I play electric & acoustic guitars for 'Suicidal Poets'.
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Music(playing, listening, writing, attending concerts & shows). Shooting pool & hanging out with good friends. Sports...Hockey- RANGERS, Baseball- METS, Basketball- Nets, Football- All NY teams are cool, just get me in that weekly pool! I'm into astronomy also. Viewing the stars is great upstate. Not so in NYC, although it does have the Hayden Planetarium.
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Of course, SUICIDAL POETS come first. But I've always been a big fan of the blues, and blues rock. It all starts with Robert Johnson. I also love the WHO, the STONES, and LED ZEPPELIN. Gotta have my POGUES too!! Then there's Sonny Landreth-greatest slide player on the planet! I've been listening to a lot of alt-country lately also. I'm a big Lucinda Williams fan. Oh yeah..you can never go wrong with some Beatles, the Band...or Radiohead!! Some other performers I can't do without, in no particular order: Bob Marley, Hot Tuna/Jorma Kaukonen, Stray Cats, Mars Volta, T.Rex, The Specials, Warren Zevon, X/Knitters/John Doe, Jonny Lang, Johnny Cash, Elvis Costello, Alejandro Escovedo, Televison, Willie Nelson, Joe Jackson, Muddy Waters, Parliment Funkadelic, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Gram Parsons, Queen, The Faces, Rory Gallagher........
I'm quite old-fashioned when it comes to movies. Guess I grew up watching all those late-night movies on tv...before there were 500 channels..and it stuck. Don't get me wrong, I still go to the movies. But I'm not that big on the $200 milliion blockbuster. A few of my all-time favorites are: 'To Kill A Mockingbird'(..1), The Thin Man, Saving Private Ryan, North By Northwest, Taxi Driver. Comedies like: Young Frankenstein, My Man Godfrey, and ALL the Marx Brothers. My favorite music-themed films are: A Hard Day's Night, The Last Waltz, & School Of Rock.
I watch a lot of sports & news on TV. Not really into the 'prime time' schedule. Two shows I watch faithfully are 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'(i've gone to 6 studio tapings), and 'The Colbert Report'(just went to a taping july 26...first row!!) The one new show I've become a fan of is 'The Riches', starring Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver. Weird show! Looking forward to the return of 'Rescue Me'in the summer. The whole cast is fantastic, and I've always been a Dennis Leary fan. 'Monk' is cool too...just wish it was a little easier to find, and more were produced. Like 'Everybody Hates Chris', the Chris Rock-produced comedy about his childhood growing up in Brooklyn, as well. I also really enjoy 'Futurama' & 'The Simpsons'. I'm a big fan of Britcoms. Blackadder(..1), Monty Python's Flying Circus, Keeping Up Appearances, Fawlty Towers, Bean, and my new/old fav 'The Young Ones'. Right now none of the Britcoms are airing on my cable service. Damn you, Time-Warner...but Netflix has been a godsend! And man, I miss MST 3000. Especially the ones with Joel. Was in the fan club back in the day. For some reason I also love 'Green Acres'. It's like an acid trip, I think!! Last, but not least, is the 'Weather Channel'. Not very rock&roll, but hell, I spend part of my time in upstate New York....just the occasional snowfall to check on!!
My latest is 'Escaping The Delta: Robert Johnson And The Invention Of The Blues' by Elijah Wald. Just finished reading 'Assasination Vacation' by Sarah Vowell. I like all her work. Before that it was 'Bushworld' by Maureen Dowd, and 'America: The Book' by Jon Stewart. Most of the stuff I read is non-fiction. A lot of history. Plenty of biographies. And I still read the newspaper every day.
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I really think the word 'hero' is very over-used and diminished today. Anyone who saves a cat out of a tree is a hero on the 6 o'clock news. Strictly musically speaking, I admire people like the following: John Lennon & Paul McCartney, Chuck Berry, Robert Johnson, Pete Townshend, and Jimi Hendrix. They made tremendous contributions to the music I love.