Music is on of my top passions....performing, learning, listening....Playing trad Irish Harp, Classical/jazz piano, cello, Low Whistle, learning Bass, need to play more durms including my bodhran...Thinking of ways to rock out with the harp and cello (maybe a reverb unit)...singing everything from jazz to traditional, to rock to some classical...have a thing for early music and for early 20th century music thru the 1950s, but love lots of goodies that came after the 50s...
Cooking, especally for friends and parties, trying out new recipies, reading, Racing cars, Watching candles burn, sitting by a fireplace with wine and friends, hiking, Watching old movies. I adore Abbott and Costello, Merchant Ivory films, the writings of Nial Gamon, Joseph Campbell, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, P.G.Wodehouse lets me giggle at the world, Dante, Neruda's love poems make me cry, Milosz's poetry makes me stop and become aware of the flapping of a hummingbird's wings...the list could go on and on...
I love walking in the rain....something about it makes me feel alive. Watching live shows, punk, classical, rockabilly, psycobilly, Irish sessions...and on and on.
I'd like to meet:
Fun cool people who can appreciate strange music and think old record stores are the bomb. People who like to laugh, love music and life. Intelligent fun loving individuals who have more fun playing with the boxes their toys came in than the toys themselves. People who enjoy laughter and a glass of red wine. Friends who love to cook and friends who enjoy eating the food that we cook for them. People who respect different cultures, religions and points of view. People with open minds who love and are loyal, sweet and sexy. People who have a passion for life, laughter, music, friendship, memoires, art, looking at the stars and a predilection for corndogs and other fun foods and exploring the world both inner and outer. People who can boogie oggie oggie till they can't boogie oggie oggie no more. Contemplative wine drinkers, fireplace lovers and tree huggers are also welcome. ;o) More concretely: Martin Luther King, Jr., Bruce Campbell, Beethoven, I'd like to see my parents again...and most of my family for that matter, Tori Amos, Neil Gaiman, Gallelieo, Johnny Cash, Naruda...
Music:
Yes...lots of goodies.
'Good funk is the kind you can feel. Bad funk is the kind you can smell'
'All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.' -L. Armstrong
'The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.' -L. Armstrong'There are only two kinds of music in this world: good or bad. Technique doesn't matter, as long as there is spirit in it.' -Duke Ellington
Movies:
An American in Paris
Television:
'Life on Mars' Brilliant!!; The new 'Battlestar Galactia'
Jeeves and Wooster
Books:
Currently reading "Beowulf" (the Seamus Heaney translation) fantastic translation I recommend it over the old english version any day :o) "Orson Scott Card's Alvan Maker series, , Reading over the curriculum to teach Spike Lee's documentary "When the Levees Broke: A requim in four acts" in school,
Lots of books for school. Mainly Music Education related: Vocal pedagogy, piano/vocal literature, jazz studies, children and music, music technology (pro-tools, mainly...just staring so I'm a newbie), Folklore, Folk music, Native American teachings, Irish/Scottish/French legends. Bullitins from 'The Planetary Society' Cooking books, histoies, mysteries, sci-fi, poetry, PG Woodhouse is a pisser, Yates, Joyce, I could go on and on...
And 'The Art of Joyful Living' by Swami Rama and the Dali Lama's "The Art of Happiness"....just in those rare moments of downtime when I get a chance to meditate.
