Music, acting, sound design, modeling, fine dining, cats, bridge, Sudoku, patternless crosswords, re-habbing/home repairs, history, hiking, bicycling, roller blading, attending theater and art shows, thunderstorms, fireplaces, whiskey, crocodile snogging...
I'd like to meet:
Musicians, bands, promoters/club owners, studio owners. Anyone involved in creative endeavors. I'm always open to making new friends with good people.......... Tao Jones live @ Gaspar's (now Schuba's) Chicago 11-27-1985 Carla Evonne: vocal, alto sax & percussion / Michael Evon: guitar & vocal / Terry Walker: keyboards & vocal / Bill Hyland: bass / Oberheim DMX: drum machine ............................................................ ........................ October 31, 1984: Terry Walker & Michael Evon dissolved their band "Two Worlds Collide" in Akron, OH. and moved to Chicago to join the remaining members of one of the hottest & most popular bands in Chicago - "Bohemia". "Bohemia" did not survive, even with this influx of "new blood", but out of it's ashes arose another ill-fated band - "Tao Jones". Bohemia's Carla Evonne. along with Michael & Terry, wooed Bill Hyland from another of Chicago's top bands, "Phil n the Blanks", to play bass. This is the debut of Tao Jones. The next show, opening for "Midge Ure" at Chicago's "Vic Theater", was canceled at the very last minute. Tao Jones was on stage ready to go, Midge Ure's fans were lined up outside for a couple blocks, when we finally learned that despite tremendous effort, the headliner's missing instruments (lost at LAX) could not possibly reach Chicago in time. Sadly, creative differences brought an end to this to this project almost at it's inception. Luckily, this video has survived.
Music:
My own, my friends' stuff... mostly I like rock that is raw and vibrant, not too polished. TODAY, my fave is Richard Cheese! I also love Baroque and ancient music played on ancient instruments, Celtic music, Bluegrass and Folk. Some of my favorites include: Iggy Pop, Bowie, Praetorius, Beethoven, Pachelbel, the Stones, Bjork, O-zone, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Foo Fighters, The Doors, Pere Ubu, Byork, Clannad, Annie Lennox, Miles Davis, The Who, The Byrds, Roxy Music, The Smiths, Buckley (father and son), Parliment/Funkadelic, Enya, Praetorius, Pachelbel, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Fear, GBH, Sex Pistols, Alkaline Trio, Sandy Denny, Patsy Cline, Jewel, Patty Smith, my old school mate Chrissie Hynde and her brother Terry, Jefferson Airplane, Soft Machine, Flaming Groovies, Devo, Placebo, Richard Thompson, NY Dolls, Tin Huey, Tin Machine, Johnny Cash, MC5, Jawbreaker, Ramones, Bohemia, The Godfathers, The Cult, The Bizarros, Spike Jones and The City Slickers, Stiv Bators, The Slamming Watusi's, Vendooza, Junior Brown, Edith Piaf, Ima Sumac, Killing Joke, K's Choice, MC5, The Troggs, The Fuggs, Metallica, Andres Segovia, Mozart, Hildegard von Bingen... so many more.
Movies:
All the Harry Potter movies. Fritz Lang's original 5 hour version of "Dr. Mabuse". he original "Metropolis"... and some Fatty Arbuckle and Harold Lloyd just for fun. I am required to examine these and prepare a lecture... so it's not all fun and games. My partner wishes me to discuss camera angles - I'm more interested in lighting... so, I'll combine the two. Hopefully our students will find this interesting.Just saw David Lynch's "Inland Empire". Three hours - my butt ached, but I'd go again! I live about 1 1/2 blocks from the Music Box, and work 2 days a week for a film buff - part of my pay is having access to his library (Hitchcock , Lang, Chaplin, etc). "L.O.T.R."! I've been waiting most of my life for this! Just a very few of my favorites: "Bedazzeled" (the original w/ Dudley Moore and Peter Cook), "The Forbidden Zone", "As Good As It Gets", "Being There", "The Party", "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", "Shogun" and "It" (both made for TV), "Enemy Mine", "Bringing Up Baby", "Bell, Book, and Candle", et al...
Television:
PBS, BBC, sometimes a ballgame, and sometimes there IS something worth watching on broadcast TV. Faves include: "Black Adder", "House", "Jeeves and Wooster", "Monarch of the Glen", Seinfeld", "South Park", "Dr Who", "Star Trek" (and all the spin-offs), "Rocky and Bullwinkle", reruns of all the classic B&W shows (ie; "Jack Benny", "Burns and Allen", "The Twilight Zone", et al), including all the cartoons, serials and shorts originally made to be shown in movie theaters (ie; "The Little Rascals", "Three Stooges", et al). And Spike Jones
Books:
Anything and everything by Garrison Keilor, J.R.R.Tolkien, J.K.Rowling, David Sedaris, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, Mary Stewart, Mercedes Lackey, Isaac Asimov, Stephen King (I don't like horror, but King is a great writer). Sci-fi, fantasy, history and historical fiction: usually my first choices. They provide a great escape from the vast amount of technical papers and manuals that I must read. I will read anything at hand, and I have been concentrating on classic literature and popular contemporary authors, of late. *** My all time favorite would have to be "Microbe Hunters", by Paul deKruif, where my great-uncle Albert Von Ebeling is briefly mentioned. After emigrating to N.Y., he kept a chicken heart alive for many years, in a N.Y. laboratory. ***
Heroes:
************************************************************ The Dalai Lama, Ghandi, Mother Teresa. Also: my mother (and most other single mothers), my uncle Albert (see above - Jesus! That's so weird), Johnny Cash (for introducing me to guitar), Jorma Kaukonen (for teaching me to experiment), and Richard Thompson (for teaching me to play what I feel).
