Music! Movies! Everything! Anyone wanna play chess? ; )
I'd like to meet:
Jack "the man" Nicholson, Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr & Woody Allen. Well as of the Ringo Starr and his All Starr band concert, I did "kinda" meet Ringo Starr. : ) He said "yeah, I see you" to me and I spoke to him from 9 rows back (it was at eye level)! : ) : ) : ) : ) In sign language saying Thank-You but I still got to express my thanks to him. : ) : ) He got the thank you too. He nodded to me right after I did it. : ) Amazing!!! One of the truely greatest moments in my life. : )
Music:
The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Don McLean, The Beastie Boys, The Rolling Stones, George Harrison (everyone should own All Things Must Pass and listen to it in the beginning days of winter), : ) Paul Simon, Sam Cooke........there's just too many. I would feel bad if I left any out. :) Not that anyone that knows me wouldn't know all this but......I'll try. You know what. No. I can't. I'll be here all fucking day if I try to complete this section. I've got better things to do with my time. *8 months later* : ) This is what I'll do for all the curious folk. : ) I'll look up at my stack of cds that I have accumulated in my office and list those. Surprise, surprise, surprise. The first one I see is The Beatles, Ray Charles, Led Zeppelin, John Denver (Poems, Prayers and Promises), The Four Tops, Led Zeppelin again, James Brown, Eminem, The Grateful Dead, Radiohead!, Rage Against the Machine, U2 (everyone on earth should own Rattle and Hum), Fleetwood Mac, Three Dog Night, The Rolling Stones, Steely Dan, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, The Traveling Wilburys, The Yardbirds, Gnarls Barkley, Korn, Dwight Yoakam, Interpol, NIN, Moby, Slayer, Jackson Browne *Let the music keeps our spirits high*, The Kinks, I can't believe I'm going to say it but I like Amy Winehouse : ), again, can't believe it but, I like James Blunt, The White Stripes, Justin Timberlake, The Byrds, Bjork, Don McLean, The zep again, Pantera, Miles Davis & John Coltrane, The Misfits, The Bee Gees, Metallica, Bob Dylan, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Marilyn Manson, Aerosmith, Grease soundtrack LOL don't laugh, Green Day, The Crystal Method, Sam Cooke, Tool, Queen, The Stones again, Simon & Garfunkel, Paul McCartney, The zep again, Stones again, U2, The Smashing Pumpkins, Janis Joplin, Robert Plant, Joan Baez, Jimi Hendrix, Martix Reloaded soundtrack, The Beatles, George Harrison, Barry Manilow LOL again don't laugh, Bon Jovi, Aretha Franklin, John Lennon, David Bowie, The Beastie Boys!, Frank Sinatra, Lil Kim, Radiohead (OK Computer: one of the greatest albums ever made. I listen to it all the time), Busta Rhymes!, and The Chemical Bros. Imagine what I have at home knowing that music is the only thing I never think twice about buying. : ) : ) Soundtracks upon soundtracks. : ) Pulp Fiction, Moulin Rouge......upon soundtracks :
Movies:
My favorite movie is The Shining. Coming in a close second is The Terminator. And T2 isn't far behind the original. : ) My favorite scene from The Terminator! (just the bar not the alley)
Stand By Me!!!, Fight Club, Very Bad Things, Wolf, The Beach, The Abyss (special edition ending only), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the first one. love it), Batman (# 1), Small Time Crooks, Remember the Titans, A Wet Hot American Summer, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Twilight Zone (the movie), America's Sweethearts (hilarious!), V For Vendetta, Total Recall, Deconstructing Harry, Eye's Wide Shut, Moulin Rouge, The Devils's Advocate!, A Scanner Darkly (check this out), American Beauty, South Park longer & uncut, One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest, Half Baked, Secretary, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Celebrity, As Good As it Gets, all The funny ass Beatle movies!, Dogma, Rushmore, 50 First Dates, Bananas, Eight Crazy Nights, Pulp Fiction, Almost Famous, Natural Born Killers, Mortal Kombat (the first one:let me make that 100% clear) Super Troopers, Shopgirl, Alpha Dog, The Girl Next Door, Zelig, Screwed! (very funny movie), All The Matrix, Sin City, The Jerk, Blazing Saddles, anything Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Quentin Tarentino, Oliver Stone, Kevin Smith, Cameron Crowe, James Cameron, Baz Lutherman and The Beatles did is great shit! ......again.....too many......Same as the music section. There's just NO WAY I can complete even a small percentage of this movie category. : ) New ones I must add in. Little Miss Sunshine, The Good German, The Departed is fantastic!! You've got to see Knock Up! Damn. Non stop laughter, literally. : ) Across the Universe (that's an easy call to make), The Simpsons Movie. I just saw this documentary called The Bridge. Whew. It's a great look into humans minds and how they think by circumstance and experience. You learn a lot from the peoples' stories; alive and dead. A film maker set up cameras on The Golden Gate Bridge for a year to film the people that go there to commit suicide from jumping. It may or not make you a better person by seeing it but you will be just a bit different. (Thanks Mona.) The Rob Zombie Halloween was awesome! Really really well done. Into the Wild by Sean Penn was life changing. I also reccomend the book more than any book I've ever read! Read it. Trust me. There Will Be Blood! The Darjeeling Limited! Persepolis was very great.
Television:
Antiques Roadshow! Seeing as I don't want to pay for cable/an outlet to be lazy (I have 13 channels) : ), TV pretty much stinks but there are a few quality programs on. Between August and the beginning of Feb. there's football! The months of Sep.-Oct. we have the MLB playoffs and The World Series! Golf on Sat. & Sun. Let's see. Then there is I Love Lucy, Frasier, The Cosby show, The Bernie Mac show, The Twilight Zone, In Living Color, The Simpsons..... I hate to miss Jeopardy. : ) And uh, yeah, that's it. November 06'. Well I purchased cable at the beginning of football season for the Monday night games on ESPN, and I hated it and got rid of it within 3 months. : ) Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. : ) Wow! You know what I found? Public television. Yeah that's the ticket. : ) No comercials and it's all educational/very interesting. They have music concerts. Check it out. Seriously; it's awesome! I love to watch any music concert I can get my hands on. I own tons of them. I like to watch the Super Bowls I've tape in the past decade+. Besides all that, I'd rather be listening to music. : )
Books:
Helter Skelter. The best book ever. (*Well I can't say that anymore. I read Into the Wild and it takes the title of best book ever* so go read it lol-really) Anything non fiction! The Seven Ancient Wonders of the World, Exploring the Amazon, any text book I can find, Astronomy, Oceanography, .....Right now I'm reading The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler. The assassinations of JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcom X (all in one book), Jane Goodall books (primate studies, anthropology), Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (really great book), The Kennedys....Speeches that Changed the World is amazing! Excellent book. I recommend it highly. I read The Shining because I figured it was finally time after knowing the movie by heart for 15 years. : ) Very interesting but all I can really say is Stanley Kubrick is beyond impressive. Love him. Updates: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is beyond worth reading. We are alive, so go live! Get off the couch, outta the chair; and never stop moving my friends. Read Into the Wild.
Heroes:
God and Jesus of course. And on Earth (or were)? Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Bill Cosby (I got to see him live in concert Sep 07') : ), Woody Allen, Jack Nicholson (in the acting sense), George Harrison, Phil Mickelson........
