CARZ, GUITARZ, MUZIK! I love racing. (Come from a family of race car drivers. So naturally I love NASCAR. Go Jeff Gordon! I love writing music, playing my instruments, writing poetry, songs and short stories. I'm also an artist. I do all sorts of art, because I can't just pick one form over another! I want to do it all! I mostly do oil paintings and I have painted a huge work which can be seen at Moffett Naval Air Station in California. It is an all original oil painting, 11' tall by 7' wide depicting the aerial history of Moffett. It is documented in the Navy Archives as a historical monument to Moffett. I painted it while I was serving in the Navy. I do extremely realistic pencil drawings in color or black and white. I make a lot of jewelry and give it to my friends. I like beading clothing too. I'm also getting into wood carving. I do all sorts of craft projects as well as sewing quilts and costumes for my different moods, bellydance costumes, or for Halloween, and Ren Faire. I especially love making and putting together clothes to wear on stage with my band! I've found sewing is a great relaxing art and yet it is creatively challenging as well! Quilting is a blast! It's painting with cloth!I also love to do computer graphics and art. I like to do all the marketing materials for my band Angel's Dream. (CD's, labels and j-cards, n-shit).I love my guitars!! I totally dig my purple/magenta ESP LTD and my wine wood grain 1972 Gibson Custom Les Paul 3 pickup, 18K gold hardware, (with top of the line Grovers), "fretless wonder" beast. My heart still belongs to my 1958 Dan Electro Silvertone guitar and my "Addicted to Love", Washburn M-80. And Marshall amps RULE!!!! I love my JCM 800 Lead Series Marshall. It has some cool mods to it. I'm still trying to figure out what they all do!
...new friends, musicians, artists and writers and hopefully run into old friends too! So welcome to all you creative creatures, artsy artists, dreamy dreamers, thinkers, musical musicians, movers and shakers! No boring, negative, politically wound up, far leftists, far rightists, Nazis, band equipment theives, manipulators, negative losers, whiners or BS con-artists allowed! I don't give a rat's ass about your politics but I do love philosophy and cosmic conversation. So go ahead and do your thing, draw, paint, dance, sing, play, create, I don't care just as long as you send me something INTERESTING!
God there is not enough room to put in all the bands I love! Well, here's just a few! Led Zepplin, Badlands, Bowie, T-Rex, Tommy Bolan, Angel's Dream, Ozzy, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Wolfmother, Salt & Pepa, Heart, Lita Ford, Yes, Moody Blues, Rush, Fish and Marillion, Crow, Foghat, Steppenwolf, Styx, Van Halen, Boston, Moby, Bad Company (especially Paul Rodgers and anything he does), U2, Police, Sting, STP, Velvet Revolver, Black Crowes, Whitesnake, DLR, Babys, Alicia Keyes, Zebra, Giraffe, Elton John, Hendrix, Klaatu, Meatloaf, Pink Floyd, Roy Orbison, Roxy Music, Nazareth, Beethoven, Def Leppard, Honeymoon Suite, Eric Martin (Mr. Big & 415), Mozart, Tesla, Triumph, Bach, Frank Sinatra, Robin Trower, UFO, Wings, The Who, ELP, Kiss, Loreena McKinnitt, Prince, Judy Garland, Baby Animals, Arc Angels, Badfinger, Bryan Adams, Iron Maiden, Dokken, Cinderella, Cheap Trick, Thin Lizzy, Spinal Tap, Gary Moore, Judas Priest, Lydia Pense, Mastermind, Uriah Heep, Chopin, Michael Schenker, James Gang, ZZ Top, Allman Brothers, Celine Dion, Marshall Tucker, Doobie Brothers, Paganini, Genesis, Bon Jovi, The Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Liszt, Enuff Znuff, Rare Earth.I'm the singer of a great all original rock band called Angel's Dream. My band sounds like no one except if The Doors, Led Zepplin, Van Halen and Aerosmith all got into a massive car accident. We're high energy hard rock! Although I play drums, synthe, and bass, I suck on those but I'm getting more serious about the guitar and violin lately. I use guitar and keys to help write my music. And I love doing musical arrangements, especially for vocals and drums. I have also done some producing and I love working in the recording studio. Love writing lyrics cuz I've been writing poetry since I was a kid! Dr. Seuss ROCKS!
