Tom

General

Internet, Movies, Reading, Dancing, Karaoke, Baseball, Language, Culture, History of Communism, Philosophy, Singing/Writing Music, Running, Finding New Food, Weight Lifting, Hiking, WWI Aviation, Travel, Building alternate communities

Music

Bands: Beatles, Superdrag, Jackson 5, Weezer, [Love] Pistols, The Carpenters, Vain, Radiohead, Teenage Fanclub, Rocket from the Crypt, Pitchfork, Oasis, Rialto, Supergrass, Travis, The Doors, Cheap Trick, Simple Plan, Alice Cooper, KISS, A*TEENS, The Beach Boys, The Velvet Underground, Journey

Solo Artists: Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis, Brendan Benson, David Bowie, Rick Springfield, Barry Manilow, Paul Stanley Solo Album, Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart

Singers: Michael Jackson (age 14 & under), Karen Carpenter, Whitney Houston (particularly The Bodyguard soundtrack), George Michael, Louie Louie, Coco Lee, Robin Zander, Frank Sinatra, Steve Perry, Gerard Way

Albums: Appetite for Destruction - Guns & Roses; Life - The Cardigans; A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles; Dookie - Green Day; Blue - Weezer; One Missisipi - Brendan Benson; Two Steps from the Move - Hanoi Rocks; Led Zeppelin I, The Doors, In The Valley of Dying Stars - SuperDrag; Survivor When Seconds Count - Rick Springfield, Working Class Dog

Instruments: The Er Hu, Piano, certain guitar tones (Rocket from the Crypt, Sex Pistols, Rolling Stones)

MySpace Artists: Limbeck, Butch Walker, The Fictions, The Ettes, Feable Weiner, Billionaire Boys Club, Halfway Home, The Pacific, The Honorary Title, Stranded Alone, Kill Hannah, FallOutBoy, Melee, The Shore, The Summer Obsession, Kino, Cary Brothers, The Volunteers, The Howl, Head Automatica, Seel Fresh, Jupiter Sunrise, Keane, Say Anything. Tsar, Much The Same, Plain White T's!

Movies

Films: Lawrence of Arabia, Ben Hur, Patton, Spartacus, Gandhi, The 10 Commandments, Apocalypse Now, Beauty & The Beast (the cartoon), Thin Red Line, Titanic, Gladiator, The Patriot, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Un Coeur en Hiver, To Live, Happy Times, The Road Home, Not One Less, Ju Dou, Red Sorghum, The Empire of the Sun, Gone With the Wind, The Godfather, 2001, Clockwork Orange, Blade Runner, Deer Hunter, Mean Streets, Grease, Urban Cowboy, Saturday Night Fever, The Sound of Music, Copland, Xiu Xiu, Dances With Wolves

Directors: Kubrick, Francis Copolla, Zhang Yimou, Anh Hung Tran, Steven Spielberg

Television

Tuned out. Except for SF Giants. I rented Band of Brothers and liked that.

Books

Nietzsche, George Orwell, Milan Kundera, Laurens van der Post

Heroes