Current interests subject to change and compulsion: Writing; Reading; People; Golf; Bowling; Aviation; Music; Guitar; History; Bad Wolf, Dogs; Other People's Cats; Love; Both Rock and Roll; Biblical Archaeolgy; Macintosh OSX; Interpersonal Exploration...(to be continued)
I'd like to meet:
Who i would like to meet:
Barack Obama; Wendy Waldman; Billy Payne; Randy Newman; Greg Norman; Jon Anderson; Chris Squire; Rick Wakeman; Steve Howe; Bill Bruford; Alan White; Tony Kaye; Billy Sherwood; May Pang; Mixerman; Gregg Allman; David Caruso; Augusten Xon Burroughs; Bob Taylor; Christopher Eccleston; Dan Jenkins; Marisa Tomei; Robert Crais; Arnold Rimmer (he'll never need a Zimmer); David Gilmour and Rick Wright; Kevin Spacey; Melissa Etheridge; Tim Cockey; Jim Bouton; Drew Barrymore; Don Imus; Chuck Yeager; PDW; Bryan Bartlett Starr; Barry Dennen; Peter Jacobsen; Norman Jewison; Vin Scully; Walter Ray Williams Jr.; Leslie Ann Warren; John Daly; William Jefferson Clinton; Bad Wolf; Hillary Rodham Clinton; Jeremy Irons; Ian Anderson; (to be continued...)Among the dead I'd like to meet (but not in some gooey "Thriller" kind of way) John Charles Daly; Aldous Huxley; John and George; RFK; JFK; HST; RMN (who never let us down); Joseph Smith,Guy Ballard and some other itinerant Prophets who have some 'splaining to do; Phillip K. Dick; Joseph Heller;(to be continued...)
Music:
Nanci Griffith; Feat; Yes; The Fabs; Rodney Crowell; Jim Fear©; Gregg and Duane's band; the people of Clifton; the Warren Brothers; Neil Young; CDJ; Otis Spann, Lee Roy Parnell; Junior Wells and Buddy Guy; Hanna and/or Mceuen(s); Western Underground and CowJazz; Jeff Buckley; Sixwire (really check 'em out--now); Cowboy Crush; Portishead; Dave Mason; Zappa; ELP; King Crimson; The Who; EJ; The Mothers; Jerry Jeff Walker; Joni; Giles, Giles&Fripp; Dixie Chicks; Wendy Waldman; IAMTHEOCEAN; Jon Anderson; L. Buckingham; Restless Heart; R. Newman; 'Ran Lambert; Mahavishnu Orch; Leon Russell; Govt. Mule; Derek & the Doms; Jake Trout and the Flounders; Phish; Faith No More; Melissa Etheridge; Bad Wolf; Jeff Beck and Max Middleton; Tull (esp John Evan); Kate Wolfe, Floyd; Rima; NGDB; Chick Corea; urly urban; The Faces; Tea Leaf Green; Carmen; The Legacy Blues Band; McCoy Tyner; Runnin' Blue; Delany & Bonnie; Cold Comfort Farm; A New Day; Hendrix; Umphrey’s McGee; Osborne Girls(SheMusic); Buffet; Counting Crows; Vincent Grant Gill; BuffyL&KristyO(Bomshel); Hall&Oates; Salty Rootz; Edward Van Halen; Brian Auger; LBT; The album that goes on the desert island-"Close to the Edge"-Yes; New Music alerts:
Whiskey Falls (trust me here, kids); Sixwire (really check 'em out--now); Trailer Choir ; Taurus; Nijole Sparkis;
My jamming preferences include: Boyce, Krag, Goose and Ryan on drums; Scotty, Entwistle, The man known as Fish, the two Kellens, Jeremy and Teej on Bass; jdp5 and robt and Olaf (Rhy) and Brad and one Kellen on guitar and the late Cliffy Tipton, too; Chas (Hunny Boy) Martin and Smokin' Joe on the harp; I will unsolicitedly use Yamaha S80 and S90, GeneralMusic Pro II and Nord Electro keyboards, Hammond A-100, B3 or XK3 organs, Taylor Accoustic Guitars, one particular Peavy Firenza and Wolfgang, mexican Strat, a '77 Ibanez PF200 (with emg's or Seymours) electric guitars oh, and that really cheap Epiphone Special II Les Paul, but it really needs grovers, a Macintosh Macbook pro and AMD 64 desktop computers with Digital Performer, Logic, Cubase and I told you I wouldn't, but it's beginning to look a lot like Alsihad (from digidesign-y'know) Amadaeus (Mac), SoundForge PC, Radar (if you've got it), Sampletank, NI's B4 and Elektrik Piano, MusicLab's RealGuitar (if I have to fake it) and Waves although I'll be damned if I'll pay for the TDM versions, and above all other plugs for radio, It's Izotope Ozone (trust me on this)...(to be continued)
