watching stupid reality T.V., playing the piano, reading, swimming, treadmilling, doing crossword and Sudoku puzzles, going to hockey games, internetting, dancing, playing NTN Trivia with mom and sis (it's a ritual), playing Scrabble against myself (ensuring a win), and cooking
The alive ones: Dan Brown, Hilary Clinton, Simon Cowell, Billy Joel, Elton John, Angelina Jolie, Nelson Mandela, Kevin Spacey, Patrick Dempsey, The Conchords Duo...The ones I would have liked to have met: Erma Bombeck, Leonardo Da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Pope John Paul II, Princess Diana, Luther Vandross...
My faves really run the gamut: Aerosmith, Alanis Morissette, Alicia Keys, Anastasia, Anita Baker, Annie Lennox, Avril Lavigne, Basia, Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, Brian Adams, Bruce Springsteen, BTO, Carly Simon, Carole King, Chicago, Coldplay, Dire Straits, Duran Duran, The Eagles, Earth Wind and Fire, Elton John, Faith Hill, Fleetwood Mac, Green Day, The Guess Who, Heart, Il Divo, James Taylor, Jane Siberry, Jeffrey Gaines, Jethro Tull, Jimmy Buffet, John Cougar Melloncamp, John Lennon, Journey, Led Zeppelin, Luther Vandross, Madonna, Mana, Manhattan Transfer, Maroon 5, Miles Davis, Neil Young, Nickelback, Norah Jones, The Ojays, Ottomar Liebert, Paul McCartney, Paulina Rubio, Phil Collins, Pink Floyd, The Police, Queen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rod Stewart, The Rolling Stones, Sade, Santana, Sarah Brightman, Sara Bareilles, Seal, Shaggy, Sheryl Crow, Simple Plan, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Supertramp, Tim MacGraw, Tom Petty, U2, Usher, Willie and Lobo, Yellowcard
Adaptation, All That Jazz, Almost Famous, Amelie, American Beauty, American Psycho, American Splendor, Animal House, Annie Hall, As Good As It Gets, Bennie and Joon, Big, Boys Don't Cry, Braveheart, The Bridges of Madison County, Bridget Jones' Diary, Broadcast News, Chicago, Children of a Lesser God, The Cider House Rules, A Clockwork Orange, The Crying Game, Dead Man Walking, Dead Poets Society, Driving Miss Daisy, The English Patient, Escape From Alcatraz, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Eyes Wide Shut, Fargo, A Few Good Men, Fried Green Tomatoes, Girl Interrupted, The Gladiator, Goodfellas, Good Morning Viet Nam, Good Will Hunting, The Green Mile, Hannah and Her Sisters, Heartburn, Howard's End, I Am Sam, Kissing Jessica Stein, Leaving Las Vegas, Life is Beautiful, Like Water For Chocolate, Lost in Translation, Love Actually, Men of Honor, Mermaids, Monster, Moonlight and Valentino, Moonstruck, Moulin Rouge, Muriel's Wedding,The Notebook, Pay it Forward, The Piano, Pretty Woman, Rainman, Riding in Cars With Boys, A Room With a View, Saturday Night Fever, The Scent of a Woman, Sense and Sensibility, The Shawshank Redemption, Silence of the Lambs, Sliding Doors, Something's Gotta Give, Speed, Stand and Deliver, Terms of Endearment, Thelma and Louise, The Thin Red Line, Tommy, Trainspotting, The Usual Suspects, What About Bob, When Harry Met Sally, Young Frankenstein...and the list goes on...
Flight of the Conchords, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Seinfeld, The Office, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
The Da Vinci Code, Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Lovely Bones, The Firm, Maus I and II, The Notebook, Bridges of Madison County, Catcher in the Rye, The Odyssey, The Joy Luck Club, The English Patient, Schindler's List, Women Who Run with the Wolves, Forever Erma, The Properties of Water, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Celestine Prophecy, Bridget Jones' Diary