Playing music with other people who like to play music via singing - guitar - harmonica - mandolin - Native American flute - keyboards-and someday the cello.
Current events. The shrinking middle class. Fiscal Conservatism. Social Liberalism.
Cheesy Movies. Complex Books. Irreverent humor
Honest people with positive intentions.
Running 13.1 miles
Chess.
Drinking wine i.e. Chianti, Pinot Noir, or gallon jugs of Carlos Rossi. Drinking doubles of Jameson with 3 ice cubes.
Sleeping in with my wife on Sundays.
I'd like to meet:
I wish I had seen my Uncle Paul again before he suddenly passed away recently. He was a unique man with a lot of kindness and fun in his heart. Here are some pictures of him.
Uncle Paul, Me with the Rat Tail - I know sad, right. My brother Adrien and sister Athens being very cute. What happened to them --Ha Ha!
BRMe and Uncle Paul on a trip he and my Aunt Georgia paid for to have me and my then GF visit them in Mexico City while he was a correspondent down there.
My self 10 years ago and 10 years from now.
And, when I met myself this is what ?we'd? drink....
I would also like to meet the Hamiltons.
Music:
Martin Sexton, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Van Morrison, Dinosaur Jr., Radiohead, Bruce Springsteen, Nickel Creek, Weezer, Cake, Tony Bennet, Cole Porter, Jeff Buckley, Tom Petty, Counting Crows, Neil Young, Lou Reed, Led Zepplin, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, The Talking Heads, Kings of Leon, Modest Mouse, Nesby Potter and the Lemon Scarecrows, Spaghetti and the Smooth Alligators, The Cure, Beck, U2, RHCP, R.E.M., Uncle Tupelo, Chris Cornell, Wilco, The Shins, Steve Earle, The Crash Test Dummies, Leo Kotke, Queen, Rush, Joni Mitchell, Andrew Bird, Bobby Rush, Taj Majhal, Allman Brothers, Spoon, The New Pornographers, The Toadies, Buffalo Tom, Lisa Loeb, Saigon Kick, The Supremes, Better Than Ezra, Julieta Venegas, Dwight Yoakam, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bonnie Raitt, Leftover Salmon, Ben Harper, Queens of the Stone Age, The Screaming Trees, Hum, The Who, The Dire Straits, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Shawn Colvin, Aimee Mann, Arcade Fire, Blues Traveler, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Spin Doctors, StarSailor, Coldplay, Megadeth, Metallica, Danzig, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Bill Monroe, Yonder Mountain, Liz Phair, Susan McKeown, Pearl Jam, Lorena McKennit, Better Than Ezra, Vic Chesnutt, Thelonious Monk, Tegan and Sara, The Stone Roses, The Cure, Parliament, Stone Temple Pilots, The Minus 5, They Might Be Giants, Wheat, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Traffic, Monte Montgomery, Stone Temple Pilots, Grateful Dead, Steve Forbert, Rilo Kiley, Death Cab for Cutie, Kaki King, Tommy James, Otis Redding, Billy Idol, Collective Soul, Sponge, Saigon Kick, Eagles of Death Metal, We are Scientists
ALBUMS Currently Augmenting My Enjoyment of LIFE ----Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire-Thrills-It is not at all what I expected. It is violiny Cajun, folk 20's style something. Very different, but its unexpected surprise sounds fresher and more fun with each listen
ALSO, Spoon - Girls Can Tell, Yes, I know more Spoon. I can't help myself, and this album is great as well. Every Spoon song has its own original character. I need more time with the album, but it is the standard stripped down but groovetascious excellence I have come to love Spoon for.
Labyrinth Soundtrack - I couldn't resist - Dance Magic Dance, Jump Magic Jump. And Baby Said!!!!!!!!
Movies:
The Big Lebowski, 12 Monkeys, Slingblade, Magnolia, Strange Days, Memento,The Wild Bunch, Citizen Kane, The Machinist, The LOTR series, Labyrinth, Evil Dead II, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Braveheart, Hotel Rwanda, Munich, Waiting, Lean On Me, Falling Down, Raising Arizona, Shaun of the Dead, X-Men, The Usual Suspects, Frailty, E.T., Dr. Strangelove, I Heart Huckabees, Garden State, The Woodsman, Payback, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Latest Greatest Movies: Brick
Television:
Deadwood, Lost, Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Freaks and Geeks, That 70s Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfield, The Upright Citizens Brigade, The Daily Show/Colbert Report, South Park- when my wife lets me watch it, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Andy Griffith Show, The Peoples Court, Judge Mathis, Retro The Wonder Years, Pete and Pete, My So-Called Life, Quantum Leap, Star Trek-The Next Generation Cartoons Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sea Lab 2021, Thundercats, Ducktales, TMNT,
Books:
East of Eden- Steinbeck, The Dark Tower series- King, The Lord of the Rings series - Tolkien, Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse 5, Welcome to the Monkeyhouse , and all other - Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy O Toole, Ishmael - Daniel Quinn, The American, Henry James, His Dark Materials series - Phillip Pullman, The Grapes of Wrath, A Brief History of Time, The Universe in a Nutshell - Hawking, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow, Brave New World - Aldous Huxley, 1984, Animal Farm - George Orwell, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig, Jitterbug Perfume, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates - Tom Robbins, The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien, The Satanic Verses - Rushdie, The Blind Assasin, Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - Al Franken, Primary Colors - , One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey, The World According to Garp, The Water Method Man, 158 Pound Marriage - John Irving, Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt, The Clan of the Cave Bear, First three books of the Vampire series - Anne Rice
Just finished Cannery Row by Steinbeck - good times, The Palace Flophouse characters are almost identical to the vagrant knights of Tortilla Flat, but drawn more realistically. The whole story is mostly the colorful and humorous outlining of a fascinating little community as Steinbeck does so well. Doc is a fascinating character also.
