Movies (working on them as a crew member....casting actors in them...writing my own films...managing at film festivals...and just plain enjoying them as a viewer)Music (I like practically anything)Women (I mean....just LOOK at them!)Good times (as long as it can bring a smile to my face, or contentment in my soul)
Angelina Jolie, as we share June 4th as our birthday, and because I was enamored of her wayyyyy back when I watched the trailer for "Hackers", and I said "Who is that French girl with the great lips?"Also, very cool women not currently involved with Brad Pitt.
Steely Dan (including Donald Fagen's solo CDs)...Pat Metheny Group...Vince Guaraldi ("Peanuts jazz!")....ELO...Beatles...Paul McCartney...Monkees...Jimmy Buffett...Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks...(early)Tom Waits...Stray Cats...Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass...Burt Bacharach...Elvis Costello...Billy Joel...Nellie McKay...Jack Hunter Cohen...Kara Suzanne and the Gojo Hearts...Stevie Wonder...The Who...Allman Brothers...The Pretenders...The Shirts...Dresden Dolls...Cocteau Twins...A Fine Frenzy...many Broadway scores...many film scores...a lot of classical....and a lot of jazz.
Sweet Land (on DVD now, a recent indie classic) Hair Close Encounters of the Third Kind Sideways Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Memento Monty Python and the Holy Grail The China Syndrome March of the Wooden Soldiers (with Laurel and Hardy)Gulliver's Travels (1939 animated) The Producers (1968) Planet of the Apes (1968 too) West Side Story Cinema Paradiso The Money Pit (I worked on it) Sweet Liberty (ditto) Marx Brothers films ...and my own screenplay yet to be made: Shooting Star.
SNL...Arrested Development....24....Friends...Seinfeld.....Sunday Morning Shootout ...Letterman....Daily Show...and for non-staged bits: America's Funniest Home Videos
Vonnegut books....A Staggering Work of Heartbreaking Genius....The Great Gatsby....Adventures in the Screen Trade...and for sheer cheesy fun: The Da Vinci Code
Those who stick their neck out to make the world a better place...and it wasn't in their job description.