Dancing, Irish step dancing, your mom, music that isn't written by a team of 10 or more writers, theatre, food, Ireland, traveling just about everywhere, politics, literature, languages, all things French, history, European Football, rugby, horseback riding, organizing EVERYTHING in my life, unrequited love, Catholicism, other religions and/or faiths, the elderly, movies, foreign films, old man/dive bars, alcohol...specifically whiskey
Your mom, old people, the Pope, Brecht, the Hamburgler, Catherine Deneuve, other French people, Robbie Keane, Dane Cook, and Anthony Hopkins. If not them, then you, I suppose. But you'll have to buy me a drink first. And possibly $2 so I can take the Blue Line home.
Dropkick Murphy's, Flogging Molly, Solas, The Rolling Stones, Jet, The Clash, The Prodigals, Seven Nations, Aslan, MxPx, Relient K, AC/DC, Metallica, The Pogues, The Saw Doctors, The Cranberries, They Might Be Giants, Save Ferris, My Chemical Romance, Off Kilter, Yellowcard, Imogen Heap, Johnny Cash, Rancid, Steven Curtis Chapman, Matisyahu, The Chieftains, Gaelic Storm, and of course lots of musical theatre.
Silence of the Lambs, A Man for All Seasons, Waiting for Guffman, Napoleon Dynamite, The Rock, Rushmore, The Royal Tenebaums, Sense and Sensibility, La Haine, Les Rivières Pourpres, Sur mes Lèvres, Belle du Jour, Into the West, Intermission, Walk the Line, The Life Aquatic, Cinderella Man, Lord of the Rings, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Gladiator, Last of the Mohicans, In the Name of the Father, The Boxer, The Gods Must be Crazy, Red Eye, Batman Begins, The Quiet Man, The Searchers, Shadowlands, Schindler's List, The Exorcist, National Velvet, All About Eve, Monty Python and the Holy Grail/Life of Brian/Meaning of Life...
House, all Law and Order incarnations, CSI, True Life, Entourage, Golden Girls, Lost, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Footballer's Wives, Coronation Street, Eastenders.
Madame Bovary, Le Pcheur d'Islande, La Princesse du Clves, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Persuasion, Mere Christianity, The Lord of the Rings, Theatre and It's Double, A Separate Peace, The Chosen, Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, Far From the Madding Crowd, La Peste, L'Etranger, The Turn of the Screw, The Wings of the Dove, Dracula, Le noir et le rouge, The Secret Garden, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Hot Zone, Candide, Jane Eyre, Letters to a Young Catholic, The End of the Affair, Le Comte de Monte Cristo, Lady Chatterly's Lover, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Life is a Dream, Fefu and Her Friends, The Dutchman, Le Misanthrope, Rhinocros, The Way of the World, Hamletmachine, Marat/Sade, The Trial of God, Equus, Les Misrables, The School for Scandal, Tom Jones, The Playboy of the Western World...and the list goes on and on. I like to read. Suck it.
Your mom, John Christopher Ruane, Tom Sherry