Watching my kids express their talents in sports and music..Music, drumming...I play Pearl drums, Vic Firth sticks, Zildjian A Customs and K's with a K/Z hat, Evans heads, have a refinished Ludwig "Club Date" jazz kit from the early 60s..classic rock, big band, bee-bop, Western Swing...Ham radio(WA4AVD), gadgets that draw current and glow, Heil mics, driving long distances alone...
Jack Buck; however, he is deceased...John Ward, Max Roach, Peter Erskine, Steve Smith, Billy Joel, Dave Ramsey, Tony Dungy, Peyton Manning, No politicians... The lady who played Miss Parker on "The Pretender"...The most gentlemanly and down-to-earth performers I have ever met/promoted a show with: Jason Scheff, Tris Imboden and other members of Chicago, Tony Bennett, Lee Greenwood, and Chet Atkins...Would like a one-hour private drum lesson from Danny Seraphine....Have met members of Chicago, my favorite band, on more than one occasion, including being promoter of a Chicago concert in Montgomery AL in 1998 and serving guests at post-concert VIP party in Knoxville in '86, behind the bar with Walt Parazaider, Jim Pankow, and Jason Scheff
Chicago and respective solo efforts of members thereof... Billy Joel... Don Henley... Yes... ELP...California Transit Authority (CTA)...Art Blakey and Jazz Messengers...Elvin Jones...Buddy Rich
2001, Napoleon Dynomite, Dr. Strangelove, FailSafe, Cool Hand Luke, Shawshank, Batman Begins, any Mel Brooks film, the even-numbered Trek flix, Star Wars trilogy, Billy the Kid Meets Dracula, A Boy and His Dog
Deal or No Deal, SportsCenter, any St. Louis Cardinal broadcast, Rachel Ray, the Fruit Cake Lady. TV LAND stuff. Firesign Theatre comedy albums.
Who has time to read? Maybe I need Aderal...or a slap in the head. Ok, Ok...so, I bought a copy of Friedman's "The World is Flat."
My parents, my in-laws, Super Dave, my wife, and children