Movies, performing, good music, drawing, walking, swimming, keeping the bowl full, joy riding, laying around and being a couch barnicle (couch potatoes are lightweights!), stalking Fabian, rocking, rolling, bopping, strolling and hunting the elusive Menninite.
I'd like to meet:
I've met pretty much everybody I've ever wanted to meet. The list includes John Lennon (in 1976 in front of the Dakota Apartments where he lived. I asked him when the Monkees were getting back together and he cracked up and said "Good one!", jumped into a cab and disappeared down the street), Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter (who are both good friends of mine and have been big time musical heroes of mine forever) and I even met Lenny Bruce when I was 10 years old although I didn't know who he was at the time. As for people whom I'd like to meet but can't cuz they died before I was born - I'd like to have dinner with Jesus Christ, Al Capone, Albert Einstein and Adolf Hitler. Now THAT would be some conversation! Pass the nails, machine gun, blow dryer and sauerkraut, please.
Music:
Any and ALL good Blues including the King himself, Muddy Waters, some Jazz (Charlie Parker is God!) as long as it has a beat and a melody. No spacy stuff, Beatles, Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, Stevie Wonder, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Janis Joplin, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Charlie Christian, Billie Holliday, Cass Elliot, Ella Fitzgerald, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Sly Stone, early James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones, The Doors, Allman Brothers WITH Duane, The Who WITH Keith Moon, Some Grateful Dead, Asylum Street Spankers, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Santana, John Lennon solo, George Harrison solo, Good 1950s ass kickin' Rockabilly and Rock and Roll including Buddy Holly & Eddie Cochran (my heeero!), Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Hank Williams Sr., early George Jones, Spiro Agnew (just wanted to see if you're paying attention), some Elvis, Some Springsteen, Spike Jones, Tom Lehrer, Jimmy Bryant (killer session guitarist from the 1950s), Danny Gatton (killer session guitarist from the 70s - 90s), Les Paul (killer session guitarist from the beginning of time), The Ramones, my good buddy Jon Paris and just about anything played and/or sung with heart, soul and a LOT of talent.
Movies:
Too many! Godfather 1 & 2, Goodfellas, Glengarry Glen Ross, Any and all Marx Brothers movies, Dog Day Afternoon, Key Largo, White Heat, Glory, Tombstone, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, American History X, Hells Angels on Wheels, Psych Out, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, La Bamba, any good documentary on music, gangsters or the Civil War, anything by Ed Wood, and about a zillion others.
Television:
The Simpsons, the Family Guy, the News, David Letterman, the Sopranos (Hey, did they do a number on Vito or what?!?!), Pip the Piper, Spunky & Tadpole and TV Land to relive those magic memories.
Books:
Double Cross - The Sam Giancana Story, Tales of Terror by Alfred Hitchcock, The Christ Conspiracy, Frank Zappa's Autobiography - The Real Frank Zappa, Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey, In His Own Write by John Lennon, Three Steps To Heaven - The Eddie Cochran Story by Bobby Cochran, any good books about the Civil War or Gangsters, and biographies of people I admire and people I despise.
Heroes:
Jesus Christ, Muhammed Ali, John Lennon, Ghandi, John Glenn, Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, Frank Zappa, Mozart, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Robert F. Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Bill Graham, Mr. Natural and Curly Howard. More to come!!!
