I feel like I've just been given a new lease on life...I'm back in school (Go Bruins!) and starting a whole new chapter - and I couldn't be happier.
Live, love, and laugh - always.
*Adding my own harmonies to songs
*Alphabetizing
*Animals
*Antiquated turns of phrase
*Any excuse to put on any type of costume
*Aviator sunglasses
*Babies
*Ballerinas
*Balsamic vinegar
*Barbershop quartets
*"Build-up" music sequences
*Chai tea
*Chain Chomps
*Classical music
*Clocks
*Conducting symphonies in my car
*Crushed ice
*Danny Mothers impersonations
*Directing
*Dusk
*Family
*Food4Less
*Fugues
*Game nights
*Genealogy
*Girard's Champagne salad dressing
*Girls with pigtails
*Girls in skirts
*Grand gestures
*Grocery stores at night
*Gummi worms/bears
*Innuendo
*Irish Spring
*Jogging
*Journalism
*Karaoke duets
*Kinetic Typography
*Laughing
*Lostpedia
*Love
*LP's
*Maps
*Medicine
*Mouth trumpeting
*Multimedia presentations
*Musical Theater
*Naps
*Nicknames
*Nighttime
*Nuclear warfare and its eminent threat
*Opera
*Orchestral vamps
*Pepperidge Farm's Chessmen cookies
*Perusing other people's bookshelves
*Picking up pennies
*Pipe organs
*Playing along with Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune
*Positivity
*Psychology
*Randomly singing parts of conversations
*Ragtime piano
*Rainy afternoons
*Reading the Craigslist "missed connections"
*Reeeeeeally long tracking shots in movies
*Schooling folks at Boggle
*Shake-face pictures
*Singing out random phrases
*Slow blinking neon lights
*Small towns
*Space heaters
*Spaghetti westerns
*Spanish
*Tap dancing
*Time and space
*"That's what she said" jokes
*Theatre
*Theorizing about LOST
*Vaudeville
*Welsh Corgis
Anyone and everyone.
Composers
Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Georges Bizet, Carter Burwell, Jon Brion, Frederic Chopin, Danny Elfman, Michael Giacchino, Philip Glass, Bernard Herrmann, Maurice Jarre, Aram Khachaturian, Franz Liszt, Ennio Morricone, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Randy Newman, Michael Penn, Howard Shore, Nobuo Uematsu, Vangelis, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, John Williams, Hans Zimmer
Groups
The Beatles, Casey & His Brother, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Coldplay, The Doobie Brothers, Driveshaft, The Doors, Electric Light Orchestra, Geronimo Jackson, Gipsy Kings, Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, The Inkspots, Led Zepplin, The Mamas and the Papas, Oasis, Pink Floyd, Portishead, Queen, The Rolling Stones, The Seatbelts, Supertramp, Tears for Fears, Three Dog Night, Tina & Ike Turner, The White Stripes
Solo Artists
David Bowie, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Patsy Cline, Ry Cooder, Rob Dougan, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, MIKA, Willie Nelson, Harry Nilsson, The Roy Teppert One-Man Band, Klaus Wunderlich
Musicals
A Chorus Line, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Annie Get Your Gun, Avenue Q, Beauty and the Beast, The Brain From Planet X, Bukowsical!, Cabaret, Chicago, Company, Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello!, Godspell, Guys & Dolls, Hairspray, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, HMS Pinafore, Jekyll & Hyde, Jesus Christ Superstar, La Cage aux Folles, Les Miserables, Little Shop of Horrors, Man of La Mancha, The Mikado, Miss Saigon, The Music Man, My Fair Lady, Oliver!, Phantom of the Opera, Pirates of Penzance, The Producers, Ragtime, The Rocky Horror Show, The Sound of Music, Urinetown, West Side Story, Wicked, Xanadu
*American Beauty, A Scanner Darkly, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery/The Spy Who Shagged Me/Goldmember
*Beauty and the Beast, Big, The Big Lebowski, Big Top Pee-Wee, Blader Runner, Boogie Nights, Boondock Saints, Bowling for Columbine
*Cabaret, Chicago, The China Syndrome, Clockwork Orange
*Dances with Wolves, Doctor Zhivago
*Edward Scissorhands, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Eyes Wide Shut
*Fiddler on the Roof, Fight Club, The First Nudie Musical, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More
*Ghostbusters I & II, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, A Goofy Movie, The Graduate
*Hard Eight, Hook, The Hudsucker Proxy
*I ♥ Huckabees
*Kill Bill Vol. 1 & , Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
*Lawrence of Arabia, Little Miss Sunshine, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring/The Two Towers/Return of the King
*Magnolia, The Mask, The Matrix/Reloaded/Revolutions, Meet the Parents, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Moulin Rouge
*Napoleon Dynamite, National Lampoon's Vacation/Christmas Vacation/European Vacation/Vegas Vacation, Network, The Nightmare Before Christmas, North by Northwest
*Once Upon a Time in the West, The Outlaw Josey Wales
*Patton, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Philadelphia, Pulp Fiction, Punch-Drunk Love
*Ran, Reservoir Dogs, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rollerball (1975 version), Run Lola Run
*Se7en, The Silence of the Lambs, Sin City, The Sixth Sense, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Wars: A New Hope/The Empire Strikes Back/Return of the Jedi, Stay Tuned, Stranger than Fiction
*Team America: World Police, There Will Be Blood, Three Amigos, Three Ninjas, 21 Grams
*Waiting for Guffman, Watership Down, Wayne's World, West Side Story
*Young Frankenstein
LOST
The Office
Tim & Eric: Awesome Show, Great Job!
24 (Seasons 1-5), Arrested Development, The Colbert Report, Cowboy Bebop, The Daily Show, Extras, Family Guy, Flight of the Conchords, Futurama, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Heroes, Jeopardy!, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, The Price is Right, Ren & Stimpy, The Simpsons, South Park, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Wacky Races, Wheel of Fortune, Wonder Showzen
Richard Adams
The Plague Dogs, Watership Down
Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
Stephen T. Colbert
I Am America (And So Can You!)
Bret Easton Ellis
American Psycho
Robert Hamburger
Real Ultimate Power
Edith Hamilton
Mythology
Hergé
The Adventures of Tintin
Homer
The Iliad, The Odyssey
Bruce Kimmel
Benjamin Kritzer, Kritzerland, Kritzer Time, Writer's Block, How to Write a Dirty Book
John Knowles
A Separate Peace
John Krakauer
Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, Under the Banner of Heaven
Ruth Krauss
A Hole is to Dig
Harper Lee
To Kill A Mockingbird
Gregory Maguire
Wicked
Tucker Max
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
Watchmen
Philip Pullman
His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass/The Subtle Knife/The Amber Spyglass, Lyra's Oxford
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone/Chamber of Secrets/Prisoner of Azkaban/Goblet of Fire/Order of the Phoenix/Half-Blood Prince/Deathly Hallows
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince
Jose Saramago
Blindness
John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men, The Winter of Our Discontent
Koushun Takami
Battle Royale
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, Return of the King
Sandol Stoddard Warburg
I Like You
Frank Warren
PostSecret
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John Franklin
Crosswords
Martin McDonagh
The Pillowman
Arthur Miller
The Crucible, Death of a Salesman
Richard O'Brien
The Rocky Horror Show
Eugene O'Neill
Long Day's Journey into Night
William Shakespeare
King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Richard III, Titus Andronicus
*Robert B. Cason
*Anthony Everett-Osvog
*John Locke
*Desmond David Hume
*Jack Shephard
*Danny Mothers
*Lester Burnham
*Mr. Rogers
*Pee-Wee Herman