Muuuuusic, live music, live local (latebreaking) music, pets, baking, hiking, swimming, sudoku, geeky word/logic puzzles, PBS, piano, and trivia, trivia, trivia. I adore any tropical destination.
BRIAN MAY, Cheap Trick, Edgar Allan Poe, Kathy Bates, Cicely Tyson, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Weird Al, Geoff Tate, Alan Parsons, Elton John, Jeff Lynne, & my true love.
Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, STP, Cinderella, The Hollies, The Babys, the REAL Van Halen, GNR, Nazareth, Badlands, Queensryche, The Raspberries, Judas Priest, Shemekia Copeland, Billy Kemp... all things Dio, Turner, Blackmore, Grohl, & Osbourne ... the unforgettable Giuffria, Saga, Sherbs, Shooting Star, Hardline, Headpins, & Marillion ... dark, romantic stuff like The Cure, The Smithereens, Psych Furs ... give or take a thousand others...
Amadeus, The Color Purple, Pay It Forward, Say Anything, Sense and Sensibility, Waking Ned Devine, School of Rock ... and all the John Hughes stuff ... how many of you have seen Heavy Metal Parking Lot? :-DAny Animusic fans out here? http://www.animusic.com/
My Name Is Earl, Lovespring International, Ca$h Cab, Criss Angel's Mindfreak, most PBS stuff ... and if I had a Way-Back Machine: The Banana Splits, The Monkees, H.R. Pufnstuf, Midnight Special, & Don Kirshner's Rock Concert!
All things Poe! Stir in a little John Grisham and Stephen King, too. Fannie Flagg's novels are hilarious, and biographies fascinate me -- every life story is an adventure, wouldn't you say?
Catonsville Fire Department (thank you isn't enough) ... and Mom, G'mollie, Gaynell, Pam...