Movies:
Pulp Fiction; LA Confidential; Rounders; The Last Waltz; The Rise and fall of Dill Scallion; 12 O'Clock High!; Jesus Christ, Superstar; Breakfast of Champions; Almost Famous; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Leap of Faith; Das Boot; Lock, Stock and two Smoking Barrels; Bad Wolf; Strictly Ballroom; Snatch; American Beauty; Animal Crackers; Apocalypse Now; Chicago; Dead Solid Perfect; Don Juan Demarco; Rust Never Sleeps; (Baz's)Romeo and Juliet; Minority Report; Baja Oklahoma; Help!; Vanilla Sky; A Hard Days Night; What's Eating Gilbert Grape'; Moulin Rouge!; Caddyshack; Brave New World; Pulse; Annie Hall; LA Story; Pulse; Mulholland Drive; The Blue Max; Big Fish; The Usual Suspects; GoodFellas; Fast Times@ Ridgemont High; Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma; Quadrophenia; Phantom of the Opera; Hair!; Office Space; Harvey; Batman Begins; Superman Returns; Even numbered Star Trek movies; All Hitchcock; (to be continued...)
Television:
Dead Like Me; Doctor Who; Torchwood; Life on Mars; Perry Mason; Smallville; Red Dwarf; Big Love; CSI: Miami; CSI:Crime Scene Investigation; The Naked Archaeolgist; You Bet Your Life; Big Love; Monk; Star Trek (TOG,TNG); Northern Exposure; Seinfeld; Monty Python's Flying Circus; NYPD Blue (season 1); Bad Wolf; What's My Line?; Password; All UFO shows on the History Channel(the Speculation Channel); Late Night with David Letterman; The Sopranos; Hill Street Blues; Alfred Hitchcock Presents; Playing Lessons with the Pros; Sex and the City; Live with Jules Holland; As Time Goes By; Fawlty Towers; Blackadder; (to be continued...)
Books:
Everything from the following: James Ellroy, Augusten Xon Burroughs, Robert Crais, Barry Eisler, Tim Cockey, Max Alan Collins, Frank Miller, Sherman Alexie, Mixerman, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson; "Everything is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Saffron Foer; "Catch-22"-Joseph Heller; "John Lennon in Heaven" and "Across the Universe"- Linda Keen; "Prisoners of Childhood: The Drama of the Gifted Child and the Search for the True Self"- Alice Miller; "Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf"- Ben Hogan; "Dead Solid Perfect"-Dan Jenkins; Elvis Cole novels by Robert Crais; the 'Hearse' novels by Tim Cockey; "Venus on the Half-Shell"-Kilgore Trout; "Venus on the Half-Shell by Kilgore Trout"- Phillip Jose Farmer; "The Calypsos of Bokonon" -Bokonon; "Bad Wolf" -Rose Tyler; "Those Who Fall"-by John Muirhead; "Something Happened" - Joseph Heller; "Leaving the Saints"-Martha Beck; "The Powwow Highway"-David Seals; "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven"-Sherman Alexie; "Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick"-Lawrence Sutin; "The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child"-by Nancy Verrier; "A Scanner Darkly", "UBIK" and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"-Phillip K. Dick; "The Don Juan Papers: Further Castaneda Controversies" - Richard De Mille; "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword : Patterns of Japanese Culture"-Ruth Benedict; "No Man Knows My History"-Fawn M. Brodie; "Stop Walking on Eggshells; Coping When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder"-Paul T. Mason, Randi Kreger;
Heroes:
Deborah Karen Darger-Dopp; Captain Nathan Dopp; Nathan Craig "Skip" Dopp; Dr.William RC Stewart; Dr. Michael Gilbert
