I love dogs (especially labs and pugs), travel, reading, shopping, TV, music, movies, basketball, soccer, hiking, sleeping, drinking, jungle living, city slicking, people-watching, roller-coaster riding, water park swimming, Up North nature, museums, plays, comedy, walking in the woods in the fall, figuring out how to change the world for the better.
Anyone to make this city life more interesting!
Alternative, hard rock, oldies and classic rock, folk, the blues, anything but country! Pearl Jam, Ani DiFranco, the Beatles, the Who, the Rolling Stones, Sublime, Nirvana, CSNY, Barenaked Ladies, Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Stone Temple Pilots, Tori Amos, Sublime, Erykah Badu, Country Joe & the Fish, the Doors, Guns 'N Roses, Janis Joplin, Green Day, the Crow soundtrack...etc. etc. etc.
Silence of the Lambs, Dances With Wolves, LOTR Trilogy, Kevin Smith movies (Chasing Amy, Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back), the Usual Suspects, Fight Club, Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Trainspotting, Schindler's List, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Boondock Saints, Apocalypse Now, the Deerhunter, Platoon, Born on the 4th of July, Saving Private Ryan, the Harry Potter films, Zoolander, Grease, Dirty Dancing, the Crow, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Saw, Seven, Memento, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Goonies, etc. etc. Classic horrror films - Halloween is my absolute favorite, followed by the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho, Friday the 13th (it's the Mother!), Nightmare on Elm Street....only the originals...although I love the Mike Myers story arcs...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Tru Calling, ER, Lost, Law & Order SVU, the L Word, Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Gilmore Girls, Prison Break, My Name is Earl, Smallville, Law & Order Criminal Intent, Six Feet Under, Dead Like Me, How I Met Your Mother.
Thomas Harris novels, The Da Vinci Code, Helter Skelter, all forensics/true crime novels, Vietnam era stories, TIME magazine, If I Die in a Combat Zone Box Me Up and Send Me Home, Angels & Demons, the God of Small Things, Catch-22, the Grapes of Wrath, etc. etc. etc.
My sister Mo, my brother Mike, my Mom and Dad, my friends, my grandparents, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Gandhi, the Dalai Lama.