Hanging with my wife... Yankee baseball... NY history... waterskiing... good massages... spending unhealthy amounts of time on the internet... analyzing crazy reality show personalities and fantasizing about which of them I'd like to lock in a house together (come on, a show featuring the Duggar cult-family, Mike Booger from Big Brother, Vincent from Project Runway, either of the Coreys, that Bridezilla from season one who couldn't find her marriage license, and any combination of NY/LipChap/Sumthin aka Shittin' from Flavor of Love locked in a house with no windows would be HIGH ENTERTAINMENT!).... nacho cheese Chalupas, no sour cream please... Haagen Daaz coffee ice cream... road trippin'... Martha effin' Stewart... hating Regis Philbin and loving Kelly Ripa - and the connundrum I face when their show is on. Also, lately I've become fascinated with religious cults and reading the stories of ex-members. DUDE.
adopt your own virtual pet!
Flavor Flav, Big Rick, & the hoochies from "Flavor of Love"... anyone who has appeared in a reineactment on a crime show... Cookie Monster... Tim Gunn... former Amish people.Peeps I'd like to meet before they die: Bob Dylan, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, Michael J. Fox, Bob Sheppard (let's face it, he's on his way out. And it will be a sad, sad, day for Yankee fans). I guess I want to meet a lot of old men named Bob, and a few other icons.... there are probably more I can't think of.... ------------------------------------------------ People I would NOT like to meet: Bigots, assholes, and people whose myspace profiles I cannot read because their background is too dark and their layouts are wonky as hell. Because really, what's the point? Even I don't have that kind of time.
classic tv theme songs and one-hit wonders from the 80s, Dylan, Kings of Leon, Crowded House/Finn Bros, Coldplay, Tribe/Q-Tip, early Depeche Mode, New Order, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, They Might Be Giants, JayZ, Eminem, U2, Michael Penn, Tears For Fears, obscure British music from the 90s. Kelly Clarkson RULES. Madonna will always rule.
Anything on the Lifetime Movie Network starring Valerie Bertenelli or Meredith Baxter-Birney, "Mother May I Sleep With Danger" starring one Miss Tori Spelling. ----------------------------------------------------- FOR REAL: Fargo, Boogie Nights, Bad Santa, Office Space, 61*, State & Main, Dick, Flirting With Disaster, Blood Simple, Jackie Brown, Karate Kid, Primal Fear, Igby Goes Down, Grass, Soapdish, Raising Arizona, Steel Magnolias, A League Of Their Own, Finding Nemo, 80s teen flicks (esp. Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Just One of the Guys, The Goonies, 16 Candles, and the Vacation series) and almost anything with Michael Keaton (esp. Night Shift). Point Break will always be a guilty pleasure... "THIS...IS...YOUR WAKEUP CALL! I.... AM...AN... F..B..I... AGENT!!" Yeah, Keanu's got chops! Also, speaking of guilty pleasures... it's an OUTRAGE that The Legend Of Billie Jean has not been released on DVD... someone needs to get on that. FAIR IS FAIR!!
That episode of Little House on the Prairie where Nellie fakes being paralyzed after falling off Laura's horse, but Laura totally busts her and pushes her down the hill in her wheelchair.Also: Almost all reality (especially The Amazing Race, Big Brother, Project Runway, Top Chef, Little People Big World, Bridezillas, & American Idol), Roseanne, Growing Pains, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart (the original, not the one with the Darryls), Dragnet (late 60s style, the ones where Joe Friday relentlessly pursues pot-smoking hippies), Strangers With Candy, Cold Case Files, City Confidential, Forensic Files, Days of Our Lives, Judge Judy, Deal or No Deal, really bad infomercials, AbFab, You Can't Do That On Television, Fat Camp on MTV.
all David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs (even though I believe Burroughs' "memoirs" are actually novels, whatev), any and all books on the Yankees and baseball history in general (esp. Bronx Zoo by Sparky Lyle), A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers) , trashy entertainment magazines.
I prefer Subway to Quiznos.