Life, music, art, antiques, exercise, drums, singing, positive thinking, photography, traveling and serving my country.
friends young and old, old acquaintances, musicians worldwide, TAMA drum enthusiasts, Japan sci-fi fans, infamous maniacs and fellow collectors of classic pop trash that some threw away but we decided to recycle for eternity!
KISS, Beatles, Stones, Monkees, Yoshida Brothers, Seikima-II, Takashi O'hashi, Akira Jimbo, Lyle Mays, Pat Boone, The CLASH, George Jones, Waylon Jennings, Marvin Gaye, Spiders, Jacks, Tigers, Miles Davis, Flaming Lips, The Tea Company, School House Rock, The Banana Splits, Mr. Children, 13th Floor Elevators, Yoshiki, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, early Iron Maiden, Stevie Wonder, The Sweet, Perez Prado, Celia Cruz, King Crimson, Earth, Wind and Fire, Stanley Jordan, Middle Eastern drums, Vicente Fernandez, The Chocolate Watchband, all film and television theme songs, World Music with moving beats, etc...
Godfather II, Raging Bull, The Departed, Alien, The Great Escape, Rashomon, Mad Monster Party, Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster, Jaws, The Pufnstuf Movie, Yellow Submarine, Cape Fear, This is Spinal Tap, Head, Easy Rider, Lolita, etc...
Everything until 1984, Favorites: Outer Limits, Night Gallery, Kolchak Night Stalker, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Solid Gold, Late Night Talk Show Bands, SCTV, Fridays, Pink Lady and Jeff, ABC's Wide World of Sports, CNN, news, music programs and anything with a kick ass theme song.
All Biographies and Autobiographies.
My wife, Bill La Rue Holland, Eva Kelly Holland, my departed relatives, the person who invented the drum, Evel Knievel, Sid and Marty Krofft, Clive Burr (Iron Maiden's first drummer), Buddy Rich, Raiden Yuzawa (Seikima-II, RX Japan, Canta drummer), Gene Simmons, Forest Ackerman, Ace Frehley, Kamen Rider Amazon, Steve McQueen, Bruce Lee, Godzilla, Mr. Peppermint, Martin Landau, Vincent Price, Captain Kirk, Ghost Rider, Barom 1, Spectreman, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, and that kid in first grade who had all the toys and the best lunch box collection. Famous people I met or worked with. Finally: the person who makes a difference in his own life without destroying someone else's.