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Space for all the stuff I love… and don’t…

It has been said that we are defined by the things we are most drawn to - the books we read, the movies we like, etc. I would add that the definition is textured and colored by the things we most dislike. It may be a dangerous mission to start listing likes and dislikes - it may become more revealing of me, even to me, than was intended. But then I can simply blow that page away! Ah, the beauty of Planet Blog!

Since I’m too old to remember it all at once, the listing will develop over time as triggers work their magic of nudging awake some of those sleeping synaptic charges. Unless indicated otherwise, the items are listed in no particular order. Since it’s easier to do, I’ll start with the LIKES.

MOVIES

On The Beach (1959 original and 2000 remake)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Notting Hill
The Last Samurai
Lawrence of Arabia
The Dirty Dozen
The Lion in Winter
A Time To Kill
One Special Night
M.A.S.H
A Fish Called Wanda
All the StarTrek movies
All the Star Wars movies

BOOKS

ATLAS SHRUGGED – Ayn Rand
A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME – Stephen Hawking
IDEAS AND OPINIONS – Albert Einstein
INDIVIDUALISM RECONSIDERED – David Riesman
Anything by Garrison Keillor
Anything by Jerry Pournelle and/or Larry Niven
FOUNDATION series and others by Issac Asimov
THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST - and others by Robert Heinlein
DUNE series by Frank Herbert (Not the movie - it sucked!)
DEADLY SIN series by Lawrence Sanders (The only mystery/drama fiction I’ve ever liked.)

ACTORS/ACTRESSES

Peter O’Toole
Katharine Hepburn
Donald Sutherland
Hugh Grant
Julia Roberts
Sandra Bullock
Morgan Freeman
Jimmy Stewart
Gregory Peck
Robin Williams
Jessica Tandy
Jack Nicholson

TV SHOWS

Cheers
M.A.S.H.
All in the Family
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Most news magazine shows like Dateline, 20/20, etc.
CNN — Until they cancelled Aaron Brown’s “Newsnight”. What could they be thinking?
NCAA and NFL Football — Anywhere, anytime
(Probably revealing, not only of my tastes, but more particularly of the quality of offerings, that no recent series make the list.)

TV CHANNELS

CNN (See comment above. They’ve gone down the tubes since.)
ESPN
Fox Sports
PBS (Except when they’re whining for dollars)
Discovery

SONGS

Imagine — John Lennon
The Windmills of Your Mind — Sting
Time In a Bottle — Jim Croce
Horse With No Name — America
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? — Chicago
What a Fool Believes — The Doobie Brothers with Michael McDonald
The Rainbow Connection — sung by Kermit
Over the Rainbow — sung by Judy Garland
People — sung by Barbra Streisand
Everything is Beautiful — Ray Stevens
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head — B. J. Thomas

Edited 08/26/07