Movies, TV, Art, Books, Politics, Sports, to name a few. I love this world and I love doing things that provide new insights into that elusive question... Why? There is so much to see and do and I want to do and see as much as I can. My main interest is enjoying life to the fullest.
I subvscribe to Will Rdgers theory that "I never met a person I didn't like." People are such an enigma, so full of unpredictable impulse and stubburn habit. I try to practice the difficult task of accepting people for who they are and standing by them when they are being attacked by others. It makes it difficult when the attacker is someone whom I like, as is often the case, and it is humbling when I discover that I, in my efforts to help another, inadvertantly become the attacker myself. I guess the bottom line is that I try my best to be good to those I come in contact with and to learn from and enjoy them as much as possible.
I have managed to stay a starry-eyed music lover through the last few years of hanging out with serious musicians and becoming a fairly serious musician myself. With that said I have decided to limit this list to the desert island top ten artists that have influenced me the most: Garth Brooks, Sting, The Warren Brothers, John Mayer, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw, The Eagles, Trisha Yearwood, Rob Thomas and The Black Crowes.Recently I have been loving Corine Bailey Rae, The Killers, and I have dug into the past and gotten heavy into Stevie Nicks solo stuff, Alice in Chains and a lot of classic rock (Rolling Stones, Aersomtih The Doors and Tom Waits because he's the man and all my pals are obsessed).
I Love the movies as much as I love music. I will again list the current top ten: Casablanca, The Philadelphia Story, The Godfather trilogy, Back to the future, Almost Famous, Magnolia, Chasing Amy, Keeping the Faith, Love Actually snf Die HardRecently I have loved The Departed, Stranger Than Fiction, The Illusionist, Man of the Year and The Holiday
It's becmoing a trend here are my top ten TV shows The West Wing Friends Sports Night 24 The X Files Firefly Alias Mad About You Moonlighting Northern ExposureRight now I love Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Friday Night Lights, Two and Half Men and How I Met Your Mother
I love the classics, Shakespere, Dickens, Twain, Homer, Hemingway, Melvillle and Jane Austen would be near the top of the list. Contemporary authors I enjoy include Dennis Lahane Nick Honrby, Dan Brown, Robert Ludlum, Nicholas Sparks and John Grisham.
Garth Brooks, Babyface, Aaron Sorkin, Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King, Shakespere, John Stockton, Cal Ripken Jr., Walter Payton, Bob Costas my mom and dad, and anyone who puts on a police, fire department or armed forces uniform, bless you all for putting it all on the line to protect this potentially great, if not yet fully realized idea, of a country , while we try and figure out who we are, both individually and as a nation.