Top 10 Favorite Albums!

• Revolver (The Beatles)
• Rubber Soul (The Beatles)
• Brainwashed (George Harrison)
• Rumours (Fleetwood Mac)
• Sheryl Crow (self titled)
• 1999 (Prince)
• Tapestry (Carole King)
• Hard Day’s Night (The Beatles)
• Red Dirt Girl (Emmylou Harris)
• “RENT” Soundtrack

Honorable mentions

• Road Tested (Bonnie Raitt live CD
• Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (Sarah McLachlan)
• Aretha Franklin’s Greatest Hits
• Don’t you Want Me (Human League, first 45rpm record I ever bought!)
• Legend (Bob Marley)
• The Story (Brandi Carlile)

Favorite Foods!

• Junior Mints
• Chocolate
• Peppermint/Ginger tea
• Trader Joe’s Whole Wheat Pita Chips
• Fruit smoothies
• TacoBell
• Pizza (though I can’t really eat it anymore)
• Rocky Road & Peanut Butter Chocolate Ice Cream (ditto)
• Red beer!

Favorite books!

• Eat, Pray, Love
• Generation Kill
• Shout: The Beatles in Their Generation
• Wuthering Heights
• The Outsiders
• Faith in the Valley
• The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green
• 29 and Counting: A Chick’s Guide to Turning 30
• Hamlet
• Romeo and Juliet
• Phenomenal Woman

Other favorites!

• Music
• The Beatles
• My grandparents
• Musical theatre
• “RENT”
• “True Blood”
• “Generation Kill”
• “Prime”
• “Boogie Shoes!”
• Tap Dancing
• Reading
• Writing
• Cooking
• Parties
• My rockin’ spinach & artichoke dip
• FEAST (restaurant in Bucktown)
• Yoga
• Friends
• Bill Maher
• “Ugly Betty”
• “Six Feet Under”
• “Grey’s Anatomy”
• Chocolate
• Beer
• The White Sox
• Karaoke
• Palm Reading

Pet Peeves

• People who can’t spell
• People who drive too slow
• People who drive too fast
• People who forget how to drive when it rains or snows in Chicago
• Slow-driving cabs when I’m trying to get somewhere (and aren’t they ALWAYS slow? And when I’m on the road, aren’t I ALWAYS GOING SOMEWHERE?)
• People who don’t balance their friendships and romantic relationships
• Fake people
• Self-centered people
• People who claim they’re bored but resist trying new things
• Men who go on dates looking to marry their mothers
• Picky eaters

Quotes

• The thing do to is fail at some point, so when you crawl back up, you can say, “Hey, it wasn’t all luck.”
  –Barbara Walters
• To me, the most curious thing of all is incuriosity.
  –Cormac McCarthy
• You’re not doing anyone any favors if you withhold your talents from the world.
  –Idina Menzel
• No day but today
  –Jonathan Larson, “RENT”
• I once met a guy whose parents were dead, and I thought, “That’s great!”
  –April Miller (Friend discussing her former Singlehood, and the prospect of having In-Laws. She’s married now. And doesn’t like her In-Laws.)
• Risk every day and your life will become your own.
  –Rhonda Britten
• The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
  –George Bernard Shaw
• Look those listeners in the eye!!
  –Radio mentor Dave Shakes
• Give Peace a chance
  –John Lennon
• I’m the man on the flaming pie
  –Paul McCartney
• G-d G-d G-d
  Must be something I forgot
  Down on Bullshit Avenue
  If we can only stop the rot
  Wish that you’d brainwash us too
  –George Harrison/”Brainwashed”
• I think therefore I rock and roll
  –Ringo Starr
• Got to be true to myself
  –Ziggy Marley/”Dragonfly”
• Only by feeling compassion for yourself can you feel compassion for others.
  –Gary Zukav
• In life, you will do what you want to do… until you do what you were meant to do.
  –? Dunno. Found in the home of Tony K
• You must be all the things you seek in another person.
  –Iyanla VanZant
• There won’t be any Social Security left for Generation X. That’s why we have to find jobs that are fun. We’ll be doing them a lot longer!
  –Danny Donuts
• Come onnnn, why notttttt!
  –Lalo the waiter/tour guide in Ixtapa
• All you need is love
  –The Beatles

Loose talk in the halls of Shadow Traffic:

• Never face the apocalypse on an empty stomach…                                                                                                 –Airborne reporter Kris Habermehl over a bad crash
• I have feet like a model’s. Wanna see?
  –Bart Shore (We declined.)
• Look! I made “Traffic Hazard Trading Cards!”
  –Scott Childers
• Lisa, you’re a delicate flower in a world of weeds. I don’t want to corrupt you.
  –Corey Morris (Corey was promptly hospitalized after this remark; we’re all convinced he’s ill.)
• If a brutha can’t kiss … DISMISS!
  –Gary the Bagel Guy
• Exchange:
  Dorothy Humphrey: You’re outta your mind!
  Lisa Greene: If everybody thought like me, the world would be a better
  place.
  Tom Gaines: That’s what all the crazy people say.
• On Star 105.5: Nanette: We’re talking about ‘any kind of wedding you want’…Lisa, what would have to be present for you to have the Dream Wedding celebration?Gary the Bagel Guy: A Groom!!