Favorite flautist
I revere Eric Dolphy, Hubert Laws, Joe Farrell, Paul
Horn, Lew Tabackin, Matt Eakle (David Grisman Quintet),
Paul McCandless (reeds)... locally: Ira Sullivan and Eric
Allison - I worship the ground they play on! I also like
Marc Berner, Herbie Mann, Dave Valentin, Tim Wheater, Tim
Weisberg, Shawkie Roth and others.
However, I am much more of a guitar fan, learned to
improvise from playing with and listening to guitarists,
and have always listened to far more guitar music than
anything else.
My Guitar Heroes: John McLaughlin, Steve Morse, Eric
Johnson, Bonnie Raitt, Joni Mitchell, Richard Johnson,
Pat Metheny, Richard Gilewitz, Dominic Miller (Sting), Pierce from MPEband and
scores of others; locally: Colin Kenny aka Raiford
Starke, Rose Giulot, Ramon Justicia, Randy Bernsen, Eddie
Balzola, Frank Carmelitano, Kelly Dow, Jeff Egan, Scott
Avery, Dave Anthony; and honorary locals Marianne
Flemming and Magda Hiller.
Other String Heroes: Sam Bush, David Grisman, Chris
Thile, Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck

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Favorite album
Depends what mood I'm in. Some of my all-time favorites:
Legend - Clannad
Inside the Taj Mahal - Paul Horn
Japanese Folk Melodies - Jean-Pierre Rampal and Lily
Laskine
Ardas - Crimson
Everything by the Beatles
Everything by Eric Johnson, especially Tones
My Goal's Beyond - John McLaughlin, also Mahavishnu
Orchestra, especially the early stuff
Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy - Chick Corea and Return to
Forever
Voluntary Solitary - Richard Gilewitz
anything by Bonnie Raitt, especially the early stuff
anything by Joni Mitchell, especially the early stuff
anything by Dixie Dregs, especially the early stuff
anything by Kurt Elling
West Side Story, original cast recording - Leonard
Bernstein
Swan Lake - Tschaikovsky
nothing but - Magda Hiller
Three Chords and a Bridge -Marianne Flemming
This Perfect World - Freedy Johnston
Mint - The Goods
Disraeli Gears - Cream
Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus - Spirit
Child is Father to the Man - Blood, Sweat & Tears
Echoes of a Modern God - Dwain Briggs
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Favorite song
Okay, how long have you got?! Here's a very incomplete list
of some of my all-time faves, in no particular order.
The artists listed are the ones who made the recordings I
love, not necessarily the composer, though most are:
Higher Love - Stevie Winwood
Waterfall - Cris Williamson
Shine Sweet Freedom - Michael McDonald
Keep My Love Alive - Heart
Get Outside - Robert Palmer
Fell on Black Days, Burden in My Hand - Soundgarden
Don't Renege on Our Love - Lucy Kaplansky
No More, War of Man, The Needle and the Damage Done,
Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young
Pleasures of the Harbour, I Ain't Marchin' Anymore - Phil Ochs
Wear Your Love Like Heaven, There is a Mountain - Donovan
Could You Be Love - Bob Marley
Be Still & Know - Randy Bernsen
Many including Pour Some Sugar on Me, Rocket, Rock of
Ages... - Def Leppard
The Cradle Will Rock - Van Halen
Urgent - Foreigner
My Baby - The Pretenders
I Feel For You, Ain't Nobody - Chaka Khan
Love Letter, Been in Love Too Long, I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt
Dancing With My Mother - Rachel Bissex
The Mummers' Dance - Loreena McKennit (the original, not
that dreadful radio remix)
You Wreck Me, Love is a Long Road - Tom Petty
Guinevere - Crosby, Stills & Nash ( & Young?)
Coming Back to Me, Today, Volunteers - Jefferson Airplane
Silent House, Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House
Lock & Key - Frank Christian
Turn A Square, Pink Bullets - The Shins
It Dawned on Me - Calla
Mad World - Gary Jules version of Tears for Fears song
Icarus, Drifting Petals - Ralph Towner
Sightless Bird - Bobby McFerrin
Low - Cracker
Shine - Sugarspoon
I'm Not Average - The Goods
Home, My Favorite Mistake, The Difficult Kind, Every Day is
A Winding Road - Sheryl Crow
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - Carole King
Let's Pretend We're Married, 1999 - Prince
Blue Canoe, Simple Life - Elton John
Ordinary World - Duran Duran
No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne
Moanin' - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
Warmth of the Sun, In My Room, God Only Knows, Sail On,
Sailor - Beach Boys
Albatross, My Father, Who Knows Where the Time Goes - Judy
Collins
Surround Sister - Sooundtrack of Our Lives
Emily - Laura Nyro
Mysterious Ways - U2
Can't Find My Way Home - Blind Faith
My Friends - Red Hot Chili Peppers
If I Ever Lose My Faith - Sting
Rocky Raccoon - Lena Horne version
Highway 51 Revisited, Like a Rolling Stone and many others -
Bob Dylan
Oh, Atlanta, Can't Find My Way Home - Alison Krauss and
Union Station
One Way Track - Ricky Skaggs
Give Me Love - Dougie McLean
I Carry Your Heart - Michael Hedges
Love Will Keep Us Together - Martin Sexton
Sunset Road - Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
Country Colors and many others - Steve Morse
Reasons Why - Nickel Creek
Ask for the Moon - Molly O'Brien
I Believe - Trophy Wife
I Still Believe - The Call
I'm Still Alive - Pearl Jam
Land of Oz - Hillary Stagg
Angel Eyes - Frank Sinatra
Pies for the Public - Zoe Lewis
Elegant Gypsy Suite - Al DiMeola
Seguidilla from Carmen - Georges Bizet
Terkisher Navratilova - Metropolitan Klezmer
Expect a Miracle, Prairie Sunset - Peter Ostroushko
Follow Me, Farmer's Trust, Letter From Home - Pat
Metheny
When You Wish Upon a Star - Laura Sue and Orquestra
Nightingale
Ferdinand, Back, Flame (That Parisian Love Song) - Maggi,
Pierce and E.J.
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Favorite song I've written
Usually the most recent one.
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Laura Sue's Quintessential Car Songs
These are the songs I LOVE when they come on the car radio, the songs that make me drive too fast!
Rock and Roll Strategy - 38 Special
Runnin' Down a Dream - Tom Petty
One Way Track - Ricky Skaggs
Def Leppard
and many of the songs on the above faves list....
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Favorite joke
Why did the turtle cross the road?
To get to the shell station!
A joke I made up recently:
What did the physicist have for breakfast?
A proton shake.
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Favorite art medium
Beadwork
second favorite: Collage
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Favorite technology
Air conditioning
Telephone answering machines
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Favorite city, US
New Orleans
close second: San Francisco
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Favorite city, non - US
Vienna
Toronto
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Place I'd most like to go that I haven't been
yet
Egypt, Brazil, Vancouver & Hawaii
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Favorite color
Depends what day it is....
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Favorite flower
Columbine
Lantana
Lilac
Hyacinth
Poinciana

