I'd like to meet:
The Dalai Lama. Ayn Rand.
Robert Deniro. I'm sure it would be a short chat!Not a big talker I gather.
Big time....Herman Leonard. His photographs of the greatest jazz musicians are.......breathtaking.
The dog whisperer, to give me some advice for my fukin' dogs!Pardon the potty mouth (appropriate in this case).
And Ted Bundy.Brilliant psycho!What an interesting conversation of banter that would be.Too bad he's dead!
I am sure that Chikatilo would be a trip too! And........ Maybe someone who
truly, wholeheartedly, does gives a shit!
Music:
Too much to list.In no particular order, except the first one: Billie Holiday,
Nina Simone, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Johnny hartman, John Coltrane, Miles Davis , Robert Johnson, Elmore James, Muddy Waters, Sarah Vaughn, ......... Ska!!
Old school Rockabilly....Eddie Cochran, Carl Perkins, Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, and those who kept it alive... The Blasters, Brian Setzer, The Rev.
Michael Gira in all bands, Jarboe, The CLASH!The Doors, Guru & Winston Marsalis, The pogues, Happy Mondays, Pete Tong, David Bowie, Grace Jones, Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, Bob Marley, Tricky, Ibrahim Ferrer, Cesaria Evora, Omara Portuondo, Cat Power, Julius Papp, Miguel Migs, Andy Caldwell, Felix da HouseCat, Marquess Wyatt, K&D, Everything But the Girl, Portishead, Jimi Hendrix!Soundgarden, Social Distortion, Firewater, Black Sabbath, Ray Charles, Bad Manners, The Specials, Biohazard, BAUHAUS, The Pixies, Old school schiet, Weekend Players, Danzig, Mother Love Bone, Godsmack, Alice in Chains, Beastie Boys, Dead Kennedys, Cro Mags, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Schubert, Bach(Cello), Puccini, Chopin, Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso. Radiohead, Underworld, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Johnny Cash, Marvin Gaye, Lenny Kravitz, Public Enemy!Massive Attack, Tom Waits, Nick Cave! Morphine, The Swans..Bjork, ..David Bowie, Pink Floyd....... And so dear to my heart,
Composers....Ennio Morricone, Angelo Badalamenti, Yann Tersen, Phillip Glass, Gabriel Yared, John Williams, Erik Satie...Javier Navarrete...so many more great ones to list.... Movie orchestration......these composers are immortal in what they do.....they bring life and passion to the movie.
Music is the rite of passage.
Movies:
The Deerhunter.FightClub. Taxi Driver.Enter the Dragon......The Hunger. Indochine. Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,Ghost Dog, Snatch, State of Grace, The Indian Runner, Samurai Fiction, Apocalypse Now, Zatoichi, Reservoir Dogs,...The Godfather I-II, Cinema Paradiso, The Mission, David Lynch....almost all of his movies..... Donny Darko,Dead Man Walking, Token chick flick....An Affair to remember,... the original. The Piano. The Hours,Clay Pigeons. The greatest shroom trip ever......Pink Floyd's " The Wall." A Clockwork Orange,and... The scariest movie as a kid ......The Shining! A stageplay, (turned into a great film) by the great Tennesee Williams, "A streetcar Named Desire".
More to come..........
Television:
Dexter. Weeds. Lol, yep, Jeopardy! Entourage.Actor's Studio. Brotherhood (fukin" micks!) Californication... HBO Boxing............ IFL. Monty Python reruns. Reruns of Dave Chappelle! The Tudors.
Books:
The Great Gatsby,Tender is the Night, Hagakure( The Way of the Samurai), Fountainhead,Atlas Shrugged, The Sun Also Rises.Some Henry Miller.The Art of War.Pride and Predjudice, Edgar Allen Poe ( The Raven), Frederico Garcia Lorca Selected Verses, Tuesday at Morrie's.Angela's Ashes. Shel Silverstein "the Giving tree", Maurice Sendek- Where the wild things are.
Currently reading, Dostoevsky.And Mad Magazine
Heroes:
MLK, Lech Walenski, 9/11 survivors, The school children of Beslan.
The inventor of the vaccuum cleaner. Whoever invented Nature's Miracle spot cleaner. Most importantly, my Uncle,
Steven Glenn Abbott, who gave his life on his second tour in Vietnam.
