music . road trips . summertime . festivals . camping . the color brown . guitars . vinyl records . Vitamin Water . Leinie's Sunset Wheat (aka summer in a bottle) . dark chocolate fondue . beaches . reggae . any island of the Caribbean...
I'd like to meet:
music venues, people needing to hire musicians, a band in need of a tour manager, musicians...especially all those in my music section ~ specifically Ryan Adams ~ Nick Hexum ~ Jim James ~ Jeff Tweedy, other music aficionados, oh...and a philanthropist that would love to be involved with my business...
Music:
SUPPORT LOCAL MUSIC! Nama Rupa . de la Buena . Southbound . Lights Out Asia . Dub District . One Drum . King Soloman . Natty Nation . Stealin Strings . Nabori . Codebreaker . Living Dred . Decibully . Rusty P’s . The Scarring Party . Bagdahd Scuba Review . Micah Olsan . Daniel Nathan Band . The Response . Avoided . Cosmic Railroad . SLM . 357 String Band...BEYOND LOCAL...Bob Marley . Ryan Adams . My Morning Jacket . Wilco . Al Green . The Black Keys . Martin Sexton . Ben Harper . Xavier Rudd . The Police . Sublime . Buena Vista Social Club . North Mississippi Allstars . Ozomatli . The Skatalites . Jenny Lewis . Neko Case . Sarah Lee Guthrie . 311 . Otis Redding . Ray Lamontagne . Mofro . Mike Doughty . Slightly Stoopid . Steel Pulse . Matisyahu . Widespread Panic . moe . Amos Lee . Robert Randolph and the Family Band . Bela Fleck and the Flecktones . Grateful Dead . The Band . Poncho Sanchez . Stevie Wonder . Nina Simone . The Beatles . Santana . Toots and the Maytals . CSNY . Pink Floyd . Ben Taylor . The Big Wu . M Ward . Duke Ellington . Jim Croce . The Black Crowes . Van Morrison . The Rolling Stones . Tom Petty . Led Zeppelin . Velvet Underground . Dr. John . Ravi Shankar . Miles Davis . Jack Johnson . ALO . Parliament . SCI . John Brown's Body . Talking Heads . Hot Buttered Rum String Band . Third World . Leo Kottke/Mike Gordon . The Roots . Matt Costa . Charlie Parker . The Radiators . Soulive . The Funk Brothers . Bedouin Soundclash . The Traveling Wilburys . Galactic . and the list goes on and on...
Movies:
Pump up the Volume . Walk the Line . Ray . Almost Famous (actually anything by Cameron Crowe) . Outside Providence . Standing in the Shadows of Motown . PCU . Singles . Grateful Dawg . De-Lovely . High Fidelity . The Last Waltz . The Beatles Yellow Submarine . Rat Race . Still Life (Indie film I was in during college...no, not the kind you are thinking of)
Television:
Austin City Limits . all the other PBS music specials . American Idol . Scrubs . LOST . Sex and the City . Grey's
Books:
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs . Guitar Man; A Six String Oddyssey . The Rock Snob's Dictionary . Waking up in Chicago . The Rastafarians . Jazz History 101 . The Motown Music Machine . The Song Reader
Heroes:
My parents and grandparents . Bob Marley . Chris Blackwell . Bob Geldof . Willie Nelson . Les Paul . Bo Black . Barak Obama . Simon Cowell . Ralph Nader . Cameron Crowe