Gregg, Ginger, friends, music, animal rights, rain, movies, birds, poker, balance, books, hiking, geocaching, italy, gardening, travel, environment, Oregon, Beyond Good and Evil (not Nietzsche), outdoor music, live sports, intelligent discussions, napping, people watching, the park with Ginger,......
Ray Bradbury or Issac Asimov..if my literary high expectations cant be met...well, Bruce Springsteen....or John Cusack mmmm John F Kennedy, Rachal Carson, Jacques Cousteau, e.e. cumming,Jack Kerouac, Henry David Thoreau, Alan Shepard, John Lennon, Dave Barry, John Muir, my evil twin, Ansel Adams, Truman Capote...I need to think more on this
My Morning Jacket, Dishwalla, Bruce Springsteen, Blue Rodeo, Dixie Chicks, Sade, Dire Straits, Tosca, Sundays, Jimmy Buffett, Jayhawks, Bonnie Raitt, R.E.M., Zero 7, Anggun, Howie Day, EAgles, Warren Zevon, movie soundtracks, Beck, Anita Baker, Chris Botti, Elliott Smith, Ryan Adams, Beth Orton, Nick Drake, Sara McLaclan, Cranberries, Jay Farrar, 60's Soul, Pet Shop Boys, Rich Braun, Jackie Greene, Annie Lennox, "Chill", William Topley, George Strait, Mark Knoffler, Rachael Yamagata, old Billy Joel, Belle and Sebastian, Johnny Lang, Melissa Etheridge, Etta James, Italian movie soundtracks, Boney James, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Little Wille John, Luther Vandross, Enigma, Gato Barbieri, Not Drowning Waving, Sonia Dada, Damien Rice, Iron and Wine, Moby, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, U2, Tom Waits, Sinatra, Cardigans, Kris Kristopherson, Tommy James and the Shondells, Peter Gabriel, Ry Cooder, Concrete Blonde...
Moonstruck, LOTR (all), Princess Bride, Napoleon Dynamite, Whale Rider, REd Violin, Rivers and Tides, Eternal sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Station Agent, Pulp Fiction, Winged Migration, Cinderella, Office Space, Say Anything, Casablanca, The Way We WEre, Brokeback Mountain, Serenity, A Little Romance, Vison quest, Big Chill, Camelot, Bull Durham, 3 Days of the Condor, A Walk on the Moon, The In Laws (original), What's Up Doc?, Home for the Holidays, Cinema Paradiso, Before Night Falls, Sling Blade, Fried Green Tomatoes, Baraka, Donnie Darko, Thelma and Lousie, Annie Hall, 4 Weddings and a Funeral, Mermaids, Sin City, A League of Their Own, Microcosmos, Born into Brothels, March of the Penguins, Junebug, Hustle and Flow, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Murderball, Crash...
Lost, The Office, Seinfeld, The Amazing Race, Northern Exposure, Six Feet Under, B & W game shows, Johnny Carson, Survivor, West Wing, CSI(original and Miami), Freaks and Geeks, Firefly, My So Called Life, Sports Night, Space: Above and Beyond, Star Trek: Next Generation (make it so),Top Chef...
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury may be my favorite book of all time, Lord of the Ring trilogy and the Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman, Orchid Thief by susan Orlean, whew...this one should be easy because I read so very much, but its not. Some authors I like I will read every word published, like Asimov or Harlan Ellison or Kurt Vonnegut or Larry McMurtry or Ray Bradbury or andrew Vachss. William Gibson, Bruce Sterling. Hard Sci-Fi, Fantasy, noir, memoirs, short stories, informative non-fiction (add...get my attention quickly, please) environmental essays, suspenseful mysteries, Michael Connelly, James Lee Burke, Annie Dillard, Willa Cather, Charles Darwin, Dorothy Parker, John Burningham,Jack Kerouac,The Velveteen Rabbit, Atlas Shrugged by ayn Rand, A Prologue to Love by Taylor Caldwell, David Wiesner, The Last Convertible by Anton Meyrer, Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney, Dave Barry, Kneedeep in Thunder by Shelia Moon and on and on...I do a disservice to many authors I love by trying to list any.
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