| General | Art, music, photography, books, travel and fascinating people (in no particular order). | | Music | At the moment...Back Door Slam, Swati, The Duke Spirit, Jackie Greene, Langhorne Slim, The Young Dubliners, Vampire Weekend, Danielia Cotton....B'more bands Caleb Stine and the Breakmen, Wye Oak, ellen cherry, The Grilled Lincolns, The Bridge, Fools and Horses and Good Guise. Will always have a soft spot for...Heart, Alexi Murdoch, Patty Griffin, The Stones, Emmylou Harris, Los Lobos, Talking Heads and the head Head (David Byrne), David Gray, Van Morrison, Mindy Smith, Shawn Colvin, Lucinda Williams, Ben Folds, John Coltrane, Los Lobos, Miles Davis, Tom Waits, Marshall Crenshaw, Jonatha Brooke, Soul Coughing, Joe Jackson and, of course, Joni Mitchell. | | Movies | Atonement, Lost in Translation, American Beauty, Pecker (filmed in my 'hood), Snatch, The Philadelphia Story, A Room with a View, Gas, Food & Lodging, On the Waterfront, Godfather, sex, lies and videotape, My Left Foot, Traffic, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Dog Day Afternoon, This is Spinal Tap, Erin Brockovitch, High Fidelity and Big Lebowski. | | Television | Don't watch the box very much. I'd rather be out playing, networking or watching live music. Too hyper to sit for a long spell, unless I'm reading a compelling book. | | Books | A Room of One's Own, The Rise of the Creative Class, audiotopia, A Street Car Named Desire, Wacky Chicks, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Tender is the Night and Love in the Time of Cholera. | | Heroes | More like strong influences...Chrissie Hynde, (MD) Senator Barbara Mukulski, MLK, Jr., Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, Diane Arbus, Peggy (aka Mom) and last, but not least, the only 2 heroes on the list...my Battle of the Bulge-surviving Dad and my plastic surgeon, Dr. Fady Sinno (who removed the melanoma that was trying to kill me). |
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