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music, reclaiming broadcast radio one weekly show at a time, humor, intelligence; making my young daughter laugh, making her mom laugh even more; editorial cartooning, graphic design and print production, writing, rambling tangents; live music, making music, good food, good wine, a good cigar, spinach, pizza, garlic butter, the darkest chocolate imaginable, good beer, single-malt Scotch [the closer to Cromarty, the better], maybe a little Knob Creek Bourbon too, big-bold cups of coffee; New Orleans, Michigan, Texas, Oregon, Memphis, Boston, Chicago, D.C., Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, Key West, Scotland, London, Paris, Amsterdam; colors that defy description; social and political satire, making fun of powerful people and celebrities; imaginary and prime numbers, theories on metaphysics, and The Good Show , of course!
Smart people with a sense of humor.
Folks who want to hear great music not often heard on commercial radio and, of course, quick-witted globe-trotting super models with the capacity to deeply appreciate a decent game of backgammon or maybe even Spades.
No crypto-fascist political talking-point repeaters, please.
I can listen to Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly or one their wannabees, Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, most morning network news shows, or one of the last half-dozen State of The Union addresses for the latest propaganda.
Besides, for a real news program, you should be watching Keith Olbermann's show, Countdown . It's the only weeknight news show on MSNBC worth watching. Really.
Actually, I enjoy discussing politics, just tired of hearing the same false info or red herring repeated, ping-ponging from one pundit to another, to the point even Pavlov would get annoyed.
Fantasy dinner guests: Elvis Costello, Polly Jean Harvey, Cornel West, Ashley Judd, Christiane Amanpour, Jon Stewart, Tina Fey, William Wesley, Keith Olbermann, Al Franken, Howard Zinn, Alice Cooper, Barack Obama, Siouxsie Sioux, Joe Bob Briggs, Bill Moyers, Muhammad Ali, Bill Schaeffer, Walter Cronkite, Ben Kweller, Diane Lane, Angie Dickinson; and if they were still alive: Albert Einstein, Francis Crick, Dorothy Parker, E.M. Forster, Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Twain, Marlon Brando, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, Abigail Adams, Frank Zappa, Leo Tolstoy, Buckminster Fuller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Edward R. Murrow, Will Rogers, Martin Luther King, Ben Franklin, Nikola Tesla, Guglielmo Marconi, Charlie Parker, Cole Porter, John Lennon, Joe Strummer, Charles Mingus, Mile Davis, Femi Kuti, Nick Drake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Shakespeare, Charles Bukowski, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, Jessie Owens, Carter Albrecht, my ancestral namesake, Emily Dickinson.
Elvis Costello, The Ponys, Von Bondies, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Otis Redding, Red Animal War, The Oranges Band, Skeemin' NoGoods, Earlimart, CoCoRosie, Spoon, Earl Harvin, centro-matic, Little Grizzly, Man Factory, Pleasure Club, Yello, The Clash, PJ Harvey, Lamb, Shearwater, LCC, Blur, Junior Brown, Burden Brothers, Fugazi, Pixies, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Jam, Thee Shams, Baboon, Red Monroe, Baptist Generals, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Franz Ferdinand, Hopewell, Household Names, Joe Strummer, Pulp, I Am Kloot, Muse, Guadalcanal Diary, The Roots, Say Hi To Your Mom, Jet, Neko Case, Johnny Cash, Greenhornes, Nick Cave, T-Bone Burnett, Starlight Mints, Belle and Sebastian, Yatsura, Let's Active, R.E.M. [the earlier the better], Fauré, Puccini, Public Enemy, Negativland, Redd Kross, Pleasant Grove, Jega, Kissinger, Lamb, The Zombies, The Legends, Cut Copy, Andrew Bird, The Fall, Until They Arrive, DJ Shadow, James Brown, Napoleon Complex, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Mclusky, PPT, The Mountain Goats, Adventures of Jet, Danger Mouse, Alan, Chopin, Eaton Lake Tonics, Ashburne Glen, Telefon Tel Aviv, The Pets, Gogol Bordelo, Sun Ra, Cornelius, Maxïmo Park, Bauhaus, Baboon, Wire, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Benway, Blueprint Sea, Brendan Benson, Billy Bragg, Bring in The Satellites, Black Tie Dynasty, The Browsers, The Chemistry Set, Chomsky, Kinski, Cut Chemist, Cosmic Slut, Outkast, Sleater-Kinney, Le Tigre, The Cut*Off, Dirt Blazers, Silversun Pickups, The Danes, [DARYL], The Four Tops, The Kinks, Mos Def, Compay Segundo, Deadman, Dead Can Dance, The Dead Kennedys, The Dead Milkmen, Throwing Muses, The Knife, Jeff Buckley, The Dead, The Deathray Davies, Band of Horses, Broken Social Scene, The Delgados, Doosu, Steve Earl, Hogpig, Brasco, Engine of The Ocean, Henry Holt, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Jason Falkner, Sex Pistols, P.I.L., The Flaming Lips, Stumptone, Sufjan Stevens, The Stooges, MC5, Badly Drawn Boy, Frank Jordan, Nick Drake, Chainsaw Kittens, Goodwin, Diana Kroll, The Lo-Fi Chorus, Head Automatica, Nic Armstrong & The Thieves, Mr. Bungle, TV on The Radio, Destination Venus, Guided By Voices, Happy Bullets, Heaven