Movies, music, writing, dancing, history, running, parties, financial planning, kickboxing, powerflex and boot camp at the gym, night life, politics, travel, literature, psychology, the news, animals, a good laugh, someday addressing my caffeine addiction, plotting world domination, other cultures, completely worthless pop culture trivia, roller blading even though I don't know how to stop, sleep, staying up all night talking, hearing people's ridiculous stories, walking completely around the world via the frozen Bering Straits as Karl Bushby is currently doing but I would actually drive (like "The Long Way Round") and just walk the Bering Straits part, biking along the ocean, waking up rejuvenated, neuroscience, ripping it up, a bunch of stuff I'm forgetting
I'd like to meet:
People to learn from, hilarious people, nice friendly sexy people, people who cut you some slack if you’re not always on key, people who wake up in the morning like it’s the beginning of a new story and they’re happy without a past, people you can call up when you’re stuck in traffic and they don’t go “Ahhh yer just callin me cuz yer stuck in traffic!â€, inspiring visionaries, people who want a safety net for the masses, aficionados of the same general categories I am an aficionado of but with slightly different obsessions so that I can hear some new things to get obsessed about, people with sound financial advice, people who don’t look back except 1-4 times a year, people with their heads screwed on relatively straight, people who like to go out dancing, my friends on my space I haven’t actually met
Music:
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Presley, U2, REM, The Velvet Underground, The Doors, Foster Timms, The Rusty Sherrifs, Oasis, The Strokes, Eminem, Frank Sinatra, Hank Williams, Motown, Nuggets, The Bop Dynasty:, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, The Who, Love, James Brown, The Byrds, Jimmy Cliff, West Coast rap clique:, NWA, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, Tupac, John Cougar Mellencamp, (What about John Cougar Mellencamp?!), The Time-Life Folk Rock Anthology, The Sex Pistols, 103.1, Neo New Wave, Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, Funkadelic, Henry Mancini, Janis Joplin, Bill Conti, Prince, Beck, Iggy Pop, Fiona Apple, Marianne Faithfull, Johnny Cash, The Ramones, The Stone Roses, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, The Replacements, The Yardbirds, Simon and Garfunkel, The White Stripes, Nico, The New York Dolls, Sam Cooke, Guns N Roses first album, Krzysztof Komeda, Vince Guaraldi, starting to dig classical as I set my alarm clock to it
Movies:
Woody Allen, Manhattan, Annie Hall, Stardust Memories, Wes Anderson, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Blake Edwards, Breakfast at Tiffanies, The Party, S.O.B., Philip Kaufman, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Henry and June, Richard Lester, The Knack, A Hard Day's Night, Elia Kazan (with moral reservations of course), On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, East of Eden, A Face in the Crowd, Marlon Brando, Last Tango in Paris, Appocalypse Now, Hal Ashby, The Last Detail, Shampoo, Harold and Maude, Federico Fellino, La Dolce Vita, I Vitelloni, 8 1/2, Nights of Cabiria, Paul Mazursky, (What about Paul Mazursky?!), I Love You Alice B. Toklas, Harry and Tonto, An Unmarried Woman, Bob and Ted and Carol and Alice, Moscow on the Hudson, Next Stop Greenwich Village, Curtis Hanson, L.A. Confidential, Eight Mile, Wonder Boys, Oliver Stone, The Doors, Salvador, Scarface, (written by Stone, directed by DePalma of course), Mike Nichols, The Graduate, Primary Colors, Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Swingers, Made, Old School, Wedding Crashers, old Disney flicks, dumb Elvis movies, Ali, Almost Famous, American Grafitti, AMERICAN POP, Animal House, THE BALLAD OF PONYBOY, BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, The Big Chill, Black Orpheus, Boogie Nights, Bukowski: Born Into This, Butterflies are Free, COOLEY HIGH, Dangerous Liasons, Dead Poet, Do The Right Thing, Dont Look Back, Easy Rider, Fantasia, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The 400 Blows, Gandhi, I Want to Hold Your Hand, The Killing Fields, Lost in translation, Masculine Feminine, Midnight Cowboy, Ordinary People, Pulp Fiction, Rebel Without a Cause, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Staturday Night Fever, Trainspotting, West Side Story, The World Accoridng to Garp, Yellow Submarine, CinemaScope technicolor movies
Television:
Netflix, Happy Days, (first couple of seasons), Seinfeld, Old SNL when they used to only have 7 people max and less than 730 commercials an hour, Entourage, Dave Chapelle, South Park, Behind the Music, Charlie Brown specials from the 60s, Freaks and Geeks, Sex in the City, The Young Ones, The Love Boat, Ultraman, from the 60s, All in the Family, The Night Stalker, from the 70s tho I just rented one where there was supposed to be a werewolf on a cruise ship and it looked like a spastic mugger with a ski mask on, SFX budget = 1 ski mask and hairy gloves, that was my budget on Halloween when I was 8
Books:
(fiction/ non fiction/ film books/ rock books) FICTION: On the Road, (the rise), The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, (the peak), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, (the fall), Women, The Sun Also Rises, Catcher in the Rye, Notes From Underground, Anna Karenina, 100 Years of Solitude, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, All 4.5 Fitzgerald novels, Henry Miller, Erica Jong THE DEVIL AT LARGE, Howl, Ask the Dust, The Great Pretender by James Atlas, The World According to Garp, Rules of Attraction, A Separate Peace, A Moveable Feast, City of Night, Story of My Life, Go, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Siddhartha, On Beyond Zebra, The Holy Terrors, Pimp Iceberg Slim ....... NON FICTION: Lipstick Traces, The Power of Myth, Sleeping Where I Fall (Peter Coyote), The Sixties Todd Gitlin, HIP THE HISTORY, A People's History of the United States, Closing of the American Mind, Passion on the Western Mind, The Prize (oil), The Family, Haight Ashbury Flashbacks (Stephen Gaskin) ...... FILM BOOKS: Laid Bare by John Gilmore, Easy Riders Raging Bulls, Killer Instinct, Rebels on the Backlot, You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, You'll Never Make Love in this Town Again, You'll Never Be Able to Afford Bottle Service in This Town Again (just kidding on that last one), Spike Mike Slackers and Dykes, Roger Corman's Autobiography, Brando ..... ROCK BOOKS: Rock From the Beginning/Awopbobaloobop by Nik Cohn [one of the coolest writers of all time, the missing link between Kerouac and Lester Bangs, the writer of the story that they based Saturday Night Fever on], Many Years From Now (Paul McCartney), Chronicles (Bob Dylan), Tha Dogg Father (Snoop Dog), My Way, Shout!, Last Train to Memphis, The Lives of John Lennon, Miles Autobiography, Waiting for the Sun, Wonderland Avenue, Rolling Stone Magazine The Uncensored History
Heroes:
Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" influenced Gandhi who influenced ML King, so I'm just glad a white guy helped out there somewhere, Malcom X, Buddha, Jesus, Moses, Mohammed (have not studied Islam but will say it in interest of world peace), Margaret Sanger (except for the eugenics aspect), my Mom and feminist cousins fighting for equal pay in the 70s (equal pay! Those crazy libs!), Joseph Campbell, John Lennon, Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Michael Moore, Spike Lee, Andrew Loog Oldham, The Ramones (for helping us not to worry if we're lo-fi), Henry Miller and Bukowski (for never giving up), FDR. Despite my name I can't call Andrew Jackson a hero, as he fought against the Native Americans and pressured 45,000 to move out of the "U.S. territories", though on the positive side he expanded the vote to people who did not own land (though you had to be a white male) and was the co-founder of the Democratic party.
