Sunday, January 31, 2010

-NOT THAT YOU'LL CARE...

Not that you’ll care, but I wanted to set to print some of my favorites so my great-great grand-kids will be able to see how strange cool their great-great grand-dad was. If you haven't done so, you might want to make one of your own so your great-great grand-kids can see how strange cool you were. My favorites:

Best Stage Production EVER:
Les Miserables - London cast

Best Film Adaptions Of A Musical:
Evita; Chicago; Jesus Christ: Superstar

Best Movies:
Days of Heaven; Godfather ll; Pulp Fiction; The Defiant Ones; (too many more to mention).


Best Foreign Films: Life Is Beautiful; Seven Beauties

Best Rock & Roll Movies EVER:
Eddie and the Cruisers; The Rose (Both showed the way it really was back in the day).

Best Musicians or Musical Groups Before The Music Died:
Beatles; The Stones; Bob Dylan; ABBA; Neil Diamond; B.B. King; Brian Adams; Van Morrison; Ray Charles; Paul Simon (plus too many more to mention).

Best Song That Never Made It Really Really Really Big:
At This Moment (Billy Vera) (The crying sax and the brilliant ending makes it a cult classic).

Best “B’ Side Song Of The 45 RPM Era:
I Was The One  (Elvis) - (Flip side of Heartbreak Hotel); I'm So All Alone (The Teen Queens)-(Flip side of In Paradise).

Best Tenors:
Andrea Bocelli;  Luciano Pavorrotti

Their Best Song:
Mille Luna, Mille Onde (Con Ti Partiro‘s #2) / Nessum Dorma (best operatic solo ever!)

Box Office Bombs That I Thought Were Great: 
Ishtar; Heaven’s Gate (The critics blasted both, they both lost tons of money so I guess I'm the only one in America who loved them).

Best Novels:
Prince of Tides (Pat Conroy); Skinny Legs And All (Tom Robbins); 1984 (George Orwell)

Author With The Most Memorable Quotes:
Tom Robbins (look  up Tom Robbins quotes on Google. You'll agree.)

Best Non-Fiction:
The Aquarian Conspiracy (Marylyn Ferguson)

Best Cuisine:
French (House of Lords - Lake Tahoe area)

Best Dinner I’ve Ever Had:
Crab-filled red snapper topped with a light cream sauce that was to die for. (fatigued two- story restaurant in Port Aransas, Texas)


Worst Dinner I've Ever Had: Pick any Taco Bell.

Best City Anywhere:
London, England (Hands down!)

Worst City Anywhere:
Gallup, New Mexico (got shanghaid there on my way back from Vegas by the Highway Patrol and was hauled off to a kangaroo court. I'll tell you that story one day. 'Dukes of Hazard' from start to finish).

Best Get-Away-From-It-All Place:
Anywhere along Jamaica’s north shore.


Favorite Drink When I'm Well-Heeled: A chilled bottle of vintage Puligny-Montrachet

Favorite Drink When I'm Broke: A jar of grape Kool-Ade

Best Car I Ever Owned: New 1957 Chevrolet convertible; black with white top; red leather seats. (So damn cool!)
 
Best Life Of All My Past Lives:
This one (I guess).

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