Balancing and juggling the quests for money, fun, responsibility, satisfaction and the greater good. Beyond that: family, friends, sports (Detroit teams, U of M and, believe it or not, English Premiership soccer), government/politics, pop culture of all shapes and sizes.
I'd like to meet:
See Heroes (below). New clients, especially. Cool, smart, creative, entrepreneurial types, recovering lawyers, and fellow Macedonians. Also: Richard Branson, Herb Kelleher, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Judd Apatow, Cameron Crowe, Mel Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, Gary Trudeau, Brad Grey, the late Brandon Tartikoff, Paul Haggis, Al Franken, Aaron Sorkin, George Soros, John Hughes, Bill Clinton, Paul Feig, the Rozerem Beaver.
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Music:
Everything that I, recovering music snob, like:
Vintage Alternative -- Roxy Music, Nick Lowe/Dave Edmunds/Rockpile, Elvis Costello, Talking Heads, Cheap Trick, REM, Pretenders, U2.
Great American music, from Aaron Copeland to George Gershwin to the Ramones to Lucinda Williams to TV on the Radio.
Whatever is current and good: Fountains of Wayne, Gnarls, Coldplay, Keane, Gorillaz, Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Hives, Kanye, Kaiser Chiefs, etc. Oh, and God help me, Kelly Clarkson is making amazing singles.
Anything from The D: John Lee Hooker, MC5, Iggy and the Stooges, Motown, Seger, Alice Cooper (no Nugent, due to twisted politics), Romantics, Madonna, all the Techno guys, Eminem, Bob Ritchie, White Stripes, Raconteurs. Check out Creem Magazine's profile -- Boy Howdy!!! And my Detroit boys, The Go! 'Sup, John?
Movies:
I'm sure I'm missing some, but here goes: The 40 Year Old Virgin, Citizen Kane, Risky Business, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Die Hard ("How you say? Yippee-kay-yea, muzzafahkah."), Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Fast Times at Ridgemont High (hi, Cameron), The American President, All the President's Men, Dave, Animal House, Broadcast News, American Beauty, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Galaxy Quest, Saving Private Ryan, Love Actually (any Working Title pic, really), Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation, any Monty Python (especially Holy Grail), Quadrophenia, Rock 'n' Roll High School, Out of Sight, Good Night and Good Luck, Toy Story (anything by Pixar, really), Fly Away Home, Stop Making Sense.
Television:
Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, Simpsons, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Project Runway, Entourage, Sex and the City, Sopranos, The Larry Sanders Show, Sports Reporters, CBS Sunday Morning, Jeopardy, Cash Cab, Queer Eye, West Wing, Star Trek, any and all ESPN (even The Ocho), Meet the Press, Off The Record (a shout out to Tim Skubick & Chris Christoff), and the late, great, lamented Freaks and Geeks.
Books:
Mostly business and self-help. Many, many periodicals, however: Detroit Free Press, WSJ, Sunday NYT, Entertainment Weekly, Golf, Crain's Detroit Business, The Week, Esquire, People, Ad Age, some others buried in my In Box, I'm sure.
Heroes:
The women in my life. Also: Richard Branson, Benjamin Franklin, FDR, Herb Kelleher, Abraham Lincoln, Pete Rozelle, Ghandhi, Bill Clinton, Gordie Howe, Nelson Mandela, Vaclav Havel, Al Kaline, Maya Angelou, Steve Jobs, Ted Lindsay, Jackie Robinson, Mara Bunova, Tony Trupiano.
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Behold The D, formerly a/k/a The Paris of the Midwest.
Seriously.
It was really called that.
No more, though.
But, hey, it's
ours.
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