| General | I enjoy:
- Board and Card Games:
- Comic Books (see favorite books below)
- Dining out: especially with my fellow foodies - Paul (duh!), Kim, Dawn, Shawn, Tracy, Chris and Andi (and sometimes Jenn and/or Vanessa).
- Disney World - Epcot is my favorite park (we call it "Food World"), but my favorite place .. is the Adventurer's Club.
- Karaoke - ran "Big Al Karaoke" for two years and still enjoy singing at "Bounce" in Westville, NJ (when the price of gas ever goes down)
- Movies: worked at a ma and pa video store for years (Four-Star Video in Vineland, NJ) and my partner currently owns a second-run movie house, DeMarco Cinemas, in Vineland, NJ (see below for some favorites)
- Nudism: I love skinny dipping and am looking forward to a few trips this summer to Sandy Hook.
- Old Time Radio:
- Adventures by Morse
- Adventures of Archie Andrews
- Adventures of Babe Ruth
- Blondie
- Box 13
- Broadway Is My Beat
- Calling All Cars
- Casebook of Gregory Hood
- Challenge of the Yukon
- Cinnamon Bear
- A Date With Judy
- Dimension X
- Doctor Kildare
- Duffy's Tavern
- Escape
- Father Knows Best
- Fibber McGee and Molly
- The Great Gildersleeve
- Gunsmoke
- Have Gun Will Travel
- I Was a Communist For the FBI
- Life With Luigi
- The Lone Ranger
- Luke Slaughter of Tombstone
- Lux Radio Theatre
- Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons
- My Favorite Husband
- My Friend Irma
- Our Miss Brooks
- The Shadow
- The Six Shooter
- Smiths of Hollywood
- Superman
- Suspense
- X-Minus One
- Old Time (like) Radio (from the BBC, CBC and ZBS:):
From BBC:
- 1834
- Brief History of Timewasting
- Dial M For Pizza
- Falco
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Married
- Millport
- Museum of Everything
- Rigor Mortis
- Sofa of Time
From Big Finish:
- New Adventures of Doctor Who
- New Adventures of Sarah Jane Smith
From CBC:
From ZBS:
- Jack Flanders
- Ruby, The Galactic Gumshoe
- Saratoga Springs
- Podcasts -
- I regularly listen to:
- I regularly watch:
- the Rocky Horror Picture Show: performed with "The Transducer Players" for two years at the Harwan in Mt. Ephraim, NJ and for a year with "Seven Hours Old" in Vineland, Nj at the DeMarco
- The Sims: currently playing characters in "Strangetown" in "Sims 2/University/Nightlife/Open For Business"
- Theatre: performed in various plays at most of the organizations in Cumberland County...taking a particular joy in performing in the plays of William Shakespeare
So Far, I've done:
| | Music | ABBA, Tori Amos, Tasmin Archer, Nicole Atkins, The Bangles, Barenaked Ladies, The Beatles, Pat Benatar, Berlin, The B-52's, Jim Boggia, Bon Jovi, Kate Botello, Boy George, Laura Branigan, Tracy Chapman, Cher, Patsy Cline, Concrete Blonde, Crowded House, Culture Club, Cutie and the Catfish, Def Leppard, FeFe Dobson, Duran Duran, Yvonne Elliman, Mama Cass Elliott, Melissa Etheridge, Eurythmics, Evanescence, Judy Garland, the Go-Go's, Lesley Gore, the Hint, Human League, Indigo Girls, Journey, The Kaiser Chiefs, the Kids From Fame, K.D. Lang, Cyndi Lauper, Peggy Lee, John Lennon, Annie Lennox, Toby Lightman, Little Nell, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Meatloaf, John Cougar Mellencamp, Bette Midler, The Monkees, the Motels, Megan Mullally, Johnette Napolitano, Stevie Nicks, Off Kilter, Pansy Division, Dolly Parton, The Partridge Family, The Pretenders, Prince, Red Delicious, Emily Richards, RuPaul, Sade, Scissor Sisters, Shakespear's Sister, Frank Sinatra, Jill Sobule, Sonny & Cher, Dusty Springfield, Donna Summer, 10,000 Maniacs, Too Much Joy, Tracy Ullman, Paul Williams, "Avenue Q", "Carrie: The Musical", "Dreamgirls", "Eddie and the Cruisers", "Gypsy", "Into the Woods", "Jesus Christ Superstar", Les Miserables", "Little Shop of Horrors", "Miss Saigon", "Once On This Island", "Phantom of the Paradise", "Reefer Madness", "Rent", "Rocky Horror Picture Show", "Shock Treatment", "Sideshow", "Sunday In the Park With George", "Wicked", "Xanadu"
My recent tracks:
