Music, Music, Music, Guitars, Amps, Making Out, Stimulating Conversation, Politics, Philosophy, Sex, Music, Good Beer, Good Bourbons, Good Tequilia, Good Women, Bad Women, Good Women That Like To Be Bad Sometimes (Or Often), Kissing, Humour, Guitars, Cool Shoes, Music, Cool People, Laughter, Bicycling, Sex...
Music
See under "Who I'd Like To Meet", if'n ya care to...
add Little Charlie and The Nightcats, Junior Watson, Jeff Beck, Mahalia Jackson, Suburban Slim, The Strangetones, Marco Savo, John Lennon, Lloyd Jones, Paul DeLay, John Coltrane, Jimmy Smith, Kenny Burrell, Hollywood Fats, Magic Sam, Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock, Roy Brown, The Blasters, Sonic Youth, Patsy Cline, Janis Joplin, Stevie Wonder, Hank Williams Sr., Five Blind Boys of Alabama, The Clash, Kid Ramos, Jimi Bott, Curtis Salgado, Robert Lockwood Jr., The rest of Led Zeppelin, 420FunkMob, and whatever catches my ear that I can FEEL something from and sticks with me for the long haul.
Movies
Spinal Tap, City of Lost Children, Amelie, Kung Fu flicks, most of Kubrick's films, Scorsese's films, Coen Bros. films, most of Altman's films, the occasional XXX (what was the storyline again???), early Woody Allen, dumb-guy-action-blow-em'-up flicks, High Fidelity, Young Frankenstein, some Tim Burton flicks, really bad, super cheezy flicks, foreign, hollywood, pretty much anything by Akira Kurosawa, or that has Jack Nicholson in it---except for Wolf---just gawd-awful!
Television
puh-LEEEEEEZE!!!
(ok---Daily Show, Colbert Report, Bill Maher, Family Guy, and the guilty pleasure of the 'E' channel watching the trainwrecks of 'Mericas 'starlets' lives blossom in full view---ain't it grand?) such TALENT! Woo Hoo---
Books
Also see under "Who I'd Like To Meet" for an idea or 2---throw in anything by Carl Hiassen, as well---funny stuff
Who I'd like to meet: Most of em' are dead, but here's my Cosmic Debris of whom I'd like to meet---with way too many left out--
MUSICIANS: (to gain insight...and/or hear some groupie stories)
Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, Beethoven, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, those Tuvan Throat Singers, Little Walter, Jimmy Page, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Mozart, Son House, Billie Holiday, Joe Strummer, Bono (sure, why not---Sonny and that Irish dude), BB, Freddie, and Albert King, Robert Johnson, Elvis (Presley first, then Costello, back when he was still pissed off) Nicolo Paganini, Les Paul, Leo Fender (I know, not really a musician, per se...), Django Reinhardt, Lester Young, John Coltrane, SRV, Jimmie Vaughan, the folks that play Gambalan music, whoever invented Gregorian Chants, Stravinsky, AC/DC, Michael Hedges, Otis Redding, Otis Rush, O.V. Wright, Etta James, Eddie Floyd, George Clinton, Iggy Pop, Bob Marley, Ali Farke Toure, Pavoratti, Peggy Lee, Memphis Minnie, T-Bone Walker, Nancy Sinatra, her Dad, Danny Elfman, Johhny Cash,
Charlie Christian, Sonny Rollins, Janis and Jimi, Bootsy Collins, Johnny Guitar Watson...and a bazillion others, I'm sure...
WRITERS: (again, for insight---and groupie stories)...
Tom Robbins, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Sylvia Plath, Camille Paglia, Ken Wilber, Robert Heinlein, Terry Pratchett, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carlos Casteneda, W.H. Auden, William Butler Yeats, Neil Gaiman, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Louis-Ferdinand Celine (not Dion, you fool!), the strange, sad, genious man who wrote "A Confederacy of Dunces", John Kennedy Toole, Katherine Dunn, Hunter S. Thompson---and as you've guessed, a bunch of others...
OTHERS WHO HAVE CHANGED THE WORLD A BIT FOR THE BETTER--or at the very least inspire me because they have challenged the status quo in their time:
Buddha, Ghandi, Plato, Marco Polo, Barack Obama, Frank Zappa (I know, I already mentioned him), Albert Einstein, that student who stood in front of that tank in China (Tiananman Square, 1989), Jesus, Joseph Campbell, Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King, Carrot Top (...just seeing if you are paying attention still---you must have too much time on your hands!), Socrates, Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, JFK, RFK, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, John Lennon, Stephen Hawking, Hugh Hefner (well, in a certain way...), Astronauts, great Teachers, great Lovers, Artists, Poets, Philosophers---you get the idea
...and anyone that is NOT BORING!!!!!! ("Pojama People" ring a bell???)
AC - You wouldn't believe the stuff that was played on one of our all-night jam sessions. Alex and I were going toe-to-toe, trading 4's for verse after verse, over all sorts of different jump blues formats. We played from 1:30 a.m. until 5:30 a.m., then the police shut the placed down. We didn't get to jam with Kirk because he had to fly to Belgium with Rod Piazza for another fest. It was a great time.
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