Science and emerging technologies
Saving Planet Earth
Enlightened philosophies
Creative pursuits
Music, movies, TV
Nightlife
Live bands in small venues
Concerts
Dive bars, juke boxes, pool & darts
Photography
Travel: Europe, Miami, AC, the Adirondacks, Athens, Bangkok, Sydney, Gdansk, Reykjavik, Hong Kong...but, there is no place like home, especially when it's the best place on earth - New York!
Pop Culture
Thunder Storms!
Fellow creatures of the night, musicians to jam with, karaoke connoisseurs, trivia nuts, pop culture afficionados, intelligent, compassionate souls...If you appreciate Bill Maher's take on the world/politics & Sacha Baron Cohen's twisted sense of humor, or if you are someone who laughs out loud reading David Sedaris & PJ O'Rourke or watching Roberto Benigni movies & re-runs of Three's Company and What's Happenin'...we'll jive.
ABBA--- Berlin--- Duran Duran--- Heart--- Led Zeppelin--- Blondie--- Depeche Mode--- Eurythmics--- INXS--- Poe--- Muse--- Nena--- U2--- The Killers--- Joan Jett--- Spoon--- Kaiser Chiefs--- AC/DC--- Cocteau Twins--- Keane--- Motley Crue--- Boney M--- Van Halen--- Iggy Pop--- Garbage--- Queens of the Stone Age--- The Clash--- Big City Rock--- The Darkness--- Pink Floyd--- Joe Dassin---Boston--- Scorpions--- Demis Roussos---Culture Club--- Linda Eder--- Mireille Mathieu--- Queen--- Thompson Twins--- Julio Iglesias (Senior!!)--- Foreigner--- Robert Plant---Wham!/George Michael---Squeeze---Aztec Camera--- Rod Stewart--- Crowded House---Metallica--- Siouxsie and the Banshees--- Olivia Newton-John--- Steps--- Journey--- Robert Palmer--- Pretenders--- KISS--- ELO--- Belinda Carlisle--- Guns ‘n’ Roses--- Bee Gees--- Kylie Minogue--- John Williams--- Hall & Oates--- Cyndi Lauper--- Madonna--- Erasure--- Rush--- Pussycat--- The Smiths--- The Carpenters--- Polish & Italian Pop Music from 1970's (Anna Jantar, Urszula Sipinska, Czerwone Gitary, Krzysztof Krawczyk, Ali Babki, Ricchi e Poveri, Al Bano & Romina Power)--- anything '80's--- anything New Wave--- anything metal--- anything dance… anything Freestyle! Music is my life – I like pretty much everything!
28 Days Later--- Bitter Moon--- Clerks II--- Fantastic Four--- Johnny Stecchino--- Serenity--- Il Mostro--- The Usual Suspects--- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (and Bogus Journey)--- Office Space--- Idiocracy--- The Princess Bride--- Galaxy Quest--- The Others--- Dawn of the Dead (remake)--- Lost in Translation--- Sense and Sensibility--- Like Water For Chocolate--- Mindwalk--- Meet Joe Black--- Waiting to Exhale--- Crash--- Batman Begins--- Anything foreign, esp. Israeli, Italian, Scandinavian, Dutch & German Cinema
Lost--- Amazing Race--- 30 Rock--- Battlestar Galactica--- Survivor---The Office--- Futurama--- Footballers Wives (BBC-A)--- Creature Comforts (BBC-A)--- Little Britain (BBC-A)--- Real Time w/ Bill Maher--- Da Ali G Show--- Project Runway--- Weeds--- Dexter--- Best Week Ever--- Six Feet Under--- Battle of the Planets--- V - The Final Battle/The Series (they have to bring this back!!), The Great Space Coaster (off we go!) --- and anything on VH1 Classics, Discovery, History, BBC-America or SciFi.
Illusions--- The Alchemist--- Great Expectations--- Roald Dahl, Stephen King, the Brontes, historical tomes and biographies--- almanacs and encyclopedias (training for Jeopardy!)
My grandmother (R.I.P.), my sister, Mika Brzezinski (MCNBC anchor/journalist who refused to lead with the Paris Hilton story), John Lovitz (for the 'Andy Dick Incident')Pat Kiernan of NY1, Albert Einstein (after all, isn't everything relative?), Maria Sklodowska-Curie ("Madam Curie" was actually Polish!!)...as was "Kopernik" (aka Copernicus), Gallileo, Pasteur, Tesla, Fleming, Salk, Rev. Thomas Bayes - (any person of science is a hero of mine...yes, even Oppenheimer...) - Jesus Christ, Martin Luther and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Joel Osteen (I may be a nice Catholic girl, but I just love that "Son of a Preacher Man") Carl Jung, Carl Sagan, Pope John Paul II, My favorite teachers (Jerry Tomanelli, Gary Laveman, Matt Litwin), Joan Collins (that broad looks amazing for her age and check our her IMDB page), David Walliams (tall, cute, smart, funny - British!- & he swam the English Channel for charity), Bill Maher (against marriage & pro 420? Uh...yeah!), Linda Goodman (my astrologer), Kurt Vonnegut (the "Mark Twain" of our generation in every way), Oprah Winfrey (for President!), Bill Gates, Steve Jobs (where would be w/ out our pcs & ipods? w/ out these two ubergeeks?), Richard Branson, (the visionary - Virgin Galactic!!!), Ann Wilson (the rock diva, without whom we would never have had Carrie aka American Idol, who nailed her win based on her rendition of "Alone"), Ann Richards (former Gov. of Texas, feisty Lady, R.I.P.), Maria Callas (Not just the voice but as Passolini's 'Medea'), Terri Nunn (best under-rated female rock vocal, and not just on "Take My Breath Away"), und naturlich, Bjorn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson - because they put together one of the best pop bands that ever existed...ABBA!