24) [time to go back to being silly] If the cancer comes back, and you have to be reincarnated, who would you be?

Well, I'd come back as a musician--the one regret of my life is that I didn't pursue music more seriously when I was younger.

Automatically disqualified
- heroin and other addicts (Jackson Browne)
- anyone who looks like a raisin (Mick + Stevie Tyler)

5) Freddie Mecury
It'd be fun to be that gay and sell records to middle America.
Of course, I have the problem that he's dead.  I don't know what that means--if you come back as a dead guy, do you lose a turn??

4) Warren Zevon
Whatever is rolling around in that guy's head might be scary to experience first-hand.
Also, dead-guy problem.

3) Amy Lee of Evanescence
I'm not sure I want to spend that much time in therapy.

2) Mac Powell of Third Day
Just not sure I want to spend that much time in Red states.

1) Vince Gill
Has it all--lovely tenor voice, first-rate musician, and good-looking (when he stays away from the Pancake Pantry)

there you have it--I'm open to additional suggestions.

23) What's on your ipod these days?

Well, I have a secret recording of Bush throwing himself and the Republicans off the cliff.  Enjoying that.  ("You're doing a great job there, Rummy")

Seriously, it's Alan Jackson's "Like a Red Rose".  It was produced by Ms. Alison Kraus.  AJ wantedto make a blue grass album and AK apparently talked him into some type of hybrid.  It's just lovely. If you've ever been in love, it'll bring you to tears.  

Just a piece of "Had it not been you"

I wouldn't reach for your arms
When my dreams don't come true
Never sit holding hands
On a crowded church pew
I wouldn't smile when my fingers run through your hair
Or laugh when we race to the top of the stairs
I'd get old for sure
Had it not been you

You know there are times
That I can't wait to pick up the phone
When you're callin'
And the three little voices
That always chime in right along
When we're talkin'

Oh I never would see through
eyes of truth
And my heart
would have overlooked
a view that some just talk of
and never find
In a lifetime