My kitchen, my beautiful children, my gorgeous dogs, slam poetry and fiction, music, performing, hiking, skiing, art, theater, film, travel, photography, and of course getting into as much trouble as my age will allow. And BASEBALL. Specifically, the Boston Red Sox.
SLAM POETRY
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The Funk Brothers.
George Carlin.
David Lee Roth.
Helen Thomas.
Madeline Albright.
John Irving.
George Martin.
Paul McCartney.
Dita Von Teese.
The Funk Brothers, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding,Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, The Beatles, Sly and the Family Stone, Aretha, Eva Cassidy, Nina Simone, The Who, The Doors, Charlie Parker, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin and assorted '70s arena rock, new-wave '80s, The Police, The Killers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Joan As Police Woman, Tori Amos, punk, Diana Krall, Norah Jones, Patsy Cline, Tony Bennett, Charles Brown, Amy Winehouse, Feist, Cat Power,Brandi Carlisle, Death Cab for Cutie, Radiohead, Tool, New Orleans jazz, blues, big band, anything with a Wurlitzer organ, horns or hand claps for percussion.
Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Apocalypse Now, Harold and Maude, All of Me, The Jerk, any James Bond movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Good Will Hunting, Shakespeare in Love, Stranger than Fiction, Elf, It's a Wonderful Life, 300, Edward Scissorhands, Sixteen Candles, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Tommy Boy, Happy Gilmore, Brain Candy, Napoleon Dynamite, The Sixth Sense, Secretary, A Fish Called Wanda, all the Monty Python movies, Lock, Stock and Smoking Barrel, The Commitments, The Doors, Pulp Fiction, Enter the Dragon, Liar Liar, School of Rock, Kung Fu Hustle, The Matrix, Ed Wood, Finding Nemo, Almost Famous, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Fever Pitch, ET, About Schmidt, Spaceballs, Misery, Alien, The Breakfast Club, The Great Muppet Caper, Shrek, Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Spiderman 1 and 2, Office Space, Fargo, The Dark Crystal,Batman Begins, Idiocracy, Bourne Supremacy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Chasing Amy, Clerks 1 and 2.
The Office,The Sopranos, Deadwood, Six Feet Under, Dexter, Weeds, Dirty Sexy Money, 24, Reno 911!, Flavor of Love, Project Runway,South Park, baseball, Live From Abbey Road, Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, The Muppet Show, Futurama, The L Word
"Liars and Saints" by Maile Maloy, Chuck Palahniuk, Watchmen, The Chicago Manual of Style, The AP Stylebook, Strunk + White's "Elements of Style," Stephen King's "On Writing" (quite possibly one of the best memoirs I've ever read), "Cat's Cradle," "Hocus Pocus," "Player Piano," and everything else by the one and only Mr. Kurt Vonnegut, "Bird by Bird," Anne Lamott; "The Lovely Bones," Alice Sebold; "On the Road," Jack Kerouac, "To See a Grown Man Cry," Henry Rollins, "Brain Droppings," George Carlin, "A Patchwork Planet," Anne Tyler; "Roger's Version," John Updike; "A Prayer for Owen Meany," "The Hotel New Hampshire," John Irving; "Angela's Ashes," Frank McCourt; "Atlas Shrugged," Ayn Rand; "To the Lighthouse," Virginia Woolf. Also, plays by Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neil, August Wilson and Woody Allen. Someday I'll get over myself and write my own. For now, I'm working on poetry, plays, short stories and a novel that's been 4 years in the making.
Frank Zappa,Harper Lee,Hunter S. Thompson, Patricia Smith, and of course this guy: