seeknowbrown
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Drawing |
| Location | Long Island, New York, United States |
| Introduction | Ideas cooked over an open fire. Rare, and well done. |
| Interests | Science+Art, Science Fiction, Illustration, Drawing, Fine Art, my Mac, my other Mac, and the upstairs Mac also, Music, Movies, Advertising, Design, Nature, Science, Baseball, Football, My Bicycle, My Family, History (especially 19th Century American), playing piano badly by ear. |
| Favorite Movies | It's a tie, between all of them. |
| Favorite Music | Gin Blossoms, The Beatles, 60s British invasion bands (any), Ben Folds Five, Blondie (early only), The Byrds, Bob Dylan, Caravan (you think you know them---trust me you don't), Radiohead, Cat Power, Chris Squire, Climax Blues Band, Colin Blunstone, Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, The Dictators, The Stranglers, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, The Doors, Ray Manzarek, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Graham Parker and the Rumour, Robert Gordon, Emmylou Harris, Focus, Trace, Cream, Pink Floyd, The Move, Electric Light Orchestra, Roy Wood, Genesis (early only), Peter Gabriel, John Cale, Velvet Underground, John Waite, Patty Griffin, King Biscuit Boy, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith Group, Love, Magazine, Television, Tom Verlaine, NRBQ (specifically pre-Big Al Anderson departure), The Who, Yes (early only), Richard Thompson, Robert Gordon, Rolling Stones (especially early), Roomful Of Blues, Roxy Music, Roy Orbison, The Strawbs, Talking Heads, Ten Years After, Indigo Girls, Terry Reid, Van Der Graaf Generator, Peter Hammill, 10cc (early only), Barenaked Ladies, Afro Celt Sound System, Buddy Guy, Slim Harpo, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, James Brown and the Fabulous Flames, "James Brown plays James Brown-Today & Yesterday" (rare instrumental album featuring James Brown on Hammond B3 organ), Bonnie Raitt, "You Send Shivers" by the Blue Jackets, Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane, Steve Miller Band, Richard Lloyd, Marshall Crenshaw, Pink Floyd, Bluegrass; oh, and never ceasing to add new faves. |
| Favorite Books | Peter Carey, T. C. Boyle, Any novel by Peter Carey or T. Coraghessan Boyle, Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, Caviar by Theodore Sturgeon (a high school literature teacher was angry because she thought I made this book up for a fake book report! ha ha!), Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, Briefing for a Descent Into Hell by Doris Lessing, The Iowa Baseball Conspiracy by W. P. Kinsella, Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins, The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, Dracula by Bram Stoker, Neuromancer by William Gibson, Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Flicker by Theodore Roszak, The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Vietnam A History by Stanley Karnow, The Best and The Brightest by David Halberstam, The Fifties by David Halberstam, Stonewall Jackson As Military Commander by John Shelby, Grant by William S. McFeely, In His Own Write by John Lennon, Babel by Patti Smith, Book of the Hopi by Frank Waters |
You have to dig a hole to China. Where do you start?
Home Depot.