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Favorite sport
Swimming
Bike riding
Canoeing
Walking
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Favorite insect
Butterfly
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Favorite animal
Cat
close second: Nightingale
close third: Bunny
close fourth: Sheep
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Favorite stuffed animal
Bunnies
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Person I'd most like to meet - My Heroes!
Bonnie Raitt
Ann & Nancy Wilson
Carlos Santana
Neil Young
Musician I'd most like to play with
Same list!
plus One Drum, Oriente, Maggi, Pierce and E.J.,
Sting and Dominic Miller,
and the people I play with now!
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Cute guy I'd most like to meet

Adrian Paul, Marty Stuart, Jeremy London (pre-7th Heaven!), Billy
Wirth (Lost Boys era, not Sex & the City), Eric Stoltz,
Eric Johnson (musician not actor), Jeff Goldblum, Michael Praed (Robin Hood era, not Dynasty), Keith Hamilton
Cobb, Thomas Jane, Kevin Sorbo, Gale Harold, Richard Dean
Anderson, Jon Bon Jovi, John Kay, Ziggy Marley (that man glows!), Richard Armitage (evil politician from Nottingham, not US State Department - not only a gorgeous Gisborne but also plays flute and cello!), Will Arnett, Julian McMahon
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Favorite famous person I've already met
Marian McPartland
Margie Adam
Kay Gardner
John McLaughlin
Ray Suarez
Pete Seeger
Douglas Spotted Eagle
Sally Jessy Raphael
John Trudell
Most gracious interviewee
Steve Morse
Most famous person who ever hit on me
Frank Zappa
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Favorite all-time TV shows

