A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS::::
Strung Out, Millencollin, Violent Femmes, Sex Pistols, Sublime,Subhumans, My Chemical Romance, Tilt, Lynryd Skynryd, Molly Hatchett, Prince, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Lagwagon, Sublime, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, Brand New, MxPx, ACDC (from the early days), Screw 32, Dead Kennedys, The Transplants (of course), Screeching Weasel, Dinosaur Jr. (when I am suicidal, HEY, just kidding, people. Seriously, that is some depressing shit right there), No Use For A Name, 311, Avail, The Queers, Clutch, Screeching Weasel, Murphy's Law, Sick of it All, Ani DiFranco, Beastie Boys, Joan Jett, Letters to Cleo,Descendants, Dropkick Murphys,The Mr. T Experience(Except for that crappy album), Good Riddance, Pigface(Industrial innovators), Hi-Standard....... Okay, this could seriously go on forever....I like a mixed bag....
The Goonies, Kids, Clerks, Friday, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Butterflies Are Free (Okay, this is SUCH a hippie movie, but Goldie was just soooo cute in it!), Pieces of April, Girl, Brat pack movies like The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, St. Elmo's Fire, etc. I own ALL of them and love them. E.T., Giant, The Neverending Story, Empire Strikes Back, The Wedding Singer, 50 First Dates, Tombstone ("I'm your huckleberry."), Vertigo, Blades of Glory, Porky's, Gone With The Wind, Dirty Dancing, Grease, Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Throw Momma From the Train, Parenthood, Biloxi Blues, Psycho (the old one), The Witches of Eastwick, The 40-year old Virgin, 48 Hours.....and so many more...........
Neil Gaiman (Read American Gods!!!),ANYTHING written by Anne Rice, Bret Easton Ellis, Bentley Little, Ernest Hemmingway, Stephen King, Olivia Goldsmith, and so many more!!! I am open, so I tend to pick up any book that looks interesting, so I love so many different authors!
My great grandmother is probably my number 1 hero. Man, I wish she was still around right now, especially. She was such an extraordinary woman. Very giving, never taking. She taught me to have a love for literature, music and movies and to see that the writers that created them were writing about how they wanted life to be or the reality of what it really was. She introduced me to new things. She found the good in everyone and gave unconditonal love, but still remained strong. I feel like I have a piece of her in me somewhere. Artistically, I have so many heroes, there are just to many to name! Van Gogh and DaVinci are two of the greatest artists ever to have walked the earth, that's for sure. Van Gogh had such passion that he poured into his work and he lived his life that way as well. Unfortunately, that is also what made him end his life in the end. As for DaVinci, there is nothing to say but that he was a genius. He made such strides in the studies of human anatomy that he has influenced probably every great artist that followed. I started learning a lot about him in school. And, that is where I realized how amazing that man was. Personally, I consider anyone a hero who is true blue to themselves and doesn't sell out to anyone. Someone who loves truly and deeply and is proud of that.