Opinionated, open-minded old-schooler. Is that an oxymoronic statement?
music
Classic Jazz, Classic Soul, Classic R&B, Classic Hip Hop, Classic Rock, Classical anything with class
artists
Frank Sinatra, Nat "King" Cole, Tony Bennett, Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Billie Holiday, Nancy Wilson, Chaka Khan, Miles Davis, Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt, The Temptations, The Whispers, Frankie Beverly and Maze, Steely Dan, Chicago, Mozart, Art Tatum, Charlie "Bird" Parker, Franz Liszt, Sergei Rachmaninoff, The Rolling Stones, Anita O'Day, The Dells, Smokey Robinson, James Brown, James Taylor, Harry Connick Jr., Bobby Darin, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Chet Baker, Peggy Lee, Sam Cooke, Natalie Cole, Stacey Kent and many, many, many more.
movies
The Godfather 1,2 and 3, Goodfellas, Casino, Pal Joey, Lady Sings the Blues, Singing' in the Rain, any Astaire and Rogers movie, any W.C. Fields movie, and many, many more.
tv shows
Just about anything on HBO
actors
John Wayne, Marlon Brando, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, James Stewart, Sidney Poitier, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, George Raft, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Denzel Washington, Billy Dee Williams and so many more
