SA-RA, Erykah, Tricky, Evidence, Atmosphere, Me'Shell (my belle), Georgia Ann Muldrow, Nine Inch Nails, Pharoahe Monch, The Coup, Pro Kid (ZA style),El Michels, Johnny Clarke, Freeway, The D.O.C., John Coltrane, Big Daddy Kane, old Heiro, M.O.P., Edan, Gift of Gab, Semi-Official, Ty, Abstract Rude, O.C., Tom Ze, Nas (well, Illmatic, It Was Written, Lost Tapes, Streets Disciple), Fela, Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Anti-Pop Consortium, Kanye West, Brother Ali, dead prez, Jimi, Stevie, James Brown, Fred Wesley & the JB's, Boogiedown Productions/KRS One, Prince (preferably old-n-freaky but the last album was aight), Donny Hathaway, Muddy Waters, Bobby Womack, Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions, DJ Shadow, MF DOOM, Madlib, Frankie Beverly & Maaze, BB King, Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif, Blockhead, El-P, Jorge Ben, Horace Andy, Zion I, War, Ultramagnetic MCs, Mulatu Astatke, Pharcyde, At the Drive-In, Emilio Santiago, Bilal, Aceyalone, Bloc Party, Bernard Herrmann and Masaru Sato on the OST's, Sean Lennon, Portishead, Wu-Tang Clan (not the affiliates, though) especially Ghostface and Masta Killa, Dizzee Rascal, M.I.A. (though she needs some more feeling in her spittage), K-Os, Devin the Dude, Sade, Ray Barretto, Minnie Riperton, Mongo Santamaria, Jaga Jazzist, Common, classic Earth Wind and Fire, classic Isleys, Jeremy Steig, RATM, Radiohead, Bjork, Nine Inch Nails, Goblin, Mike Ladd, Buju Banton, Xzibit (circa "At the Speed of Life"), Vincent Gallo when he's not talking racist/anti-Semetic/Reaganist bullshit but actually making oddly tender music, D'Angelo, ATCQ, Bebel Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto, Bad Brains, Beastie Boys, a lot of mid 80s-mid 90s Hiphop in general, old Go-Go (Trouble Funk, Junkyard, Backyard, Northeast Groovers, and, of course, the Godfather Chuck Brown), DC native Marvin Gaye, a million other sounds to make you think, move, love, fight, and fuck
Movies
Ratatouille, The Lives of Others, Planet B-Boy, Le fils, This Is England, Murderball, Manda Bala, Darwin's Nightmare, Cool Hand Luke, City of Men, Nothing But A Man, Amandla, Half Nelson, Anchorman, To Kill a Mockingbird, Game of Death (Bruce's Cut), Enter the Dragon, Born into Brothels, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Kung Fu Hustle, The Battle of Algiers, Music is the Weapon, X-Men 2, Black Orpehus, Dancer in the Dark, Akira, Style Wars, Wild Style, The Freshest Kids, Breath Control, Dark Days, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Napoleon Dynamite, Bjork's Volumen, Just to Get a Rep, La haine, Fight Club, Ghost in the Shell, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Requiem for a Dream, Jails Hospitals & Hiphop, Kill Bill Vol. 2, The Matrix 1 (sequels were bullshit!), Lumumba, Sin City, American History X, Scratch, Life+Debt, H2 Worker, Rockers, Dogville, Control Room, 28 Days Later, Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, M, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Trainspotting, Ghost Dog, Coffee & Cigarettes, The Weather Underground, Life & Debt, Bamboozled, Better Luck Tomorrow, Office Space, Hardboiled, The Killer, Hero, Lone Wolf & Cub, Lady Snowblood, Hana-bi, A Clockwork Orange, Lost in Translation, Ghostbusters, Rashomon, City of God, Juice, Coming to America, Friday, Teen Wolf, amateur erotica (ahem)...anything with realistic relationship dynamics, political resistance, great music, subversive humor, visual brilliance, and/or mindbending.
