I have several interests:
- Independent film production & live theatre
- Comic books!
- Star Trek, Star Wars...sci-fi
- WWII aircraft
- U.S. Veterans
- Motion picture scores
- Autograph collecting
- 60's- 70's nostalgia
- Halloween & costumes!
- Classical music
- Good Bar-b-que!
- Dragon*Con
- Mac computers
Electric Light Orchestra/Jeff Lynne, The Move, The Idle Race
Dave Edmunds
Steve Miller
70's pop, Rockabilly,
The Bee Gees,
Fats Domino,
Creedence Clearwater Revival,
Carl Perkins,
Chuck Berry,
Lightnin' Hopkins, Brian Setzer,
Shocking Blue
Suzi Quatro!
Nick Lowe
Dave Clark Five, Buddy Holly, Del Shannon,
Dean Martin
Perry Como, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Albert Collins, Gene Pitney, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Big Star, Ambrosia...
Buck Owens,
Merle Haggard, Jerry Reed, Marty Robbins...
Soundtrack composers:
Jerry Goldsmith
John Williams,
Leonard Rosenman,
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
John Barry,
Gerald Fried,
Laurence Rosenthal
Fred Steiner, Barry Gray, James Horner, Alex North, Max Steiner, Derek Wadsworth, Sol Kaplan, ..more...
Classical composers:
Tchaikovsky,
Wagner,
Beethoven, Bruckner, Dvorak...more!
Classical conductors:
Antal Dorati
Eugene Ormandy, Evegeny Svetlanov,
Leonard Bernstein, Istvan Kertesz, Anton Nanut
Star Wars Trilogy,
Superman,
Star Treks I-VI,
Nosferatu (1922), The Wizard of Oz,
Excalibur
Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), King Kong (1933), RoboCop, The Boys From Brazil, , The Poseidon Adventure,
Planet of the Apes series,
The Wicker Man,
Deliverance, The Invisible Man,
Psycho
Dracula (1979), The Omega Man,
RoboCop
Ghost Story, The Battle of Britain,
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Flash Gordon (1980),
Time Bandits, Black Christmas, Poltergeist
Smokey and the Bandit,
Jason and the Argonauts, The Bad Seed (1956),
Cape Fear (1962), 1984, Tora! Tora! Tora!,
Airplane!, Airplane II: The Sequel
Top Secret!, The Naked Gun
The Miracle Worker, Blue Thunder, Electra Glide In Blue, Night of the Hunter,
Ed Wood, Shaun of the Dead, Tales From the Crypt,
The Elephant Man
The Innocents, Dead Again, The Hindenburg, Farenheit 451
Hamlet (1996),
Tarantula!
Superman Serials (starring Kirk Alyn).
PLUS:
Hammer Horror Films
Errol Flynn epics!
James Bond 007
Mel Brooks films
Harry Potter films!
And all Stanley Kubrick films!
Favorite directors:
Stanley Kubrick
Freddie Francis
Terrence Fisher,
John Boorman
John Carpenter
Tobe Hooper
John Badham
Michael Curtiz
Bob Clark
Peter Hyams
Roger Corman
Robert Wise
Mel Brooks
Irvin Kershner
Roy Ward Baker
William Castle
Joe Dante, J. Lee Thompson,
Guy Hamilton, Sam Rami, Raoul Walsh, Larry Cohen
and many more...!
Oh, and if you get fed up
with what Hollywood is releasing,
give independent films a try.
They are funny, scary, dramatic,
creative and usually very original.
Star Trek,
The Honeymooners, The Jackie Gleason Show
All in the Family,
Gilligan's Island,
Battlestar Galactica,
The Benny Hill Show
Star Trek - Enterprise
The Six Million Dollar Man
Sanford & Son,
The Incredible Hulk,
The Brady Bunch,
The Prisoner,
Dragnet,
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,
The Simpsons
Mr. Bean
Enterprise, Adam-12, WKRP in Cinncinati
The Soupy Sales Show,
The Dean Martin Show, The Muppet Show, The Carol Burnett Show,
TJ Hooker,
The Adventures of Superboy, The Waltons, King of Queens
Match Game,
Hollywood Squares
Father Ted.....and more!
Plus many Gerry Anderson shows:
Space: 1999,
UFO,
Space Precinct, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Stingray...
JOE 90,
Growing up I watched a lot of animation including:
Filmation studios'
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon,
Star Trek The Animated Series,
Blackstar, Tarzan - Lone Ranger & Zorro Adventure Hour... Live action shows:
Shazam!
Isis, Space Academy & Jason of Star Command Ark II, The Ghostbusters. Also: Johnny Quest, Spider-man (1967),
Superman & Batman the Animated Seires.
Anime is great fun to watch as well. Some of my farvorites include:
Battle of the Planets (Gatchaman),
Star Blazers, Zillion, Orguss, Orguss 02, Cashan Robot Hunter, Fight! Iczer-One, Angel Cop, Wicked City and more.
If it look like many of these shows are from a while back, you're right. I don't watch much new televison because overall televison today is mostly GARBAGE.
I read more non-fiction now than anything else. And also several Marvel & DC comicbook titles.
Non-fiction:
'Jane's Battles With the Luftwaffe' by Martin W. Bowman
"Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee" by Stan Lee
"Growing Up Brady" by Barry Williams
"Backstage With the Original Hollywood Squares" by Peter Marshall
"The Fair Tax Book" by Neil Boortz
"Get A Life" by William Shatner
Fiction:
"The Mouse and the Motorcycle" by Beverly Cleary (a favorite from childhood)
"The Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum
"Cyborg" by Martin Caidin (inspiration for the Six Million Dollar Man)
Captain America #100!
Our brave U.S. veterans & civil servants past & present, who saved and continues to save our butts, our country and the planet.
We salute you!
Other heroes include:
Ronald Reagan,
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson
Comic book greats: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby & Sal Buscema.
Plus:
General Douglas MacArthur,
Winston Churchill, Teddy Roosevelt, Buzz Aldrin, Rush Limbaugh, Sir Ernest H. Shackleton, & President George W. Bush, Roger Corman, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Bob Kane, Curt Swan, Gil Kane, Denny O'Neil, Neal Adams, Jack Kirby, John Byrne, Capt. America, Superman, Spider-man, The Incredible Hulk, and more...
Truth Justice and the American Way