I have been able to maintain a pretty even keel in interests aside from the slavish devotion to comic books which rules my life. One part sports as a former high school wrestler and current follower of pro baseball (Red Sawks) and football (Patriots) and I'll never give up on pro wrestling, no matter how bad it gets. Then there's one part drama guy as I loved acting in high school college and am fortunate enough that my theater major girlfriend is both in shows that I get to see and will go with me to Broadway every now and again. I write for a living but dig doing it in my spare time as well. I draw, but not as often as I want to (shout out to my ridiculously talented mother). I also like to catch a good movie, bowl a frame or fifty and putt a mean mini-golf game (not to mention owning on Golden Tee).
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Music:
The two things you need to know about me and music:1-I have no drive whatsoever when it comes to seeking out music. I have never used iTunes and don't own an iPod. I listen to the radio and buy the occasional CD, that's all.2-I have no sense of musical aristocracy whatsoever. If it's catchy, I listen to it. Boy bands, country, rap; I don't care. If it's catchy, I like it. I have no shame. Combine this with fact number one and I have little to no interest in indy/underground stuff.That said, a sampling of my favorite bands with the best CD of theirs I own in parentheses:AC/DC ("Live"), Shinedown ("Leave a Whisper"), A ("Hi-Fi Serious"), Metallica ("S & M," GORGEOUS!), Motley Crue ("Greatest Hits," easily one of my top five), Bon Jovi ("Cross Road"), Guns N' Roses ("Appetite For Destruction," favorite band and favorite CD of all-time), KISS ("Psycho Circus"), Faith No More ("Epic"), NSync ("No Strings Attached," the gold standard of boy band CDs), Backstreet Boys ("Millenium"), Great Big Sea ("Rant and Roar"), Aerosmith ("Get a Grip"), Poison ("Greatest Hits"), The Darkness ("Permission to Land").Best soundtracks: "The Rocky Story," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More With Feeling" and "Rent: The Motion Picture."
Movies:
Beyond the Mat, Borat, Braveheart, The Crow, The Departed, Good Will Hunting, Knocked Up, The Last Samurai, Maverick, Moulin Rouge, Ocean's 11 (remake), Rocky, Rocky III, Rent, Spider-Man 2, Superbad, Superman, Superman II, 300, Wedding Crashers, Wet Hot American Summer, X-Men, X2, V For Vendetta
Television:
Melrose Place (the greatest show in the history of television), Angel, Arrested Development, Beauty & the Geek, Brothers & Sisters, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dirty Sexy Money, Firefly, Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, Jack & Bobby, Justice League Unlimited, Lost, The O.C., Pushing Daisies, Scrubs, The State, Temptation Island, 30 Rock, Veronica Mars, X-Men: The Animated Series
Books:
I won't try to cover it up, the majority of the books I read have pictures in them. My favorite comic books of all time: Avengers (Busiek/Perez run), New Warriors (Nicieza run), New Teen Titans (Wolfman/Perez run), Flash (Johns run), Deadpool (Kelly run), Nightwing (Dixon run), Starman, Suicide Squad, Young Justice, Kingdom Come, Marvels, Watchmen, Crisis On Infinite Earths and about a zillion more I'm forgetting. I recently picked up a love for Thor, which is unsurprising given my love for mythology-Simonson, Jurgens and Oeming (especially Blood Oath) do it best. The stuff I'm reading and REALLY digging now (because I read pretty much everything): Cable/Deadpool, Legion of Super-Heroes, JSA, Runaways, Walking Dead, Young Avengers, Fables, 100 Bullets, Ex Machina. Oh, and as far as real books, there are a few that have left an indelible mark on my life and they would be: The Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Imaginary Girlfriend, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and of course Motley Crue: The Dirt. Slick Willy Shakespeare gets his own section as I dig Richard III, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night and Henry IV among others. I gained a new appreciation for Chaucer in college (thanks Professor Bleeth) and enjoy the Caunterbury Tales when I have the energy to devote to deciphering Middle English. I just finished Desperate Networks by the guy who wrote The Late Shift and if you're at all interested in the behind the scenes landscape in Hollywood, you should ABSOLUTELY check it out.
