Music (listening, writing, performing), reading, writing, movies, politics, science fiction, journalism, video games (especially classic arcade games), computers (Macs)
Stephen Hawking, William Shatner, Sting, Paul McCartney, Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Barack Obama, Leonard Nimoy, the Me from the evil parallel universe (but I'm the one with the goatee, so does that mean this is the evil parallel universe?), The Manhattan Transfer, the person who invented the cheese puff
The 2008 Presidential Primary Playlist
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MacJams (Music hosting site)
The Beatles, The Clash, Adam Ant, Coldplay, The Manhattan Transfer, The Damned, Death Cab for Cutie, Percy Grainger (composer), Sir Edward Elgar (composer), Gustav Holst (composer), Ralph Vaughn Williams (composer), Billy Idol, Glen Miller, Benny Goodman, The Cure, Enya, Moya Brennan, Loreena McKennitt, Dougie MacLean, Neil Young, Norah Jones, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Black Flagg, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Paul McCartney, Radiohead, R.E.M., The Police, Sting, Semisonic, Trip Shakespeare, The Samples, The Hilltops, Blue Mountain, The Psychedelic Furs, Thomas Dolby, The Thompson Twins, New Wave, classic Punk (that means stuff from the 70s and the early 80s and The Ramones don't count)Look for these Independent musicians: Revolving Doris, Peter Greenstone, Tobin Mueller, Tom Atwood, Mystified, Richard MacLamale, The Orbiting, LeDebutante, R.T. Cooper, Mikki Nylund
Star Wars series, Star Trek series, Casablanca, Bad Santa, Office Space, Contact, crappy sci-fi, good sci-fi, musicals - Guys and Dolls, The Music Man, Phantom of the Opera, etc., Anything by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Citizen Kane, Arsenic and Old Lace, Harvey, Blazing Saddles, Tron, Tommy Boy, Michael Moore documentaries, The Harry Potter movies (through #3 wasn't that great), Alien, Aliens, The Fantastic Four, The Maltese Falcon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010, anything with Godzilla in the title, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Wizard of Oz, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Conspiracy, Dune (the bizzare 80s version and the Sci-Fi Channel version), Titus, Hamlet (the Kenneth Branagh version), The City of Lost Children, Drop Dead Georgeous, Time Bandits, My Chauffeur, Grosse Point Blank, Better Off Dead, Holiday Inn, White Christmas, A Cristmas Carol (Reginald Owen version), The Muppet Movie
Any Star Trek series, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica (new series), The Shield, Lost, 24, The Office (U.S. and U.K.), Boston Legal, Family Guy, Futurama, Myth Busters, documentaries on The Science Channel, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Father Ted, Brilliant, Dr. Who, Little Britian, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Boondocks, Squidbillies, 12 oz. Mouse, Moral Orel, Robot Chicken, Home Movies, South Park, Reno 911, CNN, Discovery channels, History Channel, National Geographic Channel, VH1 Classics (We Are the 80s), Heroes
Authors: Isaac Asimov, J.R.R. Tolkien, William Faulkner, Larry Brown, Jack McDevitt, Ben Bova, Willie Morris, Al Frankin, Douglas Adams, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Eudora Welty, Robert SilverbergBooks: Cosmic Banditos, Where Were You Last Pluterday, The Harry Potter Series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy, The Stars My Destination, The Demolished Man, What Would Buddha Do?, Restoration comedy and drama, poetry of the Romantic era, The Leonardo Code (not The Di Vinci Code, a totally different animal), Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel. books on politics or journalism
Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Stephen Hawking, Gene Roddenberry, Madeline Murray O'Hare, Albert Einstien, the guy who invented the cheese puff and the guy who invented grape soda