Pegggggy

I'd like to meet:

Like-minded people who enjoy having fun and are willing to think every now and then.

Music:

I like most kinds of music, except female opera (tho I did love the diva in The Fifth Element). And I get tired pretty quickly of whiny pop songs. My favorite music is pretty raw - not over-produced.
My favorite radio station: KFOG

Song count on my 40G photo ipod: 9090

what's on my ipod faves playlist (this needs updating!) : The Cat Empire - Sly
Snow PatrolShut your Eyes Outkast - Hey Ya!
Black Eyed Peas - Get it started
Nickelback - Rockstar
Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin'
Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder
Amy Winehouse - Rehab
Beck - Think I'm In Love
Four Way Free - Rebound
Buckcherry - Crazy Bitch

new music on the ipod:
I recently did a 50 free from eMusic - was pretty cool.
Vampire Weekend
Alejandro Escovedo - A Man Under the Influence
Miggs - Unraveled
Spoon - Ga ga ga ga ga
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Four Way Free - Deeper

The Offspring - Greatest Hits
Miggs - Insomnia, Anyway
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience, Grace
Various Greek artists - 2 Greek Rock collections

Live music - I like my live music outdoors. I think the sound travels better outside.

Morgan Hill's Friday night music series 2008. George and I can generally be found dancing there, mostly it's cover bands. Highlights this year were Chubby's All Stars and the 4th Street Dance Band. Both played songs beyond the mainstream, which is what it takes for a cover band to stand out. It was also fun to run into the keyboard player from a band called RST that we used to dance to at Zelda's, he's playing with Red Beans and Rice now. Sheryl Crow and James Blunt and Toots and the Maytalls at Harvey's Tahoe Ampitheater 8/23 UB40 at Mountain Winery on Aug 6 VENT at the Mucky Duck in Monterey Cyndi Harvell at the KFOG morning show Smashmouth and Alien Ant farm on May 15, Fourwayfree on May 16,17, and 25th. Summerfest 2008!! Was amazing see blog Bumbershoot music festival in 2007, we saw bits and pieces of all these bands: Ian McFeron, Picoso, Kings of Leon, The Holmes Brothers, Stars of Track and Field, Iceage Cobra, and Barrington Levy (reggae legend). All that, and bumbershoot STILL isn't summerfest Stevie Wonder 8/25/07 The Miggs 8/24/07 ( see blog ) Morgan Hill Friday night music series!! The Bell Brothers, Shane Dwight, and the Joe Sharino band at the Mushroom Mardi Gras 5/27/07. Dancin and partyin' in the suhshine... ahhh, summer!! Ozamatli, Guster, and Kenny Wayne Shepherd at KaBoom 5/12/07 - it was freezing cold out and we were too far from the stage to really interact with the bands, but the fireworks were AMAZING! - see them here : http://www.kfog.com/kaboom/post.asp#fireworks (you have to cut/paste that since mySpace doesn't allow asp links) Chicago 9/2/06 see blog Los Lonely boys and Susan Tedeschi 8/26/06 see blog Soul Asylum and ALO 8/24/06 Smash Mouth 8/3/06 (see blog) Blues Traveller 7/16/06 Steely Dan 7/10/06 Jamie Cullum 5/23/06

and lots of local bands!

Movies:

I dig netflix (see blog) We have friends linked on Netflix now, and it's pretty cool for sharing reviews. Email me if you use netflix and I'll send you a friend request out there.

You may have missed these:

Idiocracy Keeping Mum Akeelah and the Bee Almost Famous (see blog) Big Fish Good Night and Good Luck The Big Chill Grand Canyon Chocolat The Green Mile Interstate 60 Lost in Translation Michael Pulp Fiction The Red Violin Sideways Best in Show The Fifth Element Get Shorty

Just plain fun:

Snakes on a Plane Bubba Ho-Tep Blue Crush Titanic Volcano Lake Placid Tremors Arachnaphobia Dante's Peak Kevin Smith's movies: Mallrats, Chasing Amy, etc Austin Powers, baby!

You've seen these but I can't not mention them:

Cars Harry Potter and... LOTR - all 3 Lethal Weapon 2 & 3 Pirates of the Carribean Men In Black Monsters, Inc Crash

Television:

Some current, some no longer
Heroes - "Save the cheerleader, Save the World"
Deadwood
The Riches
Battlestar Gallactica
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Men in Trees
Weeds
House, MD
Bones
Frasier
Firefly
Boston Public

Books:

What I'm reading now? See the reading application :
What I last finished:
Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen my sister gave me this one, set in Milwaukee in the 60s. It was sad... and creepy. But cool to read about Samson!
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - a good , fast-moving story set in a Circus. I loved Rosie the elephant.
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis - a really interesting book that is keeping my Greece memories alive
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See - for lunchtime book club - didn't like it much at first, the ancient Chinese women taking what they're given is really a downer but it got a lot more interesting and left me with lasting feelings on friendship and redemption
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - I liked this one a lot, a great dark mystery and love story
The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage Just goes to show ya, none of this social networking is very new!

Self-Made Man: One woman's journey into Manhood by Norah Vincent - for lunchtime book club. I think she was correct about her insights, and it must have been interesting, but it left a bad taste in my mouth and I can't say I really liked it.
The Photograph by Penelope Lively - this was a great book. It really spoke about how you can be close to someone and not know them.
Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon - for library book club. Intriguing, inspiring, and sad...
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Sci-Fi from 1996, extremely predictive! All this stuff on the metaverse is just like second life, I really wonder how much was based on this book.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling. Wonderful stuff, I like the way it was all wrapped up, except I thought the epilogue was unnecessary.
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. For lunchtime book club. Autobiographical, pretty good stuff. Interesting look into the Ashram/meditation/Sanskrit thing. See my blog entry on it.
The Wal-Mart Effect by Charles Fishman I picked it up from my dad, it is pretty eye-opening about the real cost of the low prices at Wal*Mart.
The Other Side of You by Sally Vickers - for lunchtime book club. Psychological novel, liked it.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman. This was really a sad book, a social commentary on the Hmong in our society. I learned a lot reading it, but not sure it was stuff I really wanted to know.
March by Geraldine Brooks. This is one of the best-written books I've ever read. I've always been captivated by the civil war, and the references to "Little Women" really are entertaining, too.
Mr. Darcy's Daughers by Elizabeth Aston For lunchtime book club. Fun romp into Victorian England
Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessen Boyle
For library bookclub. I liked the story, but not the portrayal of the women - very 2D.
Social Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman - An interesting look at parents and prejudices.
At Face Value by Terry Healey - this guy had a very similar sinus cancer as George did, was a gift from John W. Verrrrry interesting.
Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill - library book club see blog
Evidence of things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins - lunchtime book club book.
Empire Falls by Richard Russo -- took me awhile to start caring about the characters, but in the end I really liked this book. I keep thinking about the daughter (tick) and the rich old lady.
Blink -- the science of thinking without thinking. Interesting - recommended by my brother-in-law John. Great for poker players!
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides-- for library book club. Umm... hard to categorize. He/she led an interesting life, but hard to relate to.

The Agony and the Ecstacy, by Irving Stone -- because I wanted something set in Europe when I was going to Vienna. It was a long read, but I finally finished and really enjoyed it - his passion for his art and his long life and productive old age were very inspiring.

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card -- We listened to this one in the car on CD, good sci fi!

Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro -- sci fi for lunchtime book club
Unless by Carol Shields -- intersting to read about a writer writing, and the panhandling daughter was really well done.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Foer-- library book club, pretty good and a compelling read, liked it but didn't love it, was a good book group discussion topic.