crossword puzzles, remembering interesting things I had forgotten about, photo documentation, obsessing about lazy comfort, writing stuff about things, Wendy, pretending to be handy, and learning from the real men how to actually do manly stuff in a handy way.
Music
The Hollies, Yes, Boz Scaggs, Roger Miller, Canned Heat, Echo & the Bunnymen, the Lovin' Spoonful, Meat Puppets, the Mills Brothers, Pete Drake, Supergrass, The Who, the Zombies, the Verve, George Jones, Ummmmm .... the Beatles, Elvis Costello, the Cocteau Twins, the Stone Roses, Blur, Robyn Hitchcock, XTC, random yet carefully chosen Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Big Star, Nick Drake, the Replacements, Husker Du, Uh .... Radiohead?, A.C. Newman, Dungen, Ween, Lou Rawls, Gerry & the Pacemakers, the Everly Brothers, Pink FloydAw, cripes ... I'll add more later.
Movies
The Big Lebowski, Dirty Harry, Idiocracy, Catch-22, The Thin Red Line, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?, A Hard Day's Night, Pink Floyd at Pompeii, The Shining, China Town, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, High Plains Drifter, The Deerhunter, Brazil, etc.
Television
C-Span, The Military Channel (sometimes), Daily Show, Colbert Report, Sunday NASCAR races, VH1 Classic, IFC, NBC Sunday Night Movie.
Books
"Love in the Time of Cholera" - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"More Than Human" - Theodore Sturgeon
The Rama Trilogy - Arthur C. Clark and Gentry Lee
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" - Thomas WolfeThe Bluejacket's Manual"The Heart of Darkness" - Joseph Conrad
Heroes
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington ("show me a hero and I'll prove he's a bum")
About me: I enjoy Pillsbury Crescent Rolls quite a bit. I think the pedal steel guitar is the most amazing musical instrument ever invented - taking second after the piano. I enjoy making long amazing stripes in my yard with my rebuilt 1987 Allis-Chalmers garden tractor - which sports a mower deck with full rollers across the back (check my photos for visual). I really like Jameson Irish whiskey on ice while lounging in my 60's swivel rocker in front of the fireplace. My parents are two of the most amazing people in the world. Years ago, I had a cat named Lewis and then later a cat named Wendy. Now, I'm blissfully married to Wendy Lewis (whoa, freaky!). My Grandfather (Slim) was a bartender (he mixed drinks). My Dad is a pharmacist (he mixed drugs). I am a recording engineer (I mix music). I absolutely cherish living in the country ... it's so quiet in the morning, so starry at night, and the breezes that blow through the house in the Summer make for beautiful naps. The house we live in was built for the doctor who first administered Streptomycin in the U.S. curing TB patients at a sanitorium which used to stand a few hundred feet away - his name was Dr. Karl Phuetze. One of my favorite quotes is from W.H. Auden and it's pretty sweet: "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh"
Who I'd like to meet: Kurt Vonnegut, Ah, Kurt (R.I.P.) ... a quote from his new book "A Man Without a Country":
Even the simplest jokes are based on tiny twinges of fear, such as the question, "What is the white stuff in bird poop?" The auditor, as though called upon to recite in school, is momentarily afraid of saying something stupid. When the auditor hears the answer, which is, "That's bird poop, too," he or she dispels the automatic fear with laughter. He or she has not been tested after all.
Yes, I would like to meet with and maybe have a smoke or two with Kurt Vonnegut
Don't go far away. We're working on a plan. Sure, a plan. Like you need a plan for an ICE RINK BRAWL. Let us know if you want one in your back yard. Otherwise stay put until you hear more. How's that for a simple music contract.
Hey Brent. Hope all is going well bud! My band was just featured on Frequency TV! Wanted to you to check it out! I have a little care package coming to you in the mail at Pachyderm. The album, some pictures, and some other stuff. Thanks for everything again! Enjoy and keep in touch!
Here is the best I could muster from the vaults of a former member of No Means No: Andy Kerr. (Now of Two Pin Din) I love it: A self-aware stalker-ish song from a truly intelligent audiophile...
