My Family, My Friends, I love music, concerts, music festivals, rothbury music festival, bonnaroo, road trips, camping, hiking, tibbs drive-in, frisbee golf, I like to cook and make sweet things, I like going to the lake, the beach, the zoo, The Redwoods, Stouts Grove Road, Oregon, Northern California, Humboldt, Mill Valley, Sebastapol & all points in between, Ireland, England, Wales, Poland, Scotland, anything celtic or welsh, museums, comedy clubs, amusement parks, My acoustic guitar and mandolin, I'm into sports, going to games, The Colts, Red Sox, Cubs, Trailblazers, Pacers, I.U. Basketball, I'm into all kinds of things and always wanting to see or do something new.
Anybody. Other than that I would also like to talk to people from places that I've lived before like Bloomington, Indianapolis, Nashville, Northern California, Oregon and Connecticut. People that live in Boston Mass. and anywhere else in New England. I miss all of those places and they were all great places to live. Boston is next on the list.
My favorite band will always be The Grateful Dead but I listen to all kinds of music. Some of my favorite bands are : Aerosmith - The Allman Brothers - Tori Amos - A Perfect Circle - The Band - Barenaked Ladies - The Beatles - Beck - Blind Faith - Blues Traveler - James Blunt - Robert Bradleys Blackwater Surprise - James Brown - Junior Brown - Jackson Browne - Jeff Buckley - Jimmy Buffett - Sam Bush - J.J. Cale - George Carlin - Johhny Cash (While most musicians were playing in bars Johhny Cash was playing behind them) - Harry Chapin - Tracy Chapman - Ray Charles - Eric Clapton - Jimmy Cliff - Patsy Cline - Bruce Cockburn - Albert Collins - Elvis Costello - Sheryl Crow - Counting Crows - Country Joe - Robert Cray - Cream - Credence Clearwater Revival - CSNY - The Cure - Cypress Hill - Miles Davis - The Dead(R.I.P.) - Iris DeMent - Derek and The Dominos - Ani DiFranco - Dixie Chicks - The Doors - Dr. Dre - Dr. John - Dresden Dolls - Chris Duarte - Bob Dylan - The Eagles - Steve Earle - E.L.O. - Elvis - Eminem - Alejandro Escoveda - Bela Fleck and The Flecktones - Fleetwood Mac - Flogging Molly - Ben Folds - Foo Fighters - Robben Ford - Aretha Franklin - Freakwater - The Fugees - Jerry Garcia - Marvin Gaye - G. Love and The Special Sauce - Gone Daddy Finch - Gov't Mule - The Grateful Dead - Wavy Gravy - Green Day - David Grisman - Guster - Woody Guthrie - Buddy Guy - Tim Hardin - Ben Harper - Mickey Hart And Bill Kreutzman The Rhythym Devils - Richie Havens - Warren Haynes - Jimi Hendrix - John Hiatt - Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks - Lauryn Hill - The Hippies - Bruce Hornsby - Robert Hunter - Iron Maiden - Jewel - Billy Joel - Jack Johnson - Robert Johnson - Janis Joplin - Keb Mo - Alicia Keys - B.B. King - Carole King - Freddie King - Leo Kottke - Alison Krauss and Union Station - Lenny Kravitz - Led Zeppelin - John Lennon - Little Feat - Live - Los Lobos - Los Lonely Boys - Louis C.K. - Ludacris - Lonnie Mack - Taj Mahal - Aimee Mann - Bob Marley and The Wailers - Dave Matthews Band - The Mavericks - Mac McAnally - Del McCoury Band - Sarah McLachlan - Melody - Natalie Merchant - Metallica - The Meters - Method Man - Steve Miller - Joni Mitchell - Modest Mouse - Moe - The Moody Blues - Van Morrison - Mos Def - Mr. Big - Mystikal - Nas - Willie Nelson - The Neville Brothers - Nine Inch Nails - Nirvana - North Mississippi All Stars - NRBQ - Old And In The Way - Roy Orbison - Outkast - Ozric Tentacles - Ozzy Osbourne - Parliament Funkadelic - Gram Parsons - Particle - Pearl Jam - The Persuasions - Tom Petty - Phil Lesh and Friends - Utah Phillips - Pink Floyd - POE - John Prine - Public Enemy - Q Tip - Queen - Radiohead - Rage Against The Machine - Railroad Earth - Bonnie Raitt - Ramones - Robert Randolph and The Family Band - Ratdog - Otis Redding - rhcp - Redman - Lou Reed - R.E.M. - The Rolling Stones - Peter Rowan - Doug Sahm - Sam and Dave - Santana - Bob Seger - Paul Simon - Sleater Kinney - Smashing Pumpkins - Snoop Dogg - Sol Survivors - Son Volt - Soundgarden - Bruce Springsteen - Steely Dan - Cat Stevens - S.C.I. - The Strokes - The Subdudes - Sublime - Sun Ra - System Of A Down - 10,000 Maniacs - Talking Heads - James Taylor - They Might Be Giants - Richard Thompson - Tool - Toots and The Maytals - Peter Tosh - The Toyes - Traffic - The Traveling Wilburys - The Derek Trucks Band - U2 - Umphreys McGee - Uncle Tupelo - Townes Van Zandt - Stevie Ray Vaughn - Violent Femmes - Tom Waits - Muddy Waters - Doc Watson - Merle Watson - Ween - Bob Weir - Gillian Welch - The White Stripes - Wilco - Hank Williams - Keller Williams - Lucinda Williams - BILL WILSON, a Bloomington based musician R.I.P. - Johhny Winter - Stevie Wonder - Wu Tang Clan - Wyclef Jean - Yes - Yonder Mountain String Band - Neil Young - Warren Zevon, too many to list
Kevin Smith is one of my favorite screenwriters. Some of my favorite movies are Harold and Maude, Now You Know, Clerks, Clerks 2, No Country For Old Men, Into The Wild, Yellow Submarine, Hoosiers, The Heartbreak Kid, The Illusionist, The Departed, The Wedding Singer, Signs, Happy Gilmore, Shawshank Redemption, Tommy Boy, The Descent, The Mirror Mask, Hot Rod, Strange Wilderness, Field of Dreams, Anything with Jack Black or Will Ferrell or Will Arnett, Napoleon Dynamite, Papillon, Schindlers List, Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, Me Myself and Irene, Stand By Me, I Love You To Death, Anchorman, Better Off Dead, High Fidelity, Talladega Nights, Blades Of Glory, Sideways, Dumb and Dumber, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Walk The Line, There's Something About Mary, The Happening, Superbad,
Music Programs, The Daily Show, Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmare's, Top Chef, Austin City Limits, Saturday Night Live, Family Guy, Man vs Wild, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Mythbusters, The Colbert Report,
Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut are my favorites and probably always will be, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, For One More Day, Tuesdays With Morrie and most of Mitch Alboms books. Angelas Ashes and most anything by Frank McCourt, Searching For The Sound by Phil Lesh, Poetry(many different styles and forms), Poetry : A Compilation by J.A. Savino, The Secret World Of Trees, Something Good For A Change or Random Notes On Peace Thru Living by Hugh Romney, Robert Frost, Henry Miller, John Irving, Al Franken, Tom Wolfe, Ken Kesey, Noam Chomsky, etc...
My Grandparents, Volunteers, SEVA Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, Locks of Love, Reporters Without Borders, Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King Jr., Hugh Romney - Wavy Gravy, Teachers, Educators, Bill Hicks, Jerry Garcia,