Current Interests: 1) Laughing (*See below for examples, please! Thank you! Seriously, did you know? Look up! LOL) :P__________________________________________________________ _2) Hilarious British show: Most Haunted_____________________________________________________ ______4) HBO's ROME________________________________________________________ ___5) The timeless television show: The Golden Girls
Old friends and new friends who love to laugh, and who will remember...
I believe in music! I breathe music! I love music! :) Lately I have had a bit of an eclectic mix on rotation, which are not in any specific order. Starting with: Bad Company, James Brown, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Johnny Mathis, Squeeze, Eva Cassidy, Susan Tedeschi, Gnarls Barkley, MIKA, Al Green, Bob Marley, OK GO, Bjork, Peter Tosh, Genesis, Ella Mae Morse, Herbie Hancock, Peter Gabriel, KT Tunstall, Boswell Sisters, Pink Floyd, Addison Groove Project, Bluegrass Sessions, Bruce Hornsby, Comes A Time: A Tribute to Jerry Garcia, Dave Matthews & Friends, Deep Banana Blackout, Derek Trucks Band, Funky Meters, Galactic, Garage-a-Trois, Gov't Mule, Grateful Dead, Greyboy Allstars, Jack Johnson, Jazz Mandolin Project, Jerry Garcia Band, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Keller Williams, KVHW, Leftover Salmon, Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon, Les Claypool, Little Feat, Mardi Gras All Stars, Medeski Martin & Wood, Moe, New Monsoon, O.A.R., Outformation, Oysterhead, Peter Rowan & Tony Rice, Phil Lesh & Friends, Phish, Ratdog, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Robert Walter's 20th Congress, Spearhead, Steve Kimock Band, String Cheese Incident, SuperJam, Tea Leaf Green, The Dead, The Gourds, The Other Ones, The Radiators, The Word, Trey Anastasio, Victor Wooten, Vida Blue, Warren Haynes, Widespread Panic, Yonder Mountain String Band, Zero, Nickel Creek, Tom Jones, Garth Brooks, Aretha Franklin, James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett, Reggaeton, Air Supply, Goldfrapp, Spinal Tap, George Clinton and P Funk, Keane, Tenacious D, Pat Benatar, Allman Brothers, Peaches, DMB (fav. is Dancing Nancies), Queen, The Pretenders, Mary J Blige, Rosemary Clooney, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Snoop Dogg (fav. album is Doggystyle), Loose Juice, Lena Horne, Black Sabbath, Journey, Marvin Gaye, Kelly Clarkson, Tori Amos, Heart, Bela Fleck, Sugar Hill Gang, The Beatles, Ani DiFranco, Sam Cooke, Foreigner, Limp Bizkit, Louis Armstrong, Reba McEntire,The Fugees, Sean Paul, Def Leppard, Smashing Pumpkins, The Strokes, Dr. Dre, Glenn Miller, Georgia Gibbs, Herbert Groenemeyer, Johnny Lang, Bob Seger, Kansas, Donna Summer, Elvis, Barbra Streisand, George Michael, Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Arctic Monkeys, The Commodores, Rolling Stones, Rusted Root, Black Eyed Peas, Gretchen Wilson, Doobie Brothers, Rush, G-Unit, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Frank Sinatra, David Gray, Beastie Boys, Cher, Michael Jackson, Disco Biscuits, Fiction Plane, R.E.M., Eartha Kitt, The Killers, Hall and Oates, Billie Holiday, Sex Pistols, Carole King, U2, The Carpenters, Indigo Girls, Billy Idol, Patsy Cline, Dean Martin, Jethro Tull, Prince, Bill Withers, Iggy Pop, Mariah Carey, Tito Puente, Nirvana, Don McLean, Green Day, Violent Femmes, Sarah McLachlan, Percy Sledge, Clapton, The Dixie Chicks, The Doors, Bobby Darin, White Zombie, Billy Joel, Benny Goodman, Tenacious D, INXS, Dan Fogelberg, Oasis, Tim McGraw, The Who, Whitesnake, Joan Baez, Sponge, Alan Jackson, Jurassic 5, Eagles, Madonna, Eminem, Semisonic, The Counting Crowes, Rage Against The Machine, Lauren Hill, Guns N' Roses, Bread, Celia Cruz, N.I.N., The Blues Travelers, Nickelback, Stone Temple Pilots, Van