In general I like speaking in generalities a lot - you know, over all.
Most of them died in the 50's and 60's (See the dead, black musician portion of the music profile.) Someone who will donate a fancy, new computer to my cause so I that might be able to put some music on this here Myspace page for your listening pleasure. I think it would be neat-o to have a beer with Han Solo and Indiana Jones.
Local bands first:
Abby Go Go; Baak Gwai; Chinese Dentist; The Dexateens; Tommy Gardner; The Hell; Taylor Hollingsworth; Ham Bagby and the Seige; Model Citizen; Ne'er-do-wells's; Justin Peake; and everybody else going against the odds by playing good, original, local music.
Charlie Parker; Miles and everybody who ever played with him; Sonny Rollins; Mingus; Herbie Handcock; Coltrane; Monk; Wes Montgomery; Jimmy Smith; Bill Evans; Joe Henderson; Duke Ellington; Jim Hall; Billy and Ella; and a bunch of other mostly dead, mostly black guys that I could spend days and days listing.
Now some living guys:
Primus; Sonic Youth; Misfits;(the original line up, of course); Modest Mouse; John Scofield; Medeski Martin Wood; Brad Mehldau (if'n you don't know, dig it!); The Shins (Chutes Too Narrow at least, have not heard anything else.); Bela Fleck {and the Fleck Tones} (saw them a couple of years ago... and well, Good Stuff!); Joshua Redman; anything George Clinton (best live show I've ever seen...twice.); Radio Head (of course); John Zorn; Bjork; Portis Head; I think Tool is neat; Iron Maiden (favorite band when I was 14.); Cynic (favorite death-metal band when I was 17.); Tom Waits (of course); Pink Floyd (of course. Second concert I ever went to.); Mr. Bungle; Mr. Bungle; Mr. Bungle (and any other Mike Patton projects: Fantamos, Peeping Tom, Loveage...); OutKast; Sound Tribe Sector 9 (as far as all the silly Hippie-dippie jammy bands go they are pretty ok.); old DR. Dre and Snoop Dogg; Queens of the Stoned Age (saw them in the ATL. Grrrreat); The Mars Volta (saw them in the ATL as well and it was incredible.)The Claudia Quintet (these guys are heavy hitting, weird, New York jazz cats that nobody knows about. I saw them at the music building and it changed everything.); Really everything except Belle and Sebatian cause they make Simon and Garfunkle sound like Slayer.
I don't think there is any music that I hate. (Well, actually, Sweet Home Alabama... I may, in fact, hate that song.
BEETHOVEN
BIRD
THE BEATLES
Everything by the directors, Terry Gilliam; Kubrick; David Lynch; Coen Brothers; Jean-Pierre Jeunet; Paul Thomas Anderson; David Fincher; Charlie Kauffman; Monty Python
Sin City; Lord of The Rings; Donnie Darko; The Princess Bride; History of Violence; American Psycho; Gummo; Airplane I and II; UHF; Ravenous; Amadeus; South Park- Bigger Longer and Uncut; The Nightmare Before Christmass; Three Kings; Citizen Kain; The Professional; The Stoned Age; Annie Hall; and tons of others that I’ll add as I go.
Movies that are responsible for my sense of ethics and morality, movies that, as but a wee lad, I watched in place of going to church, and thank God!:
Starwars; Indiana Jones; Poltergeist; The Goonies; The Never Ending Story; Dark Crystal; Labyrinth; The Secret of Nimh
Have not had cable for nearly six years so I typically do not watch the idiot box very much and it is not part of my day to day existence. But... The Simpsons; Family Guy; Aqua Teen Hunger Force; Robot Chicken; Futurama; South Park;
you know, the typical shit. Have caught a couple of good shows on DVD like Arrested Development and Firefly and other stuff...like, I don't know... A couple of HBO series have been ok. The first couple of seasons of Six Feet Under were good...
I generally think TV causes cancer
Cat's Cradle (along with most Kurt Vonnegut.); Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all of them.);Catch 22; A Confederacy of Dunces (Has the most simple, beautiful, endearing ending of any book I have ever read); Miles Davis' Autobiography; Tolkien; Electric Cool-Aid Acid Test; Nicolas Slonimsky's Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns; Both Terri Pratchet books that I've read ("Soul Music" and "The Hog Father");In Cold Blood; Chasing the Trane (John Coltrane biography); The first three Vampire Cronicles; Still Life with Woodpecker; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (naturally); Animal Farm; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Jazz Styles: History and Analysis; Charlie Parker biography; Several Beatles Bios; I have only read the first Harry Potter book and I liked it plenty; The Advancing Guitarist by Mick Goodrick; Johann Sebation Bach: Works for Violin; The Dragon Lance Cronicles; Grendel; Fake Book; Frankenstein; Several years ago I forced myself to read Moby Dick and it turned out to be quite enjoyable, so yeah, lots books that I never read in high-school but found later; history text books that I would read years after taking the coarse; lots of non-fiction about physics, quantum physics, cosmology, black holes n shit; and many more...
The best traits of all my friends rolled into one.