music, history, fine art, good food, cultures, people, novels, sports, bowling, playing tennis, and last but certainly not least motion pictures.
Anyone and everyone, old friends and new friends
classical music is my favorite, but I love it all. Madeline Flash, Beirut, Don Ellis Orchestra, Polka, Harmonium, Miles Davis, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Who, and of course classic film scores
Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, King Kong (original), Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Saddles, The Producers, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Woody Allen films, any Buster Keaton flick, Battleship Potemkin, Grapes of Wrath, Yellow Submarine, Intolerance, Sunset Blvd., Greed, The General, Thief of Baghdad, Master and Commander, The Hustler, Singin in the Rain, The French Connection, Fred Astaire movies, Alien, Bond series, Star Trek series, Jaws, Indiana Jones, Empire Strikes Back, Warhol's Dracula, LizstOmania, North By Northwest, Nightmare Before Christmas and so many more... my favorite directors are in no order: Kubrick, Hitchcock, D.W. Griffiths, Demille, Wilder, Von Stroheim, Burton etc... some of my favorite film composers: Hermann, Kurt Weill, Morricone, Newman, Mancini, Goldsmith, Bernstein, Prokofiev, Elfman, Don Ellis.
Vintage SNL, Seinfeld, Simpsons, Family Guy, Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs
My Father, my mentor Byron Peebles