Morrison (current fav. is Crazy Love), Kenny Chesney, Pearl Jam, Soca, Kevin Little, Wilson Pickett, Radiohead, AC/DC, Toadies, Robbie Williams, Fleetwood Mac, Matchbox Twenty, Frank Zappa, Kanye West, Johnny Cash, Jim Croce, Doris Day, Garbage, Hawthorne Heights, Teddy Pendergrass, Gordon Lightfoot, Rascall Flatts, Jimi Hendrix (Castles Made of Sand is my fav), GodSmack, Coldplay, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Dierks Bentley, America, Shakira, CCR, Staind, Cat Stevens, Toby Keith, Xavier Naidoo, Bush, The Judds, Miles Davis, Michael Buble, Chevelle, Damien Rice, Aerosmith, Gypsy Kings, Ramones, Rosemary Clooney, Puddle of Mudd, Depeche Mode, 311, Brooks and Dunn, System of a Down, John Coltrane, Metallica, and Ben Harper. Oh and my current new favorite album is Matisyahu's Live at Stubbs. It's amazing! It's like a blender mixed a cocktail of beatbox, Sublime, Marley, Beastie B-s, Phish, hip hop with Cat Steven lyrics, and an edge of guitar rock. It's definitely chill, and I'm totally lovin' him!
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A very long list of favorites, which starts with: A Very Long Engagement, Tombstone, House of Flying Daggers, The Forsyte Saga, Better Off Dead, This is Spinal Tap, pretty much all of the James Bond films, Anne of Green Gables, Dirty Dancing, The Terminator I and II, Gladiator, Firestarter, Big, Forrest Gump, Dead Poet's Society, The Usual Supects, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Eddie and the Cruisers, Full Metal Jacket, L.A. Confidential, Van Wilder, Titanic, A Beautiful Mind, A Fish Called Wanda, Apocolypse Now, Caddyshack, While You Were Sleeping, Au Revoir les Enfants, Three Days of the Condor, Best In Show, The Big Chill, The Great Outdoors, A Life Less Ordinary, Outrageous Fortune, Cadence, A Mighty Wind, Boyz In the Hood, Run Lola Run, The Cannonball Run, Can't Buy Me Love, Beetlejuice, Big Business, A River Runs Through It, Dancer in the Dark, Star Man, Two Weeks Notice, Traffic, Chinese Roulette, Lone Star, A Christmas Story, El Norte, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Angel Eyes, Blow, What's Love Got To Do With It, Flashdance, The Master of Disguise, The Craft, Beaches, Rocky collection, Footloose, Return To Me, Willow, Shag, City of Angels (original and American), Shrek I and II, Pulp Fiction, Satisfaction, Apocolypse Now, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Miss Congeniality, Gleaming the Cube, About a Boy, M*A*S*H, Youngblood, Where the Heart Is, Pride And Prejudice, Beastmaster, Notting Hill, Ferris Buehller's Day Off, Spaceballs, Chocolat, Love Actually, Die Hard collection, Superman collection, Reservoir Dogs, Spies Like Us, The Royal Tenenbaums, Legend of Billie Jean, Smokey and the Bandit, Risky Business, Pretty Woman, Only You, Splash, Outrageous Fortune, Delirious, Captain Ron, The Great Gatsby, Road House, Sleepers, Some Kind of Wonderful, Watcher in the Woods, The Untouchables, Suburbia, Big Trouble In Little China, Say Anything, Double Jeopardy, Wildcats, Beverly Hills Cop, Fletch, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Cell, Forrest Gump, 48 Hours, Love Potion Number 9, The Mighty Ducks, The Golden Child, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Overboard, Young Guns I and II,
