My kids; photography – check out my pics; the US Army; gambling – namely playing craps in Vegas; reading – very broad – lots of stuff and never enough time to do it; writing – and like reading, never enough time to do it; drinking alcoholic beverages – gin drinks and German beer; history – all types but especially military stuff; and quotes: “Sergeant, you can't control who gets hit or who doesn't. Who falls out of a chopper, or why. It aint up to you. It's just war.†From the movie “Blackhawk Downâ€, Eric Bana as Master Sergeant "Hoot" Gibson, Delta Force
Everyone one on my friends list and some other people too. I would love to meet everyone on my heroes list but many are long gone. And, of course, you. I would like to meet you.
Boney James, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Sting, Cameo, James Brown, Hans Zimmer, Westside Connection, AC DC, Lil Wayne, Case, Steely Dan, Stanley Clarke, Linkin Park, Mindy Abair, Joe Sample, Too Short, Dave Koz, The Eagles, Tina Turner, Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, David Benoit, Tupac Shakur, Bob James, Prince, Earl Klugh, Chic, Hank Williams Jr., Lakeside, Chris Botti, Rush, John Coltrane, The Gipsy Kings, Enchantment, Ohio Players, Snoop Dogg, Alicia Keys, Ramsey Lewis, Kool and the Gang, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mary J. Blige, Deep Forest, O’Jays, Godsmack, Sly and the Family Stone, Outkast, Richard Elliot, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Hiroshima, The Isley Brothers, Nickleback, Al Green, Urban Knights, Limp Bizkit, Gerald Albright, Peabo Bryson, Ludacris, Keiko Matsui, Sade, Rolling Stones, The Barkays, DMX, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Kansas, Shakira, Herbie Hancock, and so much more.
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault, Blackhawk Down, Tombstone, Menace II Society, Glengarry Glen Ross, Jet Li’s Fearless, Transformers, all Jason Bourne movies, House of the Flying Daggers, Office Space, Jet Li’s Hero, Star Wars movies, Hamburger Hill, Mr. Brooks, Star Trek movies, Wolf, Carlito's Way, The Howling, Set It Off, We Were Soldiers, all Saw movies, Sony Chiba’s Street Fighter, Unforgiven, Last of the Mohicans, Jackie Brown, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Jarhead, Hoodlum, The Kingdom, Four Brothers, Terminator movies, Armageddon, Lord of the Ring movies, Executive Decision, Broken Arrow, any comic book movie (Spiderman, Batman, Conan, X-Men, etc.), 300, Se7en, Casino, The Last King of Scotland, White Chicks, Gladiator, American Gun, James Bond movies, The Shining, American Gangster, Gettysburg, A Clockwork Orange, Barbershop, Last of the Dogmen, Training Day, The Long Riders, Saving Private Ryan, Deliverance, Apocalypse Now, all Tomb Raider movies, Tora Tora Tora, Heat, Troy, Once Upon a Time America, Once Upon a Time in the West, Any Given Sunday, Nixon, The Good Bad and the Ugly, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Collateral, True Lies, The Outlaw Josie Wales, Enter the Dragon, Tom Horn, Storm of the Century, Enemy at the Gate, 16 Blocks, 12 Monkeys, Lackawanna Blues, Runaway Jury, all Rush Hour movies, Dead Presidents, Hellraiser, Donnie Brasco, Just Cause, Crimson Tide, Spartacus (with Kirk Douglas), L.A. Confidential, The Boondock Saints, Kingdom of Heaven, Sharky's Machine, Full Metal Jacket, all of The Mummy movies, Glory, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Malcolm X, JFK, Nixon, Philadelphia, To Live and Die in L.A., Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Crimson Tide, Too Kill a Mockingbird, Courage Under Fire, Fallen, The Siege, The Longest Yard, The Bone Collector, Kiss the Girls, Remember the Titans, Man on Fire, Independence Day, Ben Hur, The Manchurian Candidate, Inside Man, Déjà vu, The Patriot, What's Love Got to Do with It, Patriot Games, any Mad Max (Road Warrior) movie, Boys in the Hood, all Mission: Impossible movies, Reindeer Games, Platoon, Halloween, Mystic River, Good Morning Vietnam, Three Kings, The Crying Game, Blown Away, Species, Phenomenon, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Godfather movies, Panic Room, Liberty Stands Still, Last Man Standing, Escape from New York, Escape from L.A., The Rock, any Predator movie, Red Dawn, Clear and Present Danger, all Indiana Jones movies, Lord of War, The Italian Job, Gardens of Stone, Silverado, The Keep, The Eagle Has Landed, all Pirates of the Caribbean movies, all The Matrix movies, Space Cowboys, The Cowboys, The Shootist, Outbreak, Disclosure, GI Jane, The Eagle Has Landed, Kelly’s Heroes, The Dirty Dozen, Zulu Dawn, Shaka Zulu, A Bridge Too Far, Get Carter, The Warriors, Taps, The Wild Bunch, South Central, Superfly, Goodfellas, Any Given Sunday, The Recruit, Reign of Fire, Uncommon Valor, Traffic, Crash, etc. There are so many more.
Generation Kill, The Unit, The Shield, Headline News, all of the History channels, military based programs, WWE, Golden Girls, anything Star Trek, anything Law & Order, Over There, Band of Brothers, The Sopranos, King of the Hill, Boondocks, America’s Next Top Model, Cops, Hell’s Kitchen, Ninja Warrior, The Backyardigans,
A lot longer than the movies and I know you didn't read all of that.
My maternal grandfather; Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez – US Army; Master Sergeant Gary Gordon – US Army; Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart – US Army; Sergeant First Class Paul R. Smith – US Army; General Colin Powell – US Army Ret; General Eric K Shinseki – US Army Ret; George Foreman; Warren Buffet; Medgar Evers; Hannibal Barca; Sam Walton; Oprah Winfrey; Robert Kiyosaki; Mary McLeod Bethune; Bruce Lee; Earl Graves; Vince McMahon; George E. Johnson, Sr.; Walter Payton; Genghis Khan; Nat Turner; Donald Trump; Malcolm X; Jerry Yang; Shaka Zulu; and Master Sergeant James E. Whitt – US Army Ret.