DRUMS, The Bass guitar, The Guitar, Food, Music, Travel, Film, Art, Books, Fixing things that are broken, Scuba Diving, Hiking, Camping, Getting lost and finding my way to someplace new. Baking bread and Lasagna for friends, My family, My drumkit!
Music
Hot Corn Girls, Chimpanzees, Ass Baboons of Venus, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Spiral Staircase, The Meters, Sly and The Family Stone, MC5, Spike Jones, Toots and The Maytals, Cibo Matto, Django Rheinhart, Peaches, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, John Coltrane, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Sonics, Link Wray, Marvin Gaye, The Stooges, Miles Davis, Archie Bell & The Drells, Hugh Masekela, Kraftwerk, Bob Dylan, Kinks!, Nick Drake, Thee Mighty Ceasars, The Specials, XTC, HORACE ANDY! Eric Dolphy, Elvis Costello, Velvet Underground, Art Blakey, Cal Tjader, Curtis Mayfield, DEVO, Stevie Wonder, Esquivel, Flamin' Groovies, The Clash, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, Captain Beefheart, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, Les Baxter, Neil Young, Pixies, T Rex, Tom Jones, Stiff Little Fingers, Original Sins, Nat King Cole, Creatures of the Golden Dawn, The Monkees, Ramones, Mel Torme, Buff Medways, Wreckless Eric, TBC...
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Movies
Anything by Jim Jarmusch (Stranger Than Paradise, Down By Law, Dead Man, Mystery Train, Broken Flowers). Anything by Martin Scorcese (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Mean Streets, King Of Comedy, After Hours, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, The Departed). Akira Kurosawa films: Seven Samurai, Rashoman, Ikiru, Yojimbo The Bodyguard, Sanjuro. Lost In Translation, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement (Audrey Tatou rules!). Grave Of The Fireflies (You wanna cry?), Zelary, Tampopo, Rushmore, Royal Tannenbaums, Napoleon Dynamite, American Beauty, Broadway Danny Rose, Sleeper, Bullets Over Broadway. Theramin, Adaptation, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Pulp Fiction, 12 Monkeys, Johnny Suede, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Shawshank Redemption, Beauty and The Beast (Jean Cocteau's french version-Amazing!), Unforgiven, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, A Fistful Of Dollars, Hang 'Em High, Million Dollar Baby. Boys Don't Cry, Blow Up, The Red Shoes, Peeping Tom, Nights Of Cabiria, Life Of Brian, The Princess Bride, Blazing Saddles, History Of The World Part 1, Cool Hand Luke, The Elephant Man, Shall We Dance (Japanese version!), Living in Oblivian, Big Lebowski, School Of Rock, In The Mood For Love, Children of Men, Kingpins, Stuck on You, TBC...
Television
If I ever get near a TV: Rescue Me, Family Guy, Conan O'Brian, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Simpsons, Corageous Cat and Minute Mouse, Captain Scarlet, Ren & Stimpy, Spiderman, Speed Racer, Ultraman, Godzilla, Gumby...
Books
Junkie by William Burroughs~ First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung~ Cod by Mark Kurlansky~ Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski~ Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas~ Little Big Man by Thomas Berger~ One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey~ Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson~ Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut~ On The Road by Jack Kerouac~ Longitude by Dava Sobel~ MAUS by Art Spiegelman~ The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski~ Night by Elie Wiesel
Heroes
Vincent Van Gogh, Giulietta Masina (Cabiria), Pokey, Spiderman! Captain Scarlet, Snake Plisskin, and the cat at Wing Wong who makes the Congee!
About me: Born on the same day as Vincent Van Gogh, Eric Clapton, Warren Beatty, Nora Jones, Celine Dion, Astrud Gilberto (The Girl From Ipanema), Tracy Chapman, John Astin (Gomez!), Robbie Coltrane (Rubeus Hagrid), Graeme Edge (Moody Blues drummer), Secreteriat ('73 Triple Crown baby!), Sonny Boy Williamson, Peter I (The Great Tsar of Russia), Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (Goya) and Stanley Kirk Burrell (M.C. Hammer- 1962!). I love to cook and bake and I can make a mean Blueberry Pie. I love to travel and I plan on doing a lot more of it (Australia & New Zealand are on top of my list at the moment)... Do whatever makes you happy!
Who I'd like to meet: Spiderman-Bob from the Hot Corn Girls-Mel Brooks-Vincent Van Gogh-The Chairman of The Board-The Boss-The Godfather-The Leader of the Pack-The Prez-Frito Bandito-His Holiness The Dalai Lama-Jack Kerouac-Jack Lord-Jack of All Trades-Jack Black-Loung Ung-Bob Dylan-Martin Scorcese-Akira Kurosawa-Elmer Bernstein-Andy Partridge-The Partridge Family-David Cassidy-Thelonious Monk-Charles Mingus-Max Roach-Louis Armstrong-Francis Bacon-Philip K. Dick-The Congee Cat at Wing Wong, Gene Krupa TBC
Hey you, How are you? Give me a call when your ready to hang out. Lots of stuff going on in the Valley this time of year and our pool's open to so give me a call!
It was very nice meeting you too. Thanks for keeping us entertained after the show! I can't tell if you're sexier now or in your default picture. Hmmmmmmmm.
Whoa, didn't you have a story about Todd Rundgren? Will you be around at all over the summer? We should hang out at Krystal's, drink Red Horse and then get some soup dumplings!
I totally know what you mean about moving around...Yeah, parts of Bethlehem are pretty cool...by Moravian college...love the old houses there. I do miss some things there...New Hope...New York...Philly...old friends. Remember Pam? You're playing with Ronnie right, at the st. Johns gig...it'll be like a reunion. You must tape it for me...:)
Get that lasagna packed up and ready to go! Vegan! AWESOME!!!!!!! Well, either I'm coming up there eventually or you'll have to come down here...I still want to make the St. John's gig....if it weren't for my daughter, I'd hop in my car and drive no problem...NY to Allentown...big time culture shock! I don't know If I could stand living there again...:(
I thought that was your profile! I deleted my facebook acct. because of my twin bro Pete. He was pestering the hell out of me...LOL I'm fine. I hear you might play with St. Johns...COOL. Wish I could come out to see it...:(
We're gonna play with each other soon...in a band, like singing and playing...and playing with each other... and then you always say "messy ! messy !!!" that's when all the guys laugh...
Ahhhhh Jeff!!!! How I miss talking to you! Happy New Years to you and your family as well. :D
Everything is going well here, I'm graduating in May! I remember I started talking to you my first semester of college or even earlier. Hahaha, do you remember that? Anyway, how are you? Where are you located now?! Thanks for the compliment btw! I've been learning a lot from a few of these modeling gigs.
I hope the year has been good to you andni hope this year brings you more happiness and adventures! Take care and please keep in touch!
Xoxo
Yumi
