Sports--Baseball-NY Mets,Football-NY Giants,Hockey-NY Rangers,Soccer (still learning the game!!!!)and NASCAR (Driver-Dale Earnhardt Jr.). Reading (if I don't pass the third page of a particular book, put it down and find another).Music (duh!!!).
Salsa!!!!!Hands down!!!!Classic Rock like The Doors,Deep Purple (Rule Supreme!!!!),Jimi Hendrix,Santana,Genisis, The Eagles,AC/DC,Judas Priest,Led Zeppellin,Billy Joel,Stevie Ray Vaughn. Classic Bolero artists like Jose Jose, Tito Rodriguez,Cheo Feliciano!!!!Today's artists like Alejandro Fernandez, Fiel De La Vega, Linkin Park, Muse, Nine Inch Nails,Mana, Alejandro Sanz,Luis Fonsi,Foo Fighters,Muse,Arcade Fire,Rocco Delucca and the Burden and now COUNTRY MUSIC (THANK YOU HONEY!!!)!
300,Casablanca,High Noon, Rocky,Caddyshack,Blazing Saddles,Star Trek 2,3,and 4,12 Angry Men,Spaghetti Westerns starring Clint Eastwood, The Seventh Samaurai,City of God,Road to Perdition,Saving Private Ryan,Gladiator (hmmmm now where did I left that disc at?),Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2,X-Men 1 and 2, The Star Wars Trilogy and the 2 and 3 Chapter of the Prequel,The Matrix,Y Tu Mama Tambien,Manhunter (William Peterson's best film before CSI!!!!),Silence of the Lambs,Run Lola Run,The Godfather and The Godfather 2,The Magnificent Seven,Fight Club,25th Hour,Pulp Fiction,Man on Fire, Miracle,Usual Suspects,Slapshot,Batman Begins,The Hustler, Pool Hall Junkies,Buena Vista Social Club,Fania All-Stars Our Latin Thing,Five Deadly Venoms,Kid With the Golden Arms,Ninja vs. Shaolin,Shaolin Master-Killer with Gordon Liu, Battle Royale,Beyond The Mat,Hellboy,Pan's Labyrinth,Flags of Our Fathers,Letters From Iwo Jima,Little Children,Heat, The Score,Lord of The Rings Trilogy,King Kong (Peter Jackson directed version),Casino Royale (best Bond movie ever in my opinion!),Munich,Vanilla Sky,Rocky (even though it takes place in Philidelphia),Hi-Fidelity,School of Rock, Minority Report,Criminal,Hamlet (Mel Gibson version), Macbeth (Sir Ian McKellon version),Henry V (Richard Branagh version),The Constant Gardner,The Matador,Akira, The Inside Man and dammit there's so much more and I have to come back another time to add more titles!
Baseball (NY Mets Games on SNY or CW11),Hockey (NY Rangers on MSG Network),Football (NY Giants),NASCAR (watching Dale Earnhardt Jr.-soon to be X next year!),Soccer (NY Red Bulls or FIFA World Cup),Basball Tonight on ESPN,NFL Countdown Shows on either ESPN,FOX,CBS,or on NBC,Reaper (on CW 11),Heroes,Smallville,Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe,CSI LV,TNA Wrestling or watching Wrestling Classic Matches,The Soup (on the E!Channel),Man vs. Wild(on Discovery Channel),Family Guy,The Simpsons (still on television!),Robot Chicken,60 Minutes,Documentaries,Re-runs of MXC (on Spike!),Pardon The Interuption on ESPN (if I have the day off from work),Man vs. Wild, Survivorman,Last One Standing (all three are on Discovery Channel),and NY1 News (goota know the weather and traffic over here in the city).
All time favs are Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Neverwhere,Dan Brown's Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code,Bodega Dreams,Spider Town (no longer in print),Tom Clancy Novels with Jack Ryan.Finished reading Lewis Black's Nothing's Sacred and Shoko Tendo's Yakuza Moon:Memoir of A Gangster's Daughter awhile back. Read Warren Ellis' Crooked Little Vein (sick stuff but a damn good read),finally finished reading Tom Callahan's latest work "THE GM:THE INSIDE STORY OF A DREAM JOB AND THE NIGHTMARES THAT GO WITH IT--Based on Retired NY Giants GM Ernie Accorsi last year with the team and a retrospect of his upbringing in Hershey PA,his love for Penn State,his experience working for the Baltimore Colts,Clevland Browns,and his last stop at East Rutherford).Love the book and has kept me sane during my two days stint in Jury Duty!Just finsihed reading Richard Grossinger's NEW YORK METS:ETHNOGRAPHY,MYTH AND SUBTEXT!!!! NOW I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO READ NEXT!!!
My parents who stuck by me and made sure I finished high school and keeping my word to my late father to finish college. My middle older sister for beating the odds in raising two kids as a single mom and earning her master's. Most of all my late grandfather,Don Arturo, who kept my family together until his passing!!!!!I miss him so much!!!!