Drift

General

Antique bottles and marbles and digging them up, numismatics, metal detecting, creek walking, hiking, history, cats, film, acting, homesteading, music, sex, comedy, and making things and going places.

Music

I've seen Bob Dylan seven times and hope to see him a few more. Other favorites I've seen include Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams, Chance the Rapper, Cheap Trick, Ani DiFranco, Steve Earle, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Explosions in the Sky, Heart, Haley Heynderickx, Jason Isbell, Joan Jett, Lukas Nelson, Willie Nelson, Particle Kid, Margo Price, John Prine, Amanda Shires, Sleater-Kinney, Mavis Staples, Waxahatchee, Wilco, and Lucinda Williams.

I also play guitar, banjo, ukulele, and harmonica. I used to have 20000 records and currently have just a few dozen.

Some artists I love and listen to a lot: AC/DC, Roy Acuff, The Allman Brothers Band, Louis Armstrong, Clarence Ashley, The Band, Barbecue Bob, Black Sabbath, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Bloody F. Mess, Lucille Bogan, Dock Boggs, Naftule Brandwein, Big Bill Broonzy, Burnett and Rutherford, R.L. Burnside, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Captain Beefheart, The Carolina Tar Heels, The Carter Family, Carroll Clark, Leonard Cohen, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Miles Davis, Rev. Gary Davis, The Delmore Brothers, Bob Dylan, Justin Townes Earle, Steve Earle, David Honeyboy Edwards, Sleepy John Estes, Erroll Garner, Otis Gibbs, Clifford Gibson, S.G. Goodman, Grateful Dead, Merle Haggard, Lucille Hegamin, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Fletcher Henderson, Jimi Hendrix, Edna Hicks, Hokum Boys, Son House, Howlin' Wolf, Alberta Hunter, Mississippi John Hurt, Papa Charlie Jackson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Waylon Jennings, Blind Willie Johnson, Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Tommy Johnson, George Jones, Maggie Jones, Dick Justice, Buell Kazee, Albert King, B.B. King, Freddie King, Lightnin' Hopkins, Bettye Lavette, Furry Lewis, Mance Lipscomb, Little Richard, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Memphis Minnie, Memphis Slim, Joni Mitchell, Rosie Mae Moore, Jelly Roll Morton, Muddy Waters, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Ozzy Osbourne, Charley Patton, Tom Petty, Ray Price, John Prine, Ma Rainey, Abe Schwartz Orchestra, Bob Seger, Frank Sinatra, Bessie Smith, Trixie Smith, The Staple Singers, Mavis Staples, Marty Stuart, Swamp Dogg, Tampa Red, Henry Thomas, Tina Sparkle, Tiny Tim, Van Halen, Townes Van Zandt, Tom Waits, Jerry Jeff Walker, Ethel Waters, Johnny Guitar Watson, Waxahatchee, Bukka White, Geeshie Wiley, Hank Williams Sr., Lucinda Williams, Link Wray, Neil Young, Frank Zappa, Warren Zevon

Movies

https://m.imdb.com/name/nm6540688/ My favorite role I played was Stoner #1 in Trail of Blood. My favorite films include Berkeley Square (1933), Of Human Bondage (1934), The Petrified Forest (1936), Escape From New York (1981), Dirty Work (1997), and Masked and Anonymous (2003).

Television

I've been on local television a bunch of times as a stand-up comedian, bottle digger, detasseler of corn, and a frequent visitor of Pekin.

Books

History, especially local. Field/nature guides. Homesteading and DYI stuff. Classic lit and poetry. Specialized collector's guides, especially for antique bottles. Science fiction and fantasy. Biographies. Music. Mycology. UFOs. Sasquatch. Religion and spirituality. Remote viewing and astral projection. Sex.

Heroes

YouTube

youtube.com/@whiskeycitydiggers