Teddy Roosevelt, if he were alive. Same with FDR. Myself as an 80-year-old. People who care about politics, and want to make a difference. No nasty people, please.
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Let's Active, old REM, Jane's Addiction, the Mighty MIGHTY Bosstones, MU330, the Urge, the A-teens, Aqua, the Cure, Rufus Wainwright, John Mayer, 1940s pop--especially stuff written by Hoagy Carmichael, Harry Connick Jr., Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Benny Goodman, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Etta James, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Ma Rainey, Andrea Bocelli, Jovanotti, Duran Duran, the Go-Gos, cheesy 80s pop, the Smiths, Short Cut, Ultraman, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Royal Crown Revue, Toasters, the Specials, Special Beat, English Beat, Blondie, the Ramones, Cocteau Twins, Sugar Cubes, Sonic Youth, Misfits, Descendents, ALL, TSOL, Minor Threat, Adam & the Ants, Fugazi, 7 Seconds, Suicidal Tendencies, Dead Milkmen, Agnostic Front, JFA, Lords of the New Church, Jason and the Scorchers, the Busters, Skinhead Moonstomp, War Zone, Slapshot, Fear, the Exploited, Gang Green, Camper Van Beethoven, the Pixies, most late 80s-early 90s alternative, any salsa, Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Hayden, most jazz. Eclectic taste, lots of different stuff.
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban, (did I mention that I dig me some Harry Potter?), Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Breakfast Club, Big Fish, Love Actually, Cinema Paradiso, Like Water for Chocolate, Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing, Amelie, Clue, Rocky Horror, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Bicycle Thief (any DeSica, really), Clerks, Dogma, Monty Python's the Holy Grail, MP's Life of Brian, MP's Meaning of Life, Suburbia, Grease, Fargo, 1001 Rabbit Tales.
The West Wing (RIP), The Daily Show, The Colbert Report (where is that man's Emmy?), Battlestar Galactica. That's about it, other than CNN or movie watching.
Harry Potter series, The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, Any Umberto Eco, Patricia Cornwell Scarpetta series, anything on democratization in Latin America, presidential biographies, The Clinton Wars by Sid Blumenthal, Hunting of the President by Conason & Lyons, anything by James Carville (the Ragin' Cajun), Good in Bed, In Her Shoes and Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner, Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding, The Prince by Machiavelli, Soft Power by Joseph Nye, anything on foreign policy of the US, Italian Neighbors and An Italian Education by Tim Parks, anything by Dickens or Jane Austen ,Wuthering Heights, 1876 by Gore Vidal, Kim by Rudyard Kipling, etc., etc. I never tire of reading--I can go through 5-6 books per week when I'm not in school. I like to read murder mysteries and historical fiction or political nonfiction for fun, mostly.
Leonardo Da Vinci, Hillary Clinton, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bill Clinton, James Carville, MLK Jr., Roberto Baggio, my husband, Dante. (not necessarily in that order!)