This badly needs updating or actual thought but its just not that important, but in no particular order: My fiance' and child, Music, Family, Music, Music Production, Music, True love, True Friends (which is extremely hard to find and I've come to realize just how few of these I really have), Music, God, Fellowship, The psyche, the unexplained, anomolies, pathology, photography, bringing the sounds in my head into the world, accents, dialect, autumn, winter (the kind that brings SNOW), harpsichords, exotic instruments, exotic personalities, eccentrics, breezes, fringe music and movies, slight of hand, dissonant chords, soothing voices, sleep, dreams, idealism, hope, true friends, viddying the cinnies, the ole in-out, in-out, nag champa, learning any instrument I can get my hands on, antiques, vinyl records, collecting interesting things, the human psyche, driving, parks, nature, cats, dogs, aminals of all kinds, going places I've never been, dreaming, swimming, water, anything involving water, boats, repeating interests in my interests box, blanking out when trying to put interests up, researching the past, etc etc..
As you can tell from my pictures over the years, I also enjoy photography quite a bit. I invite you to check out my friend Courtney's site for all of your photography needs. VPS PhotoReflect
I met her August 8th, at 4:11 pm =)
From Maria Muldaur to me :)
My Music
A very small list of personal favorites would include BRIAN WILSON, Syd Barrett, The Villains, Michael Stefano (I miss jamming in the lounge bro!!), The Pretty Things, The Seeds, Pink Floyd, Sly and the Family Stone, The Wilde Knights, The Sparkles, (all of the Pebbles collection basically), Neil Young, Adam Bird, Spiritualized (thanks Einstein!), David Crosby, The Doors, The Beach Boys, ***Tommy James and the Shondells***, The Buckinghams, Maria Muldaur, Curved Air, Donovan, Ronny and the Daytonas, Chad and Jeremy, The Cowsills (laugh all ya want..Indian Lake is a masterpiece), Country Joe & The Fish, John Weimer, The Professors, Electric Dots, James Chisom (my brother's site - http://www.jtchisom.com), The Byrds, The Animals, The Doors, Charles Manson, The Turtles, Iron Butterfly, The Circulatory System, Olivia Tremor Control, Music Machine, William Penn & His Pals, Orange Bicycle, Tomorrow, The Beatles, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Kinks, The Who, The Guess Who, The Yardbirds, The Sundowners, American Breed, New Colony Six, The Ventures, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Haircut 100, Jeff Buckley, The Tradewinds(!!!) (and anything Anders and Poncia were involed in), The Free Design, Gram Parsons, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Jethro Tull, John Sebastian, Guns N Roses, The Smiths, Pinback, Sea and Cake, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Happenings, Herb Alpert, Curt Boettcher (and anything he produced), Dino Desi and Billy, Brian Hyland, Dave Clark Five, The Shins, The Moody Blues, The Bee Gees, Elmer Gantry & His Velvet Opera, *Tears for Fears*, The Sandpipers, Blossom Toes, The Shins, Apples in Stereo, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Lettermen, Del Shannon, Waylon Jennings, Donovan, Jackson Five, The Association, The High Llamas, Mark Wirtz, Caruso (Matt Debellis), Echo And the Bunnymen, 311, Lunacy Driven, The Noisehood, Sprung, Hatta Haigha (my first band, and dearly missed), The Hives, The Coral, Oasis, Frank Zappa, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa snoring, Frank Zappa making toast, Brian Wilson tapping his foot, Grim Rapper and Nasty Nast (formerly of Helllstorm), the list could literally go on for days...
And lest we forget Syd
(This is my closeup from "Rebels and Redcoats," A BBC documentary I did in 2001)
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, ET, SCIENCE OF SLEEP!!!, Every Rocky movie (Rocky Balboa is beautiful, see it if you haven't yet), A Clockwork Orange, Alice's Restaurant, Annie Hall, Bananas, Sleeper, ALL of Woody Allen's films, The Virgin Suicides, nearly anything that ever starred Gene Wilder (yes, Wonka too, but not limited to that), Help!, A Hard Days Night, Yellow Submarine, A Day at the Races, A Night In Casablanca, A night at the Opera, Horse Feathers, Smokey and The Bandit, Hooper, Stroker Ace, Cannonball Run (see a trend here?), nearly anything with Burt Reynolds in the cast, Boogie Nights, **American Beauty**, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Freaked (I finally got the 2 disc DVD!), The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Midnight Cowboy, Little Big Man, The Graduate, Rain Man, (again, another actor-loyal trend in my viewing) Easy Rider, Whats Eating Gilbert Grape, Edward Scissorhands, Blow, (nearly anything else with Johnny Depp in the cast..see Burt Reynolds and Dustin Hoffman lol), Star Wars Trilogy, Indiana Jones trilogy, Waking Life, 200 Motels, The Breakfast Club, Kingpin, Dangerous Liasons ("It is beyond my control!"), Being John Malkovich, Fight Club, Casino Royale (the original), Moll Flanders, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, Snatch, Slingblade, Stripes, National Lampoon's Vacation (all of them), The Blues Brothers, The Three Amigos, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 2001 A Space Oddysey, Willow, *The Doors*, Top Secret, The Naked Gun (all of them), Airplane, Donnie Darko (I greatly dislike the director's cut, I'll only partake in the original), Natural Born Killers, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Barbarella, Batman, The Fugitive, Harrison Ford movies in general, Rocky II (had to give special mention again because I believe this may be my favorite of all 6 films), Rosemary's Baby, Pink Floyd the Wall, The Monkees: Head, Five Easy Pieces, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, A Scanner Darkly, etc etc etc I will HAVE to add more to this another time, because "it is beyond my control." (and attention span)
I don't really watch much tv at all if I can help it these days, so this is more a list of things I have watched in the past than a current list of anything..
Keeping up Appearances, Fawlty Towers, House, WKRP In Cincinnati, Welcome Back Kotter, Happy Days, Twighlight Zone, Sanford and Son, All in the Family, That 70s Show, Any biography show, 60 minutes, 20/20, *Late night with Conan O'Brian*, Saturday Night Live, Seinfeld, Viva La Bam, Sesame Street, Anything Sid and Marty Krofft ever did (i.e. HR Pufnstuf, Land of the Lost, Lidsville, etc), The Banana Splits, Scooby Doo, The Letter People, The Monkees***, SCTV, Mr Rogers, The Muppet Show, The Daily Show, The Carole Burnett Show, Laugh In, M*A*S*H, Penn & Teller's BULLSHIT!, all of those shows Lara and I watch on TLC and such that I don't know the names of, usually involving interesting architecture/houses and babies (I love you lol what are you laughing at?), Reno 911, That 70's show
Non-Fiction mostly, I like to learn and seek knowledge, even if its useless or trivial.. I don't read as much as I used to, but perhaps a new set of glasses and some free time will change that? :) Thanks Michael S. for "Brave New World" btw.. And Lara for every book and magazine ever written on pregnancy and babies. :p