Robert A.

I am my own favorite musical artist, and - Jimi Hendrix, Albert King, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, Shawn Lane and Jonas Hellborg, Yngwie Malmsteen, Leslie West, Jack Bruce, Gary Moore, Gary Hoey, Eric Johnson, Steve Stevens, Blues Saraceno, Dweezil Zappa, Steve Vai, Jeff Beck, Tommy Bolin, Billy Gibbons, Jake E. Lee, Joe Bonamassa, Vernon Reid, Roxy Music, Jason Becker, Joe Stump, Metallica, John McLaughlin - Mahavishnu Orchestra, Tony Franklin, Steve Wilbanks, D.G. Phillips, Carolines Box, Hellecasters, Bix Biederbecke, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bird, Jacqueline Du Pre, Artur Rubenstein and other virtuoso classical cellists, violinists and pianists.

Raymond Chandler (all Philip Marlowe novels many times); Dashiell Hammett; Ernest Becker; Kenneth Clark - Civilization, The Nude, and The Romantic Rebellion; Carl Jung; Richard Ford; Philip Roth; Oscar Wilde; Aron Nimzowitsch - My System; David Schwartz - The Magic of Thinking Big

Fargo, The Man Who Wasn’t There, The Man Without a Past, The Nines, The Lives of Others, The Taste of Others, The Secret Life of Words, The Barbarian Invasions, Dancer in the Dark, Lost in Translation, That Thing You Do, Blast from the Past, Pulp Fiction, Ghost World, Art School Confidential, Swingers, Howard's End, Pride and Prejudice, The Browning Version, The Big Sleep, Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Gilda, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, White Heat, The Killers, Marty, North by Northwest, On the Waterfront, Fugitive Kind, D.O.A. (original) Vertigo, Strangers on a Train, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter, Seven Year Itch, Invaders from Mars, Cocteau's Orpheus, and Gosford Park which I've seen about 50 times now.

Don't watch TV

New York City

Art History, Guitar, Chess, Weightlifting, Film, Writing, Saab Automobiles, Philosophy, EFT, Personal Development