Music:
Almost all harp music especially Loreena McKennit and Kim Robertson, Beethoven, Jack Johnson, any and almost all 80s music, Enya, Michael Franti, Blue Asia, Putmayo Presents, Buena Vista Social Club, Thievery Corporation, Jarabe De Palo, DC Talk, 30's, 40's & 50's music especially big band, Benny Goodman, Spanish music
Movies:
Children's Movies:
The Emperor's New Groove, anything Wallace and Gromit (I just watched these and fell in love with them), Monsters Inc., Pollyanna, The Parent Trap, The Last Unicorn, The Labyrinth, The Land Before Time, Treasure Island, An American Tail, Ewoks Battle For Endor, The Princess Bride, The Secret of N-I-M-H, The Sword and The Stone, The Goonies, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Never-ending Story, Rocket Man, Tiny Toons: How I Spent My Summer Vacation, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, All Dogs Go To Heaven, Ferngully
Adult Movies Older:
I have been on an old movie kick. Today, it seems that so many movie plots are sacrificed for special effects and this doesn't seem to be the case with a lot of the older films. Plus they don't seem as emotionaly draining.
Citizen Kane, Casablanca, His Girl Friday, It Happened One Night, All About Eve, Some Like It Hot, Spartacus, Ben Hur, It's a Wonderful Life, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Countess of Hong Kong
Musicals:
White Christmas, Sound Of Music, Oklahoma, Guys and Dolls, Brigadoon, Singing In The Rain, Fiddler On The Roof, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Little Shop Of Horrors, West Side Story
Adult Movies Newer:
V for Vendetta, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Memento, Big Fish, Blazing Saddles, Amelie, Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure, Run Lola Run, Waynes World, Grumpy Old Men, The Black Stallion, Braveheart, City Of God, Motorcycle Diaries, What About Bob, Scent Of A Women, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Super Size Me, Three Men and a Baby, Doc Hollywood, The Constant Gardner, Chocolat, Whats Eating Gilbert Grape, Benny and Joon, A Beautiful Mind, Pirates of the Caribbean, Elizabeth, Edward Scissorhands, Immortal Beloved, Amadeus, The Jerk, Stepford Wives(1975), Indiana Jones, The Money Pit, Splash, Les Miserables, The Lord of the Rings, Meet The Parents, Monty Python, Meet The Fockers, The Last of the Mohicans, Star Wars, Willow, The Passion (Very good movie but I could never watch it again), Girl With A Pearl Earring (Liked everything about it except for the ending), Legends Of The Fall, A River Runs Through It, The Princess and the Warrior, Back To The Future, Schindler's List (Very good movie but I could never watch it again), Shine, Shawshank Redemption, Spaceballs, Beetlejuice, Troop Beverly Hills, Rain Man, The Red Violin
Television:
Well we dont have TV now so I guess I could list off my favorite 80s shows:
She-Ra, Jetsons, Smurfs, Get-A-Long Gang, Snorks, Rainbow Brite, Strawberry Shortcake, Thundercats, Garfield, My Little Pony, Saved By The Bell, 90210, Out Of This World (This is where that girl could put her two index fingers together and freeze time), Jem, Tom and Jerry, Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Wuzzles, Freak a Zoid
Books:
"I cannot live without books."
~ Thomas Jefferson
Children's Picture Books:
Tex and Sugar, Harold and The Purple Crayon, Quick as a Cricket, Where the Wild Things Are, The Giant Jam Sandwich, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, Harry the Dirty Dog, Amelia Bedelia, Han's Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid (I cry every time I read it) and The Snow Queen, Little Bear, All of the Little Golden Books, Millions of Cats, Corduroy, The Velveteen Rabbit, The Polar Express, Tiki Tiki Tembo, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, No David, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Silly Stories, The Monster At the End of this Book, Dog for a day, Mrs. Nelson is Missing, The Gingerbread man, Clifford, Mooncake, Gregory the Terrible Eater, Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ear, The Sneetches, The Lorax, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Super Fudge, If You Give A Mouse A Cookie,
Children's Chapter Books:
Harry Potter series, Holes, Ella Enchanted, Wildwood Dancing, Anahita’s Woven Riddle, The City of Ember, Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Peter and the Starcatchers, Peter and the Shadow Thieves, Crispin, Skulduggery Pleasant, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, BFG
Non-Fiction Adult Books:
Bettie Page: The Life of a Pin-Up Legend, Thomas Paine's Common Sense , The China Study, Fame Junkies, Mad Cowboy, Vegan with a Vengence, How it all Vegan, The Power of Purpose, Homecoming : Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child, Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, Boundaries, Change Your Brain Change Your Life
Adult Fiction:
The Three Musketeers, V for Vendetta (graphic novel), The Black Tulip, Fahrenheit 451, Wuthering Heights, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Christy, Julie, A Tale of Two Cities, Germinal, The Three Musketeers, 1984
Heroes:
People who read, volunteers, librarians, anyone willing to build community and think outside of common cultural and institutional beliefs.