according to elisa, i am an underwear slinging whore.
Music:
i'll listen to pretty much anything, though my favorites include: the beatles, the rolling stones, jason mraz, maroon 5, jack johnson, diana krall, dave matthews, phish, counting crows, fleetwood mac, billy joel, goo goo dolls, elliott smith, good charlotte, death cab, ella fitzgerald, joss stone (what an amazing voice!),the dixie chicks, old school madonna, old school cher, norah jones, sheryl crow, rufus wainwright, santana, weezer, the eagles, etta james, alanis morrisette, aerosmith, garth brooks, tim mcgraw, i'm forever being teased for loving the indigo girls, any of my friend's bands, john haitt, the inevitable showtunes, fifties and sixties rock, seventies funk, the temptations, along with many others
Movies:
clue, monty python, lord of the rings, while you were sleeping, dirty dancing, steel magnolias, three musketeers, the harry potters, finding nemo, shrek, labyrinth, moulin rouge, the original star wars trilogy, the godfather trilogy, anything disney (especially sleeping beauty, the little mermaid, and beauty and the beast), garden state, frida, the english patient, se7en, the clockwork orange, stand by me, silence of the lambs, hannibal, red dragon, sabrina, must love dogs, x-men, what dreams may come, monsters inc., the wizard of oz, robin hood:prince of thieves, life is beautiful, pirates of the carribean 1 and 2, bullets over broadway, the wedding date, the princess bride, the sweetest thing, kate and leopold, the neverending story, the dark crystal, the breakfast club, 28 days, house of the flying daggers, ferris bueller, boondock saints, blown away, the piano, ferngully: the last rainforest, nightmare before christmas, labyrinth, robin hood: men in tights, the muppets take manhattan, the muppet christmas carol, kill bill, casablanca, walk the line, sideways, the ring, a time to kill, dazed and confused, remember the titans, shawshank redemption, top gun, the american president, office space, willow, la confidential, gangs of new york, the shining, beaches, gosford park, shakespeare in love, breakfast at tiffany's, the sandlot, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, blow, valmont, the incredibles, nanny mcphee, what a girl wants, now and then, the goonies, saw, sweet home alabama, raising helen, spaceballs, the usual suspects, dead poet's society, gone with the wind, the wedding singer, the butterfly effect, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, pretty woman, spanglish, the chronicles of narnia, the rent movie, pan's labyrinth, notes on a scandal, the last king of scotland, zodiac...
Television:
dead like me....before it was cancelled. although i don't watch much tv, i do enjoy the food network and i have a guilty pleasure for crime shows (especially numb3rs and criminal minds)
Books:
i love to read, so here are my current recommendations, in no particular order: anything david eddings and raymond e. feist, charles de lint, neil gaiman, jacqueline carey's "kushiel" series, robert rankin, j.k. rowling, john connolly, libba bray, mary shelley, nora roberts (yes, i like trashy smut novels, as my brother calls them), louisa may alcott, f. scott fitzgerald, herman hesse, william goldman, kurt vonnegut, jane austen, dave eggers, dan brown, milan kundera, l. frank baum, choderlos de laclos, phillipa gregory, douglas adams, john irving, patricia c. wrede, j.d. salinger, jean genet, gregory maguire, daniel silva's gabriel allon novels, chuck palahnuik, james patterson, madeline l'engle, rosalind miles, matthew pearl, william shakespeare, umberto ecco, susanna clarke, christopher paolini, kate mosse, ian caldwell, alan hollinghurst, anne kelleher's "silver" series, the poetry of pablo neruda and e.e. cummings, c.s. lewis, d.h. lawrence, janet fitch, george bernard shaw, tom harris, javier sierra, charles dickens, raymond khoury, goethe, jhumpa lahiri, benjamin hoff, c.j.sansom, edith wharton, patrick suskind, john le carre, robert c. o'brien, j.r.r. tolkien, henrik ibsen, wladislaw szpilman, lutz van duk [damned strong love is one of the saddest love stories ever written], antoine de saint-exupery, steve berry, frances mayes, arthur miller, and of course, the monthly cosmo read....
