In addition to listening to music and d.j.'ing I enjoy playing guitar. Mostly the classical and 12 string acoustic. I'm obsessed with every detail of the guitar and currently working on some unorthodox idiosyncratic directions that I think will bear fruit in a spectacular way...I hope. I'm workin up the chops now and should know in about a year. Other than that I'm a pig for reading: anything and everything: newspapers, magazines, books, books, books...there's a whole world to explore and extrapolate in the pages. Plus there's a "proactive x-factor" that you don't get from the internet. Good wine and cheese are sublime. My favourite dish now is stir fried rice and veggies with melted cheese and wasabi! I also like experimenting with diet and health with the goal being to instill a discernable improvement. For example: doubling water consumption daily or suddenly starting to eat flax seeds or beets. But I'm NOT a health nut. I'm just fascinated by it. Hell, I'll go to White Castle's no problema! I'm trying to substitute tea for coffee, also. I've been moderately successful so far. And I found that breathing exercises really make you feel much better. And of course there's music as therapy. More to come...
ALIVE: Barak Obama, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan Jr., His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Gary Null, Bill Clinton, Ben Kingsley, Walt Frazier, Jennifer Beals, Julee Cruise, Charlotte Rampling, Dolly Parton, Doris Day, Kate & Cindy of the B-52's, Michael McDonald, Donald Fagen, Prince, James Ellroy, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, David Bowie, Nels Cline, Olivia Newton-John, Andrew Weil, Bob Ludwig ///////////////////////DEAD: Rod Serling, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Gram Parsons, Huey Newton, Ike Turner, Anton Lavey, Jesse Owens, Pete Maravich, Cole Porter, Jerry Garcia, John & Alice Coltrane, Dusty Springfield, Elvis Presley, Timothy Leary, Percy Faith/////////////////////////////HISTORY & MYTHOLOGY: Oedipus, Socrates, Albert Einstein, Archimedes, Sisyphus, Harry Houdini, Abe Lincoln, Ben Franklin, Rasputin, Merlin, William Shakespeare, Arc Angel Michael (inspiring), Pocohantas, Sitting Bull, Confucious, Poseidon....otherwise DJ's, musicians, artists, intellectuals, writers, epicures, and heavyhitters like yourself. I also wouldn't mind a cute big boned Botticelli girl!!
Song of the year: "Tears Dry On Their Own" by Amy Winehouse. This song is so emotional and so sad I can't play it anymore; it's too heartbreaking! On music: the genre is not as important as the idea and/or the presentation. A lot of people are not listening as well as they think. Music made purely for money is seldom ever good; trashy maybe. Don't waste your time if you can't make an emotional connection with it, I say. So...these are current obsessions, no particular order: The Beatles (the new Help DVD is great! Some underrated tunes on that), "All Things Must Pass" by George Harrison is a MOUNTAIN of an album. Cat Power (somewhat obsessed with her concept, voice, and guitar technique; or lack of!), John Coltrane (his later free stuff is beyond belief!!), Gram Parsons, Nick Drake, Cat Stevens, early Elton (up to "Captain Fantastic"), Prefab Sprout, Brian Eno, Sufjan Stevens, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, Ornette Coleman, Yoko Ono, Steely Dan, Michael Hedges, Will Ackerman, Erik Satie, Joni Mitchell, Yes, Lee Perry, Burning Spear, Scott Walker, Frank Sinatra, Burt Bacharach, John Lee Hooker, k.d. lang, Anita Baker, to name a few!! Piano trio jazz is the best music for brunch. Bossa nova too! I like Latin music; especially Mariachi and CUMBIA. Contemporary SALSA (I hate that word) is not that good, unfortunately. It hasn't really grown. By the way, the Fania catalougue has been refurbished. That's the real stuff. And of course the Buena Vista guys. Also anything on Atlantic/Atco, Stax/Volt, and Blue Note and Prestige records. And Verve...And Pacific Jazz...and...and...check with me in six months and it'll all be different!
The Night Porter ( dark! ), D.O.A.(good noir), Joe, Young Frankenstine ( R.I.P. Peter Boyle), The Taking Of Pelham 1,2,3., Lost Weekend, Let's Get Lost:(Chet Baker), The Days Of Wine And Roses, The Old Dark House, Blow Up (super cool), The Flim Flam Man, In The Heat Of The Night, King Kong (the original), The Thing (both versions), Blade Runner, The Man With The Golden Arm, Angel Heart, Brokeback Mountain, Hatful Of Rain, Midnight Cowboy, Paris Texas, Easy Rider, The Graduate (indubitably!), A Clockwork Orange, Cooley High, The Doors, The Kids Are Alright, Blue Velvet, Foxy Brown, Boogie Nights (of course!), Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Raging Bull, The Devil In Miss Jones (ok!), The Birds, The Innocents (scary), Cool Hand Luke, Casino Royale (the original), The Apartment, Of Human Bondage (scary after a break up!), What Ever Hapenned To Baby Jane? ( just plain scary!! )...also: Jaws, Yellow Submarine, Woodstock, anything with Mae West, Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Lon Chaney (father & son), Boris Karloff, & Bela Lagosi (without question!). Recently saw the Dylan movie "I'm Not There". Pretty good!
I am a child of the 60's: The Twilight Zone (no contest!) and anything by Rod Serling, The Outer Limits, T.H.E. CAT (NBC '66), Peter Gunn, Dragnet, Get Smart, The Galloping Gourmet, Ed Sullivan, The Munsters, F-Troop, Mission Imposible, The Green Hornet, the Tonight Show (all decades), Conan O'Brian, Night Music (excellent late night 80's show hosted by David Sanborn), The Midnight Special. Currently I like "Lipstic Jungle", "Las Vegas" and "The Office" However these days I'm into radio almost exclusively (NPR and freeform / college)
Like in music I don't care about genre, but...I'm a sucker for noirish crime fiction like: "Shoot The Piano Player" (David Goodis - possibly the best writer ever!), "The Killer Inside Me" (Jim Thompson), "The Black Dahlia" (James Ellroy), "The Cockfighter" Charles Williford. Obviously stuff on music--recently: "Our Band Could Be Your Life" Mike Arazad.
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