Music
Curtis Mayfield. Jill Scott. Al Green. Mary J. Blige. Marvin Gaye. Sweet Honey and the Rock. Anthony Hamilton. Heather Headley. Prince. Anita Baker. Marc Broussard. Phyllis Hyman. Lenny Kravitz.. Alicia Keys. Michael Buble. Trisha Yearwood. Sade. Carole King (Tapestry, awesome) Big and Rich. En Vogue. Earth, Wind and Fire. Outkast (Speakerboxxx/The Love Below). Brooks and Dunn. Barry White. Little Big Town. Bon Jovi. Stevie Wonder (70s era-awesome). Sugarland. Heart. Trace Atkins. Luther Vandross. Toni Braxton. Common (Testify). Santana (Black Magic Woman; Supernatural CD). Elton John (Bennie and the Jetts).
TV Shows
Jeopardy. Perry Mason (series and movies). The Closer. Big Love. The Wire. Lie to Me. The L Word. Numb3rs. True Blood. L&O: Criminal Intent. Bones. NCIS. In Treatment. The Tudors. Criminal Minds. Burn Notice. Cold Case. Dexter. Rome. Monk. PBS Mystery! Living Single. Girlfriends. I Love Lucy. Sisters. Gossip Girl (a guilty pleasure).
Movies
Love Jones. Eve's Bayou. Mahogany. Paris Blues. The Letter (1940, Bette Davis). The Usual Suspects. Inside Man. Hustle & Flow. The Best Man. Brown Sugar. Gosford Park. Road to Perdition. Now, Voyager (1942, Bette Davis). 25th Hour. Manhattan Murder Mystery. Cookie's Fortune. All About Eve (1950, Bette Davis). The Talented Mr. Ripley. Mildred Pierce. Something's Gotta Give. Coal Miner's Daughter. Something New. The Women (1939). The Departed. L.A. Confidential. Bringing Up Baby. Love and Basketball. Devil in a Blue Dress. The Barefoot Contessa. I Like It Like That. Adam's Rib. To Sleep with Anger. All the King's Men (1949). The Fugitive Kind. Born Yesterday. State of the Union (1948).East Side, West Side. The Contender (2000, Joan Allen). Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Memento. Butterfield 8. Double Indemnity. Off the Map. A Long, Hot Summer (1958). Mogambo. Shaft (2000). A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Marlon Brando). Bourne (all 3 films). Sayonara. The Godfather, Parts 1 and 2. The Devil Wears Prada (Meryl Streep ruled.). A Beautiful Mind. Any Alfred Hitchcock film. The Thin Man films, featuring Nick and Nora Charles.
Books
The Alientist. Sugar. Song of Solomon. The Women of Brewster Place. Third Girl from the Left. Blues Dancing. Passing. Chesapeake Song. The Great Gatsby. Peyton Place. To Kill a Mockingbird. Tale of Two Cities. The Eve Dallas seris by J.D. Robb. The Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. The Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton. All stories by Edgar Allan Poe (top faves: Cask of Amontillado and The Tell-Tale Heart).
Quotes
Being smart doesn't mean you don't make mistakes; it just means you learn from them.-- Don't ever believe that where you are now is the only possibility.--The only constant is change.-- God might not come when you call, but he's always right on time.
