Music, law and politics.. If you are under 35, you need to vote. now more than ever. Simply educate yourself on the issues that face this country, get involved or just vote. It's never been more important to get involved then now. And the Cubs.. I love the Cubs...
I'd like to meet:
Martin Luther King, Sting (Why did you go solo?), John Lennon, Jeff Buckley, Chris Rock, Will Ferrell, Jeff Tweedy, Richard Nixon, Balky Bartokomous
Music:
SUPPORT LOCAL MUSIC!!! Chicago Music Scene: Cameron McGill, Paper Arrows, Dave Tamkin, Weber Band, Karma Tease, Air This Side of Caution, Burn Rome Burn, Monica Da Silva, Bumpus, helicopters:::Others I support from Chicago: Rachael Yamagata, Wilco, Kanye West, Redwalls:::OUTSIDE CHICAGO: Citizen Cope, Ray Lamontagne, Damien Rice, Amos Lee ::: PERSONAL ALL TIME FAVORITES: Beatles and the Police, JEFF BUCKLEY, Gomez, Ben Harper, Blind Melon, the Connells, Alicia Keys, Counting Crowes, Beth Orton, Blind Melon, early Radiohead, Portishead, Fiona Apple, Bleu, Spoon, Alexi Murdoch, Natalie Merchant, Beirut, Killers, My Morning Jacket, Jonny Cash, Ryan Adams.
Movies:
Shawshank Redemption, Dead Poets Society, Awakenings, Best in Show, Rushmore, Royal Tennenbaums, Beautiful Girls, Midnight Run, Primary Colors, Raising Arizona, Anchorman, Spinal Tap, the Candidate, Lost in Translation, A River Runs Through It, Big Lebowski, Hi Fidelity, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love
Television:
Lotsa News... Hardball Headline News or CLTV (local news)... SNL reruns, Conan O'Brien, Family Guy, Flight of the Conchords, 30 Rock, and reruns of Good Times (Temporary Layoffs!)
Books:
"Catcher in the Rye" - JD Salinger; "Kiterunner" - Khaled Hosseini; "Dry" - Augusten Burrows; "All The Shah's Men" - Stephen Kinzer; "A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton"; John A. McPhee; "To Kill a Mockingbird" Harper Lee; "Ordinary People" Judith Guest; "The World According to Garp" John Irving; "Endangered Values" Jimmy Carter; "A Man Without a Country" Kurt Vonnegut, "How to Be Good" Nick Hornby; "Dreams From My Father" Barack Obama.
