I'd like to meet:

You of course! Cool people, smart people, nice people, kind people....:)

Some Cool Videos! :)

Viva Voce

Here's a vid from a really cool (and seriously talented) Indie alt rock band called Viva Voce."Viva Voce" is Latin (and Italian) for "Word of mouth" which is, BTW, how y'all are hearing about them from me. (In case you care, the LITERAL translation is "Living Voice" not "word of mouth," but let's not get too literal, ok?)Viva is comprised of husband & wife team Kevin & Anita Robinson. The Robinsons, in addition to being super talented, are also the nicest, most soft spoken, humble rock stars that you will EVER meet (and I've met more than a few).Anita has guitar skills to match Don "Buck Dharma" Roeser. But better still, she has the voice of an angel.... :)... and Kevin is a rhythm smith on the drum kit which could shame John Bonham or Buddy Rich.But don't my word for it, just click and play and hear for yourself.You can hear more (and add them to your friends list) here on Viva's Myspace profile www.myspace.com/vivavoce
or at their web site www.vivavoce.com
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John Patitucci

Here's some awesome bass work by jazz virtuoso John Patitucci (of Chick Corea fame and brother of Tommy P.) He's playing at the Mt. Fuji Jazz festival. Watch him jam, then play it again- this time with your eyes closed. Yes, he's really that good!www.johnpatitucci.com
Enjoy!
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Music:

Tom Patitucci (John Patitucci's brother), Zayra Alvarez, Rich Mullins, The Soft White Underbelly, Viva Voce, Sixpence None the Richer, Wayne Kerr, The Tubes, Bill Spooner, The Motels, and so on.

Movies:

The Godfather, anything with Al Pacino, The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Casablanca, Saving Private Ryan, The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, The Ten Commandments (now there's a mega-production!), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, Being There, Sophie's Choice, A Clockwork Orange, just about any classic movie....

Television:

"Band of Brothers" is MUST SEE TV for anyone who hasn't had the honor and privilege of personally knowing a WWII combatant. I've known several and have two still living. They don't call it "The Greatest Generation" for nothing. It's slightly fictionalized around the edges, but you'd catch the spirit of the thing. The book is also good.Also, "Moby Dick" with Patrick Stewart (of Star Trek NextGen). It's a remake of the Gregory Peck classic. It's improved in the production values, but it has been sanitized from the author's original religious message. So, even if unfaithful to the authorial intent, it's still an AWESOME movie!Other TV: CNBC, CSPN, Bloomberg, Fox News, The History Channel, Dicovery Channel, PBS etc.

Books:

Moby Dick, The Great Gatsby, Places I've Done Time, The Scarlett Letter, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, The Stand, Unpopular Essays, Cosmos, Free to Choose, The Sound & the Fury, Antigone, The Bible (as religion), The Bible (as secular literature), A Canticle for Liebowitz, The Canterbury Tales, The Dune series, and more than I can name.

Heroes:

Alexander Hamilton (the father of central banking), Adam Smith, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, Tom Burnett (who resisted the 9/11 hijackers), Alan Greenspan, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Chief Justice John Marshall, and any other individual who resists the herd mentality (left or right). I like rugged individualists and innovators. As captains of industry, John D. Rockefeller (hero/antihero, founder of Standard Oil & the nation's first mega-monopolist), Benjamin Holt (inventor of the Caterpillar track and to whom I owe my ability to run my business), J.P. Morgan (master financier who kept Wall St. from imploding), Bill Gates, Thomas Edison, & Henry Ford (1) get the nod as standouts among those who contributed to social paradigm shifts vis-a-vis capital investment.While many of these people have very UN-admirable character flaws, Henry Ford gets a special qualifying footnote (1) because of his support for Hitler & his rabid anti-semitism which I neither admire nor endorse.