Lots of people say "travel", I like exploring; Basketball; Teaching & Developing People; Realistic challenges; Food!-eating it, cooking it, shopping for it; Improving the world; Being an idealist & then hating on others for their naivete
My great grandparents; Steve Nash; Anthony Bourdain; Billy Joel; Salvador Dali; Picasso; guys who built the pyramids; your cute friend; a talking animal; my bizarro; the guy who discovered coffee so I could hug him; all my bosses (when they were 25); Jesus
(Hip-Hop and such): Nas; Jay-Z; Biggie; Eminem; Dilated Peoples; J-5; Mos Def; Talib Kweli; The Roots; Common Market; Wu-Tang; Fat Joe, Big Pun, Nelly, Luda (DJ shiiat):RJD2; The Chemical Bros; Paul Oakenfold; Mark Farina; Fatboy Slim; Handsome Boy Modeling School; Gnarls Barkley; whole lots more. (Other stuff): All dancable Latin music; Elton John; Billy Joel; Ben Folds; Miles Davis; The Killers; Linkin Park's good stuff; Tracy Chapman; I'll listen to Death Cab, Jack Johnson, John Mayer, The Faint ; Have some country roots too: Garth, of course; Alabama; Clint Black; Brooks & Dunn--that's right. Muscials: Rent; Andrew Lloyd Webber--you've sung it too; Avenue Q;
Gotta get Good Will Hunting, Swingers, Boiler Room, Anchorman, & Old School out there.Other notables: Amelie; anything Baz Luhrmann; Motocycle Diaries; for the most part--Tarantino (Jackie Brown? 'nuff said); Fight Club; Snatch; Jerry Maguire; Almost Famous; Shawshank; Forrest Gump;Classics: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Casablanca, Is Goodfellas a classic yet?...how about Scarface?Cassettes I'm slightly embarassed to say my bro & I wore out as kids: Hook, Home Alone 2, Mrs. F-ing Doubtfire!, Disney stuff (who didn't?), Sound of Music,Worst movie experiences (for whatever reason): Fly Away Home; Autumn in New York; Romey & Michelle's High School Reunion; Three Amigos
ESPN & Food Network are my first stop Second click: Comedy Central, TBS for Seinfeld, Discovery, TLC Latest picks: Man vs. Wild, 24, 30 Rock, The Office
I'm in the middle of: Never Eat Alone & House of God, Business 2.0 and Esquire for subway reading.Other things on my bookshelf: Malcolm Gladwell stuff; Lonely Planet (Belize & Western Europe); Kitchen Confidential; Preparing for a Life in Medicine (I gave in); Moneyball.
It's spelled "g-y-r-o-s".