Sleep, Joe's Pizza on Carmine St., the french pastry shop at 10th & Greenwich, the Giants, Mets and Islanders, the 2 for $10 deal on Marlboro Mediums at Duane Reade, 60s assassination and 9/11 conspiracy theories, Vintage Strats, Vox amps, when and if Lola Pocchini needs to have a "pizzong," and Teddy's Gorgeous B. DISINTERESTS: Idiot contest and reality shows, snarky, negative people, Scientology and Scientologists, The Spice Girls, Madonna, Gene Simmons.
I'd like to meet:
John Lennon, George Harrison, Elvis, Andy Warhol, William Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, Hal Ashby, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Robert Kennedy and Syd Barrett, if they were still here. Paul McCartney, Martin Scorsese, Ted Kennedy, Yusuf Islam, David Lynch, Lou Reed, John Patrick Shanley, Tom Tomorrow, Eddie Izzard, Jim Carroll, Richard Price, Misty Mundae, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Pynchon, Gore Vidal, Red Grooms, Thane Eugene Cesar, Jesse Ventura, Peter Gabriel, Bruce Robinson, Presuming Ed and Jake the Poacher.
WHO I'VE ENJOYED MEETING: Mata Amritanandamayi and Swami Amritaswarupananda, Ridley Scott, Harrison Ford, Raul Julia, Ram Dass, Timothy Leary, Grace Slick, Count Basie, Eckhart Tolle, Clint Eastwood, Klaus-Maria Brandauer, Mary Steenbergen, T.C. Boyle, Tim Finn, Peter Jenner, Robyn Hitchcock, Ricki Lee Jones, Rufus Wainwright, Elliott Smith, Roy Harper, Mike Meyers, Paul Stanley, Sting, and Hubert Selby Jr.
Music:
Beatles, Bowie, Lou Reed, Frank Black, The Real People, Flamin' Ohs, Yes (when they still had hair), Nick Drake, Syd Barrett, early Bee Gees, early Kinks, early Genesis, early Alice Cooper, Todd, John Cale, Spirit (with Randy California), Love (with Arthur Lee), Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd bootlegs, old WLIR pre-FM live tapes, Mike Millard auds, Dr. Ebbetts needle-drops, Lindsey Buckingham "Gift of Screws," Jeff Lynne "Armchair Theatre," Marvin Gaye "What's Going On?" (the original Detroit mix), Talking Heads "Fear of Music" and the coked-up one after that, the mono mixes of Revolver, Sgt. Pepper and The White Album, Robin Trower with James Dewar on vocals, Curtis Mayfield, Cat Stevens, Blind Faith, The Move, The Negro Problem, Ron Sexsmith, Josh Clayton Felt, Antony & the Johnsons, The Cowsills, The Stooges, The Ramones.
Movies:
Withnail & I, Patton, 2001, Aliens, Lawrence of Arabia, The 39 Steps, Urgh! A Music War, Mullholland Drive, Zardoz, Soylent Green, Putney Swope, Ralph Bakshi's Wizards, Bridge on the River Kwai, Sunset Boulevard, Strangers on a Train, Ride the High Country, Red River, Lifeboat, Foreign Correspondent, Bringing Up Baby, A Face In The Crowd. Stalag 17, Sergeant York, The Third Man, Elmer Gantry, Sullivan's Travels, The Passion of Joan of Arc, City Lights, Duck Soup, Slap Shot, Stranger Than Paradise, The Parallax View, Horror of Dracula, Horror Hotel, The Ninth Gate, Casablanca, Young Frankenstein, The Day of The Jackal, Dead Calm, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, Chinatown, Harry & Tonto, Secret Honor, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, The Lover, Trainspotting, Flirting, Straw Dogs, Carnal Knowledge, Hell in the Pacific, Coming Home, Shampoo, Dr. No, Thunderball, It! The Terror from Beyond Space, When Worlds Collide, Melvin & Howard, Atlantic City, Local Hero, Comfort & Joy, Let Him Have It, Breaker Morant, Before Sunset, Three Days of the Condor, Do The Right Thing, Key Largo, Dog Day Afternoon, The Swimmer, The Roaring Twenties, Night Must Fall, Being There, Burroughs: The Movie, New York Doll, The Complete Beatles, Meet Marlon Brando, Beau Pere, Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August, Revenge of the Pink Panther, Mad Monster Party, Vanishing Point, Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
Television:
"This Old Spouse" -- episode of NYPD Blue from 2000. Excellent show, well written. Several other great scripts, especially one for Six Feet Under called "Shar-Pei Diem," that never saw the light of day.
Books:
Libra by Don DeLillo, The Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle, Far Tortuga by Peter Matthiessen, Days in the Life: Voices from the English Underground, 1961-1971 by Jonathon Green, The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson, Go Dog Go! by P.D. Eastman, Niagara by Teddy Van Shuttleworth
Heroes:
Movies: Martin Scorsese, Hal Ashby, Francis Coppola, Paul Mazursky, Howard Hawks, John Carradine, Preston Sturges, Bernardo Bertolucci, Blake Edwards.
Music: Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Jimmy Page, Kurt Cobain.
Sports: Tommy Agee, Cleon Jones, Seaver, Koosman and Matlack, Sid Fernandez, Mike Bossy, John Mendenhall, Gary Shirk, L.T. and Phil Simms.
Politics: RFK, MLK Jr.
