Barney
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One of those types that fly under the radar
Male
54 years old
COLUMBUS, Indiana
United States
Last Login: 2/26/2009
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Barney's Interests
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| General | Cooking (see photo album), travel, reading (My late father told my wife early on in our marriage, "If you want that boy's attention, you're going to have to speak up, because left to his own devices, he'll have his nose in a book all the time."), working out at the gym (except for the fact that nearly every gym I've ever been in plays absolutely abysmal music) | | Music | Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Horace Silver, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, Tal Farlow, Grant Green, Tiny Bradshaw, Earl Bostic, Big Jay McNeely, Big Joe Turner, The Drifters, The Moonglows, The Dells, Otis Rush, Solomon Burke, O.V. Wright, James Carr, Otis Redding, Dinah Washington, Etta James, Blossom Dearie, Anita O'Day, June Christy | | Movies | Casablanca, Double Indemnity, the 1933 and 2006 versions of King Kong, A Place in the Sun, The Passion of the Christ, Sideways, Tillie's Punctured Romance | | Television | The Glenn Beck Show, Indianapolis Colts football | | Books | Witness by Whittaker Chambers, America Alone by Mark Steyn, Island by Aldous Huxley, Rage to Survive by Etta James, Backbeat by Earl Palmer, Flowers in the Dustbin by James Miller, Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip-Mining of American Culture edited by Katherine Washburn and John Thornton | | Heroes | Ronald Reagan, Armando Valladares, Wes Montgomery |
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking | | Orientation: | Straight | | Zodiac Sign: | Libra | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | Writer & musician |
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Barney in your extended network Posted at 4:50 PM Jul 28, 2007
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About me:
I doubt if a being like me shows up in too many demographic surveys. I'm a blues and jazz musician and freelance writer specializing in arts journalism and cultural observation. Lifestyle-wise, I'm a little bohemian around the edges. I like barbecued ribs, mushroom risotto, Bombay Sapphire martinis, Grant Green guitar chord voicings, the vocal delivery of O.V Wright, the grit of Earl Bostic's tenor sax honking, floating around Lake Monroe on a pontoon on a steamy August Sunday, and Christmas Eve with traditional hymns on the stereo, snow flying outside my door and really dear people gathered in my living room, with champagne bubbling in everyone's glass.
That said, I'm deeply concerned for the fate of Western civilization. If you're not, you should read America Alone by Mark Steyn, The Cube and the Cathedral by George Weigel, and Nanny State by David Harsanyi. Clear, rigorous thinking, and an acceptance of what 15,000 years of history tell us about human nature are things that are at a premium in this postmodern, surreal age.
If your curiosity is piqued by this combination of elements comprising my worldview, stop by Barney Quick.net and my blog, Bent Notes.
One more thing it's key for you to know about is my recently published novel, High C at the Sunset Terrace. It's set in Indianapolis in 1948 in the jazz clubs along Indiana Avenue. It's a rollicking ride through a neon-lit, magical world that is now long-gone.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Mark Steyn, Sonny Rollins, Peyton Manning, Tony Dungy, Walter E. Williams, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ronnie Earl (the blues guitarist, not the disgraced Texas prosecutor), Oscar Peterson, P.J. O'Rourke, John Bolton
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