My friends, movies, theatre, books, mini golf, bowling, the rain, wine, my work, art, history, live music, dancing, lots of stuff.
I think it's terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people's expectations. ~ David Bowie.
The Beatles, Eminem, and The Fresh . I just discovered Citizen Cope and Alice Smith , and Mika (love the sound and the art and everything)...... .. .. msprm name="movie"
A Christmas Story, Anything Christopher Guest or Kevin Smith directed/wrote, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Good Night and Good Luck, Stand By Me, The Big Chill, Bull Durham, Animal House, Hero, Rejected, Young Frankenstein, How to Murder Your Wife, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Little Miss Sunshine, The US vs. John Lennon, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (that is enough to get anyone pissed), I think there are too many to list....
Check out CHUCK Monday nights @ 8 on NBC (before Heroes), THE CLOSER Mondays @ 9 on TNT, NIP/TUCK Tuesdays @ 10 on FX, THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE on CBS, GOSSIP GIRL Mondays @ 8 on the CW, and COLD CASE Sundays @ 9 on CBSAs for what I watch outside of work...LOST, Pushing Daisies, Breaking Bad, House, MXC - how could you NOT love that shit?, Family Guy, Heroes. Ghost Hunters, Supernatural, Miami Ink, Antiques Roadshow, The Office, The Biggest Loser, Dancing with the Stars, Psych, Monk, Burn Notice, Rescue Me, (RIP Firefly, Arrested Development, Veronica Mars...you are missed)....there are a lot of good, creative things happening on TV right now....
Anything Gregory Maguire, Christopher Moore, JK Rowling, Yann Martel, Jasper Fforde, or Dr. Suess wrote. Also, MIDDLESEX, THE ALCHEMIST, and THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY.....reading First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde now. Super fun. And of course the stuff my mother read to me as a kid:
My friends are my heroes, the guys who invented coffee, Muhammad Yunus (if you don't know who he is, look him up. he's doing amazing things in this world), BJ and Tyler, The Beatles, and peace loving people everywhere.