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Music:
Dylan first and foremost.But my taste includes Punk Rock(The Clash
The Jam, The Ramones.....), Americana(Wilco, Alejandro Escovedo
Lucinda Williams....), Classic Rock(Stones, The Who, Jimi Hendrix
...) But I also like Blues(Johnny Clyde Copeland, Taj Majal, ) and Folk(Woody Guthrie
Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs)and some Classical(Bach, Mozart, Bethoven) and some Jazz(Miles Davis,John Coletrane
Charles Mingus).My all-time personal favorite is Willie Nile
my wife and I were fortunate enough to have him play at our wedding and write a song for us called "I Will Stand".Dan Bern is a close second and may be one of the best singer/songwriters alive today.
and Peter Himmelman is a close third. I admit that I first listened to him because he was Bob Dylans Son-in-Law, but he is a great singer songwriter in his own right. Musically refined and spiritually infused.Here's a list of others I like:........................................Neil Young
Elvis Costello, Graham Parker, John Hiatt, Lou Reed
REM, U2, Richard Thompson, Steve Earle, The Band
The Jayhawks, The Pretenders, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Van Morrison and Patti Smith.I guess these are the biggies...................................Just want to include a few more:
The Black Crowes
Son Volt, Aimee Mann, Billy Bragg, The Bottle Rockets, Pixies Little Feat,
Warren Zevon, Bruce Springsteen, Continental Drifters, Dar Williams
Cowboy Junkies, Counting Crows, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Elliot SmithFreedy Johnston, The Health and Happiness Show, Gram Parsons, Michelle Shocked
Green Day, Iggy Pop, Jeff Buckley
Joan Armatrading, The New York Dolls, John Prine
Pearl Jam, Roxy Music, Rush, Paul Simon, SublimeTalking Heads, The Cure, The Wallflowers
The Waterboys, Black 47 and Uncle Tupelo..........Ani DiFranco, Gang of Four, Bruce Cockburn
Leonard Cohen, Jackson Browne, Sara McLachlan, The Kinks
Crash Test Dummies and The Beatles,
Televison
The Allman Brothers and The Grateful Dead.And I also like some newer bands:
Modest Mouse
The Strokes, North Missisippi All Stars,
Ours
The Figgs, The White Stripes,Muse
British Sea Power. First Favorite Myspace Band, Payola Reserve.I have to correct a serious ommission. I can't believe I left out Reggae. Bob Marley, Peter Tosh
Jimmy Cliff, Toots and the Maytals, Black Uhuru, Steel Pulse, Burning Spear.
Movies:
The Razors Edge
Apocalypse Now, Platoon, "The Last Temptation of Christ"
it's one of those "what if?" type of movies and it brings up alot of interesting theological questions(probably why the church doesn't like it.). Also, I hate to admit it, but there's a movie I watch every time it's on and the only explaination I can come up with is that I liked it, "Groundhogs Day". It must be Bill Murray, I'ld see him in anything. I also loved "Forest Gump", "What Dreams May Come", "Close Encounters"
but that's a childhood thing. I played hookie to go see that movie. So many movies, I'll have to add to this list as they come back to me........The Killing Fields and Hotel Rwanda (stories of two Genocides we all have to bare on our souls) I really like the Constant Gardner
and in researching, found out another way Africans are being treated as disposable people. On a lighter note Field of Dreams (the book is probably better) and another Kevin Costner film "No Way Out". All the presidents men, JFK, Do the Right Thing
.........I'm also a fan of certain directors and performers. I love Woody Allen movies, especially "Hannah and Her Sisters"
which had a big impact on me when my Mom died. It's the only Woody Allen Movie I know that has a happy ending. I like Tim Burton with my favorite being "Big Fish", but "Mars Attacks is just a pure pisser,
I could watch it over and over and still laugh my ass off. I like the The Cohen Bros, with "Fargo" being the best. I love M. Night Shyamalan though I haven't seen "Wide Awake". I think Speilberg is ok. I'm a big Oliver Stone fan, I mentioned a couple of his movies already. I liked "Resevoir Dogs",
but for the most part I think Quentin Tarantino is an idiot. Another movie I like along the same lines but better is "The Usual Suspects"
I like a couple of Peter Weir movies, Gallipoli, The Year of Living Dangerously, The Mosquito Coast,
Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show....haven't seen Master and Commander yet. I like a couple of the big Ridly Scott Films like Alien, Thelma and Louise, Black Hawk Down, and of course "Blade Runner".
