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Lonnie, AKA: The "TUNES"

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About Me

rpmSURFER.com"I AIN'T AS GOOD AS I ONCE WAS... BUT... I'M AS GOOD ONCE... AS I EVER WAS".........I Learned to Surf in Hawaii and have gone back to the North Shore as often as I could every since. Now loving the Mexpipe down in Puerto Escondido, Mexico and living down here 8 to 10 months out of the year. Puerto is Awesome!Went back to my FIRST LOVE in 1976, ie: "OPEN WHEEL AUTO RACING" and raced with the UNITED STATES AUTO CLUB "USAC"...BEST WINS: The 1982 INDIANAPOLIS SPEEDROME 500...the "IZB GRAND PRIX" NEW ZEALAND GRAND PRIX at Western Springs NEW ZEALAND, and being the 1977 ROOKIE OF THE YEAR with "USAC".Married for 21 years but now she's gone off to Heaven...Now just helping my good friend Woody with his business "CREATION CAPTURED" (Woody is a TRUE ARTIST of Ocean Photography) and with Eric my other Puerto friend wanting to do a Movie I think the furture is looking bright or at least FUN!!!COME ON DOWN TO PUERTO AND ENJOY IT ALL. You'll find me swinging on my Hammock drinking some tropical drink that my cook/maid makes everyday for me.References: USACRACING.COM CREATIONCAPTURED.COM GOOD OLE COMMON SENSE is always BEST!!!

My Interests

rpmSURFER.comPhoto pages from Puerto Escondido's famous MEXPIPE surfing beach

I'd like to meet:

"TOMORROW IS A PROMISE TO NO ONE" So........Angelina Jolie, Halle Berry, Salma Hayek, JESSICA ALBA, ...Please... COME ON DOWN! Then at my age maybe Goldie Hawn could come on down (heck I use to know Kurt when we were Kids racing 1/4 Midget racecars and his Dad, Bing Russell was really a cool guy. Last time I saw Bing was back around 1990 at Ascot Park Raceway, CA. It would be nice to meet Goldie (my Laugh-In puppy love of the 60's).Any babe that likes old men!Surfer Babes! Racing Babes! Beach Bunny Babes! Mall Babes! Music Babes! Aritist Babes! Movie Babes! Working Babes, NO not Ho's, well let me think on that...Get the idea? BABES!All that enjoy and Love the Ocean, Racing, or fun doing what they LOVE to the MAX!Movie people.Racing fans (open wheel racing) or NASCAR if your a Tony Stewart fan, Tony is a friend of mine.Cool with a "K" KOOL PEOPLE! "K" STANDS FOR KICK ASS KOOL!People persons.

Music:

LOVE IT ALL: FROM BEETHOVEN / RAVEL-BOLERO to COUNTRY to HARD ROCKDEPENDS ON WHOM I'M WITH, but a little R & B is ALWAYS GOOD, but if alone a little Hard Rock gets me going or pumped up for wherever I'm off to. Ie: Racing/Surfing/ or just on the Hunt.

Movies:

"The GODFATHER"! "FORREST GUMP" with Tom Hanks, "THE BIG LEBOWSKI" with Jeff Bridges, "O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?", with George Clooney, "EDDIE and the CRUISERS" (1983) The band actually playing the music is John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band, and the actor playing Wendell, the Cruisers' sax player, is the real-life sax player for them. "THERES SOMETHING ABOUT MARY" (with my favorite Surfer Babe: Cameron Diaz), ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST" with Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, and a very (((HOT))) Claudia Cardinale in her prime, "SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION", with Tim Robbins/Morgan Freeman "CASINO" with: Robert Dinero, Sharon Stone, and Joe Pesci, "POINT BREAK" with Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, & Lori Petty, "OSCAR" (1991) with Sylvester Stallone playing: Angelo "Snaps" Provolone, "BEN HUR" with Charlton Heston. Then there's "THE BIG WHEEL" with Mickey Rooney...cool Movie for us hard-core Racing People or for this Old "HAS BEEN" Race car Driver.

Television:

Prison Break, Boston Legal, UFC "Ultimate Fighter" on Spike TV, CatDog, CNBC "Squawk Box", Discovery Channel, History Channel, a little FOX News, SPORTS: X-Games, anything Racing (SPEED CHANNEL), Surfing, College Basketball, Colts Football (Let go to the SUPER BOWL this year!) I do miss Johnny Carson and the old cast of Saturday Night Live, but then I'm an Ole Fart!

Books:

NOTHING LIKE A GOOD MURDER MYSTERY but then there's:Always some room for a little T.S. Eliot (esp. the early poems), Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, J. Gilbert, etc."The Odyssey" Homer"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Ken Kesey"The Day of the Locust" NOT SURE BUT I THINK ITS BY: Nat West"I, Claudois" Graves"The Hobbit" J. R.R. Tolkien"Lord of the Rings" J. R.R. Tolkien"Catch-22" Joseph Heller"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" C.S. Lewis,Just finished: "The Mourning SEXTON" Michael Baron, "THE WEB" Jonathan Kellerman

Heroes:

MY HERO of the early 60's:Maynard G. Krebs: ((((((((((((((((WORK))))))))))))))))!?!! .......................http://www.bobdenver.com/Maynard_s_Co ffeeHouse/Maynard_G__Krebs/body_maynard_g__krebs.html....... ....................The G stand for Walter: ...........http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/lawrence/15 3/krebs.html.............ALBERT EINSTEN: "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." In Perspective: W.C. FIELDS "Just looking for loopholes." reading the Bible on his deathbed.) TRUE STORY!