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JERSEY SHORE ROCK & ROLL With THE PAT RODDY BAND
I'd like to meet:
View my page on AsburyMusician.com
I'm an aspiring Journalist currently covering Asbury Park, New Jersey and The Jersey Shore. I'd like to meet musicans, artists, poets and writers from the area and from all over the world.
I've been a Bruce Springsteen follower since I was very young... have a brother who's 13 yrs older who became a fan in in the 70's... I was born in 74 and by the time I was five was sneaking into his room while he was at college and listening to his records. I think I memorized the words to all of the songs on "Greeting's From Asbury Park" by the time I graduated kindergarten... I have another brother who's only three years older and thought he WAS Bruce Springsteen when we were kids. We used to sit for hours and listen to albums and have contests who could name the most Springsteen songs and who could sing the most words without skipping one. In 84' when Bruce went on his Born In The USA Tour, my sister and her friends got a bunch of tickets to opening night at Giants Stadium. She wanted to take us but the parents said we were too young. Instead she brought us back two sleeveless tee shirts, the one Cortney Cox wore in the Dancing In The Dark video. I think we wore those shirts every day that summer and probably until they fell off. Since then I've seen him several times. The most incredibe show being, closing night at Continental in 99'. After that show, I said if I never saw another concert in my life, I'd die happy. It was that good. So yes, Bruce Springsteen is also someone I'd like to meet.
And at last.. I'll leave you with the wise words of Casey Kasem... "Keep your feet on the ground and keep reachin for the stars!"
Music:
LARRY KIRWAN OF BLACK 47 AT THE STONE PONY-FEBRUARY 8th, 2007 Photo by M.C. O'Connor
I really listen to a wide range of music. I listen to all types of music because I feel as if it keeps me young in spirit. Music is my passion. I've seen some outrageous shows of various performers... and I enjoy listening to good live original music at fun local bars and other venues...
In no particular order... I listen to
Local Artists: Rick Barry, George Wirth, Amanda Duncan, Pat Roddy Band, Joe Harvard Band, Solo.X, Michael Brett, Bobby Strange, Status Green, Janey Todd, Pat Karwan, Arlan Feiles and Divine Sign.
Have been Listening to for years:
Springsteen, John Fogerty, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, U2, Don Henly, Tracey Chapman, Dylan, Neil Young, Natalie Merchant, Bob Marley, Steven Marley, Chris Issac, Suzanne Vega, Belly, Matthew Sweet, Dave Matthews, XTC, The Bogmen, They Might Be Giants, Big Head Todd And The Monsters, Counting Crowes, Midnight Oil, Prince, Michael Jackson, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Black Crowes, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Cher, Billy Joel, Cindy Lauper, Joe Cocker, UB40, Peter Gabriel, Carly Simon, Paul Simon, Edie Brickell, Joan Jet, The Grateful Dead, CSNY, Allman Brothers, Sublime, George Clinton, Phish, P.M. Dawn, De La Soul, Salt-n-Pepa, Areosmith, Bjiork, James Taylor, Little Feat, Harry Chapin, KC and The Sunshine Band, Beastie Boys, Run DMC, TKA, Cynthia, Gwen Stefani, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Morrisey, Pink, Neil Diamond, Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Filter, Coldplay and the list goes on...
Movies:
"It's a Wonderful Life" - Capra, Jimmy Stewart "Twenty Bucks" - Keva Rosenfeld (it's an indie was a sleeper... my all time Favorite Indie... ton of stars) "The Crying Game" Forest Whitaker, Ralph Brown "In The Name Of The Father" Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite Sense and Sensibility - Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant "Far and Away" - Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Colm Meaney "The Commitments" Roddy Doyle - Colm Meaney is in this one too... LOVE HIM! "The English Patient" - Incredible Cinematography, Ralph Finnes, Juliette Binoche, Kristen Scott Thomas, Colin Firth "American Beauty" - Kevin Spacey, Mena Suvari, Wes Bently, Anette Bening, Thora Birch "Pillow Talk" - Rock Hudson/Doris Day, "Anchors Away" - Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly "Streetcar Named Desire" Tennesee Williams, Dir Elia Kazan, Brando/Vivien Leigh/Karl Malden "A Fish Called Wanda" Robert Klein, John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis "Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade" - Spielberg, "PCU" - Jermey Piven, Jon Favreau, David Spade (Best Piven & Favreau EVER...Hysterical!!!!) Clay Pigeons - Vince Vaughn, Janine Garaffalo, Joaquin Phoenix- Vaughn at his best! "Under the Rainbow" - Chevy Chase, Carey Fisher "Cannon Ball Run" - too many stars to list "Midnight Madness" Michael J. Fox... such a fun movie! "War Games" Matthew Broderick, Ali Sheedy "The Freshman" Broderick/Brando Ferris "Bueller's Day off" "Better Off Dead" John Cusack "Sixteen Candles" "Some Kind of Wonderful" "St. Elmo's Fire" "Pretty In Pink" "Weird Science" "Ace Ventura Pet Detective" "Dumb and Dumber" "All Dog's Go To Heaven" Voices - Burt Reynolds and Dom DelLuise "Shrek" "Shrek II" "The Incredibles" "Sandlot" "Goonies"
Television:
HOUSE,Ugly Betty, Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, LOST, 24, Medium, Crossing Jordan, Jeopardy, Sinefeld, Food Network, HGTV, VH1, Letterman, Conan, Kimmel, Leno
Books:
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Everything by Henry James, Most Classic British Literature, The Pilgrimage, The Alchemist, The Valkyries and I sat Down By The River Pietro and Wept by Paulo Coelho, The Mammy and The Granny by Brendan O'Carroll, Anything by Roddy Doyle, Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy, Joe Dimaggio "The Hero's Life" by Richard Ben Cramer and My Father's Daughter "A memoir" by Nancy Sinatra, ZIM by Don Zimmer, When You Come To a Fork in the Road, Take it by Yogi Bera, The Kennedy's "America's Emerald Kings", The Kennedy Curse by Edward Klein, Anne Frank "The Diary Of A Young Girl, The Definitive Edition" The Hiding Place by Corey Tenboom, The Popes Against The Jews, Bruce Springsteen's America by Robert Coles
Heroes:
William Blake, William Wordsworth, Henry James, William Butler Yeats, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Shakespeare, Keats, Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Rimbaud, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Abigail Adams, Walker Percy, Kurt Vonnegut, E.L. Doctorow, John Updike, Paulo Coelho, Tenesee Williams, Edward Albee, Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer
