Old Manual Typewriters. Baseball (almost any team). Stores selling old records and books. Backpacking. Catching fish but throwing them back. Meteor Showers and Astronomy.
I met Joe Dimaggio once, before he died. In a restaurant in New York. Then, the both of us met Gina Lollabrigida at the same time. How's that for a magic night? I met Brian Mulroney, the former Prime Minister of Canada, wandering around an Island in Greece. How often does that happen? I met one of the members of the band Locksley at a benefit for the Shakespeare Festival /L.A. earlier this week. Locksley is on my iTunes , too, but they didn't come up on the Random Play. I'd like to meet all those folks again.
Ten selections from Random on my iPod:
1. Iris Dement
2. Cal Tjader
3. Suzy Bogguss
4. Julie London
5. Emmylou Harris
6. Bobby Darin
7. Otis Redding
8. The Beatles
9. The Go-Go's
10. Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash
The Lives of Others. The Films of Paul Greengrass. Fargo. Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind. 2001:A Space Odyssey. Elephant by Gus van Sant. Almost any Documentary: Gunnar Palace. Darby O'Gill and the Little People (with Sean Connery. No lie).
I watch as little television as possible. Some Sports. Frontline. The Late Show starring David Letterman. Fairly Odd Parents
Anything by Chiam Potok and Maeve Binchy. Almost all Non-Fiction
Medics. EMT's. Jason Robards. Jacques Cousteau.