Food, food, food, food (Cajun/Creole is my fave), film, art, architecture, museums, stadiums,
the law, the USA (the West is the best), California,
San Francisco, WOMEN,
Kansas City, New York City, the Rocky Mountains, Grand Teton National Park, Mexico, Ireland, Paris, Amsterdam, Stokholm, Venice, languages, bonsai, travel, sports (especially live, and playing them), fitness, coffee, collecting stuff, jackin' around on the computer, and music.
I'd like to meet:
Starting with the 3 guys below would be nice. Peter Forsberg,
Stan Musial, Rickey Henderson, Deion Sanders, Barry Sanders,
Danny Manning, John Lydon, David Bowie, Beck, Chris Isaak,
Chuck D, Stewart Copeland, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Björk, Jean-Luc Godard, Jim Jarmusch, Woody Allen and Jimmy Carter. Lucky to have already met people like Sandy Koufax, Neil Young
and Spike Lee. Too many dead people to list here.
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Music:
Amongst many others: Beck, Chris Isaak, Tool,
Meat Puppets, Public Enemy, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, the Sex Pistols, the Police,
Los Lobos, Roger Waters, Björk, Rush, Prince, John Hiatt, David Bowie, Echo and the Bunnymen, Herbie Mann,
Nina Simone, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Paul Desmond, George Gershwin, XTC, Talking Heads, Tom Waits,
Green Day, Lenny Kravitz, K.D. Lang, Lyle Lovett,
Burning Spear, John Lee Hooker, Sun Ra, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Dave Brubeck, Ludwig van Beethoven, Kronos Quartet, Stan Ridgway, Jonathan Richman, Steely Dan, Lou Reed, Elvis Presley, Beastie Boys, Pink Floyd, Crass, Pixies, New Order, Steel Pulse, Brian Eno, X, Dire Straits, Stevie Ray Vaughan, R.E.M., Iggy Pop, Wings,
the Beach Boys, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Who,
the Gun Club, the Replacements, the English Beat,
the Modern Jazz Quartet, the Grateful Dead, the Cars,
the Psychedelic Furs, the New York Dolls, the Velvet Underground, the Clash, the Doors, the Beatles, the Cure and the Byrds, topped off with a little Supersax and the L.A. Voices, the Louvin Brothers, Lester Young, the Jam, Sister Double Happiness, Helmet and T Bone Burnett.
DIRTY DOZEN
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Albums include: Zenyatta Mondatta, Mutations, IMPERIAL bedroom, Electric Ladyland, Combat Rock,
Let It Be (the Replacements), Ocean Rain, Infidels,
The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Low, Some Girls,
Fear of Music, Never Mind the Bullocks, Freedom,
Up On the Sun, Purple Rain, Memphis Underground, Anatomy, Quadrophenia, The Soft Bulletin
Some tunes: "Nobody's Fault but My Own,"
"Swingin' Party," "Lipstick Sunset," "Man Out of Time,"
"Six Gallon Pie," "Straight to Hell," "Voodoo Chile,"
"Jason and the Argonauts," "Crime in the City,"
"Candy-O," "Skateaway," "Into the Mystic," "Bodies,"
"She Watch Channel Zero," "A Girl Like You," "Don't Dream It's Over," "Sweet Talker," "Kool Thing," "The Song Remains the Same," "Broken Hearted Savior"
Movies:
Alphaville, Annie Hall, Apocalypse Now,
All That Jazz, Blade Runner, Breaking Away, Being There, Brazil, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Citizen Kane, Cinema Paradiso, Down by Law,
Dr. Strangelove, Do the Right Thing, For a Few Dollars More, Jaws, Lolita, The Player,
Rear Window, Rocky, School Daze, A Streetcar Named Desire, Throne of Blood,
The Wizard of Oz, Young Frankenstein,
2001: A Space Odyssey, Anatomy of a Murder, Airplane, Blazing Saddles, Bamboozled,
The Blues Brothers, A Clockwork Orange, Caddyshack, East of Eden, The Filth and the Fury, Forbidden Planet, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Jerk, Leaving Las Vegas,
National Lampoon's Animal House, Raging Bull, Repo Man, Reservoir Dogs, The Wild Bunch, Stranger Than Paradise, This is Spinal Tap,
Taxi Driver, Tommy, Unforgiven, The Shining.
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ArtMark Rothko,
Andy Warhol,
Wayne Thibaud,
Jackson Pollock,
Marcel Duchamp,
Vincent van Gogh,
Willem de Kooning,
Thomas Hart Benton,
Claes Oldenberg, Christo,
James Rosenquist,
Edward Ruscha,
Dale Chihuly, Ken Ferguson, David Hockney,
Annie Leibovitz,
Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso,
Julian Schnabel,
Rembrandt van Rijn,
Mel Brooks, Sergio Leone, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Woody Allen, Elia Kazan, Jean Luc Godard,
Stanley Kubrick,
Sam Peckinpah,
Robert Altman.
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Television:
ESPN, Family Guy, IFC,
Sundance Channel,
the "big game,"
all documentaries,
Curb Your Enthusiasm,
the current, really weird cartoons, Twin Peaks and Ren & Stimpy years ago.
Books:
Mostly I read the newspaper, the internet and law books (court opinions). As far as literature, I've done my share of reading, but I can tell you James Joyce drives me nuts and William Faulkner isn't far behind him. Yuck!
I haven't really enjoyed reading books since I was a teenager and was into Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Bach. As Woody Allen said in Zelig:
"I'd much rather watch a baseball game than read a great novel. It doesn't have to mean anything. It's just beautiful."
Oh, and ASIBs.
Favorite ThingsTabasco sauce, autumn, Tex Avery cartoons,
the Kansas City Star buildings, bird songs,
the NCAA basketball tournament, freckles, cool spots on the bed,
the smell of dry Earl Grey tea, back scratches, airline safety instruction booklets, MLB playoffs, Häagen Dazs Chocolate Chocolate Chip, pork fat, toggle kites on the beach, someone else's flannel sheets, satellite radio, sesame, Allen Fieldhouse, jersey cards, fireworks, mid-60's design, cold tap water in the winter, not getting any mail, airconditioning.
Heroes:
Peter Forsberg, John Lydon, Jean-Luc Godard. That's about it. The rest of us are just human.
ROBERT D. C.
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STRANGE CELESTIAL ROAD -
My first movie
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Merci et adieu
