Progressive Politics, Music (Classical, Jazz, Folk, Bluegrass, 60's & 70's R & R, Soul, R & B-the stuff from the 60's and early 70's, Funk)
guitars, banjo (5 string and tenor), mandolin, dobro, lap steels
British humor (esp. Eddie Izzard & Monty Python), genealogy, Irish history and culture, reading, travel, foreign languages, activism, photography, Apple Computers, improving the state of education in this country, Blackjack, Movies
I'd like to meet:
JFK, RFK, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King Jr., President Jimmy Carter, Senator John Edwards, Morris Dees, FDR, Coretta Scott King, Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Bobby Kennedy Jr., Arianna Huffington, Michael Moore, John Lennon, Billy Crystal, Johnny Carson, Groucho Marx
Music:
J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, Ravel, Astor Piazzolla, Heitor Villa-LobosJames Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Nickel Creek, Chris Thile, Mike Marshall, Alison Krauss, Sam Bush, Lyle Lovett, Dixie ChicksSolas, Altan, John Doyle, Cherish the Ladies, Susan McKeown, Cathie Ryan, Patrick Street, Kate RusbyNicola, Pedro Aznar, Tower of Power, Howard Tate, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, EW & F, Sly & the Family Stone, Rush, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Aerosmith, The Police, Sting, Sam Cooke, the cats at Motown, Sam & Dave and the whole crew at Staxx Records, anything Steve Cropper played onChet Atkins, Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Romero Lubambo, Toninho Horta, Miles, Kenny Garrett, Michael Brecker, Joe Pass, Herb Ellis, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Dizzy, Coltrane, Bird, Wayne Shorter, Lyle Mays, Keith Jarrett, Brad Mehldau, Bill Evans, Gil GoldsteinAndres Segovia, John Williams (the guitarist), Julian Bream, David Russell, Guitar music of Spain, Mexico, Central and South America
Movies:
All the President's Men, Citizen Kane, The Red Violin, Cinema Paradiso, The Princess Bride, 84 Charing Cross Road, American Werewolf in London, most films by Woody Allen, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, Federico Fellini, Roberto Benigni, Pedro Almodovar, Michael Moore, Spike Lee, Christopher Guest, and the great storytellers who make Independent films, all of whom deserve far more exposure and recognition for their incredible body of work than they currently receive.
Television:
The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Critic, The Simpsons, Real Time w/ Bill Maher, Whose Line is it Anyway?, Fawlty Towers, Coupling (the original)
Books:
Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, Tom Robbins, Bob Woodward, John Dean, Barbara Kingsolver, Frank McCourt, George Lakoff, Wayne Dyer, Robin Williams (the graphic designer)
Heroes:
JFK, RFK, FDR, Tip O'Neill, Cesar Chavez, Bobby Kennedy Jr., Martin Luther King Jr., President Jimmy Carter, my late uncle Dr. James Horgan, Senator John Edwards, Morris Dees, Coretta Scott King, Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou, Dennis Kucinich"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
-Margaret Mead
"Some people," he said, "see things and say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were, and I say 'Why not?'"
-George Bernard ShawRFK often finished his stump speeches with this quote.
