love playing cello and flatpicking my guitar, I love snowboarding in deep powder, I love hiking through mountains and swimming in glacier pools and waterfalls, I love camping with good friends and instruments. Bluegrass and music festivals are always a blast (Telluride Bluegrass Festival was amazing!) I think little kids are the most exciting thing of all and I love all my little cousins and nephews and nieces dearly. I like funny movies, and I love cooking delicious Indian and Thai food.
Music
Sigur Ros, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Coldplay, Gillian Welch, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, Crooked Still, anything with cello in it, Doc Watson, Kate Rusby, Emmylou Harris, John Hartford, Beatles, Edgar Meyer, Bob Marley, Neil Young, Django...the list just goes on and on. My iTunes collection is very large, it's overwhelming.
Movies
The Hours, Life Acquatic, Old School, Mr. Holland's Opus, Austin Powers, Meet the Parents, Zoolanders, Annie Hall, 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, Airplane, Crash, Gypsy Caravan
Television
Haven't owned one for years
Books
100 Years of Solitude, The Hours, Confederacy of Dunces, Skinny Legs and All (everything by Tom Robbins), Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Chronicles (Bob Dylan), Empire Falls, Garcia, Guns Germs and Steel, Like Water for Chocolate, On the Road. Gandhi's biography is great, Catch A Fire is too..
Heroes
Dylan, Gandhi, Hafiz, Earnest Shackleton, Christ, Garcia, Bob Marley, Dean Moriarty, Doc Watson, Woody Guthrie
About me: My name Kieran is pronounced like keyring without the g. It means 'ray of light'...something I've always wanted to be.
I've been blessed with many amazing experiences in my life....studied in Normandy France for a year, explored pyramids in Egypt, missionary work in rural Tanzania, spent 10 days in silent meditation, was Pops Staples's personal chauffeur, hitchhiked around Israel, hung out with Julius Nyerere, worked at Smithsonian Folkways Music Archive, worked in Yellowstone for a summer, and got to hang out with Doc Watson for a little while.
I play cello, guitar, and some piano. The music that I play is based on the traditional stringband music of the Appalachian mountains….I love the sound of frailing banjos, funky cellos, flatpicked fiddle tunes, and lilting melodies, jigs and reels, waltzes, stomps and breakdowns. Some of my music can be heard on my music myspace and on my website... www.kieranmcmanus.com.
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Joyeux Anniversaire Mon Ami! I hope you have a FABULOUS night!! Sorry I can't be there to celebrate it with you! PS - Thanks for sending me Agctis Byrjun!! You have fixed me fix ha ha
Hi! Just wanted to let you know that my new EP, "Something Worth Keeping", is now available on iTunes. "Only a Song" features special guest Jim James from My Morning Jacket. Follow the link below to check out my two new songs!
Keyring!! I am so glad that you decided to own that one! However, I can think of another of your monikers that's feeling a little neglected....SizZ :-)
PS I haven't looked at the map yet, but if there is a Hartford Way as ~m said, I think it is calling for us...
Thanx for the kind words and the optimism. You are always a breath of fresh air! I am doing better today... Just stressed out a bit. Tyler is heading off to college soon and now we are trying to figure out how to foot the $40,000/yr bill ha ha... he got some scholarships but not enough. We still owe over $20,000.... Yikes! Student loans here we go,.,. ,,,,
K-Sizz!! What a blast last night! We should definitely do that again, but I suggest we pick a different hotel, hahaha! the grouchy motel man is so not invited :)
