Music:
Member Since: 15/09/2005
Band Members: Me: Piano & Keys, Guitars, Bass, etc
Influences: Music
Daniel Amos , the 77s , the Choir , the Lost Dogs , The Flaming Lips , Wilco , U2 , Iona , Mozart, Bruce Cockburn, Mark Heard, the Beatles , Brian Wilson & the Beach Boys , Ray Charles, Rich Mullins & a Ragamuffin Band, John Williams, Elvis Costello, Fleming & John, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Buddy Holly, T-Bone Burnett, Rolling Stones, the Doors, The Animals, The Byrds, The Call, The Cheiftains, Phil Madeira , Radiohead, Chagall Guevara, The Swirling Eddies, Vector, Sam Phillips , Adam Again , 1950's Elvis Presley, Jeff Lynne & ELO, Beethoven, Danny Elfman, This Train, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Larry Norman, Chuck Berry, ideola, Buddy & Julie Miller , Johnny Cash, Phil Keaggy , Randy Stonehill, others...
Movies
Cyrano de Bergerac (José Ferrer version), Awakenings, Man on the Moon, Braveheart, Punch Drunk Love, Dirty Work, Dances with Wolves, That Thing You Do, Ferris Bueller's, Blues Brothers, We Were Soldiers, Groundhog Day, Bruce Almighty, Liar Liar, A Simple Plan, Cabin Boy, Indiana Jones trilogy, This is Spinal Tap, Signs, The Fugative, the original Star Wars Trilogy, Nightmare Before Christmas & everything else by Tim Burton, Saving Private Ryan, Team America, Ray, Walk the Line, Hitchcock, The Flaming Lips: Fearless Freaks, Napoleon Dynomite, The Swirling Eddies: Spittle & Phlegm, U2: Rattle & Hum, Wilco: I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, The Sixth Sense, The Marx Brothers films, A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Let It Be, Daniel Amos: The Making of Mr. Buechner's Dream , Daniel Amos: Live in Anaheim 1985 , Avalon, A Midnight Clear, Patriot Games, others...
Television
Late Show with David Letterman, The Simpsons, The Dog Whisperer, Seinfeld, Ernie Kovacs, Whos Line Is It Anyway?, You Bet Your Life, SNL (various years), Newsradio, Get A Life, Larry Sanders Show, Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs, Ghost Hunters, Catscratch, Dennis Prager's old show... the occasional documetary... I'm waiting for other good shows to appear...
Books
Anything by G.K. Chesterton, "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole, Flannery O'Connor, Brennan Manning, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy, "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by Irving, Frederick Buechner, Groucho & Harpo Marx's autobiographies, John Lennon's books, "The Time Machine Did It" by John Swartzwelder, Chris Elliot, George Martin, Geoff Emerick, Cynthia Lennon's "John," "An Arrow Pointing to Heaven" by Smith, Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, Reed Arvin, etc...
Comedy
Norm MacDonald, Groucho Marx & the Marx Brothers, Mitch Hedberg, Andy Kaufman, Ernie Kovacs, David Letterman, Chris Elliot, Team America
Heroes
G.K. Chesterton, George Martin, Buddy Holly, Rich Mullins, Bono, Dennis Prager, Flannery O'Connor, Frederick Buechner, St Francis of Assisi, Terry Taylor, Mike Roe, Mark Heard, Phil Keaggy, John Lennon, Brian Wilson, Paul McCartney, Abraham Lincoln, Leonardo Da Vinci, Mozart, Randy Stonehill, Sam Phillips, Brennan Manning, Billy Graham, Superman, Meat Shoulder, The Colossal Cowboy, Gordy the Fish, etc
Sounds Like: Eh, who cares...
Record Label: none - indie