Interests
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Music, music and more music, astronomy, great literature and beautiful women! I collect Asian art and enjoy Middle Eastern / Mediterranean cuisine. I love long hikes in the forests and mountains. I always enjoy exchanges with people from different cultures, of any age. We will all be richer for the experience. Me gusta corresponder en español o portugese. Como este aprendo mejor como decir y escribir estas lenguas. My primary musical interests lie with jazz and blues; but I also enjoy down and dirty rock and roll jamming when the mood strikes! I play electric and acoustic guitar, blues harp (harmonica) and hand drums. I would love to learn a little bluegrass from one of those Nashville cats - :)
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Favorite Music
Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grapelli, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith, John Coltrane, Billy Holiday, Etta James, Fats Waller and many other Jazz musicians / bands of that era too numerous to mention. I also need a good hit of 30's / 40s Big Band from time to time!
In the blues category my taste is varied. Among my many favourites are Ry Cooder, Muddy Waters, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, John Lee Hooker, Albert King, T-Bone Walker, *some* Johnny Winter, Mississippi Fred Mc Dowell' Leadbelly, Howlin' Wolf and Delta blues in general.
From Classic Rock, my all time favourites include Bob Dylan, Jeff Beck, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Hendrix, SRV, Yardbirds, The Kinks, The Who, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin, The Beatles, The Stones, early Country Joe and the Fish, Yes and U2!.
Modern Jazz / Soul singers I admire include Diana Krall, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Norah Jones.... and Joan Armatrading,who seems to be in a category of her own, as is Leonard Cohen!
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Favorite Movies
There are So many! But to list just a few: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Chocolat, Life is Beautiful, The Illusionist, Piano, A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator, Shine, The Mission, Almost Famous, Osama, Ran (by Akira Kurasawa) and Shakespeare productions that don't have Mel Gibson ruining the tone! . I tend to prefer foreign films and love documentaries on anything of interest. I'm very interested in Japanese film, but my knowledge of the language needs to be improved immensely. I'm working on it -:(
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Favorite TV Shows
Discovery and History Channel, Concerts and the occasional detective / forensic thriller
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Favorite Books
Too many to mention. I have a 2,000 book library ranging from astronomy, through great poetry, novels, mythology and folk lore.
To list just a few fiction titles and authors that come to mind: Love in the Time of Cholera and anything else by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Lewis Carroll, Classical Greek plays, particularly by Euripides, Shakespeare, W.B Yeats, W. Blake, T.S Eliot, Virginia Woolf, anything by John Fowles, John Donne ...
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Journal
 
I've uploaded a video of the Jimi Hendrix Experience playing a version of Voodoo Chile (slight return) on the Lulu Show. I say version, because Hendrix never played the same song the same way twice. This is some pretty fine and rare footage, albeit slightly truncated. I wanted to share it with you. Comments are always welcomed!
http://www.hi5.com/friend/video/displayViewVideo.do?videoId=5642873&ownerId=110653763
Like many great artists, Hendrix developed his own personal, yet universal myth, reminiscent of William Blake and Allen Ginsberg (In *Howl*). In fact, the phrase: "my arrows are made of desire" in Voodoo Chile is taken directly from the visionary Blake.
The words: "If I don't see you no more in this world, I'll meet you in the next one and don't be late" seem eerily self prophetic!
Hendrix has been a huge influence in my own musical journey. I hope you enjoy the video. Voodoo Chile and *slight return* are closely related. The lyrics for both are posted below!
Ciao,
James
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VOODOO CHILE (SLIGHT RETURN)
Well, I stand up next to a mountain
And I chop it down with the edge of my hand.
Well, I stand up next to a mountain,
Chop it down with the edge of my hand.
Well, I pick up all the pieces and make an island,
Might even raise just a little sand.
cause Im a voodoo chile,
Lord knows Im a voodoo chile, baby.
I didnt mean to take up all your sweet time,
Ill give it right back to you one of these days.
I said I didnt mean to take up all your sweet time,
Ill give it right back one of these days.
And if I dont meet you no more in this world
Then ill, Ill meet you in the next one and dont be late, dont be late.
cause Im a voodoo chile, voodoo chile,
Lord knows Im a voodoo chile, hey hey hey.
Im a voodoo chile, baby.
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JIMI HENDRIX
VOODOO CHILE
Well, I'm a voodoo chile
Lord I'm a voodoo chile
Well, the night I was born
Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red
The night I was born
I swear the moon turned a fire red
Well my poor mother cried out "lord, the gypsy was right!"
And I seen her, fell down right dead
(Have mercy)
Well, mountain lions found me there waitin'
And set me on a eagles back
Well, mountain lions found me there,
And set me on a eagles wing
(Its' the eagles wing, baby, what did I say)
He took me past to the outskirts of infinity,
And when he brought me back,
He gave me a venus witch's ring
Hey!
And he said "Fly on, fly on"
Because I'm a voodoo chile, yeah, voodoo chile
Hey!
Well, I make love to you,
And lord knows you'll feel no pain
Say, I make love to you in your sleep,
And lord knows you felt no pain
(Have mercy)
'Cause I'm a million miles away
And at the same time I'm right here in your picture frame
(Yeah! What did I say now)
'Cause I'm a voodoo chile
Lord knows, I'm a voodoo chile
(yeah!)
Well my arrows are made of desire
From far away as Jupiter's sulphur mines
Say my arrows are made of desire, desire
From far away as Jupiter's sulphur mines
(Way down by the Methane Sea, yeah)
I have a humming bird and it hums so loud,
You think you were losing your mind, hmmm...
Well I float in liquid gardens
And Arizona new red sand
(Yeah)
I float in liquid gardens
Way down in Arizona red sand
Well, I taste the honey from a flower named Blue,
Way down in California
And the in New York drowns as we hold hands
'Cause I'm a voodoo chile
Lord knows I'm a voodoo chile
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