The Man Who Would Be King, Ladyhawke, The Third Man, Singin' in the Rain, Amadeus, The Empire Strikes Back, Never Say Never Again, Star Trek II, Spinal Tap, Clue, Enemy of the State, anything by Terry Gilliam
Television
Current: The Office, Bones, Boston Legal, How I Met Your Mother // Older: Star Trek, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The John Larroquette Show, Hardcastle & McCormick, Danger Man, The Prisoner.
Asimov's Foundation series, Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.., James P. Hogan, silver age DC Comics, classic pulp and adventure fiction (especially Doc Savage, and "Wold Newton" family members).
Heroes
Dad, Theodore Roosevelt, Jack Benny, Jimmy Stewart, Orson Welles, Kent Allard, Rick Wakeman.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master,
If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings -- nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!
-- Rudyard Kipling.
Hi Ray. Not being too expert at this stuff, I didn't know your first message was there! I'm supposed to get an email telling me. Hey ho! All's well.... Hope you are well too. Cheers PF
Hi -> Ray, Heaven & Earth is on hiatus now as Stuart Smith and Richie Onori have joined forces with bassist Steve Priest to reform "Sweet". For those of you unfamiliar with the band, Sweet originally formed in the early 70s and went on to sell over 40,000,000 albums with 11 International Top Ten Hits such as "Ballroom Blitz", "Little Willy", "Love is Like Oxygen", "Fox on the Run", "Teenage Rampage", "Action", "Blockbuster", "Hellraiser" and many others.
This reincarnation of the band reformed last year, playing their first show in June, and went on to play festivals throughout Canada and the States and had played to over 300,000 people before the year was out. During this tour last year they recorded a live CD available on Amazon entitled "Sweet, Live in America" which has received rave reviews - pick up a copy and please Add Sweet As Your Friend On Myspace!
Hello! I hope you are well......Today's gift is a lovely jeweled scarab! Thanks for helping me save the rain forest (this is very important!) for EVERYONE! YAY!!!!!
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I'm so glad you had such a great time, Ray! I'm more of a Yes fan than Asia, but I DO so love Carl Palmer! He's just so fun to watch. And a double bill of Steve Howe was perfect! I wish I could have done the meet and greet thing, but my tix were already too expensive. Ha-ha! I got John Wetton's bass pick!!!!!!! Nyah, nyah!!!!!! (just joking!) I'd exchange it for one (or two!) of Carl's drumsticks!
The novelizations are co-owned by the film company, so there would be a lot of complexities in doing an anthology... I think they should do one with *all* the movie novelizations by me, John Gardner, and Christopher Wood-- there would be seven of them. But I doubt it will ever happen.
Hi Ray, hope your weekend is going well, please come by my page and have a listen to my latest song, "So Far From Heaven (lost Forever)" with John Payne on vocals and Lisa LaRue on keys. Best regards.
The time is here! Our second single 'Beautiful Illusion' will be
released on July 1st! Make sure to get it, you won't want to miss
out. Also, don't forget to sign up for our mailing list so we can keep
you updated on all the news and releases!
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