Writing, acting, baseball, and silliness.
I'm happy with the relationships that I already have. I'm not looking to meet anyone here. I just want to read the blogs of a friend and occasionally drop a blog myself (so to speak).
Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Johnny Cash, U2, Beethoven, John Coltrane (" . . . a love supreme . . . a love supreme . . . a love supreme . . . "), Aimee Mann, The Who, Louis Armstrong, Bob Dylan, Marty Robbins (El Paso and Devil Woman), Roy Orbison, The Rolling Stones, Charlie Parker, Loretta Lynn (Van Lear Rose), just about anything created in the 1980's, no matter how odd or trivial or downright cheesy (ie., "Take on Me", "Our House in the Middle of the Street", "Jump", Midnight Oil, much of Journey). I tend to like any song that challenged in the Friday Night Video Fights on MTV back in the 80's, even if the songs are non-melodic embarrassments that contain the kind of writing that might result from a 6th grade poetry assignment. Maybe there's something to be said for 6th grade poetry.
"On the Waterfront", "Scenes from a Marriage", "Jaws", "Theatre of Blood", "Dawn of the Dead", "Shawn of the Dead", "The Shining", "Trainspotting", "Five Easy Pieces", "The Last Detail", "Dog Day Afternoon", "Angels in America", "Million Dollar Baby", "Batman Begins", "Young Frankenstein", "Manhattan", "Annie Hall", "The Purple Rose of Cairo", "Love and Death", "The Bicycle Thief", "Being John Malkovich", "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
Curb Your Enthusiasm, King of the Hill, The Simpsons, The Daily Show, Nightline, NOW (on PBS).
"The Milagro Beanfield War", "Catch 22", "Slaughterhouse Five", "On the Road", "The Dharma Bums", "Jonathan Livingston Seagull", "The Sun Also Rises", "A Farewell to Arms", "Jane Eyre", "Frankenstein", "The Corporation".
Plays: "Curse of the Starving Class", "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Camino Real", "Buried Child", "True West", "Glengarry Glenn Ross", "Angels in America", "Breath Boom", "The Dreamer Examines His Pillow", "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea", "Hamlet", "The Tempest", "MacBeth", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
Tennessee Williams, Lou Gehrig, Jackie Robinson, Bruce Springsteen, Meryl Streep, Sam Shephard, Amy Goodman (of Democracy Now!), Martin Luther King, Jr., all great theatre artists who never became famous but loved what they did and gave everything they had and worked with passion and integrity and intelligence, my father, my brother.