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About Me



My Interests

Music - all of it. I'm not some poser who says "I like all music.....but not country or rap."

I'd like to meet:

I already met her.

Music:

The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Sublime, Buddy Holly, Dispatch, State Radio, Violent Femmes, Brian Setzer, Stray Carts, Eddie Cochran, Ritchie Valens, O.A.R., Stevie Ray Vaughn, Muddy Waters, Spinal Tap, Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters, Dwight Yokam, Authority Zero, Goldfinger, Long Beach Dub Allstars, Long Beach Short Bus, Slightly Stoopid, Filabuster, Dubcat, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, Floater, Jeff Beck, Jeff Healey Band, Chuck Berry, Grateful Dead, Soul Coughing, Reverend Horton Heat, Rancid, Op Ivy, NoFX, Lagwagon, Cake, Braddigan, Pete Francis, Donovan, Donavon Frankenreiter, Rod Stewart & Faces, Them, Cyrcle, Manfred Mann, Rodney Crowell, Danny Gatton, moe., Doc Watson, Dishwalla, Dance Hall Crashers, Tim Armstrong, The AquaBats, Buck-O-Nice, Homegrown, Beck, The Jerry Garcia Band, Bob Weir, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, My morning Jacket, Old 97's, Andrew Bird, Feist, M. Ward, Band of Horses, Iron + Wine, Prince Billy, Wilco, Devendra Barnhart, Josh Ritter, Westbound Train

Movies:

American Beauty, The Departed, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Walk The Line, Top Gun, Goonies, Hudson Hawk, Eddie & The Cruisers, Pirates of Silicon Valley

Television:

Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, Dog The Bounty Hunter, Top Chef, First 48 Hours, Dirty Jobs, Modern Marvels, Ice Road Truckers, Mythbusters, Man vs. Wild, Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D List, Dog Whisperer, Anderson Cooper: 360, Jon & Kate Plus 8, Paranormal State, UFO Hunters, Ghost Hunters, Biggest Loser, Celebrity Apprentice, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Oprah's Big Give
Pretty much anything on NatGeo, A&E, Bravo, The History Channel and The Military Channel...and none of those gay shows found on VH1 or MTV.

Books:

Puddinhead Wilson, Catcher In The Rye, Letters Home From Vietnam, Mark Twain

Heroes:

Buddy Holly, Alan Clarke, Brian Setzer, SRV, Warren Haynes, Bradley Nowell, Bette Midler, Pete Anderson, Chuck Berry, Ry Cooder, George Harrison, Mark Knopfler, Peter Green, Les Paul, Lou Reed, Ike Turner, Joe Naylor, moe., Gordon Gano and anyone who plays a Tele or a Reverend.

My Blog

No more Vans

After being a loyal Vans shoe customer for over 10 years, I had to flip them to proverbial bird and find another company to purchase my leather moccasins from. DC shoes are the shizzle. They’re ...
Posted by Ron Dillon" on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:25:00 PST

Im giving up the guitar...

...to live the life of a hip-hop mogul. I’m serious. I wanna be on MTV Cribs and drive a Chrylser 300 with my my name engraved in my 22" dubs. No...think about it. I can just sample music alrea...
Posted by Ron Dillon" on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:34:00 PST

My letter to Vans: A Complaint from "Bigfoot"

After dealing with the frustration of no longer being able to shop in Vans stores for shoes because they don't have my size and never finding styles that I like in something bigger than a 13, I decide...
Posted by Ron Dillon" on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:20:00 PST

I’m done

I'm done with my pedalboard. I'm serious. I think I'm happy with my setup, and would love to get back into a band for fun to be able to use it. I'm sick of playing gigs at Madison Square Bedroom. ...
Posted by Ron Dillon" on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:06:00 PST

I’m a gear whore

I got to thinking about all the guitar-related gear that I've bought and sold this year alone. I think I have issues. Gear Bought:Reverend Gil Parris Signiture GuitarBoss DD-20 Boss TR-2Boss BD-2Boss...
Posted by Ron Dillon" on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:41:00 PST

The best $40 we’ve ever spent...

So this weekend we went up to Vegas. Danielle found this smokin' deal for a room at Harrah's on the strip for only $40. It was an online deal only....as the rooms were going for $160. We booked it a f...
Posted by Ron Dillon" on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:05:00 PST