Civics, politics, music, scrapbooking, taking pictures of cool things, getting tattoos (I have 10. So says my most recent tattoo artist, so I accept her word over the word of the last arsehole who tattooed me and said I only had 7. I had 9, and now I have 10.) reading, writing, traveling, I suppose this damned computer and the internet it brings me, my new Nintendo DS with the Brain Age games, TiVo (see which shows at a later location), Willow Tree angels & figurines.
I'd like to meet:
In no particular order:
Alton Brown (from Good Eats)
Mike Rowe, from Dirty Jobs
Hugh Laurie
Star of House, MD
Christopher Meloni
Star of L&O: SVU*swoon* Dennis Franz (Sipowicz from NYPD Blue)
Tom Kavanaugh - "I don't think you do, Alex."
Republicans(particularly conservatives), Jay Severin from 96.9 FM talk, Johnny Depp(perhaps back when he wasn't so 'anti-America'), Neil Gaiman, Chicage area wizard Harry Dresden, Rabbi Shmuley, Pinky & The Brain, A.A. Milne, The Tick, Winnie The Pooh, wolves, whoever invented black & white frappes, unicorns, Stephen King, pegasuses(pegasi?), The L.A. & Miami Ink crews(I'd love a tattoo by any of them, I just don't want to be on the show), and Harry Potter
Tom says I just like guys with high foreheads. *blush*
Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth and all those involved in the conspiracy to kidnap/murder Lincoln and his cabinet.
Taylor Hicks
And this guy.
Music:
Acoustic, folk, singer/songwriters (Teddy Goldstein, Carl Cacho, Christopher Williams, Glen Phillips, Willy Porter); Toad the Wet Sprocket; Lyle Lovett; Nickel Creek; older r.e.m.; country (Garth Brooks, Brad Paisley, Rascall Flats, Toby Keith, Phil Vassar, etc), hearing Tom sleeping (as long as he's not snoring).
Side story - I saw Lyle Lovett in concert back in 2000 and Nickel Creek opened for him. I got to meet them and talked to them while they were warming up with a Toad the Wet Sprocket song. They signed my cd cover and years later Tom bought me tickets to Mutual Admiration Society(a band with Nickel Creek and Glen Phillips from Toad the Wet Sprocket!).
Taylor Hicks! Soul Patrol! Whoo, Boston!
Movies:
Tombstone; Nightmare Before Christmas; Fried Green Tomatoes; Swingers; That Thing You Do!; Empire Records; Ice Age; The Lost Boys; Stand By Me; The Illusionist
Television:
(In no specific order): Saving Grace; American Idol; Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe; Bones; House, MD; Miami Ink; LA Ink; Friends; Medium; Shalom in the Home; Mythbusters; NYPD Blue; Good Eats; Twin Peaks; Crossing Jordan; Monk; Law & Order: SVU; Wheel of Fortune; Jeopardy!("I think I know what you're going to bet, Tom." "I don't think you do, Alex. I don't think you do."); forensic, police procedurals & cold case shows
Books:
Psychological fiction, private eye stuff - Jonathon Kellerman, James Lee Burke, Robert Crais. Stephen King non-horror(Different Seasons, etc), fantasy based in reality(vampires, werewolves, living among us) - Jim Butcher, MaryJanice Davidson, Laurell K Hamilton, Kelley Armstrong, Charlaine Harris, Kim Harrison. I've also read almost everything recently written about the Lincoln Assassination. In that vein, Lincoln's Melancholy: How depression challanged a president and fueled his greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk is not only an excellent book about Lincoln himself, but also very descriptive and dead on in capturing how depression feels.
Heroes:
Jay Severin, of 96.9 FM talk
My mom and my dad
Here they are, dancing at my wedding. It was their 30th anniversary less than 2 weeks later.
