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My Interests

Golf and watching Golf.....watching Baseball...Football...Basketball...and above all , History ( I read everything about World War Two ).---------------- CLEAR NIGHT SKIES!!---------------- BASEBALL HAS SUCCESS AND FAILURES - IT HAS MOMENTS WHEN YOU STAND ALONE AND MOMENTS WHEN YOU COME TOGETHER AS A TEAM - AND IT HAS AN ENDNG , NOT WITH A CLOCK LIKE EVERY OTHER SPORT , BUT A REAL ENDING !!

I'd like to meet:

The Twelve influential people that escaped ATLANTIS before the Continent was destroyed , - JESUS the son of Joseph and Mary , the prophet Mohammad , Mary Magdalen the wife of Jesus and most likely the mother to His children , Nicolas Copernicus , Galileo Galilee , Stephen Hawkings , The Dali Lama , Kahlil Gibran , The Human Being Who Knows who Killed John F. Kennedy..."BECAUSE I KNOW , LEE HARVEY OSWALD DIDN'T DO IT!"......"AND....I'D LIKE TO MEET SOMEBODY , ANYBODY!! , WHO WILL DO SOMETHING TO HELP THE HUMAN BEINGS IN DARFUR!!!"..."FOR GOD'S SAKE"..."IF YOU DON'T REMEMBER YOUR HISTORY , YOU ARE DAMNED TO REPEAT IT!!!!"

Music:

"JIMI HENDRIX" with MITCH MITCHELL and NOEL REDDING called the "Jimi Hendrix Experience" - Leslie West , Felix Pappalardi , Corky Laing , and Steve Knight Better Known as "MOUNTAIN" , FRANK ZAPPA , CREAM ( for the people who don't know....CREAM is Ginger Baker , Jack Bruce , and Eric Clapton ) , The ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND with Duane Allman and Barry Oakley , -- JEFF BECK !! -- , PINK FLOYD ( the PINK FLOYD with David Gilmour , Roger Waters , Richard Wright , and Nick Mason ) , BOB DYLAN , The WILD WOODY'S , ALVIN LEE = Ten Years After , Johnny Winters , CACTUS ( The CACTUS with Tim Bogert , Carmine Appice , Rusty Day , and Jimmy McCarty ) , Randy California of SPIRIT , TRAFFIC with Steve Winwood , Dave Mason , Jim Capaldi , and Chris Woods , Spencer Davis Group , Roger Daltry , Pete Townsend , John Entwistle , and Keith Moon = The WHO , FRANK MARINO , Burton Cummings with GUESS WHO , Pete Fountain , CAPTAIN GEECH and the SHRIMP SHACK SHOOTERS , The BEATLES , Nicky Hopkins , The DOORS , The Rolling Stones , Ron Wood , E.L.P. = Keith Emerson , Greg Lake , and drummer Carl Palmer , RANDY NEWMAN , Jimmy Page with LED ZEPPELIN , Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore , Drummer Ian Paice , and Jon Lord - better known as DEEP PURPLE , Eric Burdon and Chas Chandler of the ANIMALS , Justin Hayward with the MOODY BLUES , Mark Volman - Howard Kaylan better known as The TURTLES a.k.a. Flo and Eddie Inc. , Stevie Ray Vaughan , AC/DC , ZZ TOP , Louis Prima , Neil Young , Michael Stipe of R.E.M. , Donavan Leitch , Paul Williams , Chris Isaac , ROY BUCHANAN , Brian May of Queen , Mark Knopfler , Snuffy Waldren , Joe Walsh of the James Gang and Joe Walsh solo stuff - ( I'm not an Eagles fan )..CARLOS SANTANA , ALEX LIFESON of RUSH , MICK BOX of URIAH HEEP ,----JIM PONS ( bass player for the "TURTLES" AND "FRANK ZAPPA" )--- , The Oscar winning song "Falling Slowly" by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova , Carly Simon , the B-52's & Kate Pierson , Joni Mitchell , Sheryl Crowe , Sarah McLachlan , Annie Lennox , Carol King , SADE , Anita Baker , Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham , Avril Lavigne , Allison Krause , CANNED HEAT with Bob the Bear Hite , Al Blind Owl Wilson , and HENRY VESTINE , The Yardbirds , Buddy Holly , Robert Leroy Johnson , T.Bone Walker , Muddy Waters , Albert King , Lead Belly , Charlie Bird Parker , Elmore James , John Lee Hooker , Edward James "Son" House Jr. , Bo Diddley , Johnny Cash , Jerry Lee Lewis , George Duke , Ramsey Lewis , Jean Luc Ponte , Stanley Clarke , Max Middleton , Drummer SCOTT FISHER , and Lyle Rogers & Chuck ( the Hawk ) Clarke , and so on and so on and so on.... Oh......I can't forget about drummers Gene Krupa , Buddy Rich , Mitch Mitchell ( The Jimi Hendrix Experience ) , Lawrence "Corky" Laing , Billy Cobham , Chester Thompson , Carl Palmer , Aynsley Dunbar , Terry Bozzio , Neil Peart , Nick Mason , Carmine Appice , Ian Paice , Cozy Powell , Jim Gordon , and John Bonham --------- JEEEZUS H. CHRIST!!!!!!!.....JIMI HENDRIX , Noel Redding , Randy California Wolfe , Chas Chandler , DUANE ALLMAN , Barry Oakley , FRANK ZAPPA , FELIX PAPPALARDI , ROY BUCHANAN , RICHARD WRIGHT , JIM MORRISON , Stevie Ray Vaughan , COZY POWELL , John Bonham , Keith Moon , John Lennon , George Harrison , Tommy Bolin , Janis Joplin , Lonesome Dave Peverett , Bob the Bear Hite , Henry Vestine , Jim Calpaldi , Chris Woods , Ric Grech , Bo Diddley , and ...Along with Gene Krupa , Buddy Rich , Buddy Holly , Johnny Cash , T. Bone Walker , John Lee Hooker , Muddy Waters , Elmore James , Edward James "SON" House Jr. , Lead Belly , Albert King , and MR.ROBERT LEROY JOHNSON..................THEY'RE ALL DEAD!!.....Thanx to recording materials they will live FOREVER !!!

Movies:

ALL MOVIES NEED TO BE VIEWED IN WIDESCREEN FORMAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! K-PAX ---- O'BROTHER WHERE ART THOU ---- TEAM AMERICA WORLD POLICE ---- SAVING PRIVATE RYAN ---- THE GOOD SHEPHERD ---- ASSES OF FIRE starring Terrance and Phillip --- "AMERICAN BEAUTY" --- "JUNO" --- LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE --- The Cidar House Rules --- That Thing You Do --- - DANCES WITH WOLVES --- CASABLANCA --- SOUTH PARK-Bigger-Longer & Uncut --- TRAINING DAY --- American Gangster --- JFK --- BOBBY --- TOPPER --- QUILLS --- A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE --- AMADEUS --- RAISING ARIZONA --- CRASH --- PULP FICTION --- SYRIANA --- A FEW GOOD MEN screenplay by Aaron Sorkin !!! , CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR screenplay by Aaron Sorkin!!! , - NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN --- Children of Men , LITTLE BIG MAN , PANIC , The COOLER , IRONMAN , CHAPLIN , RICHARD III , "ONCE" , APOCALYPSE NOW ,- "THE WAR" - "JAZZ" - "BASEBALL" - "THE CIVIL WAR" - "UNFORGIVABLE BLACKNESS: THE RISE and FALL of JACK JOHNSON" all 5 are by KEN BURNS ! - , The Silence of the Lambs , The Unbearable Lightness of Being , The QUEEN , GOSFORD PARK , REMAINS of the DAY , FIELD of DREAMS , MR.BROOKS , My Cousin Vinny , Before The Devil Knows Your Dead , GALLANT HOURS starring James Cagney as Adm. William F."Bull" Halsey , Letters From Iwo Jima ,- The FUGITIVE -, KING KONG the 1933 version , DIE HARD , The French Connection -,- INHERIT THE WIND -,- REIGN OVER ME -,- Capote -,- INFAMOUS , ----- THE DEPARTED , ----- , Goodfellas , ZODIAC 2007 , WHY WE FIGHT , FOG OF WAR , TEAHOUSE of the AUGUST MOON , ALL THE BOURNE FILMS , Atonement , The Last King of Scotland , Hotel Rwanda , Catch a Fire , The Painted Veil , A History of Violence , EASTERN PROMISES , Hustle & Flow , Constant Gardener , Mrs. Henderson Presents , BEING JULIA , BEING THERE , HEAVENS ABOVE , The DAY the EARTH STOOD STILL , The THING From ANOTHER WORLD , The MIST screenplay and producer Frank Darabont , THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION screenplay by Frank Darabont , THE GREEN MILE screenplay and producer Frank Darabont , The Majestic produced by Frank Darabont , The Salton Sea produced by Frank Darabont , COLLATERAL executive producer Frank Darabont , BABEL , Paul Newman in HOMBRE , COOL HAND LUKE , The HUSTLER , CAT on a HOT TIN ROOF , The VERDICT , SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME , HUD , and THE RACK , -- John Wayne , Lee Marvin , & Jimmy Stewart in The MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE = ( when the Legend becomes Bigger than the Facts , Print the Legend ) , It's a Wonderful Life , The Bishops Wife 1948 , Sunset Boulevard , Stalag 17 , Lawrence of Arabia , The Bridge on the River Kwai ,- REDS - , Doctor Zhivago , -- The HBO SERIES "ROME" starring Ciaran Hinds as Giaus Julius Caesar , James Purefoy as Mark Antony , Polly Walker as Atia of the Julii , Kevin McKidd , Ray Stevenson , Lindsay Duncan , Max Pirkus as Giaus Octavian the younger , Simon Woods as Giaus Octavian Caesar , Kerry Condon , Indira Varma , and Lyndsay Marshall as CLEOPATRA- --- The AVIATOR , SHOPGIRL , "12 ANGRY MEN" , The OXBOW INCIDENT , The DEFIANT ONES , IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT , THE BEDFORD INCIDENT , [ and FIVE of SYDNEY POLLACK Films that have Robert Redford in starring roles - JEREMIAH JOHNSON , OUT OF AFRICA , THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR , HAVANA , and THIS PROPERTY CONDEMNED ] , The Gunfighter , The Devil Wears Prada , AWAKENINGS , Patch Adams , The Family Man , Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid , 21 GRAMS , Little Children , THE CINDERELLA MAN , Napoleon Dynamite , Friends With Money , MICHAEL , The FIFTH ELEMENT , Amistad , Amazing Grace , Citizen Kane , RKO 281 , The PRINCESS BRIDE , Walk the Line , BEN HUR: a Tale of the Christ 1959 , Melinda and Melinda , The Skeleton Key , WALL STREET , RENDITION , Vice Versa , The BIRDS , North By Northwest , ALL ABOUT EVE , Follow the Sun , Farewell to the King , Thank You For Smoking , Sweeney Todd the demon barber of Fleet Street , Edward Scissorhands , Medicine Man , The African Queen , Lord of War , De TWEELING a.k.a. - TWIN SISTERS , DARK BLUE WORLD , DOWNFALL , Pans Labyrinth , La Vie En Rose , "APOCALYTO" , SOLARIS the 1972 version and the George Clooney version , The House of Sand , House of Sand and Fog ( two totally different Films ) , BIG FISH , RAY , The Hunt for Red October , Battleground , CRIMSON TIDE , MINORITY REPORT , FARGO , The Hudsucker Proxy , FROM HELL , BLOW , Finding Neverland , Boogie Nights , DAVE , The Usual Suspects , L.A.Confidential , Meet Joe Black , Contact , JAWS , Empire of the Sun , Schindlers List , THE PIANIST by ROMAN POLANSKI and ROSEMARY'S BABY by ROMAN POLANSKI and CHINATOWN by ROMAN POLANSKI , TOY STORY 1 , Finding Nemo , Shrek 1 , ( not Shrek 2 or 3 ) , CARS , Happy Feet , OVER THE HEDGE , Seven Days in Tibet , 12 Monkey's , Galaxy Quest , Something the Lord Made , To Kill A Mockingbird , The Blue Max , Lifeboat , MASTER and COMMANDER:the Far Side of the World , SIGNS , The LADY in the WATER , THE HAPPENING , TOMBSTONE ... and ... WYATT EARP , VAL KILMER in WONDERLAND and TOMBSTONE , 3:10 to YUMA -( Glen Ford and Russell Crowe versions ) , For Whom the Bell Tolls , Sergeant York , HITCH , Enemy of the State , LAST of the MOHICAN'S , The Road to Perdition , BLADE RUNNER , The Wizard of Oz , Slaughterhouse Five , SINGING In The RAIN , The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming , Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , ADAPTATION , Interview with a Vampire , FIGHT CLUB , On the Waterfront , Back To The Future , PEE WEE's BIG ADVENTURE , BEST IN SHOW , For Your Consideration , Kirk Russell as Captain Ron , Kirk Russell's role in Executive Decision , NATILIE PORTMAN in the films - LEON the PROFESSIONAL , HEAT , BEAUTIFUIL GIRLS , MARS ATTACKS , COLD MOUNTAIN , GARDEN STATE , CLOSER , V for VANDETTA , The OTHER BOLEYN GIRL , GOYA'S GHOST , The DARJEELING LIMITED , and her "STAR WARS" role , Dakota Fanning in the films "Taken" , Man on Fire , and War of the Worlds , - Pirates of the Caribbean the curse of the Black Pearl --( the next two pirate films are TERRIBLE!! .... the Graphics are Fantastic , but the Screenplays SUCK!! ) , Groundhog Day , SCROOGED , The Majestic , Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events , Gandhi , Memoirs of a Geisha , The ENGLISH PATIENT , FORREST GUMP , The Young Lions , From Here to Eternity , JUNEBUG , ISHTAR --( I know what you're thinking , but ISHTAR is really worth the view if just for Elaine May )--- anything with Geoffrey Rush --- anything with William H. Macy --- and anything with Gene Hackman , Kevin Spacey , Chris Cooper , and Philip Seymour Hoffman , "I Heart Huckabee's" , "The Greatest Game Ever Played" , "FRIDA" ,-- "MILLIONS"-- , and of coarse --"PARENTHOOD" - AND!!!!!!Every WOODY ALLEN FILM!!!!!! Anything by STANLEY KUBRICK - AND!!!!!!! anything by Joel and Ethan Coen - AND!!!!!!! anything by Robert Altman - AND - All Mike Nichols Films - "Can't forget Sydney Pollack Films and Sydney's acting roles" - every Tom Hanks Film since 1992 , CHARLES CHAPLIN in the films "The KID" , "The CIRCUS" , "The GREAT DICTATOR" , Awe Hell Every Chaplin Film -- P.S.... in my opinion "DANCES WITH WOLVES" and "TEAM AMERICA - WORLD POLICE" are the finest films ever made by the Motion Picture Industry !!!!! The concept of K-PAX is BRILLIANT!!!!--George Clooney's role as Ulysses Everette McGill is one of Hollywoods finest performances!!-- Marisa Tomei's role as Mona Lisa Vito is one of Hollywoods finest Performances!! - AND anything MERYL STREEP performs is Pure Magic - AND!! - "PEARL HARBOR" - REALLY DID SUCK!!! ( MICHAEL BAY - "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING??!!" --- JESUS H. CHRIST - "PEARL HARBOR" was pure CRAP!!!" P.S. WE LOST A BEAUTIFUL LADY JUNE 17,2008....CYD CHARISSE ONE OF THE LAST GREAT HOLLYWOOD DANCERS , PASSED AWAY....SHE WILL BE MISSED.

Television:

SPORTS NIGHT by Aaron Sorkin!!! , SOUTH PARK , The SIMPSONS , The Dick Van Dyke Show , Barney Miller , NOVA , Latenight with Johnny Carson , Fraggle Rock , PEE WEE's Playhouse , Seinfeld , Taxi , Saturday Night Live , All in the Family , Green Acres , The History Channel , The National Geographic Channel , McNamara's Band , and Lidsville. ( I really loved Lidsville !! )

Books:

Anything by Kurt Vonnegut , Tom Clancy , Stephan King , Tom Wolfe , Truman Capote , Stephen E. Ambrose , and James Bradley , Elmore Leonard , John Grisham , Chinua Achebe , Ernest Thompson Seton ,...also Ayaan Hirsi Ali who wrote "Infidel" , Christopher Hitchens who wrote "God is Not Great - How Religion Poisons Everything" and Dee Brown , and Towellee who wrote "A Million Little Fibers"

Heroes:

"CHAS CHANDLER" - , Dr. Vivien T. Thomas , Dr. Alfred Blalock , Rodney Dangerfield , Dutch Politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali , Judas Iscariot , Thomas Paine , George Washington , John Adams , Daniel Shays , Alexander Hamilton , Frederick Douglass , Olaudah Equiano , William Wilberforce , John Brown , Major General Joshua Lawrence Chamberland , Dr. Jack Kevorkian , Michael Schiavo , Nicolas Copernicus , Galileo Galilee , Mahatma Gandhi , All of the Little Rock Nine , Medgar Evers , Martin Luther King Jr. , Nelson Mandela , Ida B. Wells , Tommy Smith and John Carlos , Paul Rusesabagina , Patrick Chamusso , Everyone who was connected with the Underground Railroad , the Crew of APOLLO ONE --- Gus Grissom --- Ed White --- Roger Chaffee ----- APOLLO EIGHT because they SAVED the year 1968 ---- ( actually all of N.A.S.A.'s Astronaunts )--- Russian Astronaunts - Yuri Gagarin the First man in space , Valentina Tereshkova the first woman in space , The Passengers of UNITED FLIGHT 93 , Andy Kaufman , Bob Zmuda , Julius Stroh , AND!!!!!!! Pee Wee Herman ....... OH !!!!...I can't forget Matt Stone and Trey Parker!!.......P.S. Did I mention my personal savior Julius Stroh?......P.P.S.-- HOLY FAW KINN GUACAMOLE!!!..."ALL OF THE NATIVE AMERICANS , WE IMMAGRANTS TRUELY LOVE YOUR LAND!!...."SO LONG AND THANX FOR ALL THE FISH"

My Blog

"GRASS" by CARL SANDBERG

PILE THE BODIES HIGH AT AUSTERLITZ AND WATERLOO.SHOVEL THEM UNDER AND LET ME WORK -I AM THE GRASS , I COVER ALL.AND PILE THEM HIGH AT GETTYSBERGAND PILE THEM HIGH AT YPRES AND VERDUN.SHOVEL THEM UNDER...
Posted by Rod on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:00:00 PST

THINGS I HAVE LEARNED

"IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO TREAT A WOMAN TO WELL."     "THE DEFINITION OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IS ONE WHO LOVES ME"       "SUCCESS IN ALMOST ANY FIELD DEPENDS M...
Posted by Rod on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:13:00 PST

EARTH

From Apocalypse Now......Kurtz  (  Marlon Brando ) is talking to Willard  ( Martin Sheen )  "They train young men to drop Fire on people , but their commanders won't allow the...
Posted by Rod on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:27:00 PST

GOD Part Two

"KNOW EVIL --- KNOW GOD --- NO EVIL --- NO GOD"
Posted by Rod on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:06:00 PST

"K-PAX"

I want to tell you something Mark , something you do not yet know , but we K-PAXIANS have been around long enough to have discovered . The universe will expand , and it will collapse back on itslf , t...
Posted by Rod on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:56:00 PST

PARENTHOOD

"you know, miss Buckman, you need a license to buy a dog or drive a car.    Hell you need a license to catch a fish.    But they'll let any butt-reamin' asshole be your f...
Posted by Rod on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:36:00 PST

Happy Birthday

The Royalty Rights to the Tune "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU" a tune written by  Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill ..(  it took two people to write this song  ) go to special charities....s...
Posted by Rod on Fri, 18 May 2007 08:12:00 PST

BEER CANS

"Empty Beer Cans on the road - are ugly many say - but at Night reflecting Light - They  safely Guide the Way."
Posted by Rod on Fri, 04 May 2007 01:11:00 PST

SPORTS NIGHT

"EVERYONE  NEEDS  TO  WATCH  ALL EPISODES  OF "SPORTS NIGHT" - "TRUST ME .... I WON'T MAKE FOOLS OUTTAH  YA."
Posted by Rod on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:46:00 PST

Lyle Rogers and Chuck ( the Hawk ) Clarke

I Feel so Small when I Look at the Stars ! ......How Big is Venus ?  How Big is Mars ?  ....... I Feel so Small when I look at the Sky !...... How Big is Heaven ?....... How B...
Posted by Rod on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:26:00 PST