Hello,
My name is Leif Larson. I will be a senior at McFarland High school during the 2010-2011 school year. I live with my Mom and my dad; my two brothers are both at school. My brother Lars-Erik is about to start his first year in grad school, and my other brother, Karl, is busy getting his doctorate in Contemporary Music. My family has been musical for a very long time. My mom is a music teacher at the Wabesau school in McFarland. My dad is a percussionist. Both of my brothers play percussion and the piano ( one may debate that the piano should be considered a percussion instrument). I play percussion, the piano, and the guitar. I recently bought a banjo, so I'm hoping to learn how to play that this summer. One might have already guessed that I'm a "folkster." I love folk music (the good king). Bob Dylan is my hero. I love his music. I've started to make my little collection of Bob Dylan things: I have all of his albums on my itunes, I have nine Bob Dylan vinyl records, I have Bob Dylan's Biograph on tapes, I have a few live videos, and I have a couple Bob Dylan posters. I like The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home, and Highway 61 Revisited the most. It's not just Bob Dylan that I like though. There are many great musical artists out there. I do love folk music, but I am open to a lot of other musical genres. Some of my favorite artists are as followed: Joanna Newsom, First Aid Kit, The Beatles, The Tallest Man on Earth, Fleet Foxes, Karen Dalton, Steve Reich, Sigur Ros, Esperanza Spalding, Bill Evans, Radiohead, Beethoven, Ligeti, Bright Eyes, Oscar Peterson, Anais Mitchell (Hadestown), Devendra Banhart, and many many more.
I also really like movies. I'm a huge fan of Stanley Kubrick and Wes Anderson. I actually just watched Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut last night for the first time. That movie is messed up. (very well done though). I love The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic, and Bottlerocket. Kubrick's films are almost always based on books. I've read some of them. I've read A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and The Shining. They were very good, except for the Shining. I'm not a huge fan of Stephen King. Kubrick changed a lot of the story. He made it better. The book wasn't very good.
All I really want to do in life is listen/play/discuss music.
