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Best wishes to all, and I will check in when I can. -rix

The Eagles (also Don Henley and Glenn Frey's solo material), Jimmy Buffett, Alabama, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (or simply "The Dirt Band" during their Rock years), The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood ( The Blind Faith Reunion featuring some great Rock guitar - Blind Faith, Traffic, Derek & The Dominos, Creem, Jimi Hendrix tribute), Bad Company, Doobie Brothers (Pre- Michael McDonald), Supertramp (esp. "Breakfast In America" release), Queen, Aerosmith, Little River Band, Bob Seger, Rod Stewart, Billy Joel, Kansas, Styx, John Fogerty, John Mellencamp, Eddie Money, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, Jeff Healey Band, Alan Parsons Project, Jackson Browne, John Denver ( "Some Days Are Diamonds" release), Neil Diamond (The early years, before he started rehashing the same overtly sentimental "easy listening" material. His earlier contributions to New York's famed Tin Pan Alley should earn him a spot in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame), Simon & Garfunkel ("Momma took my Kodachrome away today." The end

Basically, anything that keeps me informed. If I'm going to watch TV, I want to at least make it worth my time- A "PBS mind in an MTV world". However... a little comedy and a couple of bottles of Negra Modelo doesn't hurt!

Mother Night, Stalingrad, The Reader, Stalag 17, The Young Lions, Casablanca (Everybody goes to rix cafe), Kingdom of Heaven, Walk The Line, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Under The Tuscan Sun, The Last Temptation of Christ, Monty Python's "Life of Brian", Sophie Scholl, The Ninth Day, The Pianist, Shawshank Redemption, The American President, Uncle Buck, The Sea Chase, North To Alaska, Tombstone and The Doors (Val Kilmer was great in both roles), and Braveheart. And, I shouldn't forget "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy (Tolkein captured the essence of apocalyptic metaphysical dualism in his work of fiction, that once began in Persia with Zoroaster, or Zarathustra, and culminates with the book of Revelation. Not to mention, the computerized effects of the movie trilogy).

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis, The Schopenhauer Cure by Irvin Yalom, The Secret Life of Carl Jung by Richard Noll, Wrestling with Angels by Naomi Rosenblatt, The Birth of Satan by Wray and Mobley, City of Thieves by David Benioff, Partly Right by Tony Campolo, Soul Survivor by Philip Yancey, Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, A History of the End of the World and God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism by Jonathan Kirsch, The Twilight of Atheism by Alister McGrath, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess by Leonard Shlain, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck, Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief by Rodney Stark, 120 Banned Books by Karolides, Bald, & Sova, Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do - The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society by Peter McWilliams( a great Libertarian primer), Measuring Eternity by Martin Gorst; And the books of Genesis ( the first basic

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"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."- George Burns
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"Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance."-Shakespeare
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"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."-Plato
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