - for having the discipline to stand up for what he believes in and not being afraid to question his country. The founders of our country set us up with the responsibility to do so, after all.
My brothers and my sister. Talking about the love and respect I have for these kids always gets me a little choked up.
Nestor ...I always say this, but the world truly is a better place for having him in it. He is an old soul. Full of kindness and honor. Insightful writer, awesome runner, and such a funny guy!
Carlos ...my "yo se, yo se!" :) A true artist's spirit. He inspires me with how dedicated he is to doing what he loves--putting in so many hours and so much effort to do his best. So funny and so open, direct, and loving.
Erika ...growing up too quickly for me. Such a beautiful young lady. Loves to take care of loved ones, adventurous, funny, and strong. She is not only my sister, she is my friend. As girly as she is, she's a pretty tough cookie, too! And she wouldn't be her without her laughs that come straight from the heart.