Dan Benbow
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Introduction | I contain multitudes. |
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| Interests | Music, reading, writing, good conversation, documentaries, stand-up comedy, 11/22, NBA highlight reels, bicycling, urban walking and photography, fitness, Frisbee, the human condition, people of soul and substance and good will who keep it real |
| Favorite movies | 2001: A Space Odyssey, Taxi Driver, The Hurt Locker, A Face in the Crowd, Annie Hall, Casablanca, Dogtown & Z-boys, The Tree of Life, Muscle Shoals, Repo Man, Goodfellas, Do the Right Thing, The Fog of War, Chinatown, Sunset Boulevard, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover |
| Favorite music | Miles, Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Jackie Maclean, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Bill Evans, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Soft Machine, Laura Nyro, Frank Zappa, Funkadelic, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, 60s Dylan and "Blood on the Tracks," Aretha, Otis, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Rick James, Booker T & the MGs, Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Johnny Winters' first two albums, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Prince, Django Reinhardt, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Handel, Glenn Gould, harpsichord/harp/lute-based classical, instrumental world music, dub reggae, The Clash, Air, The Doors, Stevie Wonder, bossa nova, DLR-era Van Halen, AC/DC, Pixies, early Primus and Red Hot Chili Peppers and Public Enemy, Cream, ragtime, doo-wop, surf guitar, folk blues, James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, 70s Bowie and Tom Waits, "Ok Computer," Devo, The Cars/The Cars, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Citay, "Gish," Jane's Addiction, Dread Zeppelin |
| Favorite books | The Brothers Karamazov, Fat City, Anna Karenina, To Kill a Mockingbird, There There, The Jungle, Sophie's Choice, Libra, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Sabbath's Theater, Portnoy's Complaint, Tropic of Cancer, Blonde, The Executioner's Song, Ulysses, Waiting for the Barbarians, Things Fall Apart, The Bus: Cosmic Ejaculations of the Daily Mind in Transit, Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and other Observations, Bright Lights, Big City, The Road, American Tabloid, Fear of Flying, Preparation for the Next Life, Play It As It Lays, Dreaming in Cuban |