drumming, strumming, dreaming, rocking, rolling, banging, clanging, working, watching, writing, surfing, smurfing, loving, listening, biking, running, beaching, boating, playing, laying, cooking, eating, hosting, creating, laughing, touring abroad, and being still at home.
I'd like to meet:
The present moment...
Music:
Ride On Rides, Rock-n-roll, psychedelic, Brit Pop, Vintage Post Pop, soul, eccletic, indie, garage, jazz, new wave, hip hop, from world music to space rock as long as true players are playing.
Movies:
AFI Top 100
1. ADAM'S RIB (1949)
2. THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938)
3. AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (1957)
4. THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
5. ALIEN (1979)
6. ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
7. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)
8. ALL THAT JAZZ (1979)
9. ALL THE KING'S MEN (1949)
10. ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976)
11. AMADEUS (1984)
12. AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
13. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)
14. THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY (1964)
15. ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959)
16. ANNIE HALL (1977)
17. THE APARTMENT (1960)
18. APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
19. APOLLO 13 (1995)
20. AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (1956)
21. ATLANTIC CITY (1980)
22. THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937)
23. BABE (1995)
24. BABES IN ARMS (1939)
25. BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)
26. BADLANDS (1973)
27. BAMBI (1942)
28. THE BAND WAGON (1953)
29. THE BANK DICK (1940)
30. BAREFOOT IN THE PARK (1967)
31. BATAAN (1943)
32. BATMAN (1989)
33. BEAU GESTE (1939)
34. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991)
35. BEN-HUR (1926)
36. BEN-HUR (1959)
37. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)
38. BEVERLY HILLS COP (1984)
39. BIG (1988)
40. THE BIG CHILL (1983)
41. THE BIG PARADE (1925)
42. THE BIG SLEEP (1946)
43. THE BIRDS (1963)
44. THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915)
45. THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE (1955)
46. BLADE RUNNER (1982)
47. BLAZING SADDLES (1974)
48. BLUE VELVET (1986)
49. BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)
50. BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY (1989)
51. BOYS TOWN (1938)
52. BRAVEHEART (1995)
53. BRAZIL (1985)
54. BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961)
55. BREAKING AWAY (1979)
56. THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)
57. BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
58. BROADCAST NEWS (1987)
59. THE BROADWAY MELODY (1929)
60. BULLITT (1968)
61. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)
62. CABARET (1972)
63. CABIN IN THE SKY (1943)
64. THE CAINE MUTINY (1954)
65. CAMILLE (1937)
66. CARMEN JONES (1954)
67. CARRIE (1976)
68. CASABLANCA (1942)
69. CASINO (1995)
70. CAT BALLOU (1965)
71. CAT PEOPLE (1942)
72. CAVALCADE (1933)
73. CHARIOTS OF FIRE (1981)
74. THE CHEAT (1915)
75. CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD (1986)
76. CHINATOWN (1974)
77. EL CID (1961)
78. CIMARRON (1931)
79. CINDERELLA (1950)
80. CITIZEN KANE (1941)
81. CITY LIGHTS (1931)
82. CLEOPATRA (1963)
83. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
84. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)
85. THE COLOR PURPLE (1985)
86. COMING HOME (1978)
87. THE CONVERSATION (1974)
88. COOL HAND LUKE (1967)
89. THE CROWD (1928)
90. DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990)
91. DANGEROUS LIAISONS (1988)
92. DAVID COPPERFIELD (1935)
93. THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951)
94. DAYS OF HEAVEN (1978)
95. DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES (1962)
96. DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989)
97. THE DEER HUNTER (1978)
98. THE DEFIANT ONES (1958)
99. DELIVERANCE (1972)
100. DESTRY RIDES AGAIN (1939)
101. THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (1959)
102. DIE HARD (1988)
103. DIRTY HARRY (1971)
104. DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)
105. DR. STRANGELOVE (1964)
106. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)
107. DODSWORTH (1936)
108. DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975)
109. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
110. DRIVING MISS DAISY (1989)
111. DUCK SOUP (1933)
112. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)
113. EAST OF EDEN (1955)
114. EASY RIDER (1969)
115. ELMER GANTRY (1960)
116. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)
117. THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996)
118. THE EXORCIST (1973)
119. FANTASIA (1940)
120. FANTASTIC VOYAGE (1966)
121. FARGO (1996)
122. FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982)
123. FATAL ATTRACTION (1987)
124. FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF (1986)
125. FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (1971)
126. FIELD OF DREAMS (1989)
127. FIVE EASY PIECES (1970)
128. FORCE OF EVIL (1948)
129. FORREST GUMP (1994)
130. 42ND STREET (1933)
131. THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE (1921)
132. FRANKENSTEIN (1931)
133. FREAKS (1932)
134. THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)
135. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)
136. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963)
137. THE FUGITIVE (1993)
138. FUNNY GIRL (1968)
139. FURY (1936)
140. GANDHI (1982)
141. THE GENERAL (1927)
142. GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (1947)
143. GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953)
144. GHOSTBUSTERS (1984)
145. GIANT (1956)
146. GIGI (1958)
147. GILDA (1946)
148. GLORY (1989)
149. THE GODFATHER (1972)
150. THE GODFATHER PART II (1974)
151. GOING MY WAY (1944)
152. THE GOLD RUSH (1925)
153. GOLDFINGER (1964)
154. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
155. THE GOODBYE GIRL (1977)
156. GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS (1939)
157. GOODFELLAS (1990)
158. THE GRADUATE (1967)
159. GRAND HOTEL (1932)
160. THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)
161. GREASE (1978)
162. THE GREAT ZIEGFELD (1936)
163. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (1952)
164. GREED (1925)
165. GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967)
166. GUN CRAZY (1950)
167. THE GUNFIGHTER (1950)
168. GUNGA DIN (1939)
169. HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO (1944)
170. HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1986)
171. THE HEIRESS (1949)
172. HIGH NOON (1952)
173. HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940)
174. HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941)
175. HUD (1963)
176. THE HUSTLER (1961)
177. I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (1932)
178. IMITATION OF LIFE (1959)
179. IN COLD BLOOD (1967)
180. IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
181. INTOLERANCE (1916)
182. INTRUDER IN THE DUST (1949)
183. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956)
184. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)
185. IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD (1963)
186. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
187. JAWS (1975)
188. THE JAZZ SINGER (1927)
189. JERRY MAGUIRE (1996)
190. THE JOY LUCK CLUB (1993)
191. JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)
192. THE JUNGLE BOOK (1967)
193. JURASSIC PARK (1993)
194. THE KID (1921)
195. THE KILLING FIELDS (1984)
196. KING KONG (1933)
197. KRAMER VS. KRAMER (1979)
198. LADY AND THE TRAMP (1955)
199. THE LADY EVE (1941)
200. THE LAST EMPEROR (1987)
201. THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971)
202. LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1973)
203. THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (1988)
204. LAURA (1944)
205. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
206. LEAVING LAS VEGAS (1995)
207. LETHAL WEAPON (1987)
208. A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (1949)
209. THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA (1937)
210. THE LION KING (1994)
211. LITTLE BIG MAN (1970)
212. LITTLE CAESAR (1930)
213. THE LITTLE COLONEL (1935)
214. THE LITTLE FOXES (1941)
215. LOCAL HERO (1983)
216. THE LONGEST DAY (1962)
217. LOST HORIZON (1937)
218. THE LOST WEEKEND (1945)
219. LOVE STORY (1970)
220. M*A*S*H (1970)
221. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (1942)
222. THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
223. A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1966)
224. THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (1975)
225. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)
226. MANHATTAN (1979)
227. THE MARK OF ZORRO (1940)
228. MARTY (1955)
229. MARY POPPINS (1964)
230. McCABE AND MRS. MILLER (1971)
231. MEAN STREETS (1973)
232. MEDIUM COOL (1969)
233. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944)
234. MELVIN AND HOWARD (1980)
235. MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)
236. THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK (1944)
237. MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1947)
238. MISSING (1982)
239. MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (1936)
240. MISTER ROBERTS (1955)
241. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)
242. MRS. MINIVER (1942)
243. MODERN TIMES (1936)
244. MOONSTRUCK (1987)
245. MOROCCO (1930)
246. MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935)
247. MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946)
248. MY FAIR LADY (1964)
249. MY MAN GODFREY (1936)
250. NASHVILLE (1975)
251. NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE (1978)
252. NETWORK (1976)
253. A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1935)
254. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955)
255. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)
256. NINOTCHKA (1939)
257. EL NORTE (1983)
258. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
259. NOTORIOUS (1946)
260. NOW, VOYAGER (1942)
261. OKLAHOMA! (1955)
262. OLIVER! (1968)
263. ON GOLDEN POND (1981)
264. ON THE BEACH (1959)
265. ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
266. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975)
267. ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS (1961)
268. ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (1939)
269. ORDINARY PEOPLE (1980)
270. OUT OF AFRICA (1985)
271. OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
272. THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES (1976)
273. THE OX-BOW INCIDENT (1943)
274. PATHS OF GLORY (1957)