| | Movies | - LIKES:Airplane!, Alien, All About Eve, Amelie, American Pop, American Splendor, Bagdad Cafe, Bear Cub, Beetlejuice, Being John Malkovich, Best In Show, Big Eden, Boogie Nights, Bound, Breakfast Club, Bride of Frankenstein, Cannibal! The Musical, Carrie, Cecil B. Demented, Chasing Amy, Clerks, Clockwatchers, The Color Purple, Donnie Darko, Eddie and the Cruisers, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Eve's Bayou, Fag Hag, Female Trouble, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, Fight Club, Finding Nemo, Gattaca, Ghost World, Gidget, Girl Interrupted, Gone With the Wind, Grey Gardens, Hairspray, Heathers, High Fidelity, I Heart Huckabees, I Shot Andy Warhol, I Think I Do, Jeffrey, Kamikaze Girls, Lady and the Tramp, the Lost Boys, Matilda, Mildred Pierce, Mommie Dearest, Mulan, Mystery Men, Nightmare on Elm Street (especially one, three and seven), Nine to Five, The Opposite of Sex, Pecker, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Phantom of the Paradise, Planet of the Apes (the old ones), Poseidon Adventure, Psycho Beach Party, Pump Up The Volume, Reality Bites, Reefer Madness, Reefer Madness: The Musical, Reservoir Dogs, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Rosalie Goes Shopping, Royal Tenenbaums, Saved!, Shock Treatment, Showgirls, Shrek, St. Elmo's Fire, Stand By Me, A Star Is Born (the Judy Garland one, of course), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Wars (but only the ones with Luke, Leia and Han), Student Bodies, Swingers, This Is Spinal Tap, Torch Song Trilogy, Valley of the Dolls, Vertigo, Very Bad Things, Wag The Dog, Waiting, Waiting For Guffman, Waking Life, Welcome to the Dollhouse, What's Up Doc?, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Wizard of Oz, Xanadu, Young Frankenstein
- DISLIKES:An Affair To Remember, Aladdin, As Good As It Gets, Birdcage, Brokeback Mountain, Broken Flowers, Clockwork Orange, Coyote Ugly, Daredevil, Dead Poet Society, Dick Tracy, Dragonheart, Dumb and Dumber, Edward Scissorhands, Ernest series, Andy Warhol's Flesh, Forbidden Zone, Forrest Gump, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Friday the 13th (any of them 'cept four), From Hell (read the book), Good Will Hunting, Harry Potter films (read the books), Home Alone, In & Out, Interview With the Vampire (read the book), Isn't She Lovely, League of Their Own, Liar Liar, Lost in Translation, Men in Black, Moulin Rouge, Never Been Kissed, Nightmare Before Christmas, Notting Hill, Office Space, the Outsiders, Philadelphia, Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton), Pocahontas, Police Academy (any), Predator, Pretty Woman, Princess Bride, Raising Arizona, Say Uncle, Shark Tale, Sleepless in Seattle, Star Wars (the ones with Amidala and Jar-Jar), There's Something About Mary, Throw Mama From the Train, Top Gun, Unbreakable, Usual Suspects, Van Wilder, Wedding Crashers, When Harry Met Sally, While You Were Sleeping, Witches of Eastwick (read the book)
| | Television | - LIKES:Absolutely Fabulous, Arrested Development, Bewitched, Big Love, Bionic Woman, Boondocks, Brady Brides, Brady Bunch, Brady Kids, The Brini Maxwell Show, The Bugaloos, Butterflies, Call For Help, Coupling, Crossing Jordan, Dead Like Me, Degrassi Junior High, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Doctor Who, French & Saunders, Friends, Gilligan's Island, Good Eats, H.R. PufNStuf, How I Met Your Mother, Huff, I Love Lucy, Iron Chef, Jem, Justice League Unlimited, The L Word, Land of the Lost, Laugh-In, Laverne and Shirley, Lidsville, Life on Mars, Magic Garden, Match Game, Medium, Metrosexuality, Miami Ink, Moonlighting, Partridge Family, Password, PBS' _____ House series, Queer As Folk, Ranma 1/2, Reno 911, Roseanne, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Seinfeld, So NoTORIous, Sophie, South Park, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The State, Strangers With Candy, Teen Titans, Twin Peaks, Unfabulous, V, Vicar of Dibley, Weeds, Whose Line Is It Anyway (UK)?