Dick Van Dyke, The Simpsons, Sports Night, Max
Headroom, Fawlty Towers, China Beach, WKRP, Monty
Python's Flying Circus, The Sopranos, Oz, Six Feet Under,
X-Files, NYPD Blue, Friends, Roseanne, Everybody Loves Raymond, Two and a Half Men, Gilmore Girls (Seasons 1 - 6), Stargate SG-1 (great
Egyptian backstory in this sci-fi epic! but should have ended with the Moebius episodes), 24 (amazingly anti-authoritarian for a show supposedly run by Republican sympathizers)
Others I like: Roswell, Hercules, Xena,
Highlander, Queer as Folk, Frasier (the early years), Star
Trek: TNG & Deep Space Nine, West Wing, P.O.V, Push,
Nevada, Monk, Dead Zone, Once and Again, The Visitor,
Independent Lens, All Bird TV, The Daily Show (one of the
only decent sources of news on TV!), Nature, Nova, Smallville, Soundstage, Austin City Limits, Battlestar Galactica (the new production), Coach, Star Trek: Voyager, Mad About You, The Unit, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (some weird casting, but great in some ways - their New Orleans-themed Christmas show was sooo moving....), My Name is Earl, The Office (US version), Sleeper Cell, The O.C., Prison Break
Recently started watching: Breaking Bad, Dirt, Mad Men, Saving Grace, Project Runway, Aliens in America, Nip/Tuck (except for the surgeries - yuk!), Countdown with Keith Olbermann, George Lopez, Reaper
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Favorite TV shows cancelled before their time

Sports Night, Fawlty Towers, WKRP, Frank's Place, Nothing
Sacred, Cupid, Max Headroom, Doctor, Doctor, Harsh Realm,
VR5, The Lone Gunmen, Roswell, Legacy (completely obvious plots but beautiful
cinematography), My So-Called Life, Smith, Lucky, The Class, The Nine, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
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Favorite TV show theme music
Dick Van Dyke, Simpsons, Flintstones, The Jetsons,
Six Feet Under, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Odyssey 5
Favorite movie music
Grand Canyon, West Side Story, Heart of the Sun,
Deep Blue Sea, Parenthood, The Sound of Music
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Favorite movie
Dr. Strangelove, Fantasia, Yellow Submarine, Laura, West
Side Story, Harold and Maude, Roger and Me, Parenthood, Mad
Max - Beyond Thunderdome, The Sound of Music,
Victor/Victoria, Heart of the Sun, Field of Dreams, Blue
Vinyl, Bowling for Columbine

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Favorite play
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

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Favorite media
Radio - at least it was, until, thanks to the
deregulation of media ownership, all the commercial radio stations got
bought out by, like, two multi-national media conglomerates.
Then NPR pretty much abandoned its music programming. My hope is that some day eclectic music programming will
return to radio. It's the best! Yeah, you might say I'm a
dreamer, but I'm not the only one....
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Favorite book
Mists of Avalon, the Thesaurus
What I'm reading now
Seven Spiritual Laws of Success - Deepak Chopra
Visionary Business - Marc Allen
The Tao of Leadership - John Heider
Wherever You Go, There You Are - Jon Kabat-Zinn
Diet for a Small Planet - Francis Moore Lappé
Anything by Christiane Northrup
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Favorite cartoon
Calvin & Hobbes, Rose is Rose, Pogo, Krazy Kat,
Rocky & Bullwinkle, Little Nemo, early Jules Feiffer,
Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley, The Simpsons
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Favorite comedian/
social commentator
Richard Jeni
Lily Tomlin
Al Franken
Michael Moore
Firesign Theater
Swami Beyondananda
Mike Malloy
Jon Stewart
Maz Jobrani
Bob Nelson
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Favorite food
Fresh peas in the pod
Corn on the cob
Mint chocolate chip ice cream
Lobster
Hearts of lettuce with blue cheese dressing
Dandelion greens
Artichokes
Hearts of palm and celery
Angel Hair pasta with garlic and oil
Peach cobbler
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Favorite dish at a restaurant
Vegetable Nasi Goreng - Indigo Room, Riverside Hotel, Fort
Lauderdale
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Favorite olives
Calamata from Fernando's in Fort Lauderdale
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Favorite fabric
Velvet
second: Suede or Soft leather
third: Organza, Silk, Lace....
Favorite fabric to wear or sleep in
Cotton
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Favorite chocolate
Vegan Chocolate Mousse
and
365 Organic Chocolate Truffles
from Whole Foods
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Favorite computer
Macintosh
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Favorite coffee
Espresso
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Favorite place to get coffee
The south of France
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Favorite motto
At least I'm not bored!
close second: Have Flute, Will Travel!
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What I want on my gravestone
At least she wasn't bored!
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What I hope people will say about me when I'm not around
anymore
I miss Laura! She was fun!!
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Want to know my favorite something that isn't listed here? Let me
know and I'll post the answer right here!