JOHN PEEL
MUCH LOVE TO A MOST INCREDIBLE MAN
Veteran Radio Presenter & DJ.
Thank you for sharing the music with everyone that cared to listen.
Damon Albarn:
Tribute to John Peel.
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MUSIC, spiderman, chocolate, cartoons...YA!, i said CARTOONS!, and an ALMOST unhealthy obsession with monkeys!
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...and monkey humor.
I'd like to meet:
interesting people. not so much important people...unless they happen to be interestingly important people or interestingly talented or unusually interesting or interstingly unusual (and there IS a difference) or if all else fails.....just unusual catches my attention as well.
Music:
EVERYTHING from rock, pop, classical, OLD country, punk, and "what the HELL is THAT?!?!?" kinda music!!!
my musical taste has been called eclectic, but what is eclectic to ONE man is another man's MONKEY-POO!!!
short list:
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead,The 5.6.7.8's,Al Bowlly,Animal Bag,Arab Strap,The Arcade Fire,Arctic Monkeys,Woody and Arlo Guthrie,Arrested Development,Ash,Asha Bohsle,Baby Shambles,Badly Drawn Boy,Beastie Boys,The Beatles,Bebel Gilberto,Beck,Bedouin Soundclash,Belle & Sebastian,Beulah,Big Audio Dynamite,Billie Holiday,Billy Bragg,Billy Joel,Blackalicious,BLUR,Bob Dylan,Bob Marley,The Bravery,Brendon Small,Brian Lee,BT,Buddy Holly,Bullfrog & Kid Koala,Busta Rhymes,Camera Obscura,The Charlatans UK,Cibelle,Cibo Matto,The Clash...hell ANYTHING with Joe Strummer...and the SAME goes for Damon Albarn,The Coral,The Crew Cuts,Crowded House,Dada,Daft Punk,Dan the Automator,Daniel Tosh,David Bowie,De La Soul,The Dead 60s,Death Cab for Cutie,The Decemberists,Del Tha Funkee Homosapien,Devendra Banhart,Dimitri from Paris,DJ FORMAT,DJ Keoki,DJ Rap,DJ Smash,The Dresden Dolls,Editors,Ella Fitzgerald,Fantastic Plastic Machine,Fatboy Slim,Fela Kuti,Fishbone,The Flaming Lips,Foo Fighters,Frank Sinatra,Frank Zappa,Franz Ferdinand,Fred Astaire...yes, he sang,The Futureheads,G. Love & Special Sauce,George Harrison, GILBERT!, The Glands,The Go! Team,Graham Coxon,Grandmaster Flash,The Grateful Dead,Green Day
i'll pick up with the "H's" after i let the dog out....so next time the Baha Men ask, you can tell them it was ME!...I let the fucking dogs out....so shut he hell UP about it, for god sake!!!....
Movies:
Cannibal the Mucical,
....Napoleon Dynamite (WHY can't i take this out of my dvd player!), Sean of the Dead/Hot Fuzz (or anything involving Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, or Nick Frost), It's a Wonderful Life, Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, Alakazam the Great! and anything not designated as a "blockbuster" or "what TV GUIDE is calling the BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR". keep your "Titanic" crap to yourself!!!
Army of Darkness...a CLASSIC!
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Television:
REDDWARF!!! CARTOONS!!! and odd strolls down Nostalgia Boulevard and Deja Vu Drive
how could you ever argue the logic of a well thought out cartoon fantasy?!?
The Wilma Flinstone Clip
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Books:
...i've fallen so far behind on my book readin'......damn you internet!!! but if you're one of those people that can only drag your way through ONE book before you die....make it Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins. it's become a "book of little calm" for me. if you're a "reader"....anything by Sarah Vowell.
Heroes:
GEORGE HARRISON SINGS!....ARRRRRRRRR!!!
JIM HENSON
Billy Connolly
there are no mirrors in the Serengeti
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