Music, Musical Instruments, Home Recording.
I'd like to meet:
Traditional Skins, Suedes, Smoothies, Byrds, Rudies, Mods, Soulies, Other Instrument Makers and Repair Techs, No Neonazis, No Boneheads, No Racial Separatists of Any Kind
Music:
Traditional Ska, Rocksteady, Skinhead Reggae, Early Dancehall, Northern Soul, Dub, Free Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Bebop, Hard Bop, Cool Jazz, Modernist Classical, Funk, Motown, Neo-Soul, Old School Rap, Prog Rock
Movies:
The Harder They Come, This Is Ska, Reggae, Bronco Bullfrog, Lord of the Rings, anything by Christopher Guest and his crew (Mighty Wind, Waiting for Guffman, etc.), any tasteful comedy.
Television:
Primarily UPN and Fox. Occaisionaly NBC if it comes in clearly enough.
Books:
Boss Sounds: Classic Skinhead Reggae, Reggae: A Rough Guide, Jazz: The First Century, The Hammond Organ: Beauty in the B, Vintage Synthesizers, Producing in the Home Sutdio with Pro Tools, The Art of the Trumpet Maker, any book about the repair and making of musical instruments, The Bagavad Gita, Teachings of Buddha, and all the Bailey Books.
Heroes:
Roland Alphonso, Don Drummond, Charlie Parker, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy and any current Traditional Ska, Rocksteady, or early Reggae musician that is better than me
