MY FAVORITE THINGS
My favorite restaurant: Moosewood Restaurant (Ithaca, NY) is currently tops.
My favorite candy or junk food: tortilla chips and salsa
My favorite color: Black & White! Yep, that's TWO colors... but how can you know what one is without knowing the other?
My favorite sports team: Bay City Breakers (bicycle race team in Mobile, AL; my brother Eric is a Breaker.)
My favorite place to shop: House of Guitars (Rochester, NY)
My beverage of choice: Water!
My favorite pastime: practice, practice, practice.
I don't like: practice!
More about me...
I collect: music and instruments, all kinds!
My interests and hobbies: Jazz, bicycling and snowboarding
Sports I have played: Golf and racquetball
I have no children or pets. Once, however, while I lived in the northeastern US, I raised a prairie dog from
a tiny pup; she came (rabies-free) from a specialty pet store, and her name was Charlotte.
My favorite television show: a Rockies game
My favorite musical artist or group "du jour" is: John Coltrane!
My all-time favorite motion picture: The Emperor's Shadow
My special talent (if I have one) may be: impersonating my favorite singers
Interesting facts almost completely unrelated to me:
In the year I was born (1965), John Coltrane was arguably at his peak. Get this: in just over ten months, he recorded
(with his quartet, quintet, sextet, orchestra and other groups) no less than twenty-four stellar sessions--among
them seven of the landmark jazz albums of his career, including the incomparable A Love Supreme.
On the day I was born (August 9):
The number one song was "I Got You Babe" by Sonny and Cher...
53 civilian workers died in a Titan II missile silo fire in Searcy, Arkansas...
The novel Shadow of a Bull (by Maia Wojciechowska, Sonlight item #6R25) was one of the top-selling books...
And gas was 31 cents a gallon; the day I got my first driver's license (08/09/1981), it had more than quadrupled to $1.35.
