Getting together with friends, drawing, reading something every day (whether it's comics, books, or just magazines), watching way too much TV, dating, and surfing the internet.
Music
There’s very little music I don’t like (mostly Disco and musicals) so this list is just the tip of the iceberg. Friends first... Ben Murphy (solo and with Jaya the Cat, Ragged Old Flag, and Light of Day), the Del Fuegos, Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra, and Seven Sunless Days. The best of the rest (in no particular order)... Garbage, Nine Inch Nails, Pixies, Green Day, Tenacious D, U2, the Police, the Clash, the Ramones, the Misfits, Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, the Fratellis, Arctic Monkeys, the Kooks, the Killers, Franz Ferdinand, the Dropkick Murphys, Howling Wolf, Johnny Cash, Caesars, Blur, Gorillaz, Ben Folds Five, Silversun Pickups, the Rat Pack, the Pogues, David Bowie, the Sheila Divine, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, N*E*R*D, Coldplay, Dido, KT Tunstall, the Strokes, Muse, Jimmy Eat World, Rancid, the Distillers, the Shins, Louis XIV, Kings of Leon, Interpol, Blur, Gorillaz, Ben Folds Five, Elliott Smith, Death Cab For Cutie, Radiohead, Clannad, Enya, Ash, the Beatles, John Lennon, Squeeze, Weezer, Rollins Band, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Yes, the White Stripes, Led Zeppelin, EELS, ELO, Queen, Ingrid Michaelson, Tracy Bonham, Veruca Salt, Letters to Cleo, Kay Hanley, Aimee Mann, Liz Phair, Blake Hazard, Juliana Hatfield, Mary Lou Lord, Mr. Airplane Man, Starla Dear, and Ramona Silver
Movies
Some of my favorites in alphabetical order: Akira, Batman Begins, Blade Runner, Braveheart, Casablanca, Casino Royale (2006), Clerks, the Comedians of Comedy, The Darjeeling Limited, the Departed, Die Hard, Donnie Darko, Dr. No, Flash Gordon (1980), The Godfather parts I and II, Goldfinger, the Great Escape, Grosse Pointe Blank, Highlander, the Incredibles, Imagine: John Lennon, the Indiana Jones trilogy, the Iron Giant, Iron Man, the Life Aquatic with Steve Zisssou, the Maltese Falcon, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Reservoir Dogs, the Royal Tenenbaums, Se7en, Seven Samurai, Shaun of the Dead, Snatch, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Star Wars original trilogy, Stranger Than Fiction, Superbad, Superman, Superman II, the Terminator, T2, The Sweetest Thing, This is Spinal Tap, True Romance, the Usual Suspects, X-Men, and X2: X-Men United
Television
Current series: the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, Heroes, 30 Rock, Chuck, Reaper, Pushing Daisies, Dexter, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Attack of the Show (AOTS), the Shield, NCIS, Lost, Medium, Smallville, My Name is Earl, the Office (NBC), the Sarah Silverman Show, and Doctor Who. All time favorites: the Venture Bros., Homicide: Life on the Street, the Wire, Tenacious D, Deadwood, the Sopranos, Arrested Development, Monty Python’s Flying Circus (BBC), Black Books (BBC), Red Dwarf (BBC), the Office (BBC), Coupling (BBC), Chappelle’s Show, Columbo, Firefly, Buffy the Vampie Slayer, the Flash, the Tick, Batman: the Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Justice League Unlimited, Seinfeld, Friends, MacGyver, the Specials, and NewsRadio
Books
I read anything and everything. Some favorites: Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger stories), James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, Robert E. Howard (Conan, Solomon Kane, Kull, Bran Mak Morn, etc...), the Princess Bride by William Goldman, William Shakespeare, the Untouchables by Eliot Ness, Philip K. Dick, Roots by Alex Haley, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, Homer (the Odyssey and the Iliad), H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Le Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory, Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan and A Pricess of Mars), Chaos: Making A New Science by James Gleick, My Pet Virus: the True Story of a Rebel Without A Cure by Shawn Decker, and Dying in Vein by Kathy Seward MacKay. Comics and graphic novels: all Captain America comics, Les McClaine (Highway 13, the Middleman, Jonny Crossbones, and My Life With Leslie), Alan Moore (Watchmen, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Top 10, V For Vendetta, etc...), Preacher by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, 100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso, Bone by Jeff Smith, Sin City by Frank Miller, Brian Michael Bendis (Powers, Jinx, Daredevil, Ultimate Spider-Man, etc...), Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai, Starman by James Robinson and Tony Harris, and anything by Jeffrey Brown. Books by family and family friends: James G. Leyburn, Nancy “Yowa” McMurray, Janice McMurray, John Stockwell, William Rule III, Sam Sheridan (A Fighter’s Heart), and Susan Sheridan
Heroes
My father, Ryan White, John Lennon, Martin Luther King Jr., Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, Captain America, and Colbert America:
About me: Cogito, ergo sum. I am a person. I am a TV casualty.
Who I'd like to meet: My evil twin. Any of my online friends (MySpace, Atomic Underpants forum, etc...) that I haven't met in person. I'd also like to meet some celebrities. Ladies first... Shirley Manson, Pauley Perrette, Bettie Page, Tina Fey, Kari Byron, Lynda Carter, Sarah McLachlan, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Connelly, Sarah Silverman, Alyson Hannigan, Kat Von D, Eva Green, Tori Amos, Minnie Driver, Gillian Anderson, Clonie Gowen, Amanda Conner, Nancy Pimental, Zooey Deschanel, Rashida Jones, Jenna Fischer, Isla Fisher, Carrie Fisher, and Joely Fisher. Now the guys... Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, Jack Black, Kyle Gass, Christopher McCulloch AKA Jackson Publick, Doc Hammer, Patrick Warburton, Michael Chiklis, Trent Reznor, Masi Oka, Kevin Smith, Jason Lee, Eduardo Risso, John Byrne, Alan Moore, Garth Ennis, Kevin O'Neill, Grant Morrison, Mike Mignola, Bill Murray, Ricky Gervais, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Connolly, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, John Hodgman, and Donal Logue. Oh yeah... and Princess Shane Kuriyami:
I love you, "little" bro! I miss you and feel for you. Shit happens...yeah, but all at once and all your life?? Not fair!!! On my mind and in my heart always! Love, nicola
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