- DISLIKES:A-Team, America's Funniest Home Videos, American Idol, ANY show about ANY sports, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Beavis and Butthead, Big Brother, Blind Date, Chappelle Show, Cheaters, Deal or No Deal, Dukes of Hazzard, ER, Everybody Hates Chris, Everybody Loves Raymond, Extreme Makeover (ANY), Family Guy, Family Matters, The Flash, Full House, Greatest American Hero (don't watch the DVDs if you liked it as a kid), He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Home Improvement, Honey We're Killing the Kids, Jerry Springer, Judge ____, King of the Hill, King of Queens, Magnum P.I., Mind of Mencia, Minoriteam, Montel Williams, Morey Povich, Nick and Jessica, Night Rider, The Oblongs, The Osbournes, People's Court, Punky Brewster, Queer Eye For the Straight Guy, Sanford and Son, Sex and The City, Simple Life, Simpsons, Smurfs, Star Trek: Voyager, Surreal Life, Transformers, Whose Line Is It Anyway (US)?
| | Books | - Books (Prose):
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Anne of Green Gables (series) by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Carrie by Stephen King
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Coyote Blues by Christopher Moore
- Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Flowers In the Attic (series) by V.C. Andrews
- Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
- Griffin & Sabine (series) by Nick Bantock
- Handmaiden's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (series) by Douglas Adams
- I Robot (series) by Isaac Asimov
- Interview With the Vampire (series) by Anne Rice
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
- Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
- The Museum Guard by Howard Norman
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
- Red As Blood: Tales By Sister Grimmer by Tanith Lee
- Set This House In Order by Matt Ruff
- She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
- The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee
- The Stand by Stephen King
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- The Tales of the City (series) by Armistead Maupin
- Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
- Wild Cards (series) edited by George R.R. Martin
- DISLIKES:
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Some Favorite Comics/Graphic Novels:
- American Splendor (series)
- Birds of Prey (series)
- Bone (series)
- Crisis on Infinite Earths
- The Dark Knight Returns
- Elfquest (series)
- Fables (series)
- Hikaru No Go (manga)
- Iron Wok Jan (manga)
- Maison Ikkoku (manga)
- Maus
- Nana (manga)
- Sandman (series)
- Strangers in Paradise (series)
- Watchmen
- X-Men - The Dark Phoenix Saga
- X-Men - Days of Future Past
- X-Men - God Loves, Man Kills
- Zot (series)
- Some Favorite Characters (Comics):
- Barbara Gordon (Batgirl/Oracle)
- Dick Grayson (Robin/Nightwing)
- Donna Troy (Wonder Girl/Troia/Wonder Woman)
- Katchoo (Katina Marie Choovanski)
- Kitty Pryde (Ariel/Sprite/Shadowcat)
- Ororo Munroe (Storm)
- Princess Diana of Themyscira (Wonder Woman)
- Skywise (Fahr of the Wolfriders)
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