Eating steak, riding around in the country, playing guitar and singing tune-fully, reading about brilliant people's lives, shopping with women, Minding The Store.
Music
Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, Moody Blues, old KISS, Beach Boys "Pet Sounds," Marvin Gaye, Gram Parsons, American Music Club, Howlin Wolf, old R.E.M., E.L.O., Nick Drake, Dusty Springfield, Burt Bacharach, Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone, John Barry, Max Steiner, Charles Mingus, Duke FREAKIN' Ellington, Bill Evans, Stan Getz,Flatlanders, MC5, Stooges, My Morning Jacket, Low, Lee "Scratch" Perry & the worlds of Dub, Yo La Tengo, Merle Haggard, Merle Travis, Big Star, classic funk operettas, old "Spider-Man" TV theme, anything with a mellotron (almost), Astor Piazzolla and much tango overall, Puccini & his arias.
Movies
King Kong (1933), Dr. Strangelove, Network, Last Picture Show, Goldfinger, Brain Candy, Napoleon Dynamite, Rear Window, Trouble With Harry, The Hustler, You Can't Take It With You, Philadelphia Story
Television
Mr. Show, Sports Night, All In The Family, Laugh-In, SCTV, Kids In The Hall, Tom Snyder, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood I am not kiddin'
Books
Dr. Sax (Kerouac), I Will Not Die An Unlived Life (Dawna Markova), Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Jung), Mere Christianity (CS Lewis), Traveling Mercies (Lamott)
Heroes
Tom Waits, Charlie Watts, Jackie Robinson, Charles Mingus, Isaac Newton.
Who I'd like to meet: Tom Waits, Stevie Wonder, Brian Wilson, Yogi Berra. Charlie Watts. Phil Spector. Thurston Moore. Mike Pinder. Michael Palin. Elvis Costello. Iggy. Anybody else I'd wanna meet is dead, I'm pretty sure. And Lou Reed would eat me for lunch, so, um, not him.
W'll have to hang out sometime after I get home from Pennsylvania. I'll have that adult WSCT hot tub party I've been planning for months... as soon as I feel well enough too.
Hey Phred! I tried to send you an email about Friday, but it came back to me because I'm not in your address book. You'll have to add me! djmhjm@yahoo.com
