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Ordinary people who've lived a long time and have stories to tell. I don't believe people you look up to ever live up to what you need them to be, so I prefer to pick my heroes from afar ... but I've also learned that you can learn from others if you just listen. And you can find out some pretty cool things, that aren't taught in the history classes.
There are so many people that are long gone that I would have liked to meet. For one, my grandfather's brother, who died in WWII. The letters he wrote home are filled with stories of walking through the places he lived, seeing new things that he couldn't even tell what he was seeing. Such a life for a poor boy from the mountains to experience.
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It really changes a lot ... but what I like are songs with different levels, or several things going on at the same time ... mostly not artificial sound; acoustic guitar, piano, though a good mixer works sometimes.
David Crowder Band (just about everything: #1 Forever & Ever etc., Wholly Yours, Open Skies --I know it says praise the Lord under Open Skies, but I miss Texas, and I miss my open, forever and ever skies!! So I like to sing it, praise the Lord for Open skies. For choices, for moving on and new things and adventure. Though I don't always like those things. Hmmm. Still.)
Toby Mac (My favorite on the new one is the one with Mandesa. I just started listing, though)
Chris Tomlin (How Can I Keep From Singing)
Dave Matthews Band, Matchbox 20, Linkin Park's 1st Album ... I like some old school CCR, Jim Croce, Partridge Family, Bus Stop (the song) it's the best ... and my favorite Groovy Kind of Love. The best love song ever ... outside of Joshua Kadison's Beautiful in My eyes, but for different reasons.
Outkast (see CB vid below), newer Jay-z, Beastie Boys, Linkin Park, Goo Goo Dolls, Matchbox 20 ... plus odd songs like Crazy for the Girl, Crush, Live Like You Were Dying, Keith Urban Days Go By and Somebody Like You, Frank Sintra, Marlon Brando singing Luck Be a Lady ...
More later as I think of more.
Pride and Prejudice (recent cinema and BBC versions--both awesome); The original Star Wars movies; Barefoot in the Park; Guys and Dolls; How to Marry a Millionaire; Good News; Here Comes the Groom; Swing Time; Failure to Launch; Princess Bride (who doesn't?); The Incredibles; While you were Sleeping; Ella Enchanted; the original Herbie movies ...
If I had cable: Debbie Travis's Facelift, What Not to Wear, Good Eats, I love the ... series; But since I don't have cable ... when I remember to watch House, Boston Legal, some Crossing Jordan, BBC Comedies (I do have PBS) and good oldies like Hart to Hart, the Partridge Family, the original Mission Impossible Series (and the early 90s series, but never the movies ;) ), Dick Van Dyke; Mork and Mindy; That 70s Show, The Greatest American Hero, Welcome Back Kotter ... thank goodness for DVDs!
I've also recently discovered Bones, which I love. The discussions on faith are great. I wish I could find a youtube clip, but since I can't, I found the transcript thanks to http://searchingbones.com/
Brennan: “No. See. If there was a God, which there isn’t…â€
Booth: “SSSHHH! Don’t you see where we are?â€
Brennan: “And if I were someone who believed He had a plan…â€
Booth: “Which I do.â€
Brennan: “Then I’d be tempted to think He wanted me to go through something like I went through because it might make me more open to the whole concept.â€
Booth: “It obviously hasn’t.â€
Brennan: “I’m ok with you thanking God for saving me and Hodgins.â€
Booth: †That’s not what I thanked Him for. I thanked Him for saving all of us. It was all of us, every single one. You take one of us away and you and Hodgins are in that hole forever. And I’m thankful for that.â€
Pride and Prejudice, Secrets (by Heitzmann), Lady in Waiting, Stillpoint, Glory (Marilyn Kok), Trixie Beldon (Bring back Jim and Trixie and the Bob Whites!!!) ... Jane Eyre, usually anything drawn or written by Children's author Marjorie Priceman, Bud not Buddy, The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread, and Counting on Grace (thank my literature in the school class ... I wouldn't have read these amazing adolescent books without it).
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Charlie Brown (see Clip ... awesome)