Music, puppies, reading, volkswagens/audis, tattoos, more music...
alan menken.
ah where to start ... mostly classical (Bach being my favourite...although i love the baroque period in general). get up kids, coheed and cambria, jealous sound, terror, converge, between the buried and me, strike anywhere, everytime i die, from autumn to ashes, shai hulud, hope conspiracy, movielife, interpol, dismemberment plan, piebald, the cure, bob dylan, hillary duff, the monkees, jealous sound, deathcab for cutie, smoking popes, hey mercedes, dashboard confessional, blink 182, alkaline trio, amos lee, anniversary, nickel creek, postal service, jimmy eat world, jets to brazil, lamb of god, walls of jericho, bleeding through, darkest hour, billy joel, blood brothers, eric clapton, hot hot heat, mars volta, new amsterdams, rancid, saves the day ... i could go on forever. something specific, just ask.
from here to eternity, something wicked this way comes, sliding doors, wait until dark, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, finding nemo (or anything disney for that matter), almost famous, donnie darko, the hudsucker proxy, leon the professional, labyrinth, run ronnie run, brewster's millions, stigmata, the (original) amityville horror, american nightmare, in love and war, the libertine, crybaby, the sisterhood of the traveling pants, -all- of the harry potter movies (although the books are obviously better), stand by me, you've got mail, hook, the goonies, edward scissorhands, crazy/beautiful, thirteen, my life
CSI!!!! extreme makeover:home edition, any movie channel (especially skinemax - i kid i kid!), dr. 90210, how do i look, whose wedding is it anyway, any gay makeover shows
Anything Shakespearean, John Donne, Robert Frost, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ray Bradbury, Andrew Marvell, Edgar Allen Poe, JRR Tolkien, the list goes on ... some favourites:
the illustrated man, the great gatsby, the carnival of souls, a wrinkle in time, -all- of the harry potter books, the epic of gilgamesh, the exorcist (way better than the movie), tuck everlasting, anything shel silverstein (runny babbit, the missing piece, the giving tree, where the sidewalk ends, a light in the attic, so on and so forth), the scarlet letter, brave new world, watch on the wall, johnny got his gun, the iliad, wuthering heights, the outsiders
My Parents, Alen Menken