Joseph P. Gillis

General

Music, writing, poetry, songwriting and meeting kind neighbors around the globe

Music

Influenced by inspiration of all manner! Music of several genre with no purist hang-ups, because I'm blending and I listen to and love pure genre and mixed up happenin's!

The Grateful Dead, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Bob Dylan, The Babe Rainbow, David Bowie, Murlocs, Pink Floyd, Goose, Frank Zappa, Ty Segall, The Beatles, Jethro Tull, UFO, UK, U2, Govt Mule, Kraftwerk, Santana, Baba Maal, Michael Bashaw, Little Feat, Adelle, Allman Brothers ...

Movies

My top ten are comedies but I give full authority to directors and actors to take me on a journey while suspending reality and reason, to enjoy the piece fully.

Airplane!, Life of Brian, Spaceballs, and most anything those directors have left us, plus Eastwood and Ron Howard and a zillion others I find amazing!

Television

Oh my, I have an antenna, not cable or wifi but I'll let the artists take me on a journey on the little screens, too.

Books

My favorite is mine, Can't Leave Penny, but I always have a few books open for particular occasions. Oil changes that I wait on, Moby Dick. Bedtime to make the eyes tired, currently is a Shakespeare Reader. I love the Classics!

Heroes

Mom, my Sisters and outside of that, I don't put too much on artists that I love, we all come with the same hard scrabble life and can make questionable decisions. Folk all come with cumbersome baggage and bulging closets.