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I dig the discovery of new tunes, new bands, independent and foreign films, contemporary novels, and restaurant bars that make damn-good cadillac margaritas and long island ice teas. I also live for road trips, live music, surf trips, overseas travel, California red wine, music festivals, T and Ts, iced Patron Silver tequila shots, decent cigars, non-bitter microbrews, and witty, two-way conversations that last 'til dawn.Elvis and Booze
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Add to My Profile | More VideosDown-to-earth people with peace in their lives BUT these people are still driven by a curiosity about the world, the people around them, themselves, new music, new cultures, new discoveries. These people question authority, think for themselves, and entertain new or other ideas and perspectives without closing off. These people are old souls who let go and have a good time without self-absorption or self destruction. These people are kind, grounded folks who have a gift for the absurd and an awakened worldview. I love these people.Yeah!
..Radiohead, Wilco, Orchestra Baobab, Sun Kil Moon, Bjork, The Decembrists, Arcade Fire, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ennio Morricone, Yo La Tengo, Bob Dylan, Flaming Lips, My Morning Jacket, Sonic Youth, Neko Case, Johnny Cash, Beck, Grant Green, Sufjan Stevens, Jenny Lewis, Kenny Burrell, Nirvana, The Clash, Nick Drake, Neil Young, PJ Harvey, U2, LCD Soundsystem, Over the Rhine, Willie Nelson, Pixies, Bob Marley, Luna, Doves, Tom Waits, Heartless Bastards, Jim Hall Trio, Stereolab, Peter Gabriel, Patty Griffin, Bebel Gilberto, Band of Horses, Twilight Singers, Pinback, Seu Jorge, Van Morrison, The Feelies, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Camper Van Beethoven, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, Gram Parsons, Jeff Buckley, Marvin Gaye, Lori Carson, Led Zeppelin, TV on the Radio, REM, Luscious Jackson, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, The Strokes, Broken Social Scene, The Who, Cowboy Junkies, Joseph Arthur, Pylon, Emmylou Harris, Afghan Whigs, James Brown, Suba, Joni Mitchell, Billie Holliday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Hartman, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, American Music Club, Brian Eno, Patty Larkin, The Beatles, The Stones, Jolie Holland, Sonny Clark, Norah Jones, Jack Logan, The Hives, Calexico, Chet Baker, Talking Heads, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Ben Folds, Spoon, Devendra Banhart, The Minutemen, Kinky, The Pretenders, Built to Spill, Bloc Party, RL Burnside, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, Tony Bennett, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Ryan Adams, White Stripes, Charlie Mingus, David Bowie, Pearl Jam, Prince, The Roots, The 88s, fIREHOSE, Pavement, The Walkmen, Jill Knight, Carmen McRae, Band of Horses, Dan Hicks, Bill Evans, Velvet Underground, AC/DC, Elvis Costello, Horace Silver, The Fugees, Bob Mould, Husker Du, Magnetic Fields, Christian McBride, Galaxie 500, Nellie McKay, Black Heart Procession, Green Day, Eva Cassidy, Wolfmother, Keren Ann, Cannonball Adderly, Portishead, Dinosaur Jr., Iris DeMent, Bruce Springsteen, Interpol, The Hold Steady, The Band, Red House Painters, Buena Vista Social Club, Jimi Hendrix, Queens of the Stone Age, Charles Lloyd, Nick Cave, Postal Service, Thievery Corporation, Jimmy Smith, Madeleine Peyroux, Aimee Mann, Elliott Smith, Outkast, The Verve, Duke Ellington, William Shatner, The New Pornographers, Oasis, Pink Floyd, Ali Farka Toure, 70's-era Elton John, Damien Rice, Magic Sam, The Police, Fountains of Wayne, Wayne Shorter, Morcheeba, Buddy Guy, Sade, Jayhawks, Golden Smog, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Massive Attack, Foo Fighters, Grandaddy, Shawn Colvin, The Ides of March, Edith Piaf, Sleater Kinney, Gary Jules, Vince Guaraldi, Sia, Tom Petty, The Shins, Jack Johnson, Muse, Billy Bragg, Peaches, Bud Powell, Mark Eitzel, Beth Orton, Bikini Kill, Gnarls Barkley, Sinead O'Connor, Badly Drawn Boy, Eminem, Air, Pete Yorn, Imogene Heap, Squeeze, The Smiths, Goldfrapp, Cocteau Twins, Pernice Brothers, Kid