Wine. Coffee. Combating boredom. Spelling bees. Stimulating Conversation. Meeting the underdog. Aligning with most underdogs. Singing the theme song to Rocky. Okay you get the point. Becoming a detective in the form of Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot - but not being old or fat in the process. Cheese. The perfect holiday destination. The theory of true love. These are all subject to change except the part on wine, cheese and my future as Miss Marple. And my most recent great love... GREECE.
Jake Ryan, Lloyd Dobler, Renn McCormick, Kirby, Ferris Bueller, Bender, Mr. Darcy, Rhett Butler, Indiana Jones, Dr. McDreamy, Hubbell, Atticus Finch, Harry.....
U2, The Shins, Coldplay, ABBA, Nina Simone, Cowboy Junkies, Gershwin, Cole Porter, Sibelius, Ravel, Arcade Fire, Beck, Jeff Buckley, Tracey Chapman, CatPower, The Cure, Eminem, Green Day, The Velvet Underground, Rufus Wainwright, Willie Nelson, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Earlimart, Cyndi Lauper, Talking Heads, Electric Light Orchestra, Air
Before Sunrise/Sunset, Garden State, Fight Club, Sense & Sensibility, Stripes, Romancing the Stone, The Royal Tennenbaums, Good Will Hunting, Bowling for Columbine, Gone With The Wind, The Philadelphia Story, Casablanca, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cool Hand Luke, When Harry Met Sally, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Gosford Park, The Great Race, Some Like it Hot, Breakfast Club, The Jerk, Monty Python and the Holy Grail/Life of Brian, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, You Can Count on Me, Shakespeare in Love to name a few. I also just recently saw Brick and have to add that too. Also, The Devil Wears Prada was a girls' great guilty pleasure. However, all things John Hughes still rule as my most favorite films when I'm low, bored or just in the mood for a little Molly Ringwald.
The Daily Show, Lost, Arrested Development, Project Runway - nothing else on now, but Seinfeld, Friends, Sex in the City, MASH, The Office (only UK version), Cheers, The Wonder Years - all back in the day.
Pride and Prejudice, Blindness, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Man's Search for Meaning, Lonesome Dove, The Reader, I Know This Much is True, The Eyre Affair, all Jane Austen novels (minus Northanger Abbey - why do you think it's the only one not a movie) and I just read The Time Traveler's Wife - beautiful, and I bawled. All things Harry Potter.
I wish I had a hero. Now I feel like I'm missing something. Do thousands of you have one hero that you can name immediately? Wow, impressive. I think thousands of people have done heroic things - like during 9/11 or Hurrican Katrina, but maybe that's my hope. That one day I could be heroic rather than always forever, like a badge, be a hero. That seems unrealistic and a bit greedy to me. I guess I'll leave the heroes to movies, sports, battles, great literature and possibly to my future!