Robert A.

I am my own favorite musical artist, and - Jimi Hendrix, Albert King, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, Luther Allison, Shawn Lane, Jonas Hellborg, Yngwie Malmsteen, Andy James, 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, Michael Schenker, Uli Jon Roth, John McLaughlin - Mahavishnu Orchestra, Animals as Leaders, Periphery, Van Halen, Brian Eno, Cypher 7, Hellecasters, Bix Biederbecke, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bird, Jacqueline Du Pre, Maya Beiser, Artur Rubenstein and other virtuoso classical cellists, violinists and pianists.

Raymond Chandler (all Philip Marlowe novels over and over again); 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, Laura, 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, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Cocteau's Orpheus, and Gosford Park which I've seen about 100 times now.

Don't watch TV

New York City

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