Loco, Sondre Lerche, Erin Mckeown, Freddie Hubbard, The Cure, Morphine, Josh Rouse, Mazzy Star, The Replacements, Classics IV, Pink Floyd, Dusty Springfield, Kathleen Edwards, Otis Redding, Andres Segovia, Tord Gustavsen Trio, Lyle Lovett, Angie Stone, The Guess Who, Eric Dolphy, Mark Lanegan, My Bloody Valentine, Patsy Cline, Eels, Stevie Wonder, X, Lucinda Williams, Uncle Tupelo, Kings of Leon, Kate Bush, Steve Earle, Dead Can Dance, The Fall, Ane Brun, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, N*E*R*D, Belle & Sebastian, Missy Elliott, Taylor Eigsti, Emiliana Torrini, Boards of Canada, Mudhoney, Califone, Kasey Chambers, Red Garland Trio, Bright Eyes, DJ Shadow, Lee Morgan, Ry Cooder, Gordon Lightfoot, Gorillaz, Cesaria Evora, Muddy Waters, Hound Dog Taylor, Hank Mobley, Taj Mahal, Ralph Stanley, Joss Stone, Morphine, Noiseshaper, Betty Carter, Joe Henderson, Dexter Gordon, Vanessa Daou, Blondie, Fiona Apple, Blackalicious, Ray Charles, Erykah Badu, Drive-by Truckers, Cat Power, kd lang, Mark Mallman, Neil Diamond, The Secret Machines, and ... Gawd Damn, I love music! I'm sure to add more, but I gotta stop sometime.
For me, these are some of the greatest films ever: Ikiru, Godfather I & II, To Kill a Mockingbird, Seven Samurai, High and Low, Fargo, Red Beard, The Decalogue, Rushmore, Casablanca, Five Easy Pieces, Alien, The Big Lebowski, Apocalypse Now, Cool Hand Luke, Blood Simple, Evil Dead 2, Donnie Darko, Wizard of Oz, Being John Malcovich, 'Round Midnight, Fandango, Empire Strikes Back, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Lonestar, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Double Life of Veronique, Black Hawk Down, Sex and Lucia, The Seventh Seal, 1900, Tokyo Story, 8 1/2, Taxi Driver, Wild Strawberries, Brazil, Jaws, Vertigo, The Searchers, The Wild Bunch, Rebel Without a Cause, Raging Bull, When We Were Kings, Once Upon a Time in the West, Annie Hall, Young Frankenstein, The Amazing Tanenbaums, Amelie, The Conversation, Caddyshack, Out of Sight, Diner, Harold and Maude, Shane, Rear Window, Dr. Strangelove, Spirited Away, Memento, Fight Club, The Best of Youth, Amadeus, City Lights, I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, Jean de Florette, Manon of the Spring, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Right Stuff, Dazed and Confused, This is Spinal Tap, Manhattan, Down By Law, La Femme Nikita, Titan A.E., Almost Famous, Kung Fu Hustle, 2001: A Space Odyssey, White Heat, High Noon, Dark City, Psycho, High Fidelity, The Sweet Hereafter, The Philadelphia Story, Master & Commander, On the Waterfront, Angels with Dirty Faces, Cinema Paradiso, Unforgiven, Mister Roberts, Grapes of Wrath, Citizen Kane, Do the Right Thing, Kingpin, The Player, Chinatown, Raise the Red Lantern, Singin' in the Rain, Sid & Nancy, Das Boot, Slackers, Streetcar Named Desire, 12 Angry Men, Bull Durham, Mean Streets, Il Postino, Farewell My Concubine, Beauty and the Beast, When Harry Met Sally, Clockwork Orange, Bull Durham, Down By Law, Cabaret, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, North by Northwest, The Usual Suspects, Blue Velvet, Frankenstein, East of Eden, The Graduate, American Beauty, Patton, The Third Man, Far From Heaven, Bridge over the River Kwai, Schinder's List, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Platoon, Touch of Evil, The Hours, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, The Shining, Saving Private Ryan, Blood Simple, Gone with the Wind, Mystery Train, Imitation of Life, Public Enemy, Big Night, Goodfellas, All the President's Men, Gattaca, Enter the Dragon, Rocky, Bullitt, Wild at Heart, The Fifth Element, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, American Graffiti, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Wings of Desire, My Life as a Dog, All That Jazz, An American in Paris, The Thin Man, Maltese Falcoln, Sunset Boulevard, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Anatomy of a Murder, It Happened One Night, The Last Waltz, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Scarface, Paris Texas, Bagdad Cafe, Laura, Ragtime, The General, Star Wars, Tie Me Up Tie Me Down ... Okay, I better f***in' stop here for now. F*** Yeah!..
Sopranos, Simpsons, Austin City Limits, Entourage, but mostly, I watch movies if I'm sitting down in front of my big TV. Okay, the truth is, I really like Six Feet Under and Seinfeld reruns, too. But no more! Well, okay, I do like Frontline and American Experience on PBS... But that's it! Well...okay, gimmee the remote. There's got to be something on.
My fave kid books are Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are and Russell Hoban's The Little Brute Family. Read them to your kids! * * * * * * * These books, novels, and poetry changed my life: Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning; Anything by Joseph Campbell; Collected Poems by James Wright; Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, Demons, The Idiot, House of the Dead, The Double, and Crime and Punishment; Morrison's Beloved, The Bluest Eye, and Song of Solomon; Anything by J.D. Salinger; Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby; Faulkner's As I Lay Dying; Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays & The Year of Magical Thinking; Any poetry by Phil Levine; Milan Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being & The Book of Laughter and Forgetting; Anything by Margaret Atwood; Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild & Under the Banner of God; Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose; Anything by Kurt Vonnegut; Michael Chabon's Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Wonder Boys; Dorianne Laux's Awake and other poetry; Yukio Mishima's Acts of Worship, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea, and Confessions of a Mask; Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods, Going After Cacciato, and The Things They Carried; Noam Chomsky's Understanding Power; Doris Goodwin's Team of Rivals; Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated & Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; Doris Lessing's Golden Notebook, The Fifth Child, and The Good Terrorist; Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke; Zola's Germinal; Jane Austen's Persuasion; Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit; Anything by Tennessee Williams; Andre Malraux's Man's Fate & The Walnut Trees of Altenburg; Truman Capote's In Cold Blood; Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Hundred Years of Solitude; Joseph Frank's five book biography series on Dostoevsky; Shakespeare's King Lear & Hamlet; Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot; John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath & East of Eden; Don DeLillo's White Noise; Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain; Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises; Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar; Conrad's Secret Sharer and Heart of Darkness; Stephen Crane's Open Boat; Alexander Solzhenistsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; Selected Poems by Czeslaw Milosz; Lev Tolsoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych; and Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. * * * * * * * I dig what the following hot authors are writing right now: Zadie Smith, Chuck Klosterman, Foer, Monica Ali, DeLillo, Annie Proulx, Ursula Hegi, Amy Hempel, Jane Smiley, Jose Saramago, Russell Banks, Yann Martel, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edward P. Jones, Jeffrey Eugenides, Audrey Niffenegger, Mark Haddon, Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Chabon, Ian McEwan, Cormac McCarthy, Philip Roth, Richard Ford, and Jon Krakauer. Got any suggestions for a good read?
Perfect or (Near Perfect) Beings: Christ, the Buddha, Abraham, Mohammed, Moses, the Dalai Lama. Flawed, Heroic Geniuses of Great Influence on my life: Dostoevsky; Tolstoy; Kierkegaard; Carl Jung; Joseph Campbell; Viktor Frankl; William Faulkner; John, Paul, George, and Ringo, in that order; Bob Dylan; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Malcolm X; Mohammed Ali; Toni Morrison; Oprah; Joseph Frank; Johnny Cash; Kurt Cobain; Jeff Tweedy; Wayne Coyne; my mentors Dr. Cheng Lok Chua & Dr. Chris Henson and surrogate parents Farrell and Lora Todd; and many others. We all need heros, you know? Yeah!