All of those above!
Good beer, and even better friends, a good joke and karaoke.
The Environment, History, travel particularly to places of historical interest got to make at least one pilgrimage a year to some place like Mount Vernon.
University of Tennessee Athletics Go Vols!
The Titans, especially if they would draft some wide receivers.
Plus Genealogy.
Check out my web site at www.stevendenney.com for my genealogy!
Music
I really like a lot of music types Country, Southern Rock, Classic Rock, but it always comes back to Classic Country-Merle Haggard, Ray Price, Johnny Cash, Conway Twitty, Charlie Pride, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, George Strait, George Jones, Charlie Rich, Mickey Gilley. New acts like Toby Keith and Brad Paisley also. Of course I also like Skynyrd, Jimmy Buffett, REM, Tori Amos, and the classic sounds of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.
I love to sing Karaoke, and I suppose I really only like the songs and singers that I think I sound the best singing.
If you want to hear some of the music that I'm talking about check out the songs on my playlist. No that's not me, it just sounds like me.
Movies
I love movies, espcially comedy, dramas, war flicks, documentaries-but mostly the classics.
Anything with Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Catherine or Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Edward Everett Horton, Monty Python, The Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, George C. Scott, Rex Harrison, Veronica Lake, Joel McRae, Danny Kaye, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Stewart, The Rat Pack, Fred Astaire, Jack Norton, Mel Brooks, you know the classics.
Favorite Movies include Monty Python's Life of Bryan, Animal Crackers, Arsenic and Old Lace, Casablanca, Destry Rides Again, The Searchers, Citizen Kane. Plus I like those big broad (bad history) war movies like Patton, The Dirty Dozen, Longest Day, Midway and etc.
We seem to have passed the Golden Age of film making. Before the Vietnam War Hollywood celebrated the ideal. Movies had a meaning and most often had a goal of uplifting. Most movies out today have so little plot, they depend on special effects to tell the whole story. There is no good versus evil, just bad versus bad. There is so much of an attempt to point out all of the bad things in society that there is no uplift at all.
That being said, I do enjoy current movies such as The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, X-Men, the Matrix, the Da Vinci Code, Cinderella Man, Oceans 11, Cold Mountain even Moulon Rouge. Guess I just can't get over the desire for my movies to have an uplifting effect.
Current favorite actors include Nicole Kidman, George Clooney, Russell Crowe, Halle Berry, Tom Hanks, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan (he rocks in everything-check out his wickedly evil remake of Shakespeare's Richard III and his elderly Nazi in apt pupil-he may rival Alan Rickman as the greatest modern bad guy), Kenneth Branagh, and etc.
Television
Talk about the dumbing down of American society. TV is mostly about the easy way out, there is so little quality programing on the air, but some shows are a cut above the rest. The best show on the air and maybe my altime favorite is Boston Legal. Such a smart, well thought out, left wing, liberal, funny show. Somehow I think I have always wanted to be the James Spader character, but I probably seem more like Shatner to the rest of the world.
The next level includes ER-its brilliant that it has been able to run so long with so many new characters coming and going that it seems to have never lost its steam. They can do the same stories over with new characters and they seem new again - a little like my life. SVU (Marissa Hargetey is Jane Mansfield's daughter), NCIS, and CSI.
The Tudors on Showtime is brilliantly entertaining, even though much of it is terrible history.
Craig Ferguson is the best late night host by far, but you still got to love Letterman's Great moments in Presidential Speechmaking. Anything that makes fun of Bush catches my attention.
And of course anything that involves University of Tennessee Athletics or NFL Football.
The greatest disappointment of the last couple of years is the decline of South Park, from brilliant satire to meaningless potty humor. Ok, Mr. Hanky reminds me that it was always about potty humor, but the first four seasons or so were brilliant and helped get over the demise of Seinfeld.
Speaking of that Seinfeld and Mash are probably the best most enduringly brilliant shows of all time. Probably ranking Mash above because it had a moral to tell. Allen Alda is an amazing mind.
Books
Mostly History, Archealogy, and Anthropology.
At the moment I am reading Antonia Frazier's Mary Queen of Scots.
The best three books from my last year of reading are Stephen Hawking's A Briefer History of Time, Jared Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel, and Doris Kearns Fosters Team of Rivals.
Heroes
Most importantly, my Dad Donald Denney. He has been so ill for so long and still he keeps plugging away. If I ever face anything so tough as he has I hope I can handle just half as well as he can. Ben Franklin cause he could do anything, Franklin Roosevelt because he cared, and George Washington because he was able to walk away.
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Who I'd like to meet: Nicole Kidman - well duh,
Peyton Manning but that would be some kind of a record,
Benjamin Franklin to get lessons in playing the glass armonica,
and you of course!
I was actually helping with the 4th of July celebration for the troops. Grabbed a box and it didnt move but my shoulder did... Be back on the 14th of August!
I thought you were for McCain???? ha! ha! Anyways, so your birthday is coming up but I'm not sure when I will be able to help you celebrate...it may have to be after-the-fact.
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