275. PATTON (1970)
276. THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925)
277. PHILADELPHIA (1993)
278. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
279. PILLOW TALK (1959)
280. THE PINK PANTHER (1964)
281. PINOCCHIO (1940)
282. A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951)
283. PLANET OF THE APES (1968)
284. PLATOON (1986)
285. THE PLAYER (1992)
286. THE POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL (1917)
287. PRETTY WOMAN (1990)
288. THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES (1942)
289. THE PRODUCERS (1967)
290. PSYCHO (1960)
291. THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931)
292. PULP FICTION (1994)
293. THE QUIET MAN (1952)
294. RAGING BULL (1980)
295. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
296. RAIN MAN (1988)
297. A RAISIN IN THE SUN (1961)
298. RAMBLING ROSE (1991)
299. REAR WINDOW (1954)
300. REBECCA (1940)
301. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955)
302. RED RIVER (1948)
303. REDS (1981)
304. RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983)
305. RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS 7 (1980)
306. RICHARD III (1912)
307. THE RIGHT STUFF (1983)
308. RISKY BUSINESS (1983)
309. ROAD TO MOROCCO (1942)
310. ROCKY (1976)
311. THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975)
312. ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968)
313. RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP (1958)
314. SAFETY LAST (1923)
315. SALT OF THE EARTH (1954)
316. SANDS OF IWO JIMA (1949)
317. SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977)
318. SCARFACE: THE SHAME OF A NATION (1932)
319. THE SCARLET EMPRESS (1934)
320. SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)
321. THE SEARCHERS (1956)
322. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995)
323. SERGEANT YORK (1941)
324. THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH (1955)
325. SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE (1989)
326. SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943)
327. SHADOWS (1959)
328. SHANE (1953)
329. THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994)
330. SHE DONE HIM WRONG (1933)
331. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
332. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)
333. SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (1993)
334. SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)
335. SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
336. SONS OF THE DESERT (1933)
337. SOPHIE'S CHOICE (1982)
338. THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)
339. SOUNDER (1972)
340. SPARTACUS (1960)
341. SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961)
342. STAGECOACH (1939)
343. STALAG 17 (1953)
344. A STAR IS BORN (1937)
345. A STAR IS BORN (1954)
346. STAR WARS (1977)
347. THE STING (1973)
348. STRANGER THAN PARADISE (1984)
349. STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951)
350. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951)
351. SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (1941)
352. SUNRISE (1927)
353. SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
354. SWING TIME (1936)
355. TAXI DRIVER (1976)
356. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956)
357. TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991)
358. TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983)
359. THELMA & LOUISE (1991)
360. THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1924)
361. THE THIN MAN (1934)
362. THE THIRD MAN (1949)
363. THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO (1944)
364. TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942)
365. TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944)
366. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)
367. TOM JONES (1963)
368. TOOTSIE (1982)
369. TOP HAT (1935)
370. TOUCH OF EVIL (1958)
371. TOY STORY (1995)
372. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
373. TROUBLE IN PARADISE (1932)
374. 12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
375. TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH (1949)
376. 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1954)
377. TWO FOR THE ROAD (1967)
378. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
379. UNFORGIVEN (1992)
380. THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987)
381. VERTIGO (1958)
382. THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953)
383. THE WAY WE WERE (1973)
384. WEST SIDE STORY (1961)
385. WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962)
386. WHITE HEAT (1949)
387. WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966)
388. THE WILD BUNCH (1969)
389. WINCHESTER ’73 (1950)
390. THE WIND (1928)
391. WINGS (1927)
392. WITHIN OUR GATES (1920)
393. WITNESS (1985)
394. THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
395. WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942)
396. WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)
397. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)
398. THE YEARLING (1946)
399. YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (1938)
400. YOUNG MR. LINCOLN (1939)
Books:
BBC Top 100
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Heroes:
My mom and dad, Grandparents for being true Old School, and those who have and continue to take time to be mentors in my life.
