Music of any kind, both playing it and listening to it; baseball of any kind, both playing it and spectating it; art, only the graphic and illustration kind, not the fartsy kind; my son Calvin (named after the comic strip, not the president or the baseball player).
I'd like to meet:
Oh, and I definitely have to meet THIS guy:
Music:
You can listen to my personal Yahoo Music station here .
In alphabetical order (all-time faves in All-Caps): AD/DC, Badfinger , Beatles, BIG STAR , The Black Keys , James Brown, The Byrds , CHEAP TRICK , MILES DAVIS, The Donnas , Dream Syndicate, Dumptruck , Elastica, , Farrah , FLEETWOOD MAC, FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE , Peter Gabriel, Guided By Voices, The High Dials , Robyn Hitchcock, THE JAM, JET, The Kinks, Kiss (I liked 'em when I was 10, so it's purely for nostalgic value), The Knack, Kruder and Dorfmeister, LED ZEPPELIN, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Love Nut, LUNA, Aimee Mann , Material Issue, Natalie Merchant, Steve Miller Band (guilty pleasure), Lee Morgan, Myracle Brah, Oasis, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, THE PIXIES, PORTASTATIC , The Posies , The Primary 5, PRINCE, Queen (another guilty pleasure), r.e.m., THE REPLACEMENTS, Jonathan Richman, The Rolling Stones, The Rooks, Rush (All right! So I have a lot of guilty pleasures!), THE SHAZAM , Silver Sun , SLOAN , The Smithereens, The Soft Boys, SPOON , Bruce Springsteen, Squeeze, The Stone Roses, The Strokes, Sugar, Supergrass, Sweet (still more guilty pleasure), MATTHEW SWEET , T REX, TEENAGE FANCLUB , TELEVISION , THELONIUS MONK, Tosca , TSAR , u2, Velvet Crush , VELVET UNDERGROUND, TOM VERLAINE, TOM WAITS, Waxwings, Paul Weller, THE WHO, Neil Young.
Movies:
Anything Cohen Brothers; film noir; giant monsters smashing cities; good westerns; good or bad Kung Fu; Pixar.
Favorites (in no particular order): The Incredibles; The Big Lebowski; The Third Man; Sudden Fear; Shaolin Soccer; Star Wars (it's NOT called "A New Hope"!); A Fistful of Dollars. And too many others to mention....
Television:
Yeah, I know I'm a big geek for loving Avatar, but have you seen it???!!!!
Homicide: Life on the Street. Buffy. Baseball. I am ashamed to say that I can quote extensively from old Simpsons and Seinfeld episodes. Black Adder - the best insults anywhere. Oh, and Mary Tyler Moore. I'm in love with her. I can't help it.
Books:
I'll read just about anything. I like anything that's funny, and I love crime fiction. Also some true crime, but it makes me feel guilty that I'm being entertained by someone else's pain.
Some favorites are David Sedaris; "Confederacy of Dunces"; Ray Bradbury; Dashiell Hammett; Raymond Chandler; Ross Macdonald; Elmore Leonard.
Heroes:
Muhammed Ali, Jackie Robinson, Bill Wilson, and anyone else who was willing to risk their own status quo for the benefit of a higher good.
