Jeff

I'd like to meet:

Willie Mays, Jimmy Carter, Hank Aaron, Ringo Starr, Jim Wallis, Cornel West, Ann-Margret (with apologies to my beautiful wife).

Music:

How well do you know music
Music Master

We should hang out and rock out sometime.

Take this test I am fairly obsessive about music (as you can tell by the length of the ever-expanding list below) and I enjoy at least something in most styles and genres.
Rock (with its many sub-genres), Classic Soul/R&B/Funk, Classic Country, Alt-Country/Americana, Folk, Pop, Classical, Jazz, even a little Old School Rap/Hip-Hop.
Artists whose music I like are:
Van Morrison , The Moody Blues, Bruce Springsteen, Rush, The Beatles (and ex-Beatles solo work), Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Yes, Radiohead, Rosanne Cash , Emmylou Harris , U2, R.E.M. , The Call, Neil Young , Bob Dylan , Frank Sinatra, Richard and Linda Thompson (together and solo), Jackson Browne , Graham Parker, Lyle Lovett, Jellyfish, The Beach Boys , KISS, Neil Diamond , Rod Stewart, The Temptations, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers , Bob Seger , Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac, Ray Charles, Merle Haggard, Don Williams, Johnny Cash, Paul Simon/Simon and Garfunkel, The Kingston Trio , Queen, Coldplay , Richmond Fontaine , Wilco , Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Elvis Costello , Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Chuck Berry, Gram Parsons/The Flying Burrito Brothers, Dion, Crosby Stills Nash (and Young), The Hollies, The Band, Randy Newman, The Everly Brothers, John Mellencamp , The Byrds, Buddy Holly, Foreigner, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, John Hiatt, Ten Hands , Steely Dan, Midnight Oil, The White Stripes, Big Star, James Brown, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Jethro Tull, Little Richard, Warren Zevon, Eric Clapton/Cream/Derek and the Dominoes, The Police/ Sting , Steve Winwood/Traffic, Elton John, Marillion ( Fish -era), Moby, Squeeze, Nick Drake, Crowded House , Green Day , Joe Jackson, Robert Johnson, Kings X, Solomon Burke, Nat King Cole, Billy Joel, James Taylor , Creedence Clearwater Revival/ John Fogerty , Steve Forbert , Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, David Bowie, Kris Kristofferson, Dan Fogelberg, George Jones , Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson , Ronnie Milsap , Matthew Sweet /The Thorns, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Def Leppard , Scorpions, Todd Rundgren, Beck, Josh Ritter , Lenny Kravitz , Prince, Michael Jackson, Bad Company, The Grateful Dead , The Eagles, Asia, The Alan Parsons Project , Earth Wind and Fire , King Crimson, The Clash, The Ramones, The Bee Gees, The Kinks, The Animals, The Rascals, Paul Revere and the Raiders , Electric Light Orchestra, Cat Stevens/ Yusuf Islam , Led Zeppelin, Tom Waits , Lynyrd Skynyrd, Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age , The Strokes, World Party , Talking Heads, Franz Ferdinand, Old 97s , Stevie Ray Vaughan, James Hunter , Jimi Hendrix, Heart, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts , Cheap Trick, Barenaked Ladies , Indigo Girls, Triumph , Boz Scaggs, Little Willie John, Material Issue, Jesse Belvin, Jeff Buckley, Steve Earle, Norah Jones, Roger Miller, Tom T Hall, The Doors, America, Van Halen, ZZ Top , Patsy Cline, Joni Mitchell, Dave Edmunds, The Righteous Brothers, Otis Redding, The Limeliters, Fiona Apple, Badfinger, Buffalo Springfield, Dusty Springfield, The Pretenders, Jackie DeShannon, Del Shannon, Mahalia Jackson, Chicago, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Love, Bob Marley, Enya, Run-DMC, Dave Matthews Band, The Cars, Oingo Boingo, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, J.S. Bach, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Bing Crosby, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman.
ALSO...some might call these guilty pleasures, but I like 'em anyway:
ABBA, Journey, REO Speedwagon , Rick Springfield , Air Supply, Toto , Loverboy , Night Ranger, Barry Manilow, Styx, The Monkees, Bryan Adams, Emerson Lake and Palmer
Which Moody Blues member are you?
Mike Pinder (keyboards/mellotron and vocals)- You are a deep thinker who ponders beyond the boundaries of most people. You possess great wisdom and intellect. While other people are content to live out their lives, you are determined to find the answers to existence, a higher power, and all mysteries of life. You use this wisdom to create music that is just as complex as your mind. You wrote "Dawn is a Feeling", "One Step Into the Light", and the beautiful "My Song"!
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Movies:

Chariots of Fire, Singin' In The Rain, Jackie Brown, The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Fantasia, Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Saddles, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Goodfellas, His Girl Friday, Diner, A Shot In The Dark, Network, The Last Waltz, Star Wars Episodes IV-VI (especially The Empire Strikes Back), This Is Spinal Tap, The Godfather, Annie Hall, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Music Man, Pulp Fiction, Clerks, The Big Chill, Almost Famous, High Fidelity, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Candidate, The Best Man (1964 political drama with Henry Fonda, Lee Tracy and Cliff Robertson, NOT the more recent wedding comedy)

Television:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Real Time With Bill Maher, WKRP In Cincinnati, All In The Family, Monty Python's Flying Circus; C-SPAN (sometimes), some Ken Burns documentaries on PBS, VH-1 Classic, Countdown With Keith Olbermann
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Books:

I rarely read fiction anymore. Mostly history/current events-related books usually with a left-of-center perspective:
What Liberal Media? by Eric Alterman; Parting the Waters-America In The King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch; The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings/The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien; The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract; The Good Book by Peter J. Gomes; Freakonomics by Steven D. Leavitt and Stephen J. Dubner; The Heart of Rock and Soul-The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made by Dave Marsh
RECOMMENDED READING FROM 2006-2008:
Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast; What Jesus Meant by Garry Wills; Conservatives Without Conscience by John W. Dean; The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope by Jonathan Alter; The Messiah of Morris Avenue by Tony Hendra; Screwed - The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class by Thom Hartmann; Talking Right by Geoff Nunberg;The Holy Vote by Ray Suarez; Ethical Realism--A Vision For America's Role In The World by Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman; The Children Of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien; The Assault On Reason by Al Gore; American Fascists--The Religious Right and the War On America by Chris Hedges; What Would Jefferson Do? by Thom Hartmann; I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert; Head And Heart--American Christianities by Garry Wills
CURRENTLY READING:
The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman; The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker; The Nine (Book on CD) by Jeffrey Toobin
Which Lord of the Rings character are You? (For Boys or Girls)
Pippin
Pippin, is who you are. You tend to be quite a mischievous Hobbit, and troublemaker. You always seem to get on Gandalf's bad side too. Your best friend is Merry. You're probably the most annoying, but yet coolest Hobbit around. You tend to eat a lot, but that's what a Hobbit does, is it not?
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Heroes:

Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr; Rev William Sloane Coffin Jr; Jackie Robinson; Mahatma Gandhi; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Eleanor Roosevelt; Paul Wellstone; My Grandmother; Rev Dr Don E McKenzie; George McGovern