Steel Magnolias, Seven Years in Tibet, The Godfather collection, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Volunteers, Shawshank Redemption, Jean de Fluerette, Manon of The Spring, Three Men and a Baby, Blade Runner, Mystic Pizza, Farinelli, The Age of Innocence, City of Angels, Wall Street, Troop Beverly Hills, Working Girl, Short Circuit, Private Benjamin, Kolya, The Cutting Edge, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Bram Stoker's Dracula, If Lucy Fell, The Fugitive, Men at Work, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Farewell My Concubine, The Karate Kid, Beverly Hills Ninja, Ghost, Elf, Sixteen Candles, Ponette, Fight Club, Dances With Wolves, Meet The Parents I and II, Blue Lagoon, E.T., The Lover, Chaplin, Dirty Dancing, Hope Floats, The Legends of The Fall, The Truman Show, Field of Dreams, Courage Under Fire, Indochine, Teen Wolf, The Fugitive, Tie me up, Tie me Down, Pretty in Pink, Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arc, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Irreconcilable Differences, Mannequin, Fight Club, Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, The Empire Strikes Back, Weekend at Bernie's, LOTR's, St. Elmo's Fire, All Of The Harry Potter's, The Outsiders, Always, Ever After, Wild Things, War Games, Schindler's List, Kids,The Way We Were, Young Frankenstein, The Color Purple, Dazed and Confused, Cocoon, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, She's Out of Control, Gremlins, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Adventures in Babysitting, Stand By Me, Point Break, Flight of the Navigator, Top Gun, Robin Hood Men in Tights, Out of Africa, When Harry Met Sally, The Goonies, Poltergeist, The NeverEnding Story, Weird Science, D.A.R.Y.L., The Five Heartbeats, Glory, The Man in the Moon, Austin Powers collection, Coming to America, As Good as it Gets, Ace Ventura, The Matrix collection, Jaws, Cocktail, Braveheart, There's Something About Mary, Tales of Erotica (funniest movie you'll ever see!), Airplane!, Velvet Goldmine, Tommy Boy, Raise the Red Lantern, Dumb and Dumber, Naked Gun, Happy Gilmore, South Park movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Pink Panther collection, Saving Private Ryan, Scream, Leprechaun, Like Water For Chocolate, 9 to 5, Cold Comfort Farm, Reality Bites, Europa Europa, Bridget Jone's Diary I and II, Groundhog Day, The Patriot, French Kiss, Clean Slate, The Lost Boys, Wayne's World, Captain Ron, Wedding Singer, Billy Madison, Scarface, Flirting With Disaster, Moulin Rouge, Mrs. Doubtfire, Singles, A Time to Kill, The Outsiders, Revenge of the Nerds, Housesitter, Firestarter, Loverboy, The Sting, Police Academy collection, Adventures of Priscilla Queen of The Desert, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Twelve Monkeys, Punchdrunk Love, Amelie, Practical Magic, Goodfellas, Ruthless People, Romancing the Stone, Trading Places, Never Been Kissed, Donnie Brasco, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Monsoon Wedding, Basic Instinct, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Cosi, Philadelphia, Muriel's Wedding, The Toy, Three Amigos, Seven, Punchline, The Mask, The Princess Bride, Rain Man, City Slickers, The Breakfast Club, Audrey Rose, Mermaids, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Man With One Red Shoe, Pretty Woman, My Best Friend's Wedding, Cry-Baby, Happy Gilmore, Zoolander, Animal House, A League of Their Own, Good Will Hunting, Tootsie, La Vita Bella, Mr. Mom, National Lampoons European Vacation, Christmas Vacation, Sister Act I, Back to the Future collection, Sense and Sensibility, Lethal Weapon collection, Jurassic Park I and III, The Commitments, Trainspotting, Il Postino, The English Patient, Working Girl, The Full Monty, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Shakespeare In Love, Remember the Titans, Sliding Doors, Sleepless in Seattle, A Bronx Tale, Out of Sight, Bachelor Party, Soapdish, License to Drive, The Silence of the Lambs, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Edward Scissorhands, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Emma, Heathers, Charlie's Angels collection, Kiss the Girls, Remember The Titans, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and much much more. :)..
