→ Music
→ Live music at both clubs and theaters
→ Science and technology
→ History
→ Nature
→ Cars
→ Woodworking
→ Cooking
→ Crosswords (esp. NY Times)
Tina Fey (or someone very similar). A wit like a scalpel.
But then again one shouldn't be TOO picky.
I know they're somewhere out ↓ here ↓
World Map morphs to Weather Map morphs to Weather Forecaster
Almost anything, including symphony and opera, but excluding hip-hop and rap.
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∫ Featured Knoxville artist:
Taylor Brown
[ taylorandcompany ]
Trag'dy
My Pic at PresPub 2008May21
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Peter Rowan
The Free Mexican Airforce
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∫ Favorite individual I've seen:
Ana Popovic
Love Me Again
Sittin' On Top Of The World
Fool Proof
My Pic at Shed 2007Sep28
(Her guitar ain't decoration!)
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∫ Favorite individual album:
Tom Jans (d.1984) - Eyes Of An Only Child
Out Of Hand
Lonesome Way Back When
Pic from Dark Blonde album
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∫ Favorite group I've seen:
String Cheese Incident
Outside and Inside
Joyful Sound
Search
Pic from SCI site
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∫ Favorite group album:
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (I'll go with the masses on this one.)
Time
Money
Eclipse
CD album
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∫ Favorite musical:
Chicago (also Walk The Line but it's more a movie with a great soundtrack)
Overture & All That Jazz
Cell Block Tango
CD soundtrack
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∫ Favorite symphony composer:
Gustav Mahler
Symphony 1 Part 4
Symphony 3 Part 1
Pic from Google images
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∫ Favorite opera:
Don Giovanni (by WAM)
Overture K527
Commendatore Scene
Pic from San Francisco Opera
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Favorite venues and clubs (in order):
♣ Bijou
♣ Shed
♣ Tennessee
♣ Valarium
♣ Barleys
♣ Brackins
From 12 various sources I generated my own list of the all-time greatest movies (about 1565 of them) and have gradually been working down the list and watching each when and where I can find it (about 180 so far).
By my analysis, the top 6 are:
♦ Schindler's List @ 10 *
♦ Goodfellas @ 10 *
♦ Citizen Kane @ 9 *
♦ The Godfather @ 9 *
♦ Raging Bull @ 9 *
♦ Unforgiven @ 9 *
If you want this list, just ask. It's Excel and I'll post it on a public file server.
One of my favorites, Chicago, is a bit farther down @ 2 *.
Next:
♦ Babel @ ? *
♦ Casino Royale @ ? *
Recent:
♦ Apocalypto @ ? * (trite, gory, violent)
♦ Marie Antoinette @ ? * (visual treat, good music)
♦ Flags Of Our Fathers @ ? * (it and its cousin are both excellent)
♦ To Kill A Mockingbird @ 5 * (great classic)
♦ Sideways @ 5 * (not 5 * imho)
♦ The Good Shepard @ ? * (pretty good, if you don't mind becoming paranoid afterwards)
♦ Thirteen Days @ 0 * (good)
♦ Cold Mountain @ ? * (very good)
♦ Passion of Ayn Rand @ 0 * (too psycho{logical} for me)
♦ Shakespeare In Love @ 3 * (great!)
Radio:
¥ WUOT
¥ WDVX
¥ WFIV (esp. Todd on Fri and Russell on Sun)
Television:
All I have is over-the-air HDTV. Favorites are:
¥ PBS
¥ PBR & Pittsburgh Steelers
¥ My Name Is Earl
¥ Jay Leno, and I don't want to see him retire; Conan is no Jay.
• History
• Philosophy
• Science and technology
• Cosmology (Not to be confused with cosmetology; I don't go that way.)
Presently reading:
• "A View From The Center Of The Universe"
• the novel "Suttree"
• "The Pythagorean Theorem - A 4000-Year History"
♥ Ancient Greeks (It's amazing how much they knew. The geometric proof of the right triangle a2+b2=c2 blew me away!)
♥ Isaac Newton (Even more amazing what he thought up.)
♥ W. A. Mozart (A musical genius-plus.)
♥ Tom Petty (An under-rated, under-appreciated consistently HQ writer, composer, musician, singer.)