THE BEACH,working out, sports, fashion, cooking, writing, film, tv, music, reading, email newsletters and blogging, live events, entertaining, driving with the top down on PCH, Infotainment, product integration, content distribution, and Technology. Travel, live performance and anything that occupies my mind.
People that are going places. Those that can carry their own weight and then some. Those that never left the kid out of Entertainment and understand that the term show business is just that, a business first, then a show. Those that understand that making something happen is nothing more than an idea that is worked out with action behind it. I love development so the creator/writer is King. If You got a dream, You have to protect it. If you want something, go get it, period!
CHICKS THAT ROCK!!! Just about every genre and format. It all started for me in radio at 15. I ran a record pool and was a club jock, I Also managed two indie bands and quarterbacked platinum-selling artists. Katharine McPhee, Crystal Method, Kimberly Caldwell, Leona Lewis, Julianne Hough, Fabrice, Jamie ONeal, Samantha Murphy, Kandice, Janes Addiction, Rascal Flats, Disturbed, Hilary Duff, 2pac, 50 cent, 311, AFI, Beatles, Beyonce, Blackeyed Peas, Blink 182, Bush, Carrie Underwood, Chemical Brothers, Chris Daughtry, Christina Aguilera, Collective Soul, Diddy, Duran Duran, Eminem, Evanescence, Fall Out Boy, Fergie, Foo Fighters, Frank Sinatra, Garbage, George Michael, Good Charlotte, No Doubt, Hole, Ice Cube, Jay-Z, JoJo, Josh Stone, Justin Timberlake, Kelly Clarkson, Linkin Park, Mos Def, NERD, Nickleback, Nirvana, Paul Oakenfold, Offspring, Pappa Roach, POD, Prince, Smashing Punkins, Staind, Stone Temple Pilots, Timbaland, U2, Van Halen, Vivaldi and too many more to name. I am known mostly for breaking mass appeal and pop acts. If its on TRL, I it would probably be in my MP3 player.
As for film, still prefer to see it on the big screen .. Summer block busters, dark comedies, epics, thrillers, and action are my choices. Romantic comedies are formula and a breeze to write. Raiders of the Lost Arc, Dazed and Confused, The Player, Godfather, Matrix, Titanic, Last Samurai, Almost Famous, Lawrence of Arabia, Terminator, American Pie, The Sure Thing, Cruel Intentions, Passion of the Christ, Mission Impossible, Minority Report, Pulp Fiction, Pretty in Pink, Risky Business, A Knights Tale, Notebook, Matrix, Frequency, Dracula, How to loose a guy 10 days, Crash, Dark Angel, James Bond, Bourne Identity, Catch me if you can, Fast and the Furious, Back to the future, 8 Mile, Grease, MI3, Braveheart, Star Wars, American President, Rocky.
Most movies, scripted and unscripted reality Television. More interested in what is on the CW and Fox than the other networks. The Internet will be Network Televisions "greenhouse" or "incubator. American Idol is still the benchmark for reality shows ... but I watch about 10 hours of reality TV a week. Dont kill me, some of it is just my job (okay and addiction, lol). Thank god for the DVR. Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, E! News Daily, The Oscars, American Music Awards, TV Guide Channel, The Hills, Tudors, Ugly Betty, Heroes House, 24, American Idol, Smallville, NBA, NFL, ESPN, Fox Sports, Womens Pro Beach Volleyball, and just about any sports, the Apprentice, Miami Ink, So You Think You Can Dance, Project Runway, Rockstar, The Bachelor, Iron Chef, The Hills, Americas Next Top Model, Biggest Loser, HGTV, SNL, TRL, Friends, 90210, Melrose Place, if it was Spelling, I was probably watching it. .
The meditations of Marcus Aurellius, anything quick read, zine, blogs, and tons of non-fiction. I probably read more scripts than anything. I love Magazines and blogs. Anything and everything I can get my hands/eyes on. There's not much I miss in the Pop culture world. Give me a great script, a latte, and a good chair and I am all set.
Anyone that understands that leaders don't force people to follow. They invite them on a journey.