Anything on PBS! It's totally my favorite channel! The Golden Girls, The Vicar of Dibley, Coupling (BBC), Battle Star Gallactica, Top Chef, Designing Women, Ugly Betty, Project Runway, Manor House, 1900 House, 1940's House, Frontier House, Colonial House, Pioneer Quest, Absolutely Fabulous, As Time Goes By, Roswell, The Amazing Race, Antique Roadshow, Remington Steele, Family Guy, The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries, Quantum Leap, Will and Grace, The Wonder Years, Gilligan's Island, Black Adder, This Old House, Ballykissangel, Roskstar INXS/ Supernova, Monarch of the Glen, Family Ties, So Graham Norton, Are You Being Served?, American Experience on PBS, Ground Force, Grey's Anatomy, American Idol, Keeping Up Appearances, SNL, Tales from Avonlea, The Lawrence Welk Show (Scoff all you want, but inside us all lies a 85 yo woman! Ha ha!), Charmed, Dark Shadows, Desperate Housewives, Project Runway, Dawson's Creek (still love it!), Good Times, LoveJoy, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Perfect Strangers, The Jeffersons, Bewitched, Three's Company, America's Next Top Model, Felicity, Batman, Are You Being Served?, In Living Color, Growing Pains, Strangers With Candy, I Dream of Jeannie, Married With Children, Party of Five, Get Smart, The Facts of Life, The Honeymooners, 227, Little House on The Prairie, Jeopardy!, Kids In The Hall, I Love Lucy, The Carol Burnett Show, What's Happening?, Magnum, P.I., Charles In Charge, Chips, Roseanne, MacGyver, That 70s Show, Different Strokes, Step By Step, Yes, Dear!, Small Wonder (After watching that show I always wanted a robotic sister named Vicky too! Ha ha!), Still Standing, Picket Fences, Real World/ Road World Challenge, Charlie's Angels, Life Goes On, King of Queens, Beverly Hills 90210, Kate and Allie, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Girlfriends, Full House, Murphy Brown, Cheers, The Price Is Right, Friends, Wheel Of Fortune, China Beach, MASH, The Munsters, Twin Peaks (Absolute favorite!), Fantasy Island, Moonlighting, The Brady Bunch, The Love Boat, Survivor (Rupert is still my favorite), EverWood, Who's The Boss?, Murder She Wrote, Cold Feet, Dancing With The Stars, Happy Days, Office (BBC version), Fawlty Towers, Touched By An Angel, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, The Cosby Show, Laverne and Shirley, The Miss Marple Mysteries, The Simpsons, Frasier, Dynasty, Wings, Dallas, Northern Exposure, Love Connection, Elimidate, Blind Date (Absolutely love those pop up bubbles of exhibitionist hilarity!), Taxi, Night Court, Changing Rooms (BBC), and pretty much anything else on the History Channel, Nova, or PBS. I know, I know...I am a complete geek, and I'm very proud of it! :D
Some of my recent favorites are A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking; Gibbon's Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by D. M. Low; Lee And Grant by Gene Smith; A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson; DNA: The Secret of Life by James D. Watson and Andrew Berry; World War II- A Short History by Michael J. Lyons; Dead Men Do Tell Tales by William Maples; and The Atlas Of Languages by Comrie, Matthews, and Polinksy. Additionally, the Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad; Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham; Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe; The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda; 100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor by Pablo Neruda; The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Ivan Morris; The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu; The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass; Ulysses by James Joyce; One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; and The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood. I am also rereading a book called North American Indians by Alice Kehoe, which is really fascinating and illuminating. Did anyone else know that our Colonial forefathers based our very own U.S. constitution on the Iroquois Confederacy's constitution, also known as the Great Law of Peace, which was created around the middle 1400's to the 1600's? Um, so cool!