Krikee! I can't list all the movies I love. Just about everyone of them! I have a VERY serious passion for MOVIES! Old or new, all varieties. I love comedies and musicals the most. Especially romantic comedies. But just about any vampire movie will make me ecstatic! Nothing makes me happier than to sit in a theater and watch any great movie, especially if friends come along! My number one favorite movie of all time is Young Frankenstein. It is perfect! Citizen Kane is brilliant, of course, but I love Gone With The Wind for it's historical relevance, romance of the south, and genuine realism of civil war. It covers just about everything, much like Dr. Zhivago, another sweeping epic. Since I'm such a fan of going to the movies, it's hard to pick and choose from so many incredible decades of phenomenal work. I'm just glad to be part of this generation. SciFi kicks ass and I love to read and write it. I'm also glad I got to see the initial Star Wars in a theater, weeks before it was discovered by raging sci-fi fans. There were only 5 people in the entire theater the Saturday matinee after the show opened the previous day! After the very first image of the space ship flying over our heads, we sat jaw dropped the entire time unable to utter a word. All l could say to my best friend (who went with me and my sister and her best friend), was, Oh my God! Is it me? Or was that just the greatest f-n' movie EVER?!!!!! It was such a sleeper that no matter who I told about it during the next couple weeks didn't believe me until the hype kicked in around the third week out! I love all the Star Wars movies, Star Trek movies and shows (especially, Next Generation), and now, I'm in love with Serenity! What a cool movie! The actors actually bleed and get bruised, hurt and limp after they have a fight! They don't come out of a battle with hardly a scratch or only one hair out of place! Very cool! Just like a REAL battle in SPACE! One other cool thing about Serenity, is that you feel like you're right there with them. I like that! :) I also love Catwoman and other movies where women are strong and vital characters. The new Batman is awesome too. And any movie about King Arthur will get my attention. Especially, Excaliber. Which reminds me that I love the movie Legend and the soundtrack to it as well. Jon Anderson, thank you and your gifted friends from YES (and many others) for beaming yourself down from your extraordinary MUSIC LEGEND Universe! Being an avid history fan, any historical, or even period piece like the Merchant Ivory films will be on my list of must sees. The one movie I can watch over and over and over again is Groundhog Day. Heehee! How ironic that sounds! Speaking of Bill Murray, Stripes and Ghostbusters (all of them) are killer funny. Did I really just say killer? Whew! I need a break!
24 is my all time FAVORITE. Oh Keifer.....wow! Hurry up and get out of jail, Keifer! My new favorite show is MOONLIGHT. I can't resist vampires and he is one vampire that I would let make a withdrawal from my blood bank! Who doesn't like Desparate Housewives? I like watching TVLand too. That '70s Show, Boston Legal, Dexter, Weeds, Henry VIII, Entourage, CSI:Miami, Two and a Half Men, Comedy Central. I'm a sucker for happy endings. Not into gross out reality shows where people compete with each other by eating leeches and maggots and sheep eyeballs! Argh! I grew out of the kind of stuff that appeals to 6th graders when I moved on to 7th grade! (A long time ago)! I also love the Sopranos. I love Nip/Tuck and 24. Keifer Sutherland kicks ass! I also dig Weeds and I'd like to check out Rome. Been to the real Rome so I wanna see how accurate it is. Entourage is a staple too.
Okay, Da Vinci Code got me hooked. Liked Angels and Demons. I'm mostly about the writers. I do like good biographies tho'. Dr. Seuss inspired me to start writing poetry when I was only 7 years old! And I still faithfully write poetry (have published a few), and lyrics to this day. Rod Serling got me into reading the Twilight Zone stories. The next was Jules Verne who has taught me to continue using my imagination and to trust my premonitions. And then Edgar Allen Poe who showed me that it's okay to be sad and lonely sometimes, and it's okay to be melancoly for things or people lost or departed. He also showed me that it was okay to put my feelings into verse and take what I learned from Dr. Seuss a lot further. Poe was also born on my birthday which I only recently discovered, but it didn't surprise me since I feel like I know him when I read his works. I began reading prolifically when I was in 5th and 6th grade. That's when I was introduced to Verne, and Poe. In junior high I became inspired by Michael Crichten and James Michner. Everyone should read The Source by Michner. That book set me on a quest for my own spiritual identity. I also loved Jean Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear series. And I am currently working on Colleen McCullough's First Man In Rome series. I read the Grass Crown 1st and now I'm backtracking to the first book and will have to go to the third book, Caesar's Women. Marion Zimmer Bradley is another of my favorite authors. I especially loved The Mists of Avalon. It was refreshing to hear the story of King Arthur (one of my MOST favorite subjects), from the perspective of the women who were very strong and not evil. Another favorite author of mine is Morgan Llewellyn. Anyone who is Irish should read all of her works and in particular, The Lion of Ireland. This is the true story of the king who united all of Ireland's fighting clans into one country. (A story based on facts). If anyone ever doubted that there are real amazing men of legend, Brian Boru is truly the real deal. I haven't read the sequel yet, Pride of the Lions but plan to soon. Currently I'm also working on the second book in the series Dragonfly in Amber. Very cool story about time travel (another subject that intrigues me). Last but not least, I can't leave out Anne Rice's Vampire series. Lestat is truly a unique and interesting fellow. Everyone I know that has read that series wants to become a vampire just like Christian Slater in the movie Interview With A Vampire! I have had a passion and curiousity of vampires since about 5th grade when I created a cross from popsicle sticks to put over my bed for protection after seeing the original "Dracula" for the first time one night when I was babysitting. (And of course, the power went out later!) I've even starred in a play, "Count Dracula", as the victim, Mina Murray with a prominent actor, Eddie Velez as Drac. But one of my favorite books by Rice is The Mummy. That book has sequels written all over it! I'm waiting breathlessly for that sequel, Ms. Rice! Ramses II is also another subject I'm very interested and intrigued by. He seems to be where the birth of vampirism began. If you are an Anne Rice fan or just a fan of vampire lore, you MUST read the Anotated version of Dracula by Bram Stoker. I read every devilish-ous word of it. Truly mind boggling.
My biggest heroes are my family. My mom and dad and little sister Vicki. My mom was always an inspiration because of her endless capacity for love and generosity. I miss her so much. Everything they do or have done amazes me and inspires me! My little sister has an amazing voice. I love her so much! After raising her, I'll never have children. She's my one and only babydoll.I have a several other heros because I look for inspiration in many places. First, Leonardo di Vinci. He was a master of his universe and way ahead of his time. Everything about him inspires me. Secondly, Eleanor Roosevelt. A woman who doesn't get enough props as far as I'm concerned. She too was amazing, intelligent, and ahead of her time. She said: Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. And also: Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. Pretty true. Everyone of us needs to remember these. Then there are three writers that inspired me when I was very young. (See the Books area.) I am a fan of the Art Deco art period but I do love the modern works of Michael Parks who inspires and spurs my fantasy imagination with beautiful, haunting and symbolic images of angels and pyramids and unusual weapons and love. Musically, my heroes are REAL musicians that survive the test of time, like Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, and LED ZEPPLIN. I mean, you can't go through a single week, let alone, a day, without hearing Zep's music or their name or the name of one of their members. That's some staying power. They are just as popular today as they were 38 years ago! As a musician, that really inspires and amazes me! Those are not just musical heroes. Those are musical GODS! I like musicians that can laugh with you and AT themselves like David Lee Roth. What a funny guy! I don't like musicians who or actors that think I care about their politics. (Although I do respect Bono). I respect their opinions and their right to have them (Hell, I served my country to protect their rights to have those opinions). But it's not their JOB to force their opinions on their fans. Just shut up and play yer guitar, man or stick to the script! The actors that inspire me the most are surprisingly, Keifer Sutherland and Johnny Depp. I don't think any other actors can play as many different types of people for freaks, demons, lovers, good guys, bad guys, psychotic guys, musical guys, etc... Keifer, I want your babies!