Chuck P.

Interests:: Apple computers, art, baseball, baseball cards, chess, comic books, conspiracy theories, drums, drummers, ecology, environmentalism, food, great guitarists, hiking, literature,metaphysics, movies, music, percussion, philosophy, self-discovery, snakes, spirituality, tattoos, technology, travel...
Hobbies:: See above...
Television:: Big Love, Deadwood, Entourage, John From Cincinnati, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos (it's not TV, it's HBO), The Daily Show, Family Guy, My Name is Earl, The Office, The Simpsons, South Park, Star Trek (original and Next Generation)...
Movies:: American Beauty, Clerks (any Kevin Smith), Donnie Darko, Lord of the Rings, The Matrix Trilogy, Memento, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Napoleon Dynamite, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Spiderman, Star Trek, Star Wars, This is Spinal Tap, X-Men...
Music:: Where to start? Aerosmith, Morgan Ågren, Alice in Chains, Anthrax, The Apex Theory, The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, The Beatles, Beethoven, Black Sabbath, Black Light Syndrome, Terry Bozzio, Dennis Chambers, Chopin, Death Cab For Cutie, The Dixie Dregs, Virgil Donati, Dream Theater, Danny Elfman, Faith No More, Fates Warning, The Flower Kings, Godley and Creme, Gryphon Labs, Allan Holdsworth, Iron Maiden, Eric Johnson, Karnivool, King Crimson, King's X, Led Zeppelin, The Lonely Bears, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, The Mars Volta, Mats/Morgan Band, Megadeth, Meshuggah, Metallica, Pat Metheny, Motley Crue, Mozart, Mr. Bungle, Nirvana, Opeth, Paganini, Jaco Pastorius, Mike Patton, Phish, Planet X, Polytown, Porcupine Tree, Queensryche, Buddy Rich, Derek Roddy, Rush, Joe Satriani, Screaming Headless Torsos, Edward G. Scruggs, Shadows Fall, Sir Millard Mulch, Steve Smith, Spock’s Beard, Mike Stern, System of a Down, Tool, Pat Travers, UFO, Steve Vai, Van Halen, VOLTO!, Chad Wackerman, Weather Report, Dave Weckl, The Who, John Williams, The Yellowjackets, John Ziegler, Z, Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa, Zappa Plays Zappa...
Books:: Charles Bukowski - Post Office; Dom Famularo - The Cycle of Self Empowerment; Malcolm Gladwell - The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers; Al Gore - The Assault on Reason; Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land; Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth; Stephen King - The Stand; Wally Lamb - She's Come Undone, This Much I Know is True; Caroline Myss - Sacred Contracts; Neil Peart - The Masked Rider, Ghost Rider, Traveling Music, Roadshow; Ayn Rand - Anthem, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead; Vikram Seth - An Equal Music; Maurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are; Jacob Slichter - So You Want To Be A Rock and Roll Star?
About me:: Lover of all things creative and artistic...eternal student, hopeful optimist..I like to hit stuff with sticks!

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Chuck P. wrote on May 12, 2012 at 02:19 PM

Hello all! Had yet another interesting Zappa related experience this past week. I was able to meet and interview Morgan Agren, the Swedish drummer who met Frank and along with his bandmate Mats Oberg (keyboards) sat in with Mr. Zappa in one of his last appearances in Stockholm. Some great stories and touching anecdotes. I'll post details if the interview gets picked up for publication! Hope everybody's well!!!

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Chuck P. wrote on Feb 27, 2012 at 02:34 PM

Caught Dweezil and the gang at Canyon Club, great show! I'm glad we were able to see Scott with them on this tour. Loved the Freak Out material as well!

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MZ wrote on Jan 25, 2012 at 03:41 PM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO LIZ! TELL HER HI FROM US!

Megan

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Chuck P. wrote on Jan 19, 2012 at 12:26 PM

Thanks John! All's well here!

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