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About Me

Canadian preacher's kid swimming with sharks in LA. Check out www.gregwells.net for all the narcissistic detail, and click on the red bird until it disappears. And now for something completely different (just completed a five week run at #1 in the UK), Mika's "Grace Kelly":..

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Art Tatum

Music:

Bach, Debussy, Art Tatum, Count Basie Orchestra, Joni Mitchell, Lenny Breau, Henryk Gorecki, Toru Takemitsu, Igor Stravinsky, Charlie Parker, Paul Chambers, Bill Evans, Dr. L Subramaniam, Wes Montgomery, Wynton Kelly, Miles, Monk, Ella, Nina, Billy, Louis, Death Cab for Cutie... it's a long list.

Movies:

Little Miss Sunshine, Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, The Shining, Cinema Paradiso, Salaam Bombay!, Latcho Drom

Television:

Losing mind waiting for the new "Curb Your Enthusiasm" episodes.

Books:

Stravinsky's "The Poetics of Music", Gibran's "The Prophet", Alan Watts' "The Book", Derek McCormack's "Dark Rides", Michael Ondaatje's "Coming Through Slaughter", Kundera's "Life is Elsewhere"

Heroes:

Louise my lovely wife and our incredible kids, my parents, Socrates, first piano teacher Marjorie Engels, and Steve Austin vs. Sasquatch:

My Blog

We know a place no spaceships go

Make it stop! I can't stop listening to (or thinking about) the new Arcade Fire song "No Cars Go".
Posted by Greg Wells on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:24:00 PST

A History of the Middle East

Unbelievably fascinating read written by Peter Mansfield.... just picked it up yesterday... We basically all come from there. We basically should all read it. I have spoken.
Posted by Greg Wells on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:29:00 PST

Joni Mitchell

Does it get any better? There should be statues of Joni in public parks."Amelia"I was driving across the burning desertWhen I spotted six jet planesLeaving six white vapor trails across the bleak ter...
Posted by Greg Wells on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:12:00 PST

Arif Mardin

Arif Mardin just passed away yesteday in NY. There was no more brilliantly talented record producer, composer and arranger than this man. Please check this out:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/sto...
Posted by Greg Wells on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:57:00 PST