My parents, my sister, my Nana for raising nine children, Oprah Winfrey, all of the American police officers, fire fighters, and soldiers (who continually provide us with the luxury of liberty at their sometimes thankless expense), Abraham Lincoln, Francisco de Goya, Homo Erectus for taming fire (lol), Martin Luther King Jr., Marc Chagall, Iron workers, Pablo Picasso, Joan of Arc, Albrecht Durer, Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Degas, Chief Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the coal miners of Cape Breton, Jane Goodall, Charles Darwin, Paul Gauguin, Howard Hughes, Nelson Mandela, Marie Curie, Andrew Carnegie, Tank man from Tiananmen Square, Chief Justice John Marshall, Stephen Hawking, Michaelangelo, Madeline Albright, Bill Gates, John Dewey, Martin Luther, Julius Caeser, Margaret Thatcher, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Ulysses S. Grant, B. F. Skinner, Vincent Van Gogh, the Knights Templar, J. D. Rockefeller, Harriet Tubman, El Greco, Chief Red Jacket, Henri Rousseau, George Eastman, Louis, Mary, and Richard Leakey, Rembrandt, Catherine of Aragon, Jane Adams, Salvador Dali, Chief Justice Thurgood Marshall, Wasilly Kandinsky, Queen Elizabeth I, Colin Powell, Boticelli, Margaret Sanger, Mahatma Ghandi, Gustav Klimt, George Gordon (Lord Byron), Jesse Owens, Henri Matisse, Amelia Earhart, Plato, Frank Lloyd Wright, Cleopatra, Anais Nin, Johannes Gutenberg, Peter I (the Great), Geoffrey Chaucer, Calamity Jane, the 54th Volunteer Infantry of freed African American men from Massachusetts (who fought during the Civil War), Lucille Ball, Henry Ford, Plutarch, Dian Fossey, Rachel Carson, the Bronte sisters, the Freemasons, Maya Angelou, William Shakespeare, Harriet Tubman, Raphael, Audie Murphy, The unsinkable Molly Brown, Diego Velazquez, Thomas Jefferson, Dylan Thomas, Babe Ruth, Jane Austen, Mary Cassatt, Socrates, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Dante, Buddha, Matthew Brady (and the many uncredited photographers who actually showed the world what the Civil War was really like), Chief Sitting Bull, Percy Shelley, Titian, Freud, Nina Simone, Bandura, Sojourner Truth, Maslow, William Woodsworth, Princess of Wales, Jung, Billy Holiday, Pavlov, Homer, Rosa Parks, Claude Monet, Renoir, Adler, Kohlberg, Susan B. Anthony, D. H. Lawrence, Piaget, Norman Rockwell, Vygotsky, Noam Chomsky, the Wright brothers, all the unknown immigrant workers of America's past and present who have helped build this nation for a chance of freedom, Pablo Neruda, Condoleeza Rice, William Faulkner, Goethe, Marconi, Leonardo DaVinci, Edith Wharton, Galileo, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Mother Theresa, Christina Rosetti, Thomas Edison, Keats, Anne Frank, Edvard Munch, JFK, all of the suffragists of the women's rights movement who fought for female equity and equality, Rubens, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Clarence Darrow, Helen Keller, Che Guevara, Queen Victoria of England, Alexander Graham Bell, Robert Frost, William Wallace, Thomas Jefferson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William I (the Conqueror), W. B. Yeats, Catherine II (the Great), Georgia O'Keefe, Winston Churchill, and finally all of the teachers in my life who taught me to love, value, and respect knowledge and learning.