Music, art, baseball, books, girls, dogs, cats, fish, rolling down hills on crisp April mornings, London and Los Angeles (which is why I live in Connecticut). movies, film, and cinema. Stuff. Yeah, stuff.
Music
Curtis Mayfield. The Saints. Felt. Judee Sill. Elgar. The Go-Betweens. Purcell. Cheap Trick. John Howard (big kid, small world). Elephant 6 Bands, all of them. Jackie-O Motherfucker. Times New Viking. The Free Design. Badfinger. Serge Gainsbourg. Beach Boys. Curt Boettcher and assorted projects. The Left Banke. 70s AM Pop. Everybody WAS, in fact, Kung Fu Fighting. Third Grade Teacher! Yeah! The Essex Green. Staples Singers, Pops, Mavis, Yvonne, AND Cleotha. Nikki Sudden RIP. Monochrome Set/Scarlet's Well. Pretty Things, Brian Jonestown Massacre, and everyone else who has served over the last 40 years to make the Rolling Stones obsolete. Karen Dalton. Kinks. Jesus and Mary Chain. Neil Young. Massenet. The whole Bach family, including Catherine. The Pogues. Killing Joke. Philly Soul -- O'Jays, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, MFSB, The Three Degrees, Bunny Sigler, The Intruders. Flamin' Groovies. Michael Nesmith. Horslips. Laura Cantrell. Alice Cooper. Vashti Bunyan. Charalambides. Carter Family. The Three O'Clock and Paisley Underground. Jazz Butcher. My Bloody Valentine. Bevis Frond. 14 Iced Bears. Sarah Records (anyone got an extra copy of The Orchids' I've Got A Habit?). God Save You! Black Emperor. Television Personalities. Lloyd Cole. Chad and Jeremy. Scott Walker. Byrds. This could go on all night. And sometimes does. And now, for your viewing enjoyment!
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Movies
Tati and Bergman. Godard and Animal House. Sturges and Caddyshack. Chinatown. Lubitsch. Melville. Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. Billy Liar. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Powell and Pressburger. In Which We Serve. "Nice marmot."
Television
Mary Tyler Moore. Bob Newhart. Welcome Back, Kotter. Barney Miller. Taxi. That's My Mama--ooooooeeee! Sensing a pattern here? H.R. Pufnstuf, who's your friend when things get rough?
Books
Thousands and thousands, but mostly Tristram Shandy. Stay tuned...or come over and trip over a few piles...
Heroes
Goldy and Clemmie. Theodore Roosevelt. Pronk! Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Lord Berners. Martin Luther King. Rex Whistler. Jackie Robinson. St. Maximilian Kolbe. Julian of Norwich. Charles I. Winston Churchill. Matthew Fox. The Shat.
University Of Connecticut
Storrs,Connecticut
Graduated: 1984
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: French, believe it or not
Greek:
Chi Phi
About me: "If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled."
"Who are you and how did you get in here?" "I'm a locksmith, and I'm a locksmith."
Who I'd like to meet: Myself. My cat. My fish (RIP...sniff...). Buddy Holly. Orson Welles. Meister Eckhart. Jacques Tati. Pronk.
Thanks so much, John. Really pleased you like Barefoot With Angels so much. Yes, I did have a ball with the D.T...íng on the album! Highly recommended fun!! All my very best as always, John
hi John i see you are a man (or fish) of fine taste! many thanks for accepting aDD request! hope you enjoy the sounds of Ireland's greatest lost band, GOATS DON'T SHAVE....
Hiya John, How are things? All with me good. I've just recorded my version of Bowie's The Bewlay Brothers which is just up on iTunes as an online exclusive E.P. along with my take on Leonard Cohen's Suzanne and the wonderful Kate McGarrigle song Talk To Me Of Mendocino. What's happening in the Fish World?
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