Playing, writing, recording and enjoying music, photography, seeing bands, art museums, reading, movies, travel, reading and writing poetry, drawing, pool, darts, bowling (and not for Columbine), volleyball, swimming, bar electronic trivia, board games, good deep converations, meeting new people, surfing the internet mindlessly to find cool sites like this. Also, enjoying anything written or recorded by Robert Emmett-check him out: myspace.com/robertemmett.
Music
Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, the Who, CSNY, Pink Floyd, Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, ELP, Hawkwind, Dixie Dregs, Jeff Beck, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Vivaldi, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Phish, Dave Matthews, moe., Disco Biscuits, Son Seals, B.B. King, Ray Charles, Traffic, Bob Dylan, Tool, Chevelle, A Perfect Circle, early Metallica, Rush, Primus, Voivod, Meshuggah, Lamb of God, Green Day, Naked Raygun, the Pixies, Slint, Robyn Hitchcock, the Soft Boys, the Flaming Lips, They Might Be Giants, My Bloody Valentine, Soul Coughing, Agent Orange, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, the Verve Pipe, Coldplay, Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven, Monks of Doom, Bela Fleck, Days of the New, New Model Army, D.R.I., Ben Folds Five, Beck, Van Morrison, 311, Soundgarden, the Smashing Pumpkins, Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Bob Marley, John Mayer, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Johnny Cash, Jim Croce, Harry Chapin, Tom Petty, ELO, Joni Mitchell, Suzanne Vega, the Police, the Pretenders, Talking Heads, Stevie Wonder, Duncan Sheik, Scottish McMillan, Robert Emmett, Sexfist, Twang Bang, Ulele, Rachael Yamagata, Bumpus, Sidekick Kato, the Dollars, Kevin Milewski, MWC, Marcus Dunleavy, Everest (r.i.p.)
Movies
Star Wars (3-6), Indiana Jones Trilogy, the Matrix series, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Die Hard, Jim Carrey with the Farrelly brothers, Ace Ventura 1 & 2, 12 Monkeys, Citizen Kane, A Touch of Evil, Easy Rider, Network, Airplane!, the Blues Brothers, Animal House, Poltergeist, WarGames, Dirty Harry series, Bachelor Party, Back to the Future trilogy, Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, Equilibrium, Almost Famous, Dodgeball, Meet the Parents/Fockers, Zoolander, The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tennenbaums, Batman Begins, X-Men series, Eulogy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Fun With Dick and Jane (Jim Carrey without the Farrellys but still rib-splitting funny), American Beauty, the Kevin Smith movies, the Waking Life, Altered States, the Serpent and the Rainbow, Jacob's Ladder, the Ring, 200 Motels, Pink Floyd at Pompeii, the Game, Sin City, the Charlie Kaufman movies, Fantasia, Akira, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Drunken Master, Rush Hour 1 & 2, Crouching Tiger, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, The Last Samurai, Stranger than Fiction, films by M. Night Shyalaman, films written by Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine, Malkovich, etc.)
Television
when I use to watche TV I watched (at one time or another) the Simpsons, Family Guy, Seinfeld, That 70's Show, Third Rock, Married...With Children, Drew Carey, House, Bones, Hope & Faith, Law & Order (any of them), Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, The Man Show, Upright Citizens Brigade, South Park, Beavis and Butt-head, Trigger Happy TV, the Mighty Boosh, the Osbournes, The Young Ones, Benny Hill, Austin City Limits, Monty Python, Whose Line is it Anyway?, Arrested Development (r.i.p.), the West Wing (also r.i.p.-what's happening to all the good shows?) Jackass/Viva La Bam, Monster Garage/Monster House, Most Extreme Challenge (Takeshi's Castle), Blue Collar TV, Lost, Las Vegas, the Apprentice, I Love the (insert decade here), Jeopardy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Chappelle's Show, the Twilight Zone, the Outer Limits, Star Trek (the original),
Books
1984, Animal Farm (Orwell), anything by Stephen Kin up through the Tommyknockers, the Doors of Perception (Huxley), Cosmic Trigger (Wilson), anything by Philip K. Dick, As I Lay Dying (Faulkner) , the New Human Revolution (Ikeda), Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon), Mona Lisa Overdrive (Gibson), To Sail Beyond the Sunset (Heinlein), Slaughterhouse Five and God Bless you Mr. Rosewater(Vonnegut - r.i.p.), Starting From San Francisco (Ferlinghetti), A Catcher in the Rye (Salinger), Skywriting by Word of Mouth (Lennon), the Fan Man (Kotzwinkle), Ghost Rider: Travels Along the Healing Road (Neil Peart), the Road Less Traveled (Peck), Song of Myself (Whitman), the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Wolfe), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Thompson), Lord of the Flies, Tom Sawyer, And the Ass Saw the Angel (Nick Cave), The Lotus Sutra (S. Buddha), the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Heroes
Gus Lester (my dad), Neil Young, Harrison Ford, David Lowery (of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven), George Harrison, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Daisaku Ikeda, Nichiren Daishonin, Siddhartha Gautama, Warren Pennington (my grandfather), Pete Townshend, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Clint Eastwood, Stephen King, Ken Kesey, Jerry Garcia, Les Claypool, George Clinton, Aldous Huxley, John Lennon, Michael Jordan, George Orwell, Robert Anton Wilson, Vaclav Havel, Jimmy Carter, Sen. Paul Simon, Frank Lloyd Wright, Salvador Dali, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Hunter S. Thompson, Timothy Leary, the members of Monty Python, all people everywhere who fearlessly go out there and create their vision, every day.
Oakton Community College
Des Plaines, ILLINOIS
Graduated: N/A
Degree: Associate's Degree
Major: Liberal Arts/Music
Clubs: Phi Hack Sy-Hackey Sack club!!!
1991 to 1995
Maine West High School
Des Plaines, ILLINOIS
Graduated: 1990
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
I am a singer-songwriter who works primarily on guitar but also can support on bass, percussion and some keyboard. I am always interested in meeting other like-minded quasi-professionals.
About me: Blessed and cursed with abilities beyond my reasoning, born to achieve what has not been revealed to me. Jackoff all trades, master of nuns. Here to explore, to observe, to explain, and to serve. I am a work in progress, progressively working. When I'm not active I'm lazy; when I'm not thoughtful I'm spontaneous. So stop talking to me in that outRAGEous accent!
You Were a Zebra
You tend to see life in black and white - clearly without filters.
You enjoy being part of a group while maintaining your individuality.
Who I'd like to meet: Pretty much anybody-everybody has a story, question is do they feel like telling it? Prerequisites should include (but not be limited to) liking music and having a sense of humor, and a depth beyond the everyday plastic existence. Otherwise I'm not picky. Drop me a line, add me to your list, and tell me about any bands, events, places, or other stuff to check out! Or, don't.
Cool new Bjork video, directed by Michel Gondry (The Science of Sleep):
Hey Mark, thanks for accepting our add request. If you'll allow this bunch of fakers to take liberty with the words of wise "Uncle" Neil Young, keep on rockin' in the Land of Obama!
Hey Mark, Welcome aboard! Thanks for being "friends" with Roamin Gabriels. Check out the tunes and videos more coming soon. I hope to meet you in person at a show. Till then... Groove On, Len Mooney Keep in Touch!!! If you like Roamin Gabriels please tell your friends
