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
yea man i did!! thanks for the phone call i'm pretty sure i was late on yours too ha! it's my cousins dog. i hope everything is going well out there! keep in touch hef i miss ya
thank you! It was great seeing you too! yea i wanted to get the pics up asap haha! i had a great time.. i got all flustered when i went up to blow out the candles w/ granddad :P Ken said i turned red lol!!! yes we should get together before u leave again.. i'm not working at the moment so i'm available all the time.. ttyl ♥ Cas
I haven't talked to you in the LONGEST TIME and it's killing me. How are you? I hope you're doing alright. Get back to me okay? I want to make sure you're still kicking! :D
hey Uncle Jeff! how are ya? Ken & I are doing good. we quit drinking (not sure if u know).. an have been better ever since. other than that we're working! hope all is well! love u!
howdy do! was at moms for awhile... survived! LOL! how ya doing these days? getting thru the days as always.... need a vacation i do! anyway... LOVE YA!
Well happy birthday for tomorrow my old pal, you should get your butt over here and play a gig, it would be savage to see and hear you play again. All grand here. Big loves to ya babe xoxoxox
Hey babe, back from bristol and going to back that direction next month for a wee bit, bit of gypsy in me too these days. Did I miss your birthday, oops for that can't remember anyones birthday these days. Oh the smiles are brill, look forward to hearing you play with them. Take care crazy kid oxoxoox ed
Ahhhhhhh! I miss you too! How are you Jeff? :] Things have been so hectic here, I feel like I don't have time to breathe lol. Hope you're doing well! Can't wait to hear from you again.
