| General | Music, books, history, my family, writing, art, and kind friends. Familiar people and new ideas, or new people with familiar feelings. | | Music | Linda Ronstadt, Beatles, Neil Young, Santana, Fats Waller, Carole King, John Gary, Kid Ory, Ella Fitzgerald, Heart, Amy Winehouse, Rolling Stones, Carrie Underwood, Cream, Chopin, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Sinead O'Connor, The Chieftains, Les Miz, J.C. Superstar, Paul Whiteman, operas & operettas (favourite opera singer: Cecilia Bartoli), Paul Simon, Barbra Streisand, Mozart, Elton John, Jelly Roll Morton, Minnie Riperton, Aretha Franklin, Doors, Gladys Knight, Buddy Guy, Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen; film composers Patrick Doyle and Howard Shore, and I'll think of more later. Local Artists? WENT RIGHT TO MY HEART: Farming Mind - Cowmuddy; Strong Wine and Spirits - John Francis. WENT RIGHT TO MY HEAD: Hezekiah Jones Says You're O.K. - Hez. Jones; FEEDS MY SOUL: Redhead Betty Takeout - RHBT. And PERFORMERS WHO MAKE ME SAY PLEASE PLAY ONE MORE: Mr. Dennis Chiccino, Mr. Chris Grunwald, Mr. Andy Keenan | | Movies | Lord of the Rings, Signs, Shawshank Redemption, Aliens, It's a Wonderful Life, Snatch, Pride & Prejudice(BBC), Braveheart, Star Wars, Laura, The Thin Man, Die Hard, Rebecca, The Dirty Dozen . . .I'll think of more. BTW, someone needs to take me to the movies. SciFi, Mystery, horror, War/Action, or period pieces. Don't like romantic comedies, or torture scenes (same thing). .. | | Television | Lost, Masterpiece Theatre, Mystery!, some learning channel, or murder investigations/prosecutions. If you have to figure something out, or somebody's getting what's his, I'm there. .. | | Books | Pride & Prejudice, The Club Dumas, The Flanders Panel, Jane Eyre, The Unburied, The Name of the Rose, A Night to Remember, Unsinkable. English poetry, T.S. Eliot, all Charles Dickens and Shakespeare. Military history guy John Keegan, and anything David McCullough writes. .. Mystery writers like Georges Simenon. I'm big on reference books, too, like Who's Who in the Middle Ages. Come on, it's hours of fun. | | Heroes | Danny Matsinger, Chris Grunwald, and Mike Caroto: Grabbed the guy who grabbed my handbag.
Generally, those who are individuals and take unpopular stands for what's right. |
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