1. Favorite way to spend a rainy day

Hmm, if I'm not at home, then lunch at a restaurant/pub with dark wood and booths, then a movie, then a snack and a book in a coffee shop. I've never done exactly this but it sounds good.

2. Favorite song about rain

Carrie Newcomer's "Another Thunder"--
"Thunder rolling like a wave, beating like a heart...
...stand out in the middle of the storm,
be thankful for that calm that will surely follow...
I don't want to see it pass over, I'd just like to see it pour."

3. Favorite movie featuring rain

The Shawshank Redemption--when he crawls out of the sewer pipe and yells to the heavens, it is a baptism.

4. Favorite piece of raingear, past or present

I have a Monet umbrella from the Art Institute in Chicago.

5. Favorite word for rain

I think "downpour" is lovely, almost onomatopoetic.