Stick with what you know

 


Stick with what you know


   This saying may be connected to Warren Buffet but Greg Sheehy lived by this code decades before the Billionaire used the words. Despite being a man who took many chances and went to three different colleges Greg truly liked to stick with what he knew. If possible he would have a filet mignon with a spud when he went to a restaurant, he drank Canadian Mist, he wore dress shirts to Dodger games, he started his days with coffee cakes and watched Law and Order waiting for dinner time with a drill in hand. Lissy once described it to me as he will only eat at a place with a friggin' checked table cloths on the tables.  The suggestion to this guy having Japanese, Indian, Lebanese, Nicaraguan or even Thai food was like setting down monkey brains in front of him. The idea of low-calorie dishes, vegetarian or meatless fare was anathema to him. He was raised with solid American food and that was fine with him. Grace Sheehy was a first-rate cook but she never put Pad Thai or foie gras, or Aloo Gobi down on the table at McNerney. The crazy part was Greg would  try anything but if it were up to him it would be meat, starch, period. He would watch the same documentary a dozen times and in his last years PBS was all he needed for entertainment. Lissy did lead him to cable joys and he loved the Sopranos or Rome but his idea of fun was watching "Meet the Press" or "Face the Nation." He read "A Fan's Notes" so many times he could recite entire pages and he was the last person I ever knew who read the "New York Times Book Review" for entertainment. When I visited and brought my Ipod I could have played the same ten songs every week and he would have been happy. 

See the Changes- Crosby, Stills and Nash

I'll Be Back- Beatles

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valens- Gene Pitney

Theme from Cider House Rules- Thomas Newman

If I Loved You-  Gordon MacRae (Rogers and Hammerstein)

Since I Fell for You- Lenny Welch

De Novo Adagio- Alicia Keys

Concerto de Aranjuez- Joaquin Rodrigo

Scotch and Soda- Kingston Trio

Love Theme from Ben Hur- Miklos Rozsa

holiday adds

Carol of the Bells- Robert Shaw Chorale

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen- Cantus

I Believe in Father Christmas- Greg Lake

A Christmas Dinner- Paul Stookey

A' Soalin'- Peter Paul and Mary







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