GOD, My family & friends, The United States of America. In that order!!

Below is not in any particular order just some things and people I am fond of ….

The Sun, soft white sand, rhythmic waves crashing on the beach, the big blue ocean, My bare feet in the sand, all kinds of music (see below), lobster, cold beer, Cheese Steaks from Gino’s, Apple TV, salty peanuts, fresh fruit, Laughter, Great Wine, good stories, Seafood, Photography, PS3, Netflix, Cooking, traveling, road trips, sitting around a open fire on a chilly night, Deserts, A star filled sky, BMW 740 iL (the old body version), Pool Hall’s, Art, Design, BBQ, science, 24, Meryl Streep , Video Pod casts, Architecture, A perfectly cooked steak, Archeology, Italian food, Martin Luther King jr., Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth Taylor, Steve Jobs, Thai Food, John Wayne, The internet, A soft wet kiss, Gandhi, My i Phone 3Gs, Harriet Tubman, Louie Armstrong, Jesus Christ, raw almonds, Buddha, Mother Theresa, eye contact, A women’s hands.

Muhammad Ali & Joe Frazier (you couldn’t have one without the other), The 1950’s, A good massage, Jackie Robison, The Firing Range for target practice, Macintosh Computers, Lance Armstrong, Penelope Cruz, the sound of children playing in the background, Drew Barrymore, The whistle of a train in the distance in the dark of the night , Dives & Joints, Don Miguel Ruiz, Jack Bauer, MMA, The NFL, MLB, PGA ,Jukeboxes, Muscle Cars from the 70’s.

The men & women of the armed forces, Thank you all for your courage & tremendous sacrifices that you and your families make, writing in my journal, Ben & Jerry’s chunky monkey, exploring, Heart, adventure, live music, creativity, Miracles, good coffee, Sushi, silence, dry dirty martinis with two olives, stand up comedy, Pumpkin Pancakes, Aubrey Hepburn, Character & integrity, Irish whiskey (neat), newspapers , peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, traveling lightly, Thanksgiving Dinner with Family and Friends, Kettle One on the rocks with a lemon twist, Ava Gardner, great service, Charlize Theron, true blue friends, documentaries, impulsiveness, making love, passport stamps, shots of Patron Chilled (no salt or lime), Juliette Marquis, homemade Chicken Soup, Selma Hayek, Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay, Ernest Hemmingway, Hugh Hefner, Charlie Chaplain, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Steve McQueen, 50 year wedding anniversaries, Ronald Regan, pea soup, Uma Thurman, Jackie Gleason, George Carlin, My peach baby back ribs, Sam Kinison , Dogs, Golf, Ashley Judd, Bill Hicks, Journalism, Marlon Brando, screenwriting, film making, foreign / Indie films, Art house Films, Sunday mornings, The 3 stooges, freshly cut flowers in a vase , thunder storms. Anything Irish, Flea Markets.

12 year old scotch, curiosity, Magic, Catherine McCormack, questions, words, books, Miami, Jacqueline Bisset, magazines, Ireland, Natalie Portman, South Korea, Montreal, Vancouver, Halle Berry, Cayman islands, St. Thomas, St. Martin, Philadelphia, Chicago, Pandora, William S. Burroughs, Clint Eastwood, Cancun, Harry Houdini, Johnny Carson, Post Production, Farah Fawcett, my editing bay, technology, vineyards, Bikrim yoga, national geographic, Bossa Nova, Acoustic, Bass, Cello, Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, P.J. O’Rourke, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, E.E. Cummings, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Taschen Books, Irving Penn, Acting, Salsa Dancing (lessons), Sir Isaac Newton, Da Vinci, Brave Heart, A Man and a Woman, Dali, Fellini, Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Truffaut, Spielberg, Bergman, Scorsese, Wong Kar Wei, The Godfather 1 & 2 , Blizzards, Latin jazz, , Kauai, Galleries, snow, seasons, forests, hot tubs, Cold showers, Making passionate love outside in the driving rain, being in love, poetry, Brazil, Brunch, Midnight, Fireflies, Capri, Got land, Goa, Saigon, K2, touching the void, Tamarama beach, People watching, Antarctica, Polar Bears, New York City, Central Park, Horseback Riding, Politics, The South Pole, The Tango, 2am, New Mexico, Fiji, Tuscany, Los Olivos, Maldives, Museums, watching migrating whales in the pacific ocean, Globetrotting, MOMA, LACMA, The Getty, Rodin, snow boarding, Tour De France, watching animals in their natural habitat, Iditarod, mountain biking, hiking, scuba diving, sailing, Camping, Krav Maga , conditioning workouts, Dolphins, discovery channel, , warm bread, salty butter, swimming laps, inquisitiveness, rain, sunrise, sunsets, Farmer’s Markets.

Music I am listening to currently

Dean Martin , Sigur Ros , John Coltrane, Eric Clapton, Elvis, Amos Lee, Damien Rice, BB King, Nick Drake, John Mayer, Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones, Sade, The Who, The Beatles, Red house Painters, Allman Brother, Bill Evans, AC/DC, Billy Joel, Chet Baker, Koop, Bliss, Terry Callier, Sinatra, Dave Matthews, Jackie Gleason Orchestra, Ennio Morricone, Old 97’s , Wilco, Francais Lai, Monica Zetterlund, Yo-Yo Ma, David Bowie, Thievery Corporation, Bruce Springsteen, Zero 7, Air, Al Green, Van Halen, Flogging Molly, Lisa Gerrard, Ryuichi Sakomoto, Elliott Smith, Death Cab for Cutie, Weezer, Jose Padilla, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, Miles Davis, Sun Kil Moon, JLC, Les Baines Douches, Cafe Del Mar, Dylan, Ali Farka Toure, Tom Petty, Satie, Bach, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone, Joe Henry, Ben Harper, Beck, Hendrix, Iron and Wine, Santana, Curtis Mayfield, Kings of Convenience, Dropkick Murphies, Imogen Heap, Van Morisson, Jack Johnson, Yo La Tengo, The National, The Frames, The Cinematic Orchestra, Phish, KD Lang, Armin Van Buuren, Chicane, DJ Tiesto, Faithless, Fatboy Slim, Ferry Corsten, Wlliam Orbit, Clout Cult, Fleet Foxes, Stan Getz, The Clash, Neil Young, New Order, Without Gravity, Will Stratton, Sondre Lerche, Wilco, Ravi Shankar, Joni Mitchell, Erykah Badu, Jim O’Rourke, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Cat Stevens, Stevie wonder, Simon & Garfunkel, Dead Can Dance, Portishead, Gypsy Kings, Kings of Leon, Dusty Springfield, Bob Marley, Gorecki, Rokia Traore, Les Nubians, Lou Reed, U2, John Legend, Smithreens