..Rieckhoff On Hardball with Chris Matthews, March, 2007Rieckhoff vs VA Secretary Nicholson On PBS NewsHour, Feb 28, 2007 -Music (especially live music), reading, politics, football, writing/blogging, video games, people watching (especially in NYC), working out, playing basketball, Jiu-Jitsu, travel, downhill mountain biking, golf, arguing, playing with my nephew, listening to my 91-year-old grandmother tell stories, being near any kind of water, rugby
I'd like to meet:
Rick Rubin, Warren Buffett, Nelson Mandela, Bill Gates, Colin Powell, Dave Chappelle, Banksy, Yao Ming, Jay-Z, Dr. Cornell West, Chuck Palahnuik, Richard Branson, Fareed Zakaria, Marilyn Manson, Studds Turkle, Jon Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, President Jimmy Carter, Senator John McCain, Osama Bin Laden (in a dark alley), Prince, Ozzy Osbourne, Chris Rock, Eminem, Jack White, Michael J. Fox, Samuel L. Jackson, President Bill Clinton, President George Bush, Wladimir Klitschko, Willie Nelson, The Rock, Stephen Hawking, Rob and Big, Barry Diller, Bear Grylls, Bolivian President Evo Morales, Madeleine Albright, Anderson Sá, Emmanuel Jal, Mike Phillips
Music:
Drowning Pool and IAVA, "This Is For The Soldiers" VideoI like music that matters. Specifically, some of the artists that I am passionate about are:Jimi Hendrix, Tool, The Laura Thomas Band, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Bill Withers, Jay-Z, Disturbed, System of a Down, Metallica, James Brown, Wolfmother, A Tribe Called Quest, The Temptations, Eminem, B.I.G, The Jeff Healey Band, Amos Lee, G. Love, Citizen Cope, The Roots, The Doors, Gnarls Barkley, Miles Davis, Nine Inch Nails, EPMD, Gorillaz, Queens of the Stone Age, Led Zepplin, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley, Jack Johnson, Beethoven, Dead Prez, Mieka Pauley, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash, A Perfect Circle, Milo Z, Marilyn Manson, Korn, The Doobie Brothers, 2PAC, Tool, The Dave Mathews Band, Dixie Chicks, Tori Amos, Prince, Beck, Jurassic 5, Mos Def, Soundgarden, Linkin Park, Gang Starr, Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, State Radio, Ben Harper, Hank Williams Jr., Matisyahu, The White Stripes, Marvin Gaye, Michael Franti/Spearhead, Stevie Wonder, Common, Carolyn Wonderland, Beastie Boys, 311, Sublime, Mozart, Godsmack, Nirvanna, Incubus, John Legend, Jill Scott, Living Colour, Ozzy, Public Enemy, Buddy Guy, Queen and much, much more.
Movies:
The War Tapes (www.TheWarTapes.com)
When I Came Home (www.WhenICameHome.com)Gladiator, Braveheart, Requiem for a Dream, The Shawshank Redemption, Tombstone, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fight Club, Napolean Dynamite, The Natural, Rudy, Seven, Red Dawn, Pi, The Breakfast Club, A Christmas Story, Falling Down, Murderball, The Game, Good Will Hunting, Full Metal Jacket, American History X, Motorcyle Diaries, Boyz N da Hood, Godfather, Shrek, Born on the Fourth of July, The War Tapes, Toy Story, 13 Tzameti, The Princess Bride, Forrest Gump, The Program, Invincible, Cool Hand Luke, Wall Street, The War Tapes (trailer above), When I Came Home (trailer above), Jerabek, Favela Rising
Television:
The Daily Show, Man vs. Wild, The Deadliest Catch, any kind of televised football (college or NFL), Rome, The Wire, Lost, Jeopardy, Rob and Big, Meet the Press, This Week with George Stephanopoulis, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Battlestar Galactica, Hannity and Colmes (VERY entertaining), Weeds, The Real World, Deadwood, Any UFC shows, Boxing, The L Word, SportsCenter, Inside the NFL, Chappelle Show, T-Minus Rock (or any other music video show on MTV2 or Fuse), Wildboyz, The Colbert Report, The West Wing, Da Ali G Show, Entourage, Heroes
Books:
I highly recommend Chasing Ghosts (wink, wink).
.All-time favorites include The Magus (Fowles), On The Road (Kerouac), Catch 22 (Heller), The Things They Carried (O'Brien), Post Office, Ham on Rye (Bukowski), Fight Club (Palahniuk), A Prayer for Owen Meany (Irving), For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway), The Alchemist (Coelho), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Dahl), The Iliad (Homer), Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut), American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis), Oh, the Places You'll Go! (Dr. Seuss), The Official Boy Scout Handbook
Heroes:
Paul B. Rieckhoff (my grandfather), Elizabeth Eisenger (my nana), Shad Meshad (google him), Senator Chuck Hagel, Joe Galloway, Bob Woodruff, Wesley Autrey (the amazing guy who jumped onto the subway tracks in NYC to save another man's life), Paul Bucha, Michael J. Fox, Robert Acosta, Pat Tillman, Jackie Robinson, Ann Richards, Martin Luther King Jr., Kurt Vonnegut, Senator Max Cleland, Mark Zupan, Kristen Breitweiser, JFK, Tammy Duckworth, Jon Stewart, Geoffrey Canada, Annette McLeod, Madeleine Albright, Emmanuel Jal, Mike Phillips, Senator Jim Webb, the men and women of the armed forces who serve our country worldwide, the wives, husbands and children they leave behind. And I am actively searching for new ones daily.
