Primarily my passions lie in arts and entertainment -- movies, music, books, poetry, comics, newspapers, photography, museums, video games, crossword puzzles, card and board games (especially Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble).
I believe that in many cases, WHAT a person likes is more important than what *they're* like, as passions and favorites speak volumes about personality and character.
Friends I had in the past, friends I have in the present, friends I'll have in the future ...
SINGER-SONGWRITERS:
Billy Joel, Elton John, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Fiona Apple, Joan Osborne, Sheryl Crow, Dido, Vanessa Carlton
ALTERNATIVE:
U2, R.E.M., Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Queen, The Smiths. The Cure, The Police, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Garbage
JAZZ:
Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Diana Krall, Norah Jones
COMEDIES:
Get Shorty, Bull Durham, When Harry met Sally ..., Clue, House of Yes, The Last Supper, Toy Story 2, Swimming with Sharks, Mystery Men, Grosse Pointe Blank, High Fidelity, City Slickers, How to Steal a Million, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Kevin Smith movies
ACTION/ADVENTURES:
All things Star Wars and Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Saving Private Ryan, Pulp Fiction, Hunt for Red October, Heist, Ronin, The Thomas Crown Affair (both versions)
DRAMAS:
Godfather Trilogy, Adaptation, Memento, Field of Dreams, Reversal of Fortune, Punch Drunk Love, Traffic, Schindler's List, Memento, Cop Land, Sideways, Stealing Beauty
THRILLERS:
Usual Suspects, Suicide Kings, Out of Sight, Unbreakable, Silence of the Lambs, Sin City
FOREIGN FILMS:
Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Antonia's Line, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Leon the Professional, Swimming Pool
DIRECTORS:
Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Akira Kurosawa, John Woo, Kevin Smith
ACTORS:
Susan Sarandon, Audrey Hepburn, Julianne Moore, Christopher Walken, Steve Buscemi, Samuel L. Jackson, John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Jean Reno, Don Cheadle, Toshiro Mifune
COMEDIANS:
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carrell, Denis Leary, Janeane Garofalo, Jerry Seinfeld
Lost, The Office, Heroes, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, My Name is Earl, The Simpsons, South Park
I never get tired of reruns of Seinfeld, Friends or Cheers
And I really, really miss Aaron Sorkin's Sports Night, the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and The Sopranos
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff - Christ's Childhood Pal, Bloodsucking Fiends, Stranger in a Strange Land, Queen of the Damned, American Gods, Ender's Game, Snow Crash, High Fidelity, Snow Falling on Cedars, Tao Te Ching, Tao of Pooh, Te of Piglet
WRITERS:
Christopher Moore, Mark Twain, Robert Heinlein, Anne Rice, Nick Hornby, Timothy Zahn, Elmore Leonard, Neil Gaiman, e.e. cummings, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, Brian Michael Bendis, Bill Amend, Gary Larson, Bill Watterson, Charles Schultz, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Jeffrey Wells, Kim Morgan, Tom Verducci
COMIC BOOKS/STRIPS:
X-men titles, Ultimate Spider-man, Powers, New & Mighty Avengers, Daredevil, FoxTrot, Peanuts, Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, Non-Sequitor
MAGAZINES:
Entertainment Weekly, Wizard, Sports Illustrated
My older sister Sandy, Lloyd Dobler, Charlie Brown, Levi who is called Biff, The Dalai Lama