Music (esp live), family and friends, watching and following sports (baseball, basketball, football...Cal Bears, Giants, Warriors, Raiders), activism
you! ppl that want to go out to live music, ppl that are cool and might have something new and different to tell me about. bands and artists (songwriters) that want to play in the bay area that i maybe can help. stevie wonder. sonny rollins. ani difranco. patty smith. dolly parton. the dalai lama. pretty much anyone if they are not f**kwads that are full of themselves (come on you've met some of them)
Somehow all of this got deleted! I will add more later. The Band, Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Townes Van Zandt, The Meters, Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder, Rolling Stones, Gram Parsons (The Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, etc), Zappa!, Sun Ra, Art Ensemble of Chicago!, The Kinks, CSN, CSNY but esp Neil Young!, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Tom Russell, Patty Griffin, Eliza Gilkyson, Audrey Auld Mezera, Adam Theis and the whole Jazz Mafia gang, Vinyl, Noe Venable, JB and all that he grooved with...Maceo! Mr Fred Wesley! The good ole Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, early Steve Miller, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Wilco,Derek Trucks and his band, his wife Susan Tedeschi (kicks ass!), Refugee Allstars of Sierra Leone, Fela Kuti!!!, Tinariwen, Amadou & Miriam, New Monsoon, Hot Buttered Rum, ALO and Tea Leaf Green, Mushroom! and Pat Thomas, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Sara Lee Guthrie and Jimmy Irion, The Jayhawks, Whiskeytown, Old 97s, Ryan Adams, Herbie Hancock, Stefon Harris, Patricia Barber, Josh Redman, Dave Ellis, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Brubeck ... The Mail is Here
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Apocalypse Now, Godfather I & II,
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (http://www.anthonybourdain.com/) - I love this show. I like eating but this is not just about food, Bourdain is hilarious and I love every episode I've seen, thanks to my wife, Linda, for turning me on to this Food network show that is about culture, food, drink, travel etc. Pimp My Ride (www.pimpmyride.com & www.xzibit.net) - mostly because I love Xzibit (thanks to my daughters Claire & Martine for turning me on to this one)
Movies (esp. older ones), Austin City Limits. sometimes Letterman. Leno if someone good is on. Old Saturday Night Live. Basketball esp. college. Giants baseball. The Sopranos. The Wire. Desperate Housewives (but mostly only Gabrielle and Susan!) back in the day: Batman, The Monkees. Green Hornet! Speed Racer. Jonny Quest. also I enjoy The Simpsons, Futurama and Adult Swim (esp Aqua Teen Hunger Force)how can you NOT love a cartoon with an order of fries and a milkshake as characters. how stoned were these people? http://www.adultswim.com/shows/athf/
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Jack Kerouac - On the Road, Dharma Bums, Dr Sax, others. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr - Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse Five, others. Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. William Faulkner, F Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby), Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe - Electric Cool Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff and others. Dalia Lama. I used to read a lot of sci-fi...Heinlein, Roger Zelazny, etc. Guilty pleasure was once Robert B. Parker's Spenser series. I also like books on rock & roll, biographies, essays etc. Magazines: No Depression, Paste, Relix, Mojo when I can get it.
Dr Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Dalai Lama, Bob Marley, Jerry Garcia, Gram Parsons, Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Bono, Lou Brock, Bob Gibson, Rickey Henderson, Jerry Rice, many others.