Music, Movies, Television, POLITICS! Women half my age, women my age, getting beneath the waves — any ocean with water warmer than 65º My mountain bike and the trails it leads me to ...
I'd like to meet:
Frank Zappa, but he died. I’ve met Dweezil, but it isn’t quite the same thing now, is it? Can’t think of anyone else in particular, but I’d like to meet many people.
Music:
Zappa is GOD! Those familiar with FZ will understand the irony. Saw Zappa Plays Zappa June 23 at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. Great show. Might go see the Dead, but without Jerry, what’s the point?
Black Sabbath -- and by association -- Ozzy -- RANDY LIVES!, Jeff Beck, Greg Koch, Modest Mussorgsky, Macy Gray, Steve Erle, Stevie Ray, Zep of course, Floyd, Ian Anderson (Tull), Ludwig Van Beethoven, Brecker Brothers, Miles, Herbie Hancock, basically everyone who played with Miles, have you heard Marcus Roberts? Weather Report, Men at Work, Graham Parker, Henry Rollins (Rollins Band and Black Flag), Meat Puppets, Duke Ellington, Soundgarden (next to Hendrix, the best of Seattle), Hendrix, now that he’s mentioned, Junior Walker and the All Stars, Parliament-Funkadelic, Count Basie, King Crimson, Sade, Living Color (the band, of course), Monks of Doom, Jane’s Addiction, Sergei Prokofiev, Cheap Trick, Thelonius Monk, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Yes, Jelly Roll Morton Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Edgar Winter’s White Trash (Roadwork is the best damn live album ever recorded), Carole King, Michael Hedges, NEIL YOUNG! “Cortez the Killer†(Live on Weld) is my favorite Neil Young track, Chuck Berry, Audioslave ... I’ll add more later.
Movies:
Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now (Redux), The Exorcist, Rat Race, Syriana, Good Night, and Good Luck; the George Clooney Ocean’s 11, Casablanca, every Shakespeare done by Kenneth Branaugh, Silent Movie, Young Frankenstein, True Lies, Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing, Lost in Translation, Something’s Gotta Give, Legally Blonde, Capote, The Aviator, Taxi Driver, Casino, the first 3 Dirty Harry films, All the Tarzan movies with Johnny
Weissmuller and Muareen O’Sullivan (dammit she was HOT!) I’ll add more later ...
Television:
In this order: The Daily Show, The Wire, Sopranos, Real Time with Bill Maher, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry Sanders Show, Dream On, Sex and the City, Deadwood, Entourage; news shows on MSNBC (Keith Olbermann!), The Daily Show, Family Guy, Inside the NFL, every Brewers game I can get and, I’m embarassed to admit it: Survivor. And Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. hey I need tips!
Books:
Too many to mention! Dick (Philip K.), Hemingway, Kosinski (I know about the controversies), but my all-time favorite: Mark Twain!