Music, literature, Art (esp. but not inclusive- Impressionists, Art Deco, Art Nouveau & Japanese woodblock prints of the 1800's) movies, (esp. foreign films), being an "extra" in films in Chicago area (whoohoo!!...Ricky Gervais, I can relate!!), Skype-ing!, Apple computers, web design, graphic design, Photoshop, photography, hiking, swimming, working out, lifting weights, canoeing, writing, history, travel, Mini Coopers, sailboats, submarines, vintage magazines, The One Campaign,
World Vision, Chicago Cubs, The Chicago BEARS - 2006 NFC Champions, Chicago Fire, Newcastle United, learning French (The French Podclass - J'aime Le Podclass Francais beaucoup. Sebastien est un bon professeur!!), Space...I love looking at pics from the Spitzer, Hubble, etc. telescopes, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and Cassini spacecraft... and am in awe when I do!
The lists below reflect no specific order...just as they came to my scattered brain.....
I can't even begin to say...there are too many to name...Those of you who know me may figure out a few :o)...but overall it would be very nice to make new friends from other countries....well and of course,here too!
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U2, The Killers, The Shins,The Fray, Radiohead, Nick Drake, Deathcab for Cutie, Smashing Pumpkins,The Postal Service, Coldplay, Weezer, Train, The Cure, Paul Dawson(The Weight), Modest Mouse, White Stripes, Blur, Vib Gyor, Simple Minds, Madness, Joe Henry, Amr Diab, My Morning Jacket, The Four Tops, Gerry & the Pacemakers, Kaiser Chiefs, Apples in Stereo, Tonic, Stereophonics, Audioslave, The Buddah Bar compilations, Tchiakovsky, Sting, The Police, The Godfathers, Depeche Mode, M. Ward, The Beatles, The Tremeloes, Collective Soul, B.B. King, Hisham Abbas, Echo and the Bunnymen, Beethoven, Oasis, Vast, Los Lonely Boys, Emmylou Harris, Vertical Horizon, Bjork, Interpol, OK Go, Franz Ferdinand, Gorillaz, They Might Be Giants, Clannad, Oasis, Spent Poets, The Clash, Mozart, Yo La Tengo, Level 42, The Samples, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, The Normals, Pavarotti, The Arcade Fire, Jeff Buckley, Crowded House, Van Morrison, Marvin Gaye, Flaming Lips, Ivor Novello, Snow Patrol, Keane, The Bodeans, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Opera (i LUV Turandot and other Puccini works & Mozart's stuff), Gabriel Yared, Prince, John Fogerty, The Pogues, The Police, Chris Botti,Led Zeppelin, Roy Orbison, Jack Johnson, Morellas Forest, Jimi Hendrix, The Portraits, Damien Rice, Benny Goodman, The Stray Cats (also Brian Setzer's solo stuff), Chevelle, PJ Harvey, Gilbert and Sullivan, Jupiter and Teardrop, The Arctic Monkeys, Bach, Beck, Feist, Radio 4,Iona, Pink Floyd, Jamie Cullum, Morrissey, The Smiths, Ibrahim Erkal, Rene Flemming, Elvis, The Cranberries, The Pixies, Dvorak, Enya, Moody Blues, Kings of Leon, Paul Simon, The Bodeans, Hard Fi, Kubb, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah's, The Jam, A-ha, Aaron Copeland,Bob Dylan, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Dave Matthews Band, Sufjan Stevens, Aimee Mann, The Subways, People in Planes, Monsoon Wedding & Namastey London soundtracks - Also, .. sources of very cool stuff - radiodavidbyrne.com, Jesse De La Pena's smoothbeats.com (Wed 2-4 central), The Tartanpodcast, .. It is neverending actually!
Wings of Desire, Far Away So Close, High Fidelity, Lost In Translation, Last of the Mohicans, The Thin Red Line, Walk the Line, Hope and Glory, Thomas Crown Affair, Before the Rain, The English Patient, The Last Emperor, The 400 Blows (and many others directed by Francois Truffaut), Next Stop Wonderland, Cinema Paradiso, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, John Cusack, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Il Postino, Life is Beautiful, Johnny Stecchino, Monsoon Wedding(Bollywood flicks in general), An American in Paris, Bottle Rocket, Zoolander, Marx Bros, Woody Allen, Elvis (no, I'm not kidding), Groundhog Day, Rushmore, The Man Who Knew Too Much (i.e.Bill Murray's stuff), Das Boot (a must only in German),The Hunt for Red October,Grand Illusion,Gosford Park,Pink Panther, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blues Brothers,Vanilla Sky, Moonstruck, Napoleon Dynamite ( I can relate), Shall We Dance (Japanese version), Farewell My Concubine, Garden State, Italian Job (both versions), Waking Ned Devine, A Hard Days Night, Help, Rattle & Hum, Amadeus, The Commitments, Diner, Stand By Me, To Sir With Love, Billy Elliot, Into the West, Chronicles of Narnia, Sayonara, Bullshot, Lagaan, Immortal Beloved, Memoirs of a Geisha, Salaam Namaste, La Dolce Vita, Flyboys, Casino Royale...oh my goodness...I like the new Bond!...(& most of the 007 films), The Departed, The Devil Wears Prada, The Bicycle Thief, Namaste London, Kal Ho Naa Ho
24, The Office (British version, of course!), The Amazing Race, House, Scrubs, movie and history channels, Jeeves & Wooster, Stargate, The Sopranos (I lived in Jersey 2 years), League of Gentlemen, The Young Ones, Fools and Horses, Masterpiece Theatre, mysteries, detective, Extras!(haha), Rome, Entourage
C.S. Lewis, Dickens, Charlotte & Emily Bronte, (oh, just say the Classics), Madeleine L'Engle, Tolkein, Brennan Manning, Philip Yancey, Tom Clancy, Poetry, History, Art (right now, really into enjoying my Utagawa Hiroshige and Edward Hopper books),Photography, Travel
The guy who stood in front of the tanks in the Tianenmen Square protests ....and Aung San Suu Kyi (currently a prisoner of conscience in Burma), Jhansi Ki Rani- heroine of the Indian Independence Movement-1857, murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya, my great-aunt Cara Jean....of course Bono, Edge, Larry and Adam, Sir William Wilberforce...this little 70-something lady at the gym where I work out who lifts weights on a regular basis...I'm still working on a more complete list....