Witnessing the raw unadulterated power of good live music. Working on hot rods, customs and motorcycles that have personality and individuality forged in every nut and bolt. Good art and design. Traveling around the world and making it look easy, while living beyond my means. Teaching people about art and design. A good steak.
The bums I have something in common with and who aren't stupid.
The good stuff. Like rock and roll, Texas swing and mountain bluegrass. What else is there? Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, Lift To Experience, The Damned, Flatt and Scruggs, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, The Slickee Boys, Bad Brains, X, The Replacements, Husker Du, Elvis, Ronnie Dawson, DBT, John Spencer Blues Explosion, Charlie Parker, The Remains, Rolling Stones,Miles Davis, The Sonics, Afghan Whigs, The Greenhornes, The Marked Men, Sonic Youth, The Black Keys, R.L. Burnside, The Supersuckers, The Hellicopters, The Detroit Cobras, Lucero, Jacques Dutronc, The Dragons and on and on......
Lawrence of Arabia, City of Ghosts, Hatari, Ronin, Rondevous, From Here to Eternity, The Seven Samurai, Le Mans
what?
Too many, but I'll narrow it down to the ones with scores of seething humid stories in darkest Africa, Arabia, Asia and anything else with adventure and people tearing around in beat up Land Rovers laden with rifles. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Into Thin Air, One Man Caravan, West With The Night, Out of Africa, Blue Highways, Venture to the Interior, Zanzibar Chest, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Noa Noa, Lost World of the Kalahari, The Arabian Nights, A Passage to India, On the Road, Adventurers of the Pacific and on and on....
My sister for making it look so easy and my parents for always knowing where the ladder is to get out of the big hole I dig...Jan "Get Down, Get Down" Rosser.