cello, guitars and sitars, soul music and the brothers and sisters that make it, New Orleans"real, genuine, authentic" people, coffee, fine art, photography, antiques, Dr. Bronner's Magic Peppermint Soapgood books, beautiful days, unpolluted water, good things happening unexpecdedly, the rare day when everything goes smoothly, long talks with my mother, meeting new people, listening to an entire album or watching a great movie for the first time, Photoshop, taking care of others, cats- To help out with the feral cats in your area, please visit Alley Cat Allies.
I'd like to meet:
Barack and Michelle
Music:
Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Satie, Saint-Saens, Berlioz, Mozart, The Beatles, Keane, Landon Pigg, Procol Harum, The Mamas and the Papas, Donovan, Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Association,3 Dog Night, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Sly and the Family Stone, The Byrds, The Four Tops, The Yardbirds, Little Richard, Jeff Beck, Jaco Pastorius, The Fifth Dimension, Johnny Cash, Tony Joe White,Elvis Presley,Johnny Cash, Ry Cooder, Peter Gabriel, Buffalo Springfield, The Lovin' Spoonful, Melanie, The Beach Boys, Paolo Nutini, Smokey Robinson, Dusty Springfield, Billy Joel, Audioslave, Muse, Rage Against the Machine, Paris (the rapper), Outkast, Beck, Plain White T's, Louis XIV, The Cat Empire, Incubus, Fiona Apple,The Decemberists, Sweatlodge, Manu Joulia, Damien Rice, Pearl Jam, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Eurythmics/Annie Lennox, Yes, The Hollies, The Animals, The Kinks, The Who, Moody Blues, Bonnie Raitt, Dire Straits, The Clash, Steppenwolf, The Cranberries, En Vougue, INXS, Garbage, Gwen Stefani/ No Doubt, Jewel, REM, Sting, The Police, Sheryl Crow, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell,Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor,The Band,Carly Simon, Bob Dylan, Harry Chapin, Jimi Hendrix, Tom Jones, Iron Butterfly, James Gang, David Essex, Pentangle, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Jackson Browne, Fleetwood Mac, Squeeze, Simply Red, Robert Palmer, Kings of Convenience, Dolly Parton, Alanis Morisette, Wilson Pickett, Kenny Loggins, Cream/ Eric Clapton, The Zombies, Van Morrison, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Electric Light Orchestra, Sam and Dave (boy, these guys were great!)
Traveling Wilburys, The Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, Joan Osborne, KT Tunstall, Credence Clearwater/ John Foggerty, Roy Orbison, Jim Croce, Gordon Lightfoot, Percy Sledge, Stevie Wonder, The Doobie Brothers, Train, YES, Cristina Aquilera, Tracy Chapman, David Bowie, The Dixie Chicks, John Cougar Mellencamp, Eric Burdon and War, B-52's, U2, King Crimson, Bruce Springsteen, Ok-Go, The Shins, James Blunt, Kelly Clarkson, Steely Dan, The Ides of March, and I could go on. I consider myself a baby-boomer at heart, especially when it comes to music.
Movies:
Ahhh...where to begin. I'm a Turner Classic Movie fan but appreciate any film with a great screenplay, cast, cinematography, direction, etc... My mother used to be in the film business and with her insight I have gained an even greater appreciation for the art of movie making, especially for what goes on behind the scenes.A few of my favorites include:"The Red Shoes""The Third Man" "Citizen Kane""Out of the Past"All of Hitchcock's films, especially "Spellbound" with two of my favorite actors, Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. I also love the fact that Salvador Dali collaborated with Hitchcock to produce the "dream sequence" which truly makes the film "spellbinding"."Laura" and another one of my favorite Gene Tierney films "Dragonwyck", a film in which she co-stars with a distant relative of mine Vincent Price.and one more of Tierney's that I love- "Whirlpool" which was directed by the great Otto Preminger.My favorite team of sleuths. Mr. and Mrs. Nick and Nora Charles."The Unsuspected" This film was the first film that really turned me onto black and white movies.Great book turned movie. "Goodbye, Mr. Chips""Joanna" This campy Brit flick I just happend to see one day. It caught my eye because of its title, which bears my name. Like I said, it's very campy, but, because it's British, I enjoyed it thoroughly."Bladerunner"More recent favorites:"Gattaca"The "Bourne" movies
"Sir, No Sir!""Man of the Year""A Scanner Darkly""V for Vendetta""Michael Clayton""In the Valley of Elah""No Country For Old Men" (and all other Coen bros. films)
"Atonement"
"The Last Waltz"Anyhoo...the list goes on.Actors:Louise Brooks, Mary Pickford, Lilian Gish, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe, Gregory Peck, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Orson Wells, Joseph Cotten, Jose Ferrer, Ingrid Bergman, Gene Tierney, Vincent Price, Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Judy Garland, Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracey, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Huston, John Huston, Myrna Loy, Warren Williams, William Powell, David McCallum, Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, Peter Lorre, Dana Andrews, Marlon Brando, Michael Caine, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Redford, Clak Gable, George Sanders, Jimmy Stewart, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Hayley Mills, Doris Day, Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine, Greer Garson, Betty Grable, Deborah Kerr, Robert Young, Dorothy McGuire, Hurd Hatfield, Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, Diane Keaton, Hellen Mirren, Woody Allen, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, Faye Dunaway, Michael Keaton, Maryl Streep, John Cusack, Hugh Laurie, George Clooney, Clive Owen, Natalie Portman, Nicole Kidman, Kiera Knightley, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, Dustin Hoffman, Kathleen Turner, William Hurt, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, David Strathairn...
Television:
"Little Lulu""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
"The Fugitive""Perry Mason""Ben Casey""Get Smart"
"Kojak""Hullabaloo""The Man from U.N.C.L.E."My favoite Belgian sleuth "Poirot""Countdown with Kieth Olbermann" He's the only news commentator on TV who has the balls to say what's on a lot of people's minds when it comes to the Bush administration, this illegal war, government corruption, and the rest of the bullshit that we're fed on a daily basis."John Safran vs. God"
Books:
"The Bible", "The Mark of the Christian" by Francis A. Schaeffer, "1984" by George Orwell, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" by Todd Stoppard, "Gaslight" by Patrick Hamilton, "Dangerous Corner" by J.B. Priestly, "Child's Play" by Robert Marasco, "Witness for the Prosecution" by Agatha Christie, "Sleuth" by Anthony Shaffer, "Dial "M" for Murder" by Frederick Knott, "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxely, "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Sallinger, "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand, Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, Kurt Vonnegut, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Ayn Rand, C.S. Lewis (particularly "The Screwtape Letters"), "A Scanner Darkly" by Philip K. Dick, "Mythology" by Edith Hamilton...
Heroes:
JesusMy beautiful motherSgt. Matt MaupinJFK and BobbyMartin Luther King Jr., Malcolm XBarack ObamaTim RussertDick Gregory, for speakin' the TRUTH!!
(The above was from The Black State of the Union 2/23/08)If I were Catholic, I would move to Chicago just to hear this man, Father Michael Pfleger, preach. God bless this man for speaking the truth and truly loving his fellow brethren.
