My blogs

About me

Gender	Male
Occupation	Currently seeking two history degrees
Location	Graham, North Carolina
Introduction	I consider myself somewhat of an amateur historian on John Lennon and his musical career. I started my blog so I could FREELY share the rare moments of his life and work with other Lennon fans out there and without the overbearing intervention of WMG. My mission statement in establishing this channel is basically I want people to remember three things: John's music, John's personal life, and the fact that John was just a person, not an ex-Beatle. Secondly, I want to restore the reputation of John's former personal assistant, Fred Seaman. For far too long, his name has been slandered by many (including me), but Fred is not what the papers and the lawyers and lawsuits claim he is. I know this may be hard for some of you to accept, but all I ask is that you please research the situation and realize that Fred is a crusader for John's real legacy.
Interests	American history, French history, Russian history, Hapsburg history, the Gilded Age, global economics, aviation history, world religions, astrophysics, thermodynamics, quantum theory, relativity, astronomy, starting collections, organizing things to the point of obsession, listening to and writing music, sports, Monaco, family trees of monarchs and discovering who is interrelated with who, being nocturnal
Favorite movies	Movies in all caps are some of my favorite movies of all time: 3:10 to Yuma, 61*, After the Sunset, AIRPLANE!, The American President, AMISTAD, APOLLO 13, As Good As It Gets, A BEAUTIFUL MIND, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, BIG FISH, Blazing Saddles, BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, Breach, The Breakfast Club, Bridget Jones' Diary 1 & 2, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, Capote, BOND MOVIES, BURN AFTER READING, CASPER, THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, Cinderella Man, Citizen Kane, THE DEPARTED, The Dreamers, Dumb & Dumber, EMPIRE OF THE SUN, ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, FARGO, FORREST GUMP Friday, Goodfellas, Home Alone 1 & 2, HOOK, INSOMNIA, Jackie Brown, Jerry Maguire, Jumanji, Jurassic Park, THE KILLING FIELDS, La Bamba, Ladder 49, The Last Samurai, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, LOST HIGHWAY, LOVE ACTUALLY, Major League II, MALLRATS, Marie Antoinette, Meet The Parents, Mission: Impossible, Mrs. Doubtfire, Mulan, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, The Notebook, NOTTING HILL, Office Space, OPEN RANGE, Patch Adams, The Patriot, THE PIANIST, PLEASANTVILLE, PRETTY WOMAN, Psycho, Raiders of the Lost Ark, RAVENOUS, REAR WINDOW, The Right Stuff, A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT, Rounders, THE SANDLOT, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, Say Anything, SCHINDLER'S IST, Sense & Sensibility, Serendipity, Seven Years in Tibet, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, THE SHINING, SIDEWAYS, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, The Sixth Sense, Stand By Me, STAR WARS SERIES, Terminator 2, That Thing You Do!, THERE WILL BE BLOOD, THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, TITANIC, TOY STORY, THE TRUMAN SHOW, VERTIGO, Wayne's World 1 & 2, WEDDING CRASHERS
Favorite music	Bands in all caps are my absolute favorites: ALICE IN CHAINS, American Football, Amon Amarth, The Appleseed Cast, The Arcade Fire, THE BEACH BOYS, THE BEATLES, BLIND MELON, Bob Marley, BRUCE HORNSBY, Bruce Springsteen, BUDDY HOLLY, BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD, Cat Stevens, Chicago, Crosby Stills & Nash [& Young], The Cure, Damien Rice, Darkthrone, Dave Brubeck Trio, David Gray, Decapitated, The Delfonics, Dire Straits, DISPATCH, The Doors, The Eagles, ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA, Elliott Smith, Elton John, EVA CASSIDY, Explosions in the Sky, Extreme, Faith No More, Farewell, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Sinatra, FREDERIC CHOPIN, GEORGE HARRISON, Glen Phillips, GRATEFUL DEAD, Guns n Roses, Hammer No More the Fingers, James Taylor, Jane’s Addiction, JEFF BUCKLEY, Jimi Hendrix, Joan of Arc, John Coltrane, JOHN LENNON, SEAN LENNON, Led Zeppelin, Make Believe, Megadeth, Metallica, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, MORRISSEY, NAT KING COLE, NEIL YOUNG, New Radicals, NICK DRAKE, OPETH, Outkast, OWEN, Pantera, Piebald, Pink Floyd, The Police, OWEN, PORCUPINE TREE, Prince, Pulp, Queen, R.E.M., RANCID, The Rolling Stones, Rooney, SAY ANYTHING, Slayer, SMASHING PUMPKINS, THE SMITHS, STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, Superstitions of the Sky, Taking Back Sunday, Te’, TEXAS IS THE REASON, Thin Lizzy, Third Eye Blind, Tim Buckley, Toad the Wet Sprocket, TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS, TOTO, THE TRAVELING WILBURYS, Tyrone Wells, U2, Van Halen, Victor Wooten, Weezer.
Favorite books	I like a lot of books, but I can't list them all so here are some authors I like: Stephen E. Ambrose, Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, Vincent Bugliosi, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Julius Caesar, Siri Campbell, Truman Capote, Jimmy Carter, Iris Chang, Anton Chekhov, Ron Chernow, e.e. cummings, Lionel Dahmer, Emily Dickinson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Deborah D'work, John Feinstein, Shelby Foote, Benjamin Franklin, Antonia Fraser, Robert Frost, Ernest J. Gaines, Peter Golenbock, Robert J. Groden, Dave Halberstam, Stephen Hawking, Homer, Henrik Ibsen, John Irving, Alex Kershaw, Meriwether Lewis & William Clark, Livy, Machiavelli, Norman Maclean, Jean-Paul Marat, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Frank McCourt, David McCollough, Moliere, Edward R. Murrow, Pablo Neruda, Alexander Pope, Daniel Quinn, Erwin Rommel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Louis de Rouvoy duc de Saint-Simon, William Shakespeare, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Art Spiegelman, John Steinbeck, Bram Stoker, Alexis de Tocqueville, Leo Tolstoy, Sun Tzu, Elie Wiesel.