Music (listening to, and playing), talking with people, listening to people, dancing!, cocktails, books,
old movies and sometimes new movies, vintage keyboards, Vespa and Lambretta scooters, camping/hiking/fishing, ping-pong,
horseshoes, brownies, hating the Bush administration.
I like Joseph Mugnaini's artwork:
one of my best friends....
the lovely Rezana...
my boy, Skillet
my old roommate, Nate
my good friend, Nathan Coy
my good friend, John Hacker and I
Me, Wade, Antonio... Absolute Beginners on a paddleboat in the Sacramento River.
these preserve my sanity...
I also like retro furniture... (late 50's early 60's ?)
If you like music that doesn't make me wish I was chained
to a truck and dragged for thirty miles. If you like to
dance dirty. If you can tolerate my moments of idiocy
and my cantankerous conversation.
I'd like to say thank you to these guys for making this:
Runaway
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* RICHARD SWIFT (check out his website: http://www.richardswift.us/lg_flash.html he is also on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/richardswift)
* The CRYSTAL SKULLS
* Jamiroquai
Rocksteady/Funky Reggae: * Jackie Mittoo * Alton Ellis * Dave & Ansel Collins * Lee Perry & the Upsetters * Bob Marley & the Wailers * the Skatalites * the Duke Reid Group * Hopeton Lewis * Justin Hinds & the Dominoes * Phyllis Dillon * the Melodians * the Techniques * Toots & the Maytals * Kiddus-I * Horace (Bob) Andy * Tommy McCook & the Supersonics * Ken Boothe * Lyn Taitt & the Jets * Clancy Eccles * Eric Morris * Joe Gibbs' stuff * Rico & the Rudies ...and almost anything put out by: * Coxsone Dodd and Studio One * Heartbeat Records * Trojan Records * Pama Records
I also like JAZZ: * VINCE GUARALDI * Bill Evans * Oscar Peterson * Miles Davis * John Coltrane * Herbie Hancock * Lee Morgan * Jimmy Smith * (some) Joey DeFrancesco * Erroll Garner * Kenny Barron * Dave Brubeck Quartet * Modern Jazz Quartet * RAY CHARLES * NAT KING COLE (& trio) * Medeski-Martin-&Wood
I ALSO LIKE: * THE METERS * SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE * Muddy Waters * Beck * Elvis Costello * Pink Floyd * Thievery Corporation * Portishead * Air * D'Angelo (voodoo is a great album) * Scissor Sisters * (some) Elton John * Ben Folds (& Five) * (some) Billy Joel * Claude Debussy * Bach * Ravel * Satie * Stravinsky * Soul Bossa Trio * Hepcat * the Slackers * the Chris Murray Combo * See Spot * the Aggrolites * Elliott Smith * Slowdive * David Gray * Nick Drake * Cubanismo * Jon Brion * FELA KUTI * Michael Penn * Adonis Cross * Jadies Lantern * Band of Bees * Reza Asgari * John Ryan * yellow red sparks * regina spektor
V for Vendetta, Donnie Darko, Amelie, Run Lola Run, Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Rushmore, High Fidelity, City of God, Rockers (better than The Harder They Come), The Harder They Come, The Lion In Winter (sarcasm rules), Roman Holiday, Quadrophenia, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (with Gene Wilder), Young Frankenstein, Vertigo, A Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, James and the Giant Peach, The Iron Giant, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars movies, 21 Grams, Crash, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Big Liebowski, Raising Arizona, Fight Club, the Doors, Ray, The 40-year-old Virgin, The Grudge (scary shit), etc...
The Halloween Tree (kids book) by Ray Bradbury, ANYTHING by Ray Bradbury... especially Dandelion Wine, Graveyard for Lunatics, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and ALL of his short stories... especially: Piece of Wood, the Rocket, the Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl, etc. People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn... really like as far as I've read... haven't finished yet), Bonfire Songs: Savonarola's Musical Legacy (Patrick Macey), . I also like biography books on various music subjects, as well as political books. Right now I'm reading "Blowback" by Chalmers Johnson (professor at UCSD)... great book. I'm also reading a biography on Fela Kuti by Trevor Schoonmaker.... another great book.
VINCE GUARALDI, NAT KING COLE, RAY CHARLES, Jay-Kay/Jamiroquai, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, The Meters, Jackie Mittoo, Bob Marley, Justin Hinds, Claude Debussy, J. S. Bach... and Intensified Juggernaut Gabriel Brunelle.