Candles, yoga, the earth, magic, things that make me laugh (eddie izzard, dane cook, mitch headburg (r.i.p. buddy), the family guy etc.), performing, traveling, playing guitar, dancing (on and off stage), drinking beer in a pub, baseball (GO SOX!), watching/going to/making movies (river in egypt 2 will knock your proverbial socks off), drawing, painting, making collage gifts, animals (munies!), rockin' out on stage with my dad, reading, writing, learning, challenging, being challenged, failing, succeeding and generaly trying to experience and save the world....one reincarnation at a time. word.
In no particular order: U2, Allman Brothers, David Gray, Flogging Molly, Feist, Weinland, The Beatles, Elliott Smith, The Postal Service, Jane's Addiction, Jason Mraz, Ella Fitzgerald, Sonic Death Monkey, Coldplay, Death Cab for Cutie, The Arcade Fire, Prince, TTWS, Billy Idol, Billy Holiday, Barenaked Ladies, The Police, Ray LaMontagne, Frank Sinatra , M2WB, Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, Ozomatli, Grisman/Garcia, Bob Marley, Kathleen Turner Overdrive, The Darkness, The Cure, A-Ha, Earth Wind and Fire, Booty Call, Harry Connick Jr., Danny Elfman, Pearl Jam, Raul Midon, James, Loose Caboose, Jude, Wyld Stallions, Chili Peppers (up to and including BSSM), Bushwalla, and i suppose the Birdhouse High Prom playlist is pretty all inclusive, otherwise the list will never end.....
~pics above of the new/old school love....pics below of the fam (my bro on top and daddy-o rockin' on the guitar he built)
TOP 6: Moulin Rouge, Love Actually, The Power of One, Serendipity,
Singin' in the Rain and Ferris Buller's Day Off
Other favs: LOTR, Tombstone, Labarynth, Die Hard, The Big Lebowski, Harry Potter, Leathal Weapon 3, Wet Hot American Summer, Back to the Future (whole trilogy), Someone Like You, Army of Darkness, Life of Brian, Return of the Jedi, Heartbreakers, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and all things John Hughes, Tim Burton and/or Johnny Depp.
I only watch TV on DVD. Alias and The West Wing, baby. "Sidney....your plane for BFE leaves in 15 seconds."
***************Reading: LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) & my goddamn business plan. ***************Favorites: SKINNY LEGS AND ALL & JITTERBUG PERFUME (Tom Robbins), ISHMAEL (Daniel Quinn), WICKED and CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER (Gregory McGuire), THE DAVINCI CODE (Dan Brown), and IF CHINS COULD KILL, CONFESSIONS OF A B MOVIE ACTOR (Bruce Campbell). ***************I also enjoy David Sedaris for his painful, sarcastic wit; Anne Rice for her elaborate mythology; and Patricia Cornwell for her 'CSI/Law and Order-esque' page-turners. And Harry Potter RULES.
look in my friends: fiddlman, catherine and "mikey-v"
the legendary Gene Kelly
the stunning Cyd Charisse
and the incomparable Bob Hope