music (listening and playing), drums and percussion (playing and teaching), reading (actually reading and looking at pictures), partying (as in going out and having a few beers on occasion), meeting new people (although not all of them are interested in meeting me.....) and conversation (a good conversation over a few drinks is a nice end to a hectic day.....).....there are a few more, i think, but i'm not going to share all my secrets here...and bowling.....
I'd like to meet:
God, the president of the US (whoever's current) and john madden....maybe Einstein (later down the path...)
this is Anthony Wayne...
this is Stateliner...
this is Shalacy Griffin...
this is an incredible snare drummer from DCI...
Music:
Jay Farrar, Bob Schneider, Primus, Dave Matthews Band, OAR, 311, Rage Against the Machine, Poison, Def Leppard, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, John Prine, The Doobie Brothers, The Band, Tool, Rodney Crowell, Ken Oak Band, Gordon Sampson, The Black Crowes, Prodigy, Shootyz Groove, Delinquent Habbits, Styles Of Beyond, The Beatles, Stateliner, Incubus, Infectious Grooves, Talib Kweli, Andree 3000, Big Boi, The Roots, Sharif Iman, UnderShade, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers, James Brown, Crucial Conflict, Guns N Roses, Warrant, Madeski, Martin and Wood, Charlie Hunter, Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, SunVolt, The Jessica Dawn Band, Bridgette Tatum, Ryan Adams, Uncle Tupelo, Whiskey Town, Canyon, Green Day, The Katies, Muse, Neil Diamond, The Eagles, Frank Zappa, Rush, SoundGarden, Audioslave, Mark Knopfler, Marc Broussard, hed(PE), Alice In Chains, Smashing Pumpkins, Benjy Davis Project, Ben Harper, BuckCherry, Damien Rice, Counting Crows, Rusted Root, CCR, David Gray, Elvis Presley, Dispatch, G Love and the Special Sauce, Guster, Goldfinger, Jane's Addiction, Harry Chapin, Jeb Loy Nichols, Jimi Hendrix, Jonatha Brooke, Joss Stone, Quarashi, Junkie XL, Jurassic 5, Anthony Wayne and J-Bird, Ozomatli, Trump Dawgs, Keb Mo, Keller Williams, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Kottonmouth Kings, Lazlo Bane, Letters To Cleo, Live, Lorna Varnings, Maceo Parker, Mr Bungle, Faith No More, Lucero, Endigm, Nickel Creek, Ordinary Peoples, PAX 217, Radiohead, Pete Yorn, Rehab, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Shalacy Griffin, Tiffany Amber Huggins, Spin Doctors, Sam Cooke, Soul Asylum, Stabbing Westward, The Police, Government Mule, String Cheese Incident, The Clarks, Todd Snider, U2, Tom Petty, Virginia Coalition, Urban Dance Squad, Stereo MC's, Zebrafish, Widespread Panic, X-Up, Everybody's Band, Wyclef, Overseer, Sublime, Jeff Shepphard Band, Leo Kottke, moe., Mary J Blige, Norah Jones, Warren Haynes, Bruce Hornsby, Lauren Hill, Florez, Citizen Cope, Jamie Cullum, Primitive Radio Gods, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Emmy Lou Harris, Johnny Cash, Allen Toussiant, Tom Waits, Les Claypool, Soul Coughing, Auver's Ghost, Beck, Cold, Bruce Hornsby, The Who, Blur, The Eels, SpaceHog, Zwan, Andrew WK, MIRV, The Cure, Aaron Winters, Jack Johnson, Fundamental Elements, Death Cab For Cutie, KJV, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Social Distortion, JJ Brown, Laurie Anne Gardner, Laundry, Echo and the Bunnymen, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Sausage, Billy Joel, Vedera, Shaking Tree, Matthew Ryan, Snow Patrol, Bobby Bare Jr, Bright Eyes, Ray Lamontagne, The Strokes......there are entirely too many names to list here.....
Movies:
The Boondock Saints, Rounders, Ocean's 11-12, Super Troopers, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, any Indiana Jones movies, all 6 Star Wars movies, The Matrix Trilogy, PoolHall Junkies, Almost Famous, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Way of the Gun, Bad Santa, Elf, Anchorman, Grandma's Boy, Hostel, Traffic, Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, Grizzly Man, Old School, Road Trip, Van Wilder, Waiting, Wedding Crashers, the American Pie movies, Tigerland, The Rock, Con Air, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Memento, Crash, Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, Diggstown, Raising Arizona, Top Gun, Teen Wolf, Back to the Future, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, The Neverending Story, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Friday, Half Baked, How High, Confidence, RoadHouse, Mallrats, Clerks, all the Austin Powers movies, Casino, Goodfellas, The Usual Suspects, The Princess Bride, Hackers, Liar Liar, What the ..$%& Do We Know?, Braveheart, The Goonies, The Saint, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, any James Bond movies, Dogma, The Borne Identity, The Borne Supremacy, Swordfish, Can't Hardly Wait, Catch Me If You Can, Four Rooms, Men In Black, Independence Day, Jurassic Park, King Kong, High Fidelity, Fargo, Suicide Kings, What Dreams May Come, BeerFest, Superbad, The Departed, Talladega Nights, Knocked Up, Transformers....and again, there are too many to list.....
Television:
not much of a tv watcher, but if there were a cable package that contained only these, i'd probably never leave the house.....Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Simpsons, Conan O'Bryan, Chapelle's Show, The Drew Carey Show, Three's Company, The Dukes of Hazzard, Saturday Night Live, Kids In the Hall, SportsCenter, Fox News, the History Channel (in general) and the Discovery Channel (in general), Animal Planet, any/all college and NFL football games during season, Law & Order and Reno 911.....
Books:
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield, The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, The Catcher In the Rye by JD Salinger, The Urantia Book, The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling, The Elegant Universe by Brian Green, A Song of Ice and Fire Series by George R R Martin, Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson, Velvet Elvis.....if it has words in it, i'll at least give it a try.....
Heroes:
you know who you are.....
