LIKE: Strong Coffee,Candy, Baked Goods, Coco Chanel, Autumn, Snow, Daydreaming, Sleeping when able to do so, Candles, Basketball at the Palestra, Writing,Coaching,Playing Basketball, Hiking, Cooking, Painting, Documentaries, Indie Films, Music, Psychology, Anything in the Arts, and NCAA Basketball.
Friends of Bill W., Elmer, Sandy, Lauren, Stevo, Dawn Staley, Bob Knight, David Letterman, Pat Summit, Meryl Streep, Vincent Bugliosi, and Nancy Grace... ..
Martin Sexton to Stevie Wonder, Cat Stevens to Old School R&B, I love sappy love songs from the 70's, and I love all music from the 80's, everything! Also: Steely Dan, Earth Wind and Fire, Boz Scaggs, Joe Jackson, Frankie Beverly and Maze, Hall and Oates, Bruce Springsteen, Gordon Lightfoot, The Eagles, America, Toto, Fleetwood Mac, Kenny Loggins (pre-movie soundtrack stuff), Phoebe Snow, Joan Armatrading, Dionne Farris, Marvin Gaye, Luther Vandross, Babyface, Susan Werner, Nina Simone ( I want "Feeling Good" played at my funeral), Aretha Franklin, Sade, Anita Baker, Angela Bofill, Alexander O'Neil, Freddie Jackson, Stephanie Mills, Patti LaBelle, Lisa Stansfield, Angie Stone, Jill Scott, Heather Headley, Whitney Houston, Annie Lennox, Al Jarreau (not just the popular songs but the ones that you don't hear on the radio often), Lee Ritenour, Grover Washington Jr., The Isley Brothers, Elton John (Earlier Stuff), Pat Metheny, Jeff Buckley, Bruce Hornsby, Bill Withers, George Benson, Raul Midon, Rick James, Willie Dixon, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Charlie Parker, Sting (Nothing Like the Sun is my fav album from him), Prince, Harry Connick Jr., Lyle Lovett, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley,Peter Gabriel, Billie Holiday, Carly Simon, Chris Rea, I have an appreciation for so much music, my father was a musician and the best memories I have of him is the time we would spend together listening to music...
Basically all past series on HBO, Project Runway, Flip This House, Cold Case Files, Best Week Ever, The Office, Bad Girls, Rescue Me, The Shield, The Simpsons, SNL (I always wanted to be on that), Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Wire, Court TV, 30 Minute Meals with Rachel Ray, HGTV, South Park, Law and Order all of them,I used to love Freaks and Geeks, it was brilliant,lol, I like the Discovery and History channels, anything having to do with WWII and the sinking of Titanic.
I prefer to read true crime and biographies, here are a few books I could think of at the moment that I really liked: Red Dragon, Intensity, Helter Skelter, The Catcher in the Rye, The Bridges of Madison County, Fatal Vision, American Psycho, The Diary of Anne Frank, In Cold Blood, Jane Eyre, Little Women...
My father will always be my hero. He was so beautifully human. He is an example that everyday people are heroes and I miss him very much. I also must mention the numerous men and women who have fought for our country, and continue to do so.