is a Hotel, Idlewild, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, The Jam, Jet Screamer, Smile Smile, Bright Eyes, The Black Keys, The Redskins, Kissinger, Kings of Leon, Knife in The Water, Ultravox, Skinny Puppy, Meat Beat Manifesto, Love and Rockets, Television, British Sea Power, Little Jack Melody, Edith Frost, The Lonelies, Aimee Mann, Alicia Keys, The Hives, The Mars Volta, Macha, Sebadoah, Metric, Mur, The Pogues, My Legendary Girlfriend, Marvin Gaye, My Morning Jacket, Negativland, Neutral Milk Hotel, Album Leaf, The New Year, Of Normandy, Mum, Ohno, Old 97s, The Reverend Horton Heat, the pAperchAse, Albert King, B.B. King, Pleasant Grove, The House of Love, Book of Love, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The English Beat, The Octopus Project, James Reimer, Most of the members of Polyphonic Spree when they're playing with their own bands and not actively part of The Spree, Brendan Benson, Peter Schmidt and His Gentlemen Scholars, Junior Boys, The Toadies, Talib Kweli, Sara Radle, Record Hop, Regal Dime, Faceless Werewolves, The Replacements, The Breeders, Louis XIV, Save The Radio, Air, Shibboleth, The Shins, Pavement, The Stills, Brassy, The Fags, Gift Culture, Sleepy Atlantis, Sleepy Jackson, Slobberbone, Slow Roosevelt, Snowdonnas, Sorta, Boards of Canada, The Southern Sea, Spector 45, Spoonfed Tribe, Super Love Attack, The Tah-Dahs, New Order [the earlier the better], Joy Division, Radiohead, Templo Diez, Orchestra Baobab, Ornette Coleman, Treewave, The Theater Fire, They Might Be Giants, Raconteurs, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, DEVO, The Dears, Mel Torme, Breggett Rideau, Valve, Front 242, John Vanderslice, Echo and The Bunnymen, Ornette Coleman, Subset, The Van
ished, Voxtrot, Velvet Love Box, Liz Phair, Bob Marley, Lee Scratch Perry, Vibrolux, The Bellakun, XTC, Wellwisher, Wesley Willis, Coma Rally, Wilco, Elliott Smith, Leonard Cohen, 7% Solution, Xymox, Deerhoof, Dogs Die in Hot Cars, James Hinkle, Joey Carter, Dire Straits, Artic Monkeys, Plaid, The Magnetic Fields, Tokyo Police Club, Frank Sinatra, Shreikback, The Magic Numbers, Daniel Johnston, Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, Kristy Krüger, Bobby Knight, Tom Waits, Sparrows, Jesus and Mary Chain, THe BAcksliders, Sons and Daughters, Burnt Sienna, Beirut, The Detroit Cobras, Blackeyed Peas, The Greenhornes, Beastie Boys, Social Distortion, Violent Femmes, The Myrmidons, Horses, Madlib, Jellyfish, Catherine Wheel, Lee Harvey Deutschendorf, Book of Love, Cocteau Twins, 50 Ft. Wave, The Smiths, Hank Williams Sr., Roy Orbison, In Living Color, Prize Money, David Garza, Ten Hands, The Murder City Devils, TTC, Scritti Politti, Course of Empire, This Damn Town, The Helio Sequence, Sun, Salim Nourallah, Sparta, Secret Machines, Primus, Jack's Mannequin, Squarepusher, Simple Kid, We Talked About Murder, Broose, The Henchmen, Lauren Fine, Chatterton, The Arcade Fire, The Who, Buffalo Tom, Camper Van Beethoven, David Bowie, MC Hawking, Wally Pleasant, The Rutles, The Goulet Destroyers [of course!] and so... many... more...
Some highlights: To Kill a Mockingbird, Donnie Darko, A Room with a View, Being There, Momento, Clay Pigeons, Gallipoli, Wild at Heart, Bob Roberts, Shallow Grave, Happy Texas, Happy Accidents, The Last Supper, Edward Sissorhands, The Tall Guy, Princess Bride, Scotland PA, Videodrome, Bulworth, Lost in Translation, Like Water for Chocolate, Mystic River, City of Lost Children, Farenheit 911, Braveheart, Babette's Feast, Pi, Wild at Heart, BASEketball, Nightmare Before Christmas, Frankenweinie, Old School; Hitchcock films, even "The Man Who Knew Too Much" featuring the relentless showcasing of Doris Day's performance of "Que Sera, Sera"; and various forms of hardcore muppet porn.
Not much time to watch, but here a few I'll look for when I turn on the DVR: Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Daily Show, The Soup, The Colbert Report, Dallas Mavs games, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Flight of The Conchords, Perfect Hair Forever, Harvey Birdman, Robot Chicken, Squidbillies, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Venture Brothers, Sealab 2021, Aqua Teenage Hunger Force, Scrubs, Rescue Me; I like these too: BBC-America shows like My Family, reruns of The Prisoner, The Avengers and The Saint; Six Feet Under, Face The Nation, Meet The Press, The Family Guy, Curb Your Enthusiasm. Most everything else is on DVD.
Just a few highlights, again: A Room With A View, Letters From the Earth, Critical Path, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Democracy Matters, Blinded by The Right; essays by Emerson, The People's History of the United States of America, Still Life with Woodpecker, Breakfast of Champions, Le Miserable, Setting Free the Bears, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, pretty much anything Joe Bob Briggs writes, The Giving Tree [stupid kids' book makes me tear up every time], Adobe Type Guide
Elvis Costello, Albert Einstein, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Abigail Adams; anyone that has enough guts to start a band; most of my friends, often at the most unlikely times. They keep me on my toes.