Writing, Reading, Playing Guitar, Live Music, Roadtrips, Music Festivals, Travel, Ice Skating, Redwings Hockey (sorry blackhawks),Eating, Doin' It(with the right person)Playing Board Games (Scrabble Champions Unite), Widdling Wooden Statues, Wearing Sunglasses At Night, Films and Film Festivals, Diversity, Making Chorizo and Eggs, Playing the Triangle and Recorder in my buddy's air band, spreading malicious gossip about people (sike!), drinking my troubles away at the local 42nd street Tavern (best bar on earth) climbing the alps, dating the entire british royal army, secretly eating a container of Ben and Jerrys and Publically Puking it up, Talking to every stranger in plain view, not paying bills so that the bill collectors call my home, cell and work phone number...thats not embarassing AT all, yeah I mean I have plenty more but are you even really reading this far? If so inquire and I'll fess up to all of the other insane interests I hold.
Again, there never seems to be enough room. I'll start with the obvious...Ghandi, Jesus, Corey Haim and Frank Zappa. Hmm just about any dead rock star with Jim Morrison being on the top of the list. Lester Bangs, Hunter S. Thompson, the guy that played the infamous Hunter S. Thompson (Johnny Depp). The guy who invented the no. 2 pencil, Gael Garcia Bernal and any other genius I haven't mentioned. Yeah actually I want to meet everybody...because honestly doesn't everyone have a chance to just "wow" you? OK so maybe not but they certainly all have stories!
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All bands Classic Rock, most JamBands and anything that is NOT gangsta' rap or country (although Johnny Cash,Gram Parsons and those folks dont count as garbage; just the new country like Kenny Chesney..that's HORRIBLE). Some Favorite Artists: Black Crowes, Van Morrison, Jeff Buckley, Stevie Wonder, Doors, Grateful Dead,Led Zeppelin, Floyd, Nick Drake, Ryan Adams, Gov't. Mule, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Hendrix, Steely Dan, Dave Matthews Band, Arlo Guthrie, John Prine, Damien Rice, Ray Lamontagne, Smashing Pumpkins,Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Tenacious D, Black Flag, AC/DC, Danzig, Son Volt, Elvis Costello, Santana,Elton John, Blues Traveler,Buddy Guy, Lynard Skynard, Allman Brothers, MC5, Common, CSNY, Jack Johnson, Ms. Ella Fitzgerald, Tift Merritt, The Specials, T.Rex, Ben Harper, The Ramones, Frank Zappa, Stones, Wilco, Whiskeytown, Edith Piaf,and blah blah blah...you get the point. Local Bands: Silenced, Biscuit and Gravy, Thunderlip, Doly Toro, Yo Mamas Big Fat Booty Band, White Tiger and A Bed of Roses. My CD player is now spitting out tunes from: Bob Dylan-Blonde on Blonde
A ton of these too: Grand Theft Parsons, Valentin, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Science of Sleep,Fear and Loathing, Way of the Gun, Pool Hall Junkies, Clerks,Scotland Pa.,Requiem for a Dream, The King, Milwaukee Minnesota, Factotum, Last Kiss,Valley Girl, Wonderboys,Wonderland, Napoleon Dynamyte, United States of Leland, Dead Man, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, Fay Grim, Black Snake Moan, Keeping Mum, Factory Girl,Weatherman, The Maltese Falcon, Almost Famous, Eraserhead, Scorpio Rising, Le Sang d'un Poete, Pull My Daisy, Meshes of the Afternoon, Man Bites Dog, A Ma Soeur, SitCom, Love Song For Bobby Long, License to Drive, Dream a Little Dream, The Lost Boys, Interview with a Vampire, Neverending Story, Alfie, Closer,The Squid and the Whale,Seven,Pink Floyd:Live at Pompeii, Amadeus, Spinal Tap, Festival Express, Dazed and Confused, Ed Wood, Big Fish(I love Burton). Some John Waters films...lots of Woody Allen stuff and anything by Kubrick or the brothers Coen(Fargo). Many Many foreign and indie films (learn to embrace subtitles!) I really dig the french new wave and Goddard as well as films by Ingmar Bergman. I'll add more as I think of them.
I currently am not all that enthused with TV. Reality shows suck but i will say when they rerun the Wonder Years..I'm all about it. Other than that... what is there to watch besdies FOX's kick ass Sunday cartoon fest and That 70's Show? If we're talking old school: Greatest American Hero, Roseanne, Mr. Belvedere, Perfect Strangers, Moonlighting, Cheers, gosh where did TV go wrong in this generation? I have yet to figure out where the good shows reside...possibly on cable...but who's got money for that??? Not this girl. Update: I now watch House religiously as well as Nightline, Dateline..damn its a fineline...still despise most of what they throw at me though.
The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, Angels Dance and Angels Die :A biography of Jim Morrison and Pamela Coursin. Anything by the Marquis de Sade, I dig Aldous Huxley, On The Road and The Dharma Bums by the great Jack Kerouac. Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Rumi and other poets. I love reading the insane ramblings of the lyrical and genius Hunter S. Thompson. Also compelled by the Onion newspaper and the books that chronicle the Adnauseum. Any biography of almost any rock icon or lesser known musician...they all deserve some lovins. Honestly I'm a book junkie...it's quite possible I'll fill this box up as soon as I can think of all the books I can remember reading...only 26 and the memory is already gone...guess I'll just reread the books in my closet and let you know what I think... What I'm into now: Jack Kerouac:Satori In Paris. Favorite quote from the last chapter read: "My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love love."
No idols or anything but I do truly believe that musicians are heroes of some sort even if they do tend to be pompous, overbearing egos on sticks. Scratch that... simply the man who invented the guitar, he's a hero and those that were lucky enough to be able to play, well...they owe it all to him.