Cristiano Ronaldo- Great soccer player AND he's Portuguese.
Purt' near anybody-I'm a friendly sort. Just don't ask me for money. Flavor Flav's got problems of his own, if you know what I mean.
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God bless and protect every military serviceperson overseas and peace officer here at home. It would be impossible to overpay them.
If you know me (or live within a block of me) you know. Police, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Black Flag, T.S.O.L., 45 Grave, Social Distortion, Elvis Presley, U2, Stevie Wonder, Depeche Mode, Buzzcocks, Pete Shelley, The Specials, Madness, Oingo Boingo, The Jam, Stray Cats, Dead Kennedys, Sex Pistols, Style Council, Heaven 17, Crass, Greg Ginn, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Animal Logic, Oysterhead, They Might Be Giants, Stewart Copeland and Stan Ridgeway, fIREHOSE, Mike Watt, Morrisey, Minutemen, Celia Cruz, Lhasa Del Sela, Ofra Haza, Elvis Presley, Amalia Rodrigues, Joe Walsh, Dig it, RIG, The Clash, Spandau Ballet, Slow Children, Chris Isaak, Alan Jackson, John Anderson, Buck Owens, Peter Schilling, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, The Cure, 3rd Base, Falco, Pat Benatar, Billy Idol, Adam Ant, Andrea Bocelli, B52s, Alex Britti, Beach Boys, Bad Brains, The Sugarcubes, Blancmange, Bobby Darin, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, The Budweiser "Real Men of Genius" background singer, C Bank, Elvis Presley, CCR, World Party, Soft Cell, Nirvana, New Order, Tony Bennett, Caetano Veloso, Run DMC, The Monkees, Airplane(Not Starship), Bananarama, Louis Prima, Elvis Presley, One Ten South, Temptations, Four Tops, The Cars, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Van Halen, Ratt, Judas Priest, Hayzee Fantayzee, EBN-OZN, Sublime, Secondmen, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, The Lemonheads, The Partridge Family, Lene Lovich, Thomas Dolby, Joy Division, all permutations of any band Rick's been in, Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Glenn Meadmore, Fun Boy Three, Gang of Four, Midnight Oil, Elvis Presley, Foo Fighters, Gnarls Barkley, English Beat, General Public, UB40, Ted Nugent, Glenn Miller, Anita O' Day, Frankie and Annette, KISS, The Monkees, Shawn Cassidy, Andy Gibb, King Crimson, Thompson Twins, Elvis Presley, Tony Bennett, Donna Summer, Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, Judy Garland, Nina Hagen, Oum Kalthoum, Soggy Bottom Boys, Aretha, Chaka, Diana, Billy Squier, Genesis, Elvis Presley, Nancy Sinatra
Police Around The World (if you look hard enough, you'll find it), almost anything with Joan Crawford or Norma Shearer, Raising Arizona, Labyrinth(David Bowie), Fahrenheit 9/11 ('cause it's just so far-fetched), The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, The Wedding Singer, North by Northwest, Arsenic and Old Lace, Far and Away, Apollo 13, Hunt for Red October, Lon Chaney or Boris Karloff movies, MST 3000, Apocalypto, and anything Mel Gibson does for that matter9 save "Thunderdome"), travel videos of far away places... You have to see "Everyone Stares". Stewart Copeland is brilliant, and it's a perspective you don't often see.
Survivor, I guess. And the Democrats' rebuttal to the State of the Union address is good for a chuckle. Not much of a TV fan. Crack a book, damn it!
Making of a Surgeon by William Nolan; A Treasury of Deceptions by Michael Farquhar; Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain; Inside the White House by R. Kessler; Shakespeare of London by Marchette Chute; The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan; Sex with Kings by Eleanor Herman; Arrogance by Bernard Goldberg; and Misunderestimated by Bill Sammon (whew!)
Saint Anthony of Padua, Darryl F. Gates, Elizabeth I, Ronald Wilson Reagan, my kids, anyone who does their bit for animal rescue, Stewart Copeland, Princess Anne, Ben Stein, Dick Morris, Amy Tan, Anthony Bourdain, Ian MacCulloch, Iggy Pop, Greg Ginn, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Michelle Malkin, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury can still rock it, Henry Rollins, Karl Rove, Lady Antonia Fraser, fellow San Pedran Charles Bukowski, Siouxsie Sue, Manny Moo, Kat Von D, Harry Bridges, my peeps in Local 13, our men and women in the Armed Forces and their families, and George W. Bush