wine, women and song - sounds like a good start. NZ does well on all three.
I'd like to meet:
I'd like to listen to numbers of great musicians - mainly in small settings - the list is numerous, but acoustic, live, real music sounds like a good start. 90% of popular music has no soul - and I get annoyed by kids with software 'producing' music. A lot of the real kids are ok - just that the music isn't real music. (I actually don't really mind electronically produced music - as such - just has to have soul to be of interest.)
Lauren Thomson
an up-and-coming New Zealand artist
see the Lauren Thomson MySpace
(above photo by Charlette Hannah)
(see
Wellington Live Music site )
and another recent favourite - Miriam Clancy
see the Miriam Clancy MySpace
and some of my & my daughter's pictures are below :)
choose from the below tracks for some marvelous music
(artist permission obtained for use of song samples)
Flash Player from spacelayouts.net
Music:
There are dozens of singer songwriters who appeal to me. The best of the ones who 'sings for me' is Bob Dylan. The best of the ones who 'sings to me' is Sophie Moleta. They are both troubadours to my mind, each in their own way speaking from the human heart and to the human spirit.
website - sophie moleta
myspace - sophie moleta
Movies:
saw a lot when younger
Television:
a waste of space -
Heroes:
Public heroes are greatly over-rated, compared to ordinary people who struggle to keep going - and are often heroes within.
My non-heroes of the world include an enormous number of people in all fields who seem to have the answer(s) for everyone else. That's hypocrisy.
Also non-heroes of the world include those who lack empathy. That's arrogance.
Let's hope that I can escape both these traits. Hmm - maybe that's hopeful? :)
