I'd like to meet:
Cool, nice, fun, and interesting people from all over the world ;o)
Music:
I guess "melodic rock" pretty much describes what I like best. I got XM Satellite radio recently and all I really need are the Boneyard and Soul Street channels...great variety! My iPod workout favorites right now are Candlebox, Kid Rock, Soul Sirkus, old Sammy Hagar stuff, Van Halen (Sammy), Jeff Scott Soto, Dishwalla, Tesla, Buckcherry, Kix, Whitesnake, Motley Crue, Rob Thomas, Collective Soul. My "new" favorite band i got into from XM Radio is UFO ala late 70s...love that old raw rock sound.My first memory of music being a big part of me was at about 4 or 5 years old. I always asked for the radio to be on when I was in the car. I was in the back seat of a car and someone asked the kids what they wanted to be when they grew up. I said "nurse" but in my heart I was really thinking "I'm going to be a singer" (the reality that I couldn't sing set in later!). I had a little record player and I listened to all my mom's 45s over and over...Leslie Gore "It's my Party" was probably my earliest favorite...then it was all her other records: Three Dog Night "One" and "Mama Told Me Not to Come," Neal Young "A Horse With No Name," The Doors "Light My Fire," Ringo Starr "No." There were probably about 30 of them I listened to over and over. In elementary school I spent my allowance on 45s, and then in 1974 I fell head over heels in love with Tony Orlando and Dawn (LOL). I stared mesmerized at the tv show every week and bought their albums. Around 6th grade my parents brought me to see them perform live and I got so excited I got sick to my stomach (more lol). Alas, middle school came along in about 1977 and I was saved by the Fleetwood Mac "Rumors" album. I had a glittery press-on Fleetwood Mac shirt. More diversions from rock music awaited me, however, when my dad's company transferred us to live in Puerto Rico for my eighth and ninth grades. In eighth grade I got sucked into disco by the dancing parties and the boys (I still love Donna Summer songs, and some of them are just too fun to resist!)...but by ninth grade I was drawn more and more by the rock stuff I heard every week on Casy Casum's American Top 40...Foreigner "Dirty White Boy," Tom Petty "Damn the Torpedos". Then I heard Van Halen "Beautiful Girls" and disco died for me. The first album I bought in that time period was Led Zeppelin "In Through the Out Door," and that summer I went to visit relatives in Michigan, and thanks to my old childhood friend, came back addicted to Journey and REO Speedwagon albums. My dancing disco girlfriends knew I was gone from them. Fortunately we moved back to Florida for 10th grade, where I befriended someone who is now one of my oldest and dearest friends by asking her one day on the school bus if her mom would give us a ride to the Van Halen concert if I bought her a ticket. She had lit a candle on the school bus the day John Lennon died and I decided I must befriend her. From there I guess I just became "rocker chick." We went to every concert possible and proudly wore our concert t-shirt badges of honor the next day at school. My favorite bands in high school were probably Rush, Journey, and REO. Then MTV came along and hair bands came along...and one year after graduation, in 1984, the two of us crazy girls moved to Los Angeles to the music scene that was going on full swing there..and well, that' a whole 'nuther story! So music has just always been a big part of me...it's something that keeps my spirits up and motivates me and reminds me there is always something there that will make me happy.Some of my favorite lyric quotes:"I believe in fate and destination, but so much of that lies in our own hands...so if you know what you want, just go on out and get it, don't give up" - Sammy Hagar....."Stand strong in the storms of life, the sun will always shine on you" - Kid Rock....."We're always laughing and singing and grooving and reaching for more" - Buckcherry....."It's not all rainbows and butterflies it's compromise that moves us along" - Maroon 5....."No we're never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy" - Seal....."She's seen her share of devils in that angel town" - Shawn Mullins.....I could probably add these forever going all the way back to my high school Rush fan days, but I'll stop now...lol.
Movies:
I can't seem to sit still though movies very often!
Television:
VH1 Classic addict!, Travel Channel, E!, TLC,...and occasional mindless and funny sitcom like 2 1/2 Men, Friends, Roseanne.
Books:
Normally I go through one mindless fiction book every two or so weeks...sometimes I have a biography going on the side as well (usually music related), or a reference book on a subject I'm interested in. Being that I'm back in school working on an MBA part-time, lately I've been reading a lot of textbooks!
Heroes:
People who can sing...I love listening to people sing! I've had this affliction ever since my first crush on Tony Orlando in the 4th grade. And of course people who make music, because music makes me happy and motivates me and is one of the most positive things in the world and all that good stuff. My bf can sing good...I bought him a Wolfgang guitar for Christmas last year so I'm waiitng for him to write and sing me a song (lol hint to Grant) ;o)
