My love, my best friend Lil Mama, music, dance, theatre, movies, books, cats, cooking, biking, camping, cooking then eating, Jameson's on the rocks, hoppy beer & so much more...how can I possibly list?
Bands, musicians, dancers, writers & all artists & people whose lives have been touched by other bands, musicians, dancers, writers & all artists & people creating a positive force forward. Artists of all mediums who promote creative living & diversity.
Music in all of it's incarnations...live, recorded, traveling through space & time. Kultur Shock (one of my favorite bands!), Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Jawbreaker, The Czars, A Cricket in Times Square, M. Ward, Samsara Sound System, Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re, Ethiopiques series, 3 Leg Torso, Erkin Koray, Crooked Fingers, Faith No More, Dinosaur Jr., Juan Martin, Tenacious D, M.I.A., Son Volt, Bombay Bhangra Club, Built To Spill/ Treepeople, Echo & the Bunnymen, Unbunny, Wilco, Carolyn Mark, fIREHOSE, Afghan Whigs/ Twilight Singers, Parliament/ Funkadelic, The Church, Seaweed, X, The Clash, Sitay, Hank Williams I & III, Thee More Shallows, Beirut, Balkan Beatbox &; much more on a daily to weekly basis. These are just the bands that get me through life. To name my favorite bands would take a lot of time...but I can just say that I am a fan of most music from Missy Elliott to Shostakovitch, from Credence to Danny Ben Israel thanks to people & labels like Koolarrow, Locust Music, Lujo Records, Ascetic Records, Blue Flame, Pi Recordings, Revelation Records, Australian Cattle God, Benten Tokyo, Lucky Madison, Merge, Monitor & Omnibus...just to name a few of the great indies! Never to forget the Independent record stores who still recognize the importance of what they do...RIP to our friends who tried.
Rude Boy, The Day Punk Broke, Another State of Mind, Mayor of Sunset Strip, Spinal Tap, Dazed & Confused, School of Rock, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Butterfly & Sword, Raising Arizona, Shakes the Clown, Harold & Maude, Wild at Heart...this is a list made too long by spending years working at a video store...Action, Drama, Horror, Comedy, Indie, Foreign...I also have a very high tolerance for crappy movies. Anything from Wes Anderson, Christopher Guest, Cohen Brothers, Tim Burton & the master, David Lynch.
Heroes, Lost, Pushing Daisies, Ugly Betty, Simpsons, Family Guy, Venture Brothers, Metalocalypse, Trailer Park Boys, Walker,Texas Ranger...past brainsucks include Futurama, Buffy, Angel, X Files, Millenium, Strange Luck, Good Vs Evil, Futurama, The OC, Passions.
My favorite authors were shared by AJ. He knows the most about horror fiction than anyone I know! Robert R McCammon, Skipp & Spector, James Herbert, Graham Masterson, Joe R. Lansdale, early Michael Slade, Dean Koontz & for non fiction, like anything by Jim Hightower & John Douglas.
Ralph Nader, Jim Hightower, Medea Benjamin, Paul Wellstone, Larry Ransom & most people who make me smile!