Music, drawing, hiking, nature, travel, fossil prep, hunting down the ultimate pair of divine platform boots, playing and pimpin' my guitars, coaxing a sweet tone outta my Les Paul. I'm passionate about music, and if my music list puts me in a time warp, so be it.
Oh yeah, and I love animals, too.
I'd like to meet:
All The Young Dudes: Ian, Mick, Overend, Dale, Ariel, Verden, Morgan, Ray, Nigel, Stan!
I can moonage daydream, can't I? :)
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Had the pleasure of meeting Paul Rodgers... Mick and Simon, you're next! :D
Jimmah, of course!
The Cosmic Jeepster, but, in due time...
Some nice German lads...
Music:
Power, mystery and the hammer of the Gods:
music with passion, fire, soul and guts, a little more shade than light. Led Zeppelin, anything Jimmy Page has ever done.
MOTT THE HOOPLE!
yes, Mott The Hoople,
including the inimitable Ian Hunter, the sublime Mick Ralphs, the thunderous Lord Peter Overend Watts, the tempestuous Terence Dale Griffin, the tumescent Verden "Phally" Allen, the electrifying Ariel Bender, the angelic Mick Ronson, the mellifluous Morgan Fisher, Mott, Concrete Parachute, Shane Cleaver and the Clean Shaven, Twentieth Fontury Sex, Cunning Stunts, Dignose and Dognose, Short Back and Sides, British Lions, The Anchors, Wild Dog's Hell Hounds, The Silence, The Soulents, Problem, The Buddies, The Shakedown Sound, Silence, Doc Thomas Group, Savage Rose and Fixable, Martha's Hoopers, Matt The Hoof Off, John Fiddler.
David Bowie and Mick Ronson,
Marc Bolan and T.Rex,
Roxy Music,
Spooky Tooth, Uriah Heep, Terry Reid, Steve Marriott,
Jimi Hendrix,
New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders,
Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Sweet, Sex Pistols, The Damned, The Ramones, the Kinks, the Faces, Screaming Lord Sutch, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Monks, Zodiac, Charlatans,
Syd Barrett,
the incredible Paul Rodgers, Bad Company, Free, Thin Lizzy, The Yardbirds, Cream, King Crimson,Bauhaus, Depeche Mode, Goldfrapp, Ladytron, Blur, Pulp, Rammstein, Kraftwerk, Megadeth, The White Stripes, The Black Crows, Johnny Cash, Chris Isaak, Bernard Hermann, John Barry.
Overwhelmingly Brit playlist:
GLAM!
blues-rock, hard rock, prog, psychedelic, rockabilly, freakbeat.
I love jazz, too, esp. Miles, Monk, and Coltrane, but that would take up a whole 'nother page!
Movies:
Anything by Kubrick or Hitch, film noir, epic David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia, Passage to India) Lean-lite (the English Patient) thought-provoking sci-fi (Metropolis, Blade Runner, 12 Monkeys). I'm a sucker for bios, classic horror (James Whale, Todd Browning, Val Lewton), 30's satin-clad shimmies with Jean Harlow, "IT" Girl Clara Bow, Bogie-Bacall pairings, silent movies, especially comedies from Buster Keaton or Laurel and Hardy, 70's sleaze-grind, weirdness from David Lynch, documentaries like The Fog of War or Crumb. Also love historical period pieces, as long as they get the costumes and the hair and the history right!
Television:
VH1 Classic (long live rock!), Turner Classic Movies, expecially film noir and Silent Sundays, Bill Maher, South Park, National Geographic, The History Channel, Frontline (PBS), and also BBC America: thanks for Extras, Monty Python, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Absolutely Fabulous and Benny Hill!
Books:
Anything by Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita, Despair, Pnin, etc.). For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway, The Devil In The White City (Erik Larsen), At the Mountains of Madness (H.P. Lovecraft).
Books about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances: Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer), Ordeal By Hunger (George Stewart)
Books about extraordinary people in extraordinary circumstances: Son Of the Morning Star (Evan Connell), The Great Unknown (John Cooley) Rasputin: rascal master (Jane Oakley), Tearing Down The Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector (Mick Brown).
And musician bios, of course! All The Young Dudes, Diary of a Rock and Roll Star, A Saucerful of Secrets, Mystery Train and many more.
Heroes:
Jimmy Page, first for his undeniable prodigious talents as composer, musician and producer; but also for his courage in not becoming a tragic statistic. A tenacious survivor and rock 'n'roll animal. Long live Jimmy!
Ian Hunter, because Ian ROCKS! Witty, intelligent, perceptive, sardonic, a poet and a true original;and.....
Mick Ronson, the Spider with the platinum hair. Without Ronno and his prodigious music and production talents, Ziggy Stardust would have never reached those cosmic heights.
My International Heroes, the Brothers Grimtone, for persevering and grooving MASSIVELY.
David Bowie, for being fearless, and not afraid of ch-ch-ch-changes.
Les Paul and Robert Moog.
Greta Garbo and Clara Bow, for their transcendence on the silver screen....
Joan of Arc.
Childhood hero. THIS is who I wanted to be when I grew up.
My mom, for being transcendental.
Leonardo daVinci. Renaissance man, ya know?
Anyone who challenges the mind-numbing, brain-atrophying antics and atrocities of this current Administration and who takes a stand against corporate greed, global warming and blatant hypocrisy, I salute you! That means you, AL GORE!!!
