| General | Making music and women...what else is there? Oh, and making money...but that's only to pay bills and get more bullshit "stuff"...and we seek to discover "reason and purpose" along the way...is there truly such a thing as destiny? | | Music | Miles Davis,Lionel Hampton, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Joshua Redman, Galactic, Buena Vista Social Club, Herbie Hancock, Franz Schubert, Robert Johnson, Ludwig van Beethoven, Bill Withers, J. S. Bach, Keith Jarrett, Bob Marley, Jimmie Bosch, Bud Powell, Galactic, Soulive, Tom Waits, Medeski Martin and Wood, Stefon Harris, Brandford Marsalis Quartet, Roy Hargrove, Charlie Parker, Dave Matthews Band, Sting, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Return To Forever, RUN-DMC, Busta Rhymes, Devin the Dude, OutKast, Pete Rock...the list goes on and on....but you get the picture! | | Movies | Too many to name.... | | Television | Bill doesn't watch TV anymore. David is infatuated with Ninja Warrior and plans to be on the show. Dylan watches old film-noir flix. Dylan and Bill are big fans of this genre. | | Books | Miles: The Autobiography by Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Walter Kaufman, Tao of Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee | | Heroes | Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Tony Iommi, RUN-DMC, Eric B. and Rakim, Afrikka Bambataa, James Baldwin, W.E.B. Dubois, Franklin D. Roosevelt (arguably our greatest president!), Jeff "Tain" Watts, Herbie Hancock, Bud Powell, Oscar Peterson, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, J.S. Bach, Max Roach, Elvin Jones, Paul Chambers, Cannnonball Adderly, Eric Dolphy, Chuck D, Stephen Hawkings, Albert Einstein, Socrates, Aristotle, Pythagoros, Friedrich Nietzsche, Benjamin Banneker, Charlie Parker and as we live on, the influences get added on to our journey. |
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