Gratitude, Humility, Free Expression, Kindness
People who like to hear music played on the ukulele.
Current iPod favorites (this is my exercise music): Tom Morrell and the Time Warp Top Hands - Annette Funicello - Art Of Noise - Booker T and the MGs - Ben Sidran - De La Soul - Spot 1019 - California Cajun Orch - Jolly Gibsons - Los Blazers - Ramsey Lewis - Johnny Horton - Ramon Ayala -o-o-o-o-o-o- I thought Finland's young early music/original music Ensemble Ambrosius created a uniquely beautiful work by arranging the eccentric satirical fusion of Frank Zappa for early instruments. Gail Zappa, widow of the present day composer that refused to die until late in '93, gives the recording her highest marks. The stuff is sumptuous, so rhythmically compelling you keep forgetting there are no drums. I swear. You haven't lived until you've heard a George Duke synth solo played on a pipe organ. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o -o-o- After growing up with jazz in my head I unexpectedly fell in love with diatonic folk musics in my thirties. Alpine zither music, Mexican accordions, Italian tarantellas, Polish polkas, cumbia from Columbia and Mexico, cajun fiddle and acordion, Andean panpipes, and Hawaiian ukuleles. I'll never live to learn all the music I could learn to love.
Fast Cheap And Out Of Control - Dogfight - Wings Of Desire - The Long Goodbye - My Favorite Year - The Sterile Cuckoo - O Brother Where Art Thou - You Can't Take It With You - Topsy Turvy - Jackie Brown - Word Play - Household Saints
Anything with a major case squad investigation is good for me; Shootout, Jeeves and Wooster, Dirty Jobs.
They were great! I couldn't have grown up without them. I don't think I'll live long enough to finish any more books, unless William Kennedy squeezes out another Albany novel. I need to spend my time practicing my instrument.I read all the SJ Perelman I can find, even biography and criticism by others. He was a miserable excuse for a man but I could kind of relate, and his writings made me laugh like nothing else in the whole world. There was a kind of dignity to be found in not measuring up, and I guess that's something about which Perelman and William Kennedy both have written beautifully.
Smelley Kelley. Fred Rogers. Chuck D. Errol Morris. My cat. Clifford Stoll. Don Novello.These lives inspire me to do better by making it look fun.