Music, music, music - Listening, collecting, and researching (working to fill in the holes in my awareness of rock music history), and playing lead guitar in a covers band ( Misconduct ) while diligently striving to avoid learning to read music or remember the names of scales, notes, and chords. My bandmates greatly appreciate this when trying to communicate - "just do THIS," or "just put your fingers THERE!"
Ice Hockey (playing, managing an adult League team ( Casa Dominick's - Summer League Champions 7 out of the last 8 years - woo-hoo!! ) plus following the Detroit Red Wings)
Star Wars (the collecting has tapered off by financial and spatial necessity but the "I should really be thinking about more important life issues but I'm going to think about Star Wars instead" mania still occasionally returns)
LEGO (continual attempt to prove that there is no such thing as "too much LEGO" in the accumulation of pieces in my 22 year pursuit of the perfect Millennium Falcon Custom )My Brickshelf Page
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Michael Stipe
Edward Van Halen
Tori Amos
Thom Hartmann
David Gilmour
Patti Smith
Thom Yorke
Scotty Bowman
Bono
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls)
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Myspace Music Codes - Myspace Mp3 Players
Duran Duran
The Pink Floyd
R.E.M.
Radiohead
Indigo Girls
Van Halen
Tori Amos
U2
Patti Smith
The Beatles
The Doors
10,000 Maniacs
Faith No More
Lucinda Williams
Sponge
Bjork
Simple Minds
Alice In Chains
James
Sarah McLachlan
Jimi Hendrix
Mazzy Star
The Breeders
Alanis Morrisette
Stone Temple Pilots
INXS
Black Sabbath
The Clash
Enya
Blur
Cyndi Lauper
The Killers
World Party
Letters To Cleo
Bob Dylan
Midnight Oil
Ani DiFranco
The Verve
Modest Mouse
Jewel
Billy Idol
Guns N' Roses (Before Axl destroyed them)
The White Stripes
Sheryl Crow
The Who
Pearl Jam
Coldplay
Talking Heads
B-52s
Garbage
John Williams Film Scores
Various Classical
GUITAR FAVORITES/INFLUENCES:
Edward Van Halen
David Gilmour
The Edge
Peter Buck
Andy Taylor
Johhny Greenwood
Amy Ray/Emily Saliers
Jerry Cantrell
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Robbie Kreiger
Jimi Hendrix
Warren Cuccurulo
Star Wars (prefer classic trilogy but Ep. III was good)
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Superman I and II
Terminator II
When Harry Met Sally
Witness
Field of Dreams
The Silence of the Lambs
E.T.
Blade Runner
The Ref (if you don't know about this movie, find out.
Kevin Spacey, Judy Davis and Denis Leary's black comedy will make you laugh until it hurts - and no, it's not a sports movie)
Ghostbusters
Poltergeist
This is Spinal Tap
Groundhog Day
Alien, Aliens, Alien III
Starman
Silverado
The Natural
Spaceballs
Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
A Room With a View
1. Anything on VH1 Classic
2. Detroit Red Wings games
Other than that, pretty much nothing - since the glory days of The X-files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer I'm just not compelled by much - though South Park never gets turned off if I happen to come across it.
We need MTV (aside from getting back to actually playing some music videos once in a while) to bring back Beavis and Butthead (hard to believe a show about two idiots could be so subversively intelligent) and Jackass!!!
Being a bit of a slow reader and somewhat ADHD-esque, I stick mostly to music "documentary" style books so I can stay interested (I've got 2 or 3 that I'm "in the middle of" - and have been for months, including U2 by U2 which is fantastically good).Exit Music: The Radiohead Story The Making of Star Wars Zen Guitar (Philip Toshio Sudo) Zen Sex (Philip Toshio Sudo) Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class (Thom Hartmann) Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights (Thom Hartmann)
MIKE MALLOY (Former Air America late-night host who was "removed" for being too incendiary - basically speaking truth to power uncompromisingly, being unable to suffer fools, and refusing to play by the rules of the "game")
STEVE YZERMAN
MICHAEL STIPE
THOM HARTMANN
EDWARD VAN HALEN
DAVID GILMOUR
THOM YORKE
BONO
PATTI SMITH
RANDI RHODES (the Radio host, not the guitar player, though he was pretty damn good too)
JOE STRUMMER
JOHN LENNON
AMY RAY
HAN SOLO