social issues, perspectives, breaking the silence, rising above, growing up without giving in, the unexpected and the unexplained, humor, classic cinema, peanut butter, dairy products, dryer sheets, and sleeping.
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I'd like to meet:
John Belushi
Count Chocula
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Music:
I typically listen to blues, jazz, soul, or subterranean sounds such as hardcore, independent rock, experimental, etc. Occasionally I'll listen to classical, folk, Americana, classic rock, or whatever else strikes me at the moment.
Some of my favorite bands/musicians:
2 Skinnee J's, Andrew , Louis Armstrong, As Cities Burn , at.the.drive-in, Warren Barfield , The Beatles, Chuck Berry , Black Heart Procession, blindside , early Bon Jovi, Break the Silence, The Bronx, Charles Brown , James Brown, Dave Brubeck , R.L. Burnside, Cannon's Jug Stompers , Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, The Clash, Joe Cocker, Cold War Kids , John Coltrane, Elvis Costello, Cracker, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Cure, Darkest Hour, Miles Davis, Dead Poetic, Delta Spirit , Devo, Digger, The Dingees , Dogwood, Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem , Duke Ellington, Fear Before The March of Flames, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, glasseater, Blind Roosevelt Graves, Haste the Day , Woody Herman , John Lee Hooker, Huntingtons, Joe Christmas,
Robert Johnson , Louis Jordan, Dustin Kensrue , Alison Krauss, Doyle Lawson , Led Zeppelin, Less Than Jake, Midnight Oil , Charles Mingus , Misfits , Monday In London , Thelonious Monk , The Offspring, O thello , Charlie Parker (and other artists from the be bop era), Wilson Pickett, Pink Floyd, Poison the Well, Elvis Presley, Ramones , The Rat Pack, Otis Redding , Sam and Dave, Scared of Chaka, Earl Scruggs , The Slackers, Jesse Sprinkle , Squirrel Nut Zippers, Stretch Arm Strong , Third Day, Thrice , Tiger Army, Tommy James and the Shondells, twothirtyeight, Muddy Waters, The Weakerthans, old Weezer, Jimmy Witherspoon ... this could go on for quite a while....
Movies:
Abbott and Costello movies, An American Werewolf in London, Angels With Dirty Faces , Back to the Future (trilogy), Batman (1989), A Beautiful Mind, Big Lubowski (and other Coen brothers movies), Billy Madison, Black Snake Moan , Blazing Saddles, The Blues Brothers , Boondock Saints, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Breakfast Club, The Bride of Frankenstein (and all of the classic Universal Studios horror movies), Catch Me If You Can, Dark Passage (and all the Bogart and Becall movies), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Dawn of the Dead (2004), Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Dick Tracy (1990), Donnie Darko , the Evil Dead movies, Fight Club, Forrest Gump, Frankie and Johnny (1966), Freaks , Funny Face (1957), Ghostbusters, The Godfather, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Goodfellas, Goonies, Groundhog Day, Guys and Dolls, Hi-Fidelity, House on Haunted Hill (1959), House on Haunted Hill (1999), Icabod and Mr. Toad, Indiana Jones (trilogy), JAWS, Jurassic Park, Buster Keaton shorts, The Lost Boys, Mad Monster Party (and all of the Rankin and Bass holiday cartoons), The Maltese Falcon (and other films directed by John Huston ), Meet Me In St. Louis, Meet the Robinsons , The Muppet Movie, Napoleon Dynamite, Night of the Living Dead, Nosferatu (1922) (and many other silent films), Office Space, Pet Sematary, Robin Hood (Disney), Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Say Anything, Seven, Shaun of the Dead, The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining (1980), Signs (and all M. Night Shyamalon films), Sleepy Hollow, Some Like It Hot, Star Wars (trilogy), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (I & II), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Three Amigos, Tommy Boy, True Romance, Uptown Saturday Night , Very Bad Things, Vertigo (and anything Hitchcock ), Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, Young Frankenstein....
and others.
Television:
I don't watch a lot of television, but when I do...
Family Guy, Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Saturday Night Live, That 70's Show, The National Geographic Channel,
and when I get a chance I like to watch some of the more nastalgic shows like Andy Griffith, The Beverly Hillbillies, Dick Van Dyke, The Addams Family, The Munsters, Welcome Back Kotter, M*A*S*H, ALF, The Wonder Years, Boy Meets World, etc....
and yes, Saved By The Bell.
... and, of course, cartoons - esp. (in approximate chronological order): Felix the Cat (circa 1919-1936), Fleischer Studios cartoons (circa 1921-1942), WWII era Donald Duck and other propaganda cartoons, Droopy and other Tex Avery cartoons, Peanuts, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ren & Stimpy, The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat
(does anyone remember this show from the mid-1990's?), Spongebob Squarepants, etc.
Books:
I'm not a big reader, but I like C. S. Lewis (both fiction and non ), and the Bible.
" I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have over come the world. "
[John 16:33].
And I like comics.
Heroes:
Jesus Christ
my family,
and a guy named Mark.
