FunkyMunky

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• NY, US

Male
New York

Fun, smart, intelligent, and opinionated people with character from all over.

Anna Kournikova, Jaromir Jagr, Don Mattingly, Adriana Lima, John Turturro, Jackie Chan.

Music, shows, tennis, baseball, hockey, good friends, driving around, guitar, bass, jammin', tuba, doing push-ups, drums, going to shows, the beach, chillin, reading, writing, learning something new everyday, making new friends, being a good person, not taking life too seriously, iPods, traveling, partying, road trips, life.

I play several instruments and I am working on learning more. Tuba, trumpet, trombone, guitar, and bass guitar. I am teaching myself to play the drums, harmonica, and ukulele. On my list of future instruments are the saxophone and the flute.

I like going to live shows and have seen some great artists such as Eric Clapton, David Byrne, Les Paul, Conan O'Brien, Beyonce, Aretha Franklin, STS9, Umphrey's McGee, Jay-Z, Billy Joel, Herbie Hancock, Ted Nugent, Cheech And Chong, The Skatalites, David Gilmour, Paul McCartney, Snoop Dogg, The Allman Brothers Band, Phish, Erykah Badu, P-Funk, The Dead, Pat Metheny, Roger Waters, The Wailers, Carlos Santana, Tina Turner, Van Halen, and Chuck Berry to name a few.

I play tennis, baseball, and love to follow hockey. Let's Go Rangers!

Rock, Funk, Soul, Jazz, Jam, Hip-Hop, Punk, Metal, Reggae, Ska, Drum & Bass, Dub/ Dub-Step, Rap, Classical, Blues, Ambient, R&B, Techno, Trance, Fusion, Latin, no country (except Johnny Cash and Hank Williams).

Simpsons, Wildboyz, Family Guy, Jeopardy, Sopranos, Futurama, King of the Hill, Wheel of Fortune, Heroes, Lost, MXC, Band Of Brothers, Iron Chef, Law And Order, Diners Drive-Ins and Dives, Man Vs Food, Dirty Jobs, Cash Cab.

Forrest Gump, Big Trouble In Little China, Die Hard, Godfather, Airheads, James Bond, Princess Bride, Big Lebowski, Bill & Ted, Indiana Jones, Fear & Loathing, Rocky, Major League, American Beauty, Soldier, Usual Suspects, Borat, Harakiri, Full Metal Jacket, Blow, Stargate, Happy Gilmore, Wayne's World, Lethal Weapon, Super Troopers, Traffic, Sin City, Captain Ron, Yojimbo, Pineapple Express, Conan the Barbarian, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, Stranger Than Fiction, Goonies, Iron Man, Kill Bill, Avatar, Kung Fu Panda, The Dark Knight, Rush Hour, Little Miss Sunshine, Across The Universe, Forbidden Kingdom, Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Up, The Untouchables

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1984, Clear and Present Danger, Tolkien, Harry Potter, Calvin And Hobbes, The Jungle, Aristotle (the smartest man to EVER live), The Rainmaker, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Candide, Great Expectations, Battle Royale, A Brave New World.

Blind stars of fortune each have several rays. -- Led Zeppelin

An idealist is someone who helps others to be prosperous. -- Henry Ford

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself. -- Johnny Carson

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. -- Oscar Levant

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. -- Ozzy Osbourne

If it's too loud, you're too old!

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. -- G.B. Shaw

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. -- M. Spark

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand. -- E.W. Wilcox

Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications. -- Keith Richards

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. -- Mickey Mantle

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. -- B. Gill

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. -- Sir William Osler

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path. -- Scandinavian Proverb

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. -- Ambrose Bierce

You live and you learn. Then you die and forget it all. -- George Foreman

Time enough for sleep in the grave. -- Conan The Barbarian

"Well, life is too short, so love the one you got, 'Cause you might get run over or you might get shot" -- Sublime

You see things; and you say: "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say: "Why not?" -- G.B. Shaw

When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win. -- Ed Macauley

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. -- Jonathan Kozol

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. -- Norm Papernick

When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.

Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast. -- Woody Allen

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. -- Saint Jerome

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. -- Horace

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. -- Sir Francis Bacon

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. -- Henry David Thoreau

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. -- Arthur Schopenhauer

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -- Galileo Galilei

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. -- Quentin Crisp

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. -- Jerry Garcia

‎Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that #@!% and just play. -- Charlie Parker

Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun. -- Robert Townsend

It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play. -- Dizzy Gillespie

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.-- Anonymous

My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life. -- Miles Davis

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. -- Dave Barry

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. -- Plato

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. -- Margaret Atwood

I used to be with it, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’, and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you! -- Grandpa Simpson

Man, if you have to ask what 'it' is, you’ll never know. -- Louis Armstrong

Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -- Hugh Macleod

As you know, we don't make mistakes, we have happy accidents. We just have happy accidents ... there ... --Bob Ross

Sometimes when you've done something right, people aren't sure if you've done anything at all. -- Futurama

I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds. -- Dizzy Gillespie

If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind. If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident you act confident. Therefore never let shyness conquer your mind. -- Arfa Karim Randhawa

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less. -- P. Brown

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. -- Soren Kierkegaard

Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. -- Unknown

"It’s really easy to complain. If you’re not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good." -- Lisa Williams

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. -- Albert Einstein

Worry is a misuse of imagination. -- Dan Zadra

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. -- Franz Kafka

I am no more humble than my talents require. -- Oscar Levant

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. -- Japanese Proverb

Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is essentially your own. -- Bruce Lee

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. -- Charlie Chaplin

Have no friends not equal to yourself. -- Confucius

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. -- Bertrand Russell

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it? -- Betty White

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. -- M.W. Little

Where there is no patrol car, there is no speed limit. -- P. Beckman

May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down. -- Sara June Parker

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. -- Dandemis

It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. -- Mick Jagger

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. -- Sydney Smith

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. -- Duke Ellington

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. -- Mae West

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up. -- Eve Babitz

The only way to have a friend is to be one. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. -- George Burns

Being number two sucks. -- Andre Agassi

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows. -- Sir William Osler

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. -- Edith Sodergran

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong. -- Muhammad Ali

What we play is life. -- Louis Armstrong

If you're not living good, travel wide. You gotta travel wide ... -- Bob Marley

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. -- Vincent Van Gogh

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. -- Jimi Hendrix

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere. -- Keith Richards

I went to a fight the other day and a hockey game broke out. -- Rodney Dangerfield

Without music, life would be a mistake. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. -- Bruce Lee

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. -- Henry Ford

Great spirits will always encouter violent opposition from mediocre minds. -- Albert Einstein

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. -- G.B. Shaw

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right. -- Albert Guinon

Things are only impossible until they're not. -- Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

I've been on a calendar but I have never been on time. -- Marilyn Monroe

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy. -- Robert Anthony

When the power of love overcomes the love of power then the world will know peace. -- Jimi Hendrix

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. -- Socrates

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. -- Walt Whitman

We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings. - Eli Attie

Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at. -- Carlos A. Urbizo

Be who you are and say what you feel. Because those that mind don't matter and those that matter don't mind. -- Dr. Seuss

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got. -- Sophia Loren

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light. May good luck pursue you each morning and night.

Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you cannot remain still. - Patricia Russell-McCloud

You don't find a style, ... a style finds you. -- Keith Richards

A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body. -- Anonymous

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. -- Carl Sandberg

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. -- Woody Allen

Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. -- Ambrose Bierce

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again. -- Mike Myers

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. -- John Wooden

Drugs have taught an entire generation of Americans the metric system. -- PJ Rourke

It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. -- Johnny Carson

The best way to show appreciation for what you have is to think of the one's you love. -- Fortune Cookie

Love is a quality, not a quantity. -- Vanna Bonta

Life is shaped by the people we meet & the experiences we share, we are especially lucky when someone chooses to let us into their lives. -- Me

May the four winds blow you safely home. -- The Grateful Dead

You are young and life is long, And there is time to kill today, And then one day you'll find, Ten years have got behind you, No one told you when to run, You missed the starting gun. -- Pink Floyd

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?" -- F. Nietzsche

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. -- Pythagoras

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. -- Henry Miller

All the world is a stage... dive! -- World Inferno Friendship Society

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -- Confucius

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. -- Oscar Wilde

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. -- Bruce Lee

James Brown, Bruce Lee, Joe DiMaggio