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moodmaster

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About Me

Substance over style, while aspiring to both.

My Interests

Recorded and live music, books, chess, movies, wine, golf, and staying fit: running, mountain biking and basketball.

I'd like to meet:

Real music lovers: those who cringe at the terms "smooth jazz" or "young country".Other interesting folks who aren't in a Hair Band or half-naked on Myspace.

Music:

The Who, Steve Earle, Gram Parsons/Burritos, The Beatles, Roxy Music, Wilco, Big Star, Miles, Coltrane, Louis, Bird, Diz, Duke, Basie, Billie, Frank, Ella, Mel, Sarah, Nat, James Brown, Whiskeytown/Ryan Adams, Badfinger, Todd Rundgren, Jellyfish, Teenage Fanclub, Matthew Sweet, XTC, They Might Be Giants, Fountains of Wayne, Cracker, Tahiti 80, Supergrass, Ben Cyllus, Frontier Ruckus, The Jayhawks, The Smithereeens, Shuggie Otis, Stevie Wonder, Isaac Hayes, Al Green, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Getz/Gilberto, Burt Bacharach, Henry Mancini, Air, Dire Straits, Dylan, Cash, Haggard, Waylon, Patsy Cline, Jerry Jeff Walker, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Lyle Lovett, Loretta Lynn, Hank (I and III), John Hiatt, The White Stripes, Brendan Benson, The Volebeats, Troy Gregory, Outrageous Cherry, The Stooges, Nick Drake, Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, Wynton Marsalis, Art Blakey, "E", The Clash, Lemonheads/Evan Dando, The English Beat, Beastie Boys, Springsteen, Neil Young, The Ventures, The Beautiful South, Los Lobos, The Beta Band, Del Amitri, Regina Spektor, Shelby Lynne, Shawn Colvin, Mary Lou Lord, Roseanne Cash, Ben Harper, Jackson Browne, Emmylou, Dwight Yoakam, Buck Owens, Warren Zevon, Howlin' Wolf, RL Burnside, Hooker, Albert King, The Modern Lovers, JSBE, Chet Baker, Thelonius Monk, Frank Zappa...it's hard for me to stop...

Movies:

A few favorites: Casablanca, Millions, Apres Vous, Good Will Hunting, High Fidelity, North by Northwest, Shopgirl, About A Boy, The Graduate, Amelie, The Right Stuff, Breaking Away, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?, Friends With Money, To Sir with Love, The Apartment, Marty, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Shampoo, Shakespeare in Love, That Thing You Do, Waking Ned Devine, Brassed Off, The Natural, Wonderboys, Volver...

Television:

not much...PBS, Sex and the City, Detroit playoff games...no reality TV EXCEPT the audition weeks for American Idol. That's good comedy.

Books:

Recent reads: The Maltese Falcon; Bob Dylan's Chronicles; The Professor and the Madman; Black Like Me; Blue - The Murder of Jazz; The Case For Faith; On The Road; The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber; Blink; In Cold Blood; Shakespeare; Hip: The History, His Excellency (Washington); Will in the World (How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare)...

Heroes:

Family and friends

My Blog

the who my generation woodstock perfect quality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH9IgJZCx4c the proof is in the pudding......
Posted by moodmaster on Wed, 28 May 2008 08:35:00 PST

The Truth About Music

"After silence, that which most clearly expresses the inexpressible is music."  -Aldous Huxley  ...
Posted by moodmaster on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 07:32:00 PST