Music, acting, writing, drawing, loving P.H.
Clint Eastwood.
Anything I can put a face to. Most of my "friends" here. Anyone kicking it in and around Destin, Florida, too.FAVORITE ALBUMS: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, "Raising Sand" James Brown, "Star Time" Elvis, "NBC-TV Special" The Clash, "London Calling" The Beatles, "Second Album" Johnny Cash, "At Folsom Prison" Stevie Wonder, "Songs in the Key of Life" Firesign Theatre, "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers" Al Green, "Call Me" Genesis, "Duke" "Moby Grape" Derek and the Dominos, "Layla" Richard Pryor, "That Nigger's Crazy" Def Leppard, "Hysteria" Sleater-Kinney, "One Beat" Drive-By Truckers, "The Dirty South" Gang of Four, "entertainment!" Peter Gabriel's third LP, the one with the melting face on the cover Ennio Morricone soundtracks Gary "U.S." Bonds, "Quarter to Three" Brenton Wood, "Gimme Little Sign" Anything by Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Jimmy Smith.FAVORITE SINGER EVER: Paula Hilton
"Atlantic City," "Fargo," "Juno," "No Country for Old Men," "JFK," "Once," "Short Cuts," "Meet John Doe," "Hatari!", "Once Upon a Time in America," "The Godfather Part II," "True Romance (Director's Cut)," "Pulp Fiction," "Heavenly Creatures," "A Hard Day's Night," "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer," "Planes, Trains and Automobiles," "Bad Lieutenant," "Across 110th Street," "Babe the Gallant Pig," "Dumbo," "The Muppet Movie." I also like anything by Robert Altman, Preston Sturges, Buster Keaton, Jerry Lewis... just about anything by Spike Lee or Martin Scorsese or the Coen Brothers... among newer filmmakers, Miranda July, Jason Reitman, Spike Jonze. Guilty pleasures: Anything with Charles Bronson, the dumber the better... really shitty teen sex comedies from the 80s, especially the one where the guy, anticipating an evening of hot sex action, tells his pals he's gonna "go home and warm up"! How riotous!!
"The Wire"; "SCTV"; "The Odd Couple"; "Wheel of Fortune"
Recent reads include Stephen King's "Duma Key," Lee Child's "The Hard Way," Eric Clapton's "Clapton: The Autobiography," Robert B. Parker's "Now and Then: A Spenser Novel" (excellent), Steve Martin's "Born Standing Up" (excellent), Dave Marsh's "The Beatles' Second Album" (masterpiece), Dennis Kucinich's "The Courage to Survive." Favorites: "When Romeo Wrote Juliet" by P. Hilton and B. Holtcamp; "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, "Case Histories" by Kate Atkinson, "Elvis" by Dave Marsh, "Chronicles, Volume 1" by Bob Dylan, "Cash: The Autobiography" by Johnny Cash & Patrick Carr, "The Jerry Lewis Films" by Okuda & Neibaur, "On Writing" by Stephen King, "Elements of Style" by Strunk & White, "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" by Michael Chabon, "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren, "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens, "The Fifties" by David Halberstam, Any R. Crumb Comix Collection, Anything by Elmore Leonard, Peter Abrahams, Bentley Little, George Pelecanos, Michael Connelly, Harlan Coben.
Paula, brave and strong (and very, very lovable).