Huge Scorcese fan Gangs of New York, Goodfellas, I already mention the Last Temptation, Raging Bull, The Last Waltz Taxi Driver, King of Comedy, I think he did one of the shorts in New York Stories, I did see the Aviator, but it was only ok to me. With the possible exception of Chinatown
I could live without Polanski. I like several Spike Lee joints, Do the Right Thing is one of my absolute favorites. David Leans Lawrence of Arabia
is a big favorite of mine. Along with Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick is one of my favorites, Dr. Strangelove,
2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket are all favorites. Not a big Ron Howard fan with the possible exception of Far and Away. Clint Eastwood is ok. Although I have not seen alot of his work I really like Bernardo Bertolluci, The Sheltering Sky,
The Last Emperor, Stealing Beauty are three that I love. And of course I can't leave out Francis Ford Coppola, I already mentioned Apocalypse Now, also The Godfather movies, The Conversation, The Outsiders, The Cotton Club, he was also part of New York Stories, and Dracula. I almost forgot to mention Terry Gilliam: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Time Bandits, Monty Pythons' Meaning of Life, Brazil , The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fischer King, 12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. One of the best Sci-fi movies ever is "Fifth Element" .."http://www.brmovie.com/Images/Movies/The_Fifth_Element_Mo
vie.jpg" and I would include Total Recall up there as well, along with some of the ones I already mentioned.
Television:
I watch American Idol when it gets down to the last few. I stopped watching "24" a few years ago, Amazing Race is fun and a few others that I watch with my wife. I love The Sara Connor Chronicles(Terminator)and I really liked Jericho too, but I guess I'm in a small minority there. Seinfeld, Simpsons
South Park
and every manifestation of Star Trek
and m*a*s*h are my all time shows. Duh! How could I forget the Odd Couple
I loved that show. OWA! TAGU! SIAM!
Books:
A Concise History of the Catholic Church(current), Slaughterhouse Five
To Kill a Mockingbird, A Brief History of Time, the Bible, For Whom the Bell Tolls
, Marathon Man, the Autobiography of Malcom X
, The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos, The Ground Beneath her Feet, The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Stranger , The Trial, The Shipping News, 1984, Brave New World, Dubliners(collection of short stories by James Joyce)
I love short stories and Plays and poetry as well, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, William Carlos Williams, Anton Chekhov
Samuel Beckett, Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde. I also like many great Science Fiction Writers. Issac Asimov, Ray Bradberry, Arthur C Clarke
Phillip K Dick, Larry Niven, Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Ursula K Leguin, Frederick Pohl and many other great science fiction writers .......many other things and many more only partially read. On deck: The Catechism of the Catholic Church(I'll get there eventually) my biggest regret is that I never read Moby Dick or Catcher in the Rye, they keep coming up.
Heroes:
Plato, Jesus, Michio Kaku, Dan Bern and Simon Loekle("for my general purpose I digress")
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Anyone who is on the way to God-Consciousness, is certainly a Hero to me. I just want to take the time here to remember a Catholic Priest who runs a rehab center for ex cons and former Gang Memebers in LA. I don't know his name, but I know this, he lives with God....I think this is him.
"The Los Angeles-based Homeboy Industries, run by Catholic priest Father Gregory Boyle, helps former gang members transition out of the gang world through counseling and jobs." this guy truly has the spirit if God in him.
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