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Jer

The quality of friends far outweighs the quantity.

About Me

This one is going to require more thought, so keep checking and I'll get around to this BIG one. But a few quick blurbs about me while I'm thinking this one out. Musically, I love the 70's & 80's the most. I do go back to some 60's music from time to time. The 70's were the age of "Art Rock" & the 80's "Tecno Pop". Though I played drums in my early years, my first love is piano/electric keyboards. Second to that would be guitar/bass guitar followed by violin. I am an artist, and like to spend time with my friends doing fun things. I don't get to write songs & poetry, play my drums and take as many photographs like in the past, but that all still interests me to do someday again. I spend a lot of time on my Macintosh G5 computer. I am working with digital photography, Photoshop, digital painting and touching up of photographs. I collect old things, all kinds of things. I even have a 100-year-old cylinder Edison record. I like unusual things, things you can't find that easy anymore. I am a small inventor of electrical and practical things. Check out the video link below, Eddie Jobson "Turn It Over" He is a favorite violin & keyboard player of mine. If you can't copy & paste the link, just go to YouTube to find & play it.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbu7i16N6PA
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My Interests

Music, photography, writing, art, collecting things, comic books and Super-Heroes, Macintosh computers, old TV shows & movies, bowling, tennis, football, hockey and creative positive people.

I'd like to meet:

Lynda Carter, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, members of Yes, Asia & King Crimson, Rush, Pat Benatar, Eric Johnson, Belinda Carlisle, Eddie Jobson, Terry Bozzio and almost any musician.

Music:

My favorites are Emerson, Lake & Palmer(ELP), Genesis, Asia, Neil Young, CSN &Y, Tears For Fear, The Beatles, Paul McCarney & Wings, Judy Collins, Yes, Rick Wakeman, Eric Johnson, Rick Derringer, Steve Miller, Elton John, Rush, Pink Floyd, The Who, Robert Plant/Zep, The Moody Blues, Belinda Carlisle, Go-Go's, Blondie, ELO, Berlin, Ah-Ha, Pat Benatar, Heart, The Cars, Missing Persons, Mike Oldfield, The Beach Boys, Carly Simon, The Police/Sting, The Doors, Enya, The Ventures, The Surfaris, Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks, Jimi Hendrix, King Crimson, Journey, Deep Purple, Eddie Jobson, America, CCR, The Romantics, The Thompson Twins, The Yardbirds, David Bowie, Split Enz, The Mamas and The Papas, The Motels, Carole King, The Byrds, Bob Dylan, The Jefferson Airplane & too many to name. YES 1980 Steve Howe & Chris Squire- Photo by Jerry

Movies:

Star Wars Trilogy, Planet Of The Apes, Spider-Man, Ben-Hur, Blade Runner, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, The Wizard Of Oz, Back To The Future, Days Of Thunder, The Incredibles, War Of The Worlds (original & new), Dirty Harry, Rocky, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Rambo First Blood, Gladiator, The Day After Tomorrow.

Television:

The Twilight Zone, The Time Tunnel, Star Trek, The Outer Limits, Kung-Fu, The Incredible Hulk, MASH, Johnny Quest, Lost In Space, Ed Sullivan, NBC Mystery Movies, PBS, The History Channel, The Prisoner, Hogan's Heroes, Murder She Wrote, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, Land of The Giants, Night Gallery, The Tonight/Late Shows, Seinfeld, My Name Is Earl, college & pro sports, The Office, Wonder Woman.

Books:

Unfortunity I don't have much time for books. I had to read lots of them for Western Literature in college. I like visual things and spoken words the best. Dostoyevsky's Crime And Punishment. Ok here's one of my favorites from childhood "Where The Wild Things Are."

Heroes:

My dad. He was a World War II Bronze Metal winner for putting his life on the line to reconnect communications under heavy enemy fire in Italy. He served from 1942-45. I like anyone who is an underdog. Music wise it would be Carl Palmer, Keith Emerson, Neil Peart, Simon Phillips, Terry Bozzio, Rick Derringer, Steve Howe, Eric Johnson, Rick Wakeman, Paul McCartney & too many to list. Ansel Adams in photography.

My Blog

15 Minutes Of Fame by Andy Warhol

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. - Andy Warhol
Posted by Jer on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 10:44:00 PST

Dimensions of space & the mind by Albert Einstein

"A mind that has been stretched will never return to its original dimension."- Albert Einstein
Posted by Jer on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:29:00 PST

THE DREAM IS REAL

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality. - Toni Cade Bambara
Posted by Jer on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:59:00 PST

ARE YOU BORED WITH LIFE?? by Dale Carnegie

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."- Dale ...
Posted by Jer on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 04:50:00 PST

KEEP PEACE WITH YOUR SOUL & STRIVE TO BE HAPPY

"Therefore be at peace with your god, whatever you conceive him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life. Keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery a...
Posted by Jer on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:24:00 PST

COURAGE by Dave Thomas

"We tend to make courage too dramatic. Courage is often doing something simple, unpleasant, or boring again and again until we get it down pat. People who are physically challenged and who have the de...
Posted by Jer on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 04:52:00 PST

DON'T HAVE THE RUG PULLED FROM UNDER YOUR FEET

"Instead of having the rug pulled from under your feet, learn to dance on a shifting carpet."-Thomas F. Crum
Posted by Jer on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:54:00 PST

Legend In Your Own Time by Carly Simon

This has alwasy been one of my favorite songs & a little self-revealingLegend In Your Own Time by Carly SimonWell I have known youSince you were a small boyAnd your mama used to say"My boy is gonna gr...
Posted by Jer on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:55:00 PST

THINGS FROM THE HEART

"Do the kinds of things that come from your heart. When you do you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for someone else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overwhelmed w...
Posted by Jer on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:45:00 PST

THE DREAM IS REAL

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality. -Toni Cade Bambara
Posted by Jer on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:46:00 PST