Television
The Wire! No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain. Bizarre Foods. Top Chef. (Maybe you see a theme here...) The Daily Show and Colbert Report. City of Men (DVD) was good until the last season...Lost has all but jumped the shark--are they making this up as they go along? I enjoy Charlie Rose and Tavis Smiley when I catch em along with other random jawns off PBS. Iron Chef is educational and occasionally mouth-watering. Otherwise I like all those funny shows that ain't on no more: Chappelle's Show, The Office (UK), Mr. Show, Strangers with Candy, House of Buggin', the random Martin or New York Undercover episode every once-in-a-while.
Books
BloodBeats Vol. 2, Shortcomings (Adrian Tomine), Incognegro, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Hamburger Eyes, Can't Stop Won't Stop, Basquiat, Rakim Told Me, The Art of Getting Over, The Dead Emcee Scrolls, pretty much any work by Octavia E. Bulter, Drown/Negocios, mad film books, Lies My Teacher Told Me, People's History of the United States, Street Market, Scrawl, The Wretched of the Earth, Revolutionary Rehearsals, The God of Small Things, The Farming of Bones, Breath Eyes Memory, Spidertown, Down These Mean Streets, Fight Club, poetry anthologies, Marc Baptiste photography books, too many magazines (Wax Poetics, Juxtapoz, Giant Robot, URB, Complex, Movie Maker, XLR8R, that piece of shit Vice, ego trip (RIP) back issues, Essence off the coffee table when nobody's looking, etc.,)
Heroes
The freedom fighters who died for me to be here, whether their names grace the pages of written history or not. My Mom who's my balance and my maternal Grandmother who's my heart and history--I'd die for them. DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, and all the other Hiphop forefathers and foremothers. Every other fuck-you hero (peace to Glen Friedman) who rocked their pariah status like freak chic.
Cuny Brooklyn College
Brooklyn,NY
Graduated: N/A
Degree: In Progress
Major: Film Production
Minor: Philosophy?
2008 to Present
New York University
New York, NEW YORK
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Major: Film and Television Production--Editing and Directing
Clubs: Building Bloc,Fear & Loathing in Lafayette
2000 to 2002
St Albans School
Washington, DISTRICT OF
Graduated: 2000
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: Showing preppy motherfuckers what a real black person looks like
Clubs: Cultural Awareness Organization
(co-prez)
Beats, Rhymes and Life Culture Club (founder and prez)
1994 to 2000
Once Upon A Time In The Boondocks Yo!'s Companies
Definitive Jux Records Cold Vein, NYC US Office Jukie Gully
2000-2001
Building Bloc Brooklyn - Bay Area - DC, All Over US Jarobi-type-dude Somewhat Dirty South
2003-til-Infinity
Once Upon A Time In The Boondocks Yo! is in your extended network. view more
yo BK!?!?! no way. Yes I'm still in the tri-state area in the dirty jerz. I think I can make a BK appearance para ti. hehe. For real though. We def gonna be kickin it.
salaam aaron! just wanted to send some love your way. i thought of you today and just thought i'd say whattttttow :) miss our frolicking in DC. best to you and let's catch up soon, yeah? phone date any time soon?
ooooooooooh it has been the proverbial miiiiiiiiinute home skillet!!! (hated when you called me that...mop docet)...:)
we need to update, recapitulate, and make up for some time!!! the perpendicular pronoun as in me, myself and I shall make sure to write you a long-ass epistle in the following days...
right now am in between countries and awaiting imminent flight, but up in top friends you go and stay tuned my brother!!!
Sup! Senorito Is being a long time que no lo veo espero que todo este bien en su vida y no se pierda tanto, and one more thing. You know the Keith Hines's was kill in front of his house , they are going to el funeral el sabado so coctact Beatriz to tell you the details.
Art Whino joins forces with Tagür Footwear to present Inked Souls, an exhibition featuring customized sneakers and fine art by 35 local, national and international leaders in the Pop Surrealism/Urban Contemporary art movