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Vinnie (Smells Like Hippie)

I tell you love, sister, its just a kiss away.

About Me


Hi I'm Vinnie! I live on the beautifully broken MS Gulf Coast about an hour away from New Orleans, my favorite place on Earth. Someday I hope to fade away there. I am a single Dad and lately my life revolves around raising my daughter AudieLeigh and music and more music-any kind but kiddie pop and rap. I'm a Grateful Dead/Jerry Garcia FREAK. I also love Black/Thrash/Death Metal. (NO,I am NOT a Satanist!!!). I know some find this odd but if you are famillar with the concept of Yin/Yang and understand the Jedi/Sith thing then you can see that its not so strange. I believe each is important to achieve a balance in my life. Go ahead,I know what your thinking, it wouldn't be the first time I've been called a freak. I personally think it describes me and have never thought of it as something bad. I am definitely a different kind of dude. I like the term eccentric. Luckily I have found someone who likes weird old me. Shes a little strange herself and I dig it. There IS someone out there for everyone you just gotta poke around ;) I really do believe in Peace, Love and Understanding but have also seen the flipside of the coin and it isn't pretty. Oh well, the world keeps on spinning folks....George Bush was born with a silver spoon in his NOSE! Trust No One...especially your own government!!!!KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!!!!AIKO AIKO!!!!!! Have a Grateful day y'all and dance like nobodys watching! Oh, and remember Brothers and Sistas...It Ain't Over 'Till The Fat Lady Smokes That Last Joint! Now get out there and hug a tree! Peace.

My Interests

My daughter and work take up most of my time. Whatever is left is given to music,movies and reading. I am a huge fan of Sci-Fi,Horror and True Crime.I am always up to go to a show and dance(or get in the pit if its a metal concert). I Love BRAVES baseball and SAINTS football. I also take care of our pets which include a bird(Jerry)seventeen(??)stray cats(a byproduct of Katrina!) and one obese hamster(Marki). I am really down on our current administration & really despise Bush and his cronies. I really like BEER...especially Dead Guy Ale,Fat Tire,Sierra Nevada and Lazy Magnolia. Crown Royal straight up suits me fine too. I also really dig monkeys & apes. Go figure!

I'd like to meet:

You of course!

Music:

Grateful Dead,Frank Zappa,The Beatles,Bob Marley,Neil Young,Nirvana,Black Crowes,Derek Trucks Band,Alice In Chains,WideSpread Panic,Fleetwood Mac,Panic! at the Disco,Blood Brothers,Tesla,Pink Spiders,Black Flag,Dead Kennedys,PIXIES,Emanuel,Aerosmith,Mars Volta,Old Crow Medicine Show, Tater,Tom Petty,Phish,Drive By Truckers,REO Speedwagon,Cheap Trick,Styx,Van Halen,ZZ Top,Alice Cooper,WEEZER,The unicorns,shiny toy guns,TOOL,Kittie,Clinic,Lacuna Coil,Slayer,Slipknot,The Clash,Sex Pistols,RadioHead,Venom,Pearl Jam,David Bowie,Kiss The Cop,Green Day,The Polyphonic Spree,Dresden Dolls,Charles Mingus,Charlie Parker,John Coltrane,Sun Ra,Miles Davis,Etta James,Billie Holliday,R.L. Burnside,North MS Allstars,Particle,Leftover Salmon,Guns N Roses,Blue Oyster Cult,Jimi Hendrix,Pink Floyd,Gov't Mule,ABB,Iron Maiden,The Strokes,,The Replacments,Evanescence,Viking Skull,Priestess,Janes Addiction,NIN,Marilyn Manson,Angels and Airwaves,The Shins,The Vines,Minor Threat,Joy Division,The Cure,Deicide,Cradle of Filth,Napalm Death,Death,Suffocation,Scratch Acid,Butthole Surfers,Celtic Frost,Fugazi,Sublime,Blink 182,Blind Melon,The Iguanas,Bag of Donuts,Janis Joplin,The Doors,Idiot Pilot,Robert Randolph,Cannibal Corpse,Bob Dylan,Pantera,Dirty Dozen Brass Band,The Radiators,Motorhead,Ozric Tentacles,Dark Star Orchestra,KISS,Black Sabbath,Led Zep,The Who,Heart,The Stones,Lynyrd Skynryd and...MORE Grateful Dead!

Movies:

Taxi Driver,Star Wars,Scarface,Goodfellas,anything Quentin Tarantino,2001,Dazed and Confused,anything Margaret Cho,Jesus is Magic!,The Stoned Age,Brazil,anything Monty Python,Signs,The Lady in the Water,The 6th Sense,The Village,Clockwork Orange,Soilent Green,Planet of the Apes(original),anything Cheech and Chong,Interview with the Vampire,Apocalypse Now,Can't Hardly Wait,Heathers,Empire Records,The Last Waltz,Repo Man,Heavy Metal,Superstar,Fast Times At Ridgemont High,Cape Fear,Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,Gilbert Grape,Edward Scissorhands,Nightmare Before Christmas,The Corpse Bride,Ed Wood,Pirates of the Carribean,anything by Michael Moore,Natural Born Killers, Henry:Portrait of a serial killer,CRUMB,Paradise Lost,American Movie, Say Anything, Field of Dreams, Billy Jack,Deathrace 2000,The Godfather ,The Godfather 2,Texas Chainsaw Massacre,The Thing(original/remake),Death to Smoochy,American Pie trilogy,Animal House,Vacation,The Blues Brothers,1941, Beavis and Butthead Do America,Donnie Darko,The Grateful Dead Movie,anything by John Hughes,anything by John Waters,Lord of the Rings,Roadhouse,The Gods Must Be Crazy, Almost Famous,Clerks,Clerks2,Dogma,Mallrats,Chasing Amy,Jersey Girl,House of a 1000 Corpses,The Devil's Rejects,,South Park:Bigger,Longer&Uncut,Rocky Horror Picture Show,Night of the Living Dead(original),Dawn of the Dead(original/remake),Day of the Dead,Suspiria,Tenebrae,Opera,Zombie,Halloween 1,2 & 3,Friday the 13th 1&2.

Television:

That 70's Show,King of the Hill,anything on the History Channel,anything on The Learning Channel,CNN,The Simpsons,LOST,The X-Files,Star Trek,Scrubs,Buffy the Vampire Slayer,Star Trek:The Next Generation,Good Times,The Brady Bunch,Roseanne,The Outer Limits,Battlestar Galactica,Bones,Family Guy,Futurama,Freaks and Geeks,Undeclared,All American Girl,My name is Earl,Saints footbal,Braves baseball,The Bernie Mac Show,MADtv,SNL,Aqua Teen Hunger Force,Robot Chicken,American Dad,The War at Home,South Park,anything on Comedy Central...

Books:

All Quiet on the Western Front,Anything William Burroughs,Anything H.P.Lovecraft,Anything Hunter S.Thompson,Anything Howard Zinn,Anything Mark Twain,Fast Food Nation,Reefer Madness,World War Z,Anything Freud,Anything Nietzsche, Anything Chuck Klosterman,Anything Alan Moore,Anything Arthur C. Clarke,Anything Ray Bradbury,anything Heinlien,anything Ken Kesey,anything Stephen King,anything Clive Barker,anything J.R.R. Tolkien,anything Steinbeck,anything Terrence McKenna,A Confederacy of Dunces,To kill a Mockingbird,Star Wars novels,anything Lester Bangs,anything Cameron Crowe,The Vampire Chronicles and books about my fave bands/music and movies.

Heroes:

Jerry Garcia,Neil Young,Archie Manning,John Lennon,Eddie Vedder,Warren Haynes,Janis Joplin,Pigpen,Ozzy,Stephen King,Frog @ Ms. Mae's in NOLA,Frank Zappa,Joe Strummer,Kerry King,Axl Rose,Bill Murray,John Belushi,Howard Zinn,Anne Rice,Lemmy,George Lucas,Terrance McKenna,Meher Baba,Kurt Cobain,George Carlin,Sam Kinison,Richard Pryor,Eddie Murphy,Janeane Garofalo,Margaret Cho,Bill Hicks,Mitch Hedberg,Lenny Bruce,George Orwell,Freud,Nietzsche,Che,Mao,Jesus(the first hippie),God,Krishna,Buddha,The Dali Lama,D.B.Cooper,Michael Moore,Wavy Gravy,Ken Kesey,Timothy Leary,Albert Hoffman,Owsley,Squeeky Fromme, Ronnie Van Zant,Alice Cooper,Bill Clinton,Dario Argento,Lucio Fulci,Ignatius J. Reilly, my kid and Carrot Top.

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My Blog

Strange scenes inside the goldmine.....

U talk about yin/yang....jedi/sith....the other day I was drivin’ down the beach with my bud CO....just enjoying a nice Sunday....and we see a group of girls sporting bikinis and right next to e...
Posted by Vinnie (Smells Like Hippie) on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:12:00 PST

And I wonder.......

This is one of those songs that makes ya go HMMMM?!?!?....know what I mean? Probably not :) Peace and grease.LIFEBOY/by PHISH Swinging on the lifeline Fraying bits of twine...
Posted by Vinnie (Smells Like Hippie) on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:32:00 PST

Which ones Pink?

This about sums it up kids....Peace.Time/Pink FloydTicking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home ...
Posted by Vinnie (Smells Like Hippie) on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:09:00 PST

Wrote a song, hope ya like it, here it goes.........

As true today as it was in the  70's.....drops of wisdom from Mr. Neil Young...figure it out...I did :) Peace and Grease. Have a Grateful 2008 y'all. P.S....And No E.....its not about Canada...
Posted by Vinnie (Smells Like Hippie) on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:50:00 PST

La dee da da da, La da da da da, Da da da, Da da, Da da da da da

This is my favorite Grateful Dead tune...it is a life defining song...It is the ultimate Dead zen koan...words to learn by...words to live by...this is the one that made me who I am.... Thank you Jerr...
Posted by Vinnie (Smells Like Hippie) on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 06:30:00 PST

Thank You Jerry

Wise words from Jerome...thank you Papa Bear for always showing me the light! Comes A Time/Grateful DeadComes a time when the blind-man takes your hand, says "Don't you see?Gotta make it somehow on th...
Posted by Vinnie (Smells Like Hippie) on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:21:00 PST

You just gotta poke around

Oh Baby put on dem boogie shoes!!! Its good too see a big man dance!Ya know what I mean? Sure ya do...Peace.Shakedown Street/Grateful DeadYou tell me this town ain't got no heart. Well, well, well, yo...
Posted by Vinnie (Smells Like Hippie) on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:16:00 PST

Been there...done that.

This is my favorite Dylan tune...brings back many fond memories...and thats enough :) Peace.Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues/Bob DylanWhen youre lost in the rain in juarezAnd its eastertime tooAnd your gra...
Posted by Vinnie (Smells Like Hippie) on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:22:00 PST

Wisdom from Mick and Keef

Right on....check this one out boys and girls. Some tunes take on new meaning the older ya get. Have a Grateful Life!LET IT BLEED (M. Jagger/K. Richards) Well, we all need someone we can lean on A...
Posted by Vinnie (Smells Like Hippie) on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 04:06:00 PST

Naked in the mud, girl.....

Summer is upon us and it feels like time to get my Panic on! The boys sound the best they have since Mikey passed away....tell me this tune doesnt smoke and make ya wanna get down! Peace.TALL BOY/Wide...
Posted by Vinnie (Smells Like Hippie) on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 02:52:00 PST