listening to music, eating fine foods (the stranger the better), drinking fine wine and fine beer, cooking and waundering aimlessly. doing any or all of these things with my wife and friends makes for very goodly time.
I'd like to meet:
no one and anyone. i've met several famous people and know a folksinger or two personally. i've found that if you introduce yourself to famous people they are usually glad to talk to you. i've done it on several occasions and come out of it relatively unscathed. the thrill does wear off quickly though and not much comes of it.
Music:
cheapsuit serenaders, holy modal rounders, tom waits, captain beefheart, woody guthrie, jack guthrie, ramblin jack elliot, bill nettles, uncle dave macon, patti smith, maybelle carter, edith piaf, eartha kitt, dorsey dixon, the fuggs, the dead, sarah lee guthrie & johnny irion, the mammals, vance gilbert, bob marley, desmond decker, peter tosh, bunny wailer, mahalia jackson, the staples singers, ritchie havens, pete seeger, dave van ronk, frank zappa, klezmorim, the flying bulgar klezmor band, ramsey midwood, the new orleans klezmer allstars, neville brothers, proffessor longhair, dr. john, rebirth brass band, dirty dozen brass band, the original blind boys of alabama, the blasters, mojo nixon, dash rip rock, new duncan imperials, paul robeson, chistine lavin, umelt, rev tor band, albert collins, buddy guy, gatemouth brown, elizabeth cotton, sonny terry and brownie magee, huddie ledbedder, folk uke, john prine, ralph stanley, charley patton, ten years after, csn&y, the dillards, norman blake, mickey katz, david lindley, and arlo the list is endless..... and pretty much any blues, jazz, counrty,gospel, folk and apalachian recorded before 1930.
Movies:
8 1/2 or anything by fellini, cinema paradiso, enchanted april, delicatessen, city of lost children, amelie, anything by almodavar, anything by jean cocteau(especially orpheus), saddest music in the world, slacker, take the money and run (my acting debut) or anything by woody allen, napolean dynamite, the razors edge (either version), anything by jim jarmusch (especially down by law), smoke, fritz the cat, crumb, american splendor, sideways, any marx bros., anything by truffaut, how to draw a bunny, anything by kurosawa, in the mirror of maya deren, divine horseman: voodou gods of haiti, the seventh seal, repo man, lost horizon, isn't this a time (my wife "the cookie lady" of carnegie hall appears for about 3 seconds as does her mother, alices restaurant, rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, anything by wim wenders (especially until the end of the world & buena vista social club), fitzcarraldo (or anything by werner herzog),
Television:
most television sucks except for the daily show and jeopardy
Books:
the razors edge, moon and sixpence, candide, zadig, on the road, dharma bums, subteranens( or any thing by kerouac), fear and loathing on the campaign trail or in las vegas, don quixote, the peaceful warrior, teachings of don juan, sidhartha, the glass bead game, steppenwolf, the tracker, troutfishing in america, a conferderate general at big sur ( or any thing by brautigan), tropic of cancer (or capricorn), atlas shrugged, fountainhead, naked, assasination vacation, notes from a dirty old man, post office, factotum, the brothers karamozov, notes from the underground, mark twain's short story "the mysterious stranger", the age of reason, the thiefs journal, naked lunch, junky, red dirt marijuana, moby dick, gullivers travels, howl, the heart of darkness, anything by john fante or jim thompson, confederacy of dunces, anything by vonnegut, ..... oh hell, i've been sitting around the firestation for 23 years. the list is long. i've tried to read everything by the authors above. i'll just add a few more authors and leave it at that: camus, celine, anais nin, sherman alexie,paul bowles, kafka, wells, hilton, thomas pynchon, joyce, neil cassady,
