LIVE MUSIC, catching up with friends, old movie-musicals, being super nice to people, DISCO, things that make you say WTF?!, drag queens, being a rockstar, hot policeman and/or firemen, karaoke, ERAS, jamming out with fellow musicians, proper grammar and spelling, marching bands, drum cadences
My Girls: Janis Joplin, Eileen Ivers, Babra Streisand, Rosemary Clooney, Ann Miller, Stevie Nicks, Alison Krauss, Kat Von D, Gwen Stefani, Angelina Jolie, Hillary Clinton
My Guys: Paul Rodgers, Anthony Bourdain, Tim Burton, Freddie Mercury, Lou Gramm (again), Gene Kelly, Nikki Sixx, Itzhak Perlman, Fred Astaire
In reality: Anyone with full brain capacity that can carry on an intelligent conversation. This excludes people that think they're better than most because they use big words and discuss topics that are way over the heads of 99% of the world's population. Also excluded are people that take life/everything that comes with it way too seriously...those people suck.
LITERALLY EVERYTHING...but here are just a few examples in no particular order... TOWER OF POWER, Katy Perry, Kate Nash, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lou Gramm, REO, Styx, Ween, Paul Rodgers, New Riders of the Purple Sage, ROSEMARY CLOONEY, Ella FitzgeraldSugarland, QUEEN, Bruce Springsteen(solo, e-street, etc.), DMB, Alison Krauss and Union Station, BON JOVI, The Blue Hawaiians, Gwen Stefani, Carrie Underwood, Smashing Pumpkins, Nickle Creek, Rufus Wainwright, VHS or Beta, GPGDS, anything rockabilly, Jackson Browne, The Blasters, No Doubt, MOXY FRUVOUS, Pink Floyd, CCR, Susan Tedeschi, Foreigner, Jenny Lewis, Johnny Cash, Smashing Pumpkins, Sublime, The Eagles, Hot Tuna, Billy Idol, Apes and Androids, BAD COMPANY, Eddie From Ohio, The Roots, The Allman Brothers, The Paperboys, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Incubus, Grateful Dead, Beastie Boys, Maroon 5, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, VAN HALEN, celia cruz, Chicago, Peter Cetera, Journey, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Eric Prydz, Cher, AC/DC, Bonnie Raitt, OUTKAST, Lyrics Born, The Killers
Big Fish, Moonstruck and Almost Famous are all up there for my No. 1 favorite movie...
Close seconds are...
RENT, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pulp Fiction, White Christmas, anything with a Danny Elfman score i.e. Nightmare Before Christmas, The First Wives Club, The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, Detroit Rock City, Drumline, Kung Fu Hustle, Best In Show, The Goonies, Gia, Edward Scissorhands, The Music Man, Super Troopers, Love Actually, An American In Paris, This Is Spinal Tap, Singin' In the Rain, Silence Of The Lambs, Taking Lives
JEOPARDY!, The Riches, Paranormal State, Anthony Bourdain:No Reservations, Project Runway, anything on BRAVO, The Colbert Report, Absolutely Fabulous, Good Eats, Dirty Jobs
The Lovely Bones,
Janis Joplin
Gene Kelly
Freddie Mercury
my family
Stevie Nicks