Music - playing, writing, listening to...I play piano and dabble in various other keyboard instruments. Singing is fun, and I am not too terrible at this. :-)
I love to read, and it's an absolute necessity for me to write as often as I can.
The mountains and the ocean make me very happy. I love to ski and to romp in the sea. I'm into weather, travel, and computers/webdesign. I find fascinating the ways in which animate and inanimate objects work (check out the show How It's Made on the Discovery Channel to add some ultra coolness to your day), and I am a self-admitted stickler for the really swell use of the English language. ;-)
Nantucket Island. I love this magical, beautiful, life-affirming place.
High on this mountain, the clouds down below
I'm feeling so strong and alive
From this rocky perch, I'll continue the search
For the wind and the snow and the sky
Well, I want a lover and I want some friends
And I want to live in the sun
And I want to do all the things that I never have done.
~Dan Fogelberg
Rest in peace, brother in spirit.
Ahhh - nothing like being high in Breckenridge, Colorado!
I'd like to meet:
Those who wow me. And there are plenty of 'em.
You might be one. :-)
OK, so I already met this one, on April 29, 1989. Lucky me; he's my husband. :-D
Alan and I after his gig at the NJ Proghouse, October 20, 2007
Tony Banks - one of the greatest!
But this one planted the seed. Oh YES, indeed. :-)I'm a proud supporter of
Music:
Advent, 70s-era Genesis and Yes, Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel, Ritual, Pat Metheny, Glenn Alexander, Michael Hedges, Weather Report, Steve Morse, Chick Corea, Jordan Rudess, Neal Morse, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Seth Lakeman, Dan Fogelberg, Kevin Gilbert, Frank Zappa, Joe Jackson, Billy Joel, Ken Watson, Camel, Kino, Queen, Keith Emerson, Ambrosia, Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, 70s-era Bruce Springsteen.
Masters Chick Corea and Bela Fleck
Movies:
The Red Violin, The Notebook, V For Vendetta, Children of Men, Brazil, Crash, A Beautiful Mind, Gandhi, The Pursuit of Happyness, Matinee, Take The Money and Run, Sleeper, Annie Hall, 1408 (my kinda scary), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Life of Brian, The Nightmare Before Christmas (Danny Elfman at his finest), This Is Spinal Tap, Yessongs, The Song Remains The Same.
Television:
Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Looney Tunes, The inimitable Beavis and Butthead, Pinky and the Brain, Rocko's Modern Life, Freaks and Geeks, I Love Lucy, All In The Family, Lost In Space, The Twilight Zone, The Munsters, The Carol Burnett Show. I like the classics I grew up with best.Few More Hilarious!
Books:
A Short History of Nearly Everything, A Walk In The Woods, Blink, Teacher Man, The Joy of Lex, The Story of English, all books by Woody Allen, lots by Ray Bradbury and Stephen King, Bloom County comics, Oh My Stars, Charlotte's Web.
Heroes:
My husband Alan, my brother David, my father Marvin.I support musicians whose talents are inversely proportional to their commercial success as a result of those talents. See most of my Top Friends, and most of my other ones.Great music-makers are heroes to me.
