Singing, playing saxophone, trombone (used to), keyboards, and a bit-o-bass, but I have small hands for that. Les Claypool has king crab pinchers! I like to write poems mostly, but trying to learn to write short stories (i've only written one). Reading is important. I still do it. I still love it. Nothing can force your imagination to entertain itself more than any other situation over reading. Just gotta find out what you like to read. Drawing: these weird 2D ink designs of mine used to take hours but turned out so interesting. I'll have to scan those. Botany and the cultures of the world and THEIR uses of botanicals. Chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology: how drugs affect consciousness, or more importantly, how they shed light on what consciousness really is. Taoism, how to live with the grain...such a skill takes an open mind and a little reading.Billiards, the game of GO (oldest board game), crosswords are fun and educational. French kissing is my favorite all time interest.
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Steely Dan. Jazz--mainstream and backalley. Funk. Joe Sample. Stevie Wonder, Average White Band, Primus, Jim Widner (good luck finding who he is), Ladd McIntosh (my uncle is a composer of big band music played by top studio players around L.A. in his big band, he also orchestrates film scores), anything sung by the incomparable Natalie M ;-), Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Allman Brothers, Doobie Brothers, Jazz Crusaders, and the Crusaders, Joe Sample, Dr. John, Afro-Cuban jazz, Tower of Power, Average White Band, Christopher Washburne, Kenny Barron, Kenny Drew Jr., James Carter, Dave Grusin, Scott Ruggles (soon to be famous, he's best friends with Jared Leto for chrissakes :-)!, Joshua Redman, Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif, DefJux, Vast Air, Eyedea and Abilities, Atmosphere, BUS DRIVER (is completely great), ya know, Coleman Hawkins, Coltrane, Bill Evans, some of the old No Doubt and Green Day, but that's chump change compared to Bill Evans, who would be a million bucks if he was still alive. I'm kind of diverse. I'm extremely eclectic.It's really too bad...everything on the Dillboard is noisy gruel.
IFC baby---lots of indies and foreign films. I love one french movie called The Hairdresser's Husband. Sad, but very good. I love Mel Brooks, Blake Edwards (directors) too. I can't really go by titles, more like writers and directors.Christopher Guest, Bill Murray and Brian Doyle Murray movies, hay-soos, there are just too many.
Live in the moment?:: Few realize that this refers to Buddhist enlightenment, so no, I'm not quite FULLY living in the moment yet, but I got a good idea.| Think you'll get married?:: When and if I settle down.| Have a dream that keeps coming back?:: This one about someone else's car, some series of dormitories I've never seen, and running from the Man.| Play an instrument?:: Keyboards, sax, trombone, guitar, my vocal cord. Believe there is life on other planets?:: So much it would make your hair stand on end.| Remember your first love?:: I have never fallen in love.| Read the newpaper?:: I do crosswords.| Have gay/lesbian friends?:: Yeah.| Believe in miracles?:: When I experience them.| Believe its possible to remain faithful forever?:: Absolutely.| Consider yourself tolerant of others?:: Yes, tolerant (of lighter things but not heavier issues like excessive assholism), and forgiving.| Like the taste of alcohol?:: Which one? isopropyl-no, t-butyl-no, phenethyl-no, ethyl-it's kinda not great at all, but I can handle the taste of beer if I want to.| Fave candy?:: Wintergreen Lifesavers.| Believe in astrology?:: Nah.| Believe in magic?:: I believe in energy.| Believe in God?:: Not the crusty mean old Christian God, but the Lakota parallel: Wakan-tanka.| Pray?:: No thank you I'm fine.| Go to church?:: No. The holiest most spiritual people have no need for church.| Have any secrets?:: yeah, but nothing extraordinary. I usually don't tell people who I dislike that I dislike them, which has pros and cons. I'm too considerate!| Any pets?:: Weiner dog, a black and white cat which was once alpha male (before his balls got chopped off). Now he wavers between being really sweet and affectionate to being a biter. It depends what minute it is!| College?:: I've got enough credits and knowledge to graduate with a biochemistry/pre-pharmacology degree, but I transferred and fucked my chances for awhile.| Major?:: Biochemistry/Organic chemistry.| Have an obsession?:: music, doodling, playing pool, making botanical potions with Vodka and plants from my backyard. Collect anything?:: My own artwork. The lock-picks left over by the street sweepers, and the Wisconson quarters.| Have a best friend?:: Yep, he's schizophrenic yet he's the sanest person I know.| Wish on stars?:: We don't get too many of them
History books, Biochemistry Books, Poetry, Lord of the Rings, anything where I learn something from it. Archy and Mehitabel! Class by Paul Fussell. Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs. All of the books, short stories, the play, and lectures delivered by Kurt Vonnegut. I just finished Galapagos and it was fantastic. I wish he had more time left to write. People still haven't read him like they should.
Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, Paul Fussell, Tolkien, Alexander the Great, Alfred the Great, Miles Davis, Dr. Candace Pert, Stevie Wonder, Osvinski (an inventor in Akron), Harold Rhodes (inventor of the Rhodes electric piano), Dizzy Gillespe, Stan Getz, Jimmy Carter. Bill Clinton. The Bush's are fucking sub-nosed idiots. God, STUPIDITY REALLY DOES REIGN!