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Rockular: Manic Street Preachers; Delays; R.E.M., Love Tractor, Mumps, Fast, Dead Boys, Damned, Lurkers, Queenadreena, Katie Jane Garside, El Goodo, Porcupine Tree, Blackfield, Pylon, Dreams So Real & the early-to-mid-period Athenians; Motorhead; Stooges; Pistols; Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds & Rockpile; Rain Parade, Three O'Clock, Robyn Hitchcock, Bob Mould, Orchestra Luna, Richard Leo Johnson, Drivin'n'Cryin', Kevn Kinney, Matthew Jay, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, the Jazz Butcher, Goldie Lookin' Chain, Japancakes, Cotton Mather, Apocalyptica, Nick Drake, Richard Thompson, Soundgarden, Steve Earle, Swans, Suede/The Tears, The La's, Winter Hours, Garland Jeffreys, John Cale, Velvet Underground, Rasputina, Million Dead, Willie Alexander, Real Kids, Stooges, Kula Shaker, Let's Active, Led Zeppelin, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Black Angels, Metallica, DeRosa, Placebo, Soundgarden, Fairport Convention, New York Dolls, Ramones, Television, The Killers, Be Your Own Pet, the Joshes (both Rouse and Ritter)... You get the idea... Garden-variety indie stuff with some odd sidetracks.

Classicular: Joel Cohen, Anne Azema & the Boston Camerata; Patrick Cassidy; Faure, Durufle, Monteverdi, Morten Lauridson, Randall Thompson, Sean O'Riada, Bach, Vivaldi, Corelli, Frank Zappa, Balanescu Quartet (until the drugs set in), Nigel Kennedy (ditto), Samuel Barber, Kim Kashkashian, Lynn Harrell.

I never go to movies. I barely ever rent movies. I don't know why this medium holds no interest for me, and I feel significantly out of step with the rest of the world, but with very rare exceptions I just can't get into the film thang. There's just something about darkened theaters that gives me the creeps. There's also something about the time-wastage factor that I find unnerving. At my age, you need all the time you can get. Sorry.

Horsey peeps: Helen Crabtree. Bill Schoeman. George Morris. Denny Emerson. Alan Balch. Brooke Jacobs. And the late, great Denny O'Keefe.

Musicians and fellow travelers: Willie "Loco" Alexander. John Cale. John Lydon. Nicky Wire. Nick Lowe. Bob Mould. Don Dixon.

Record producers: Jimmy Iovine. Jimmy Miller. Bob Rock. Sir George Martin. Chris Thomas. Tony Visconti. Ed Buller. Genya Ravan. His Holiness Andrew Loog Oldham. Steven Wilson. Graham Sutton. And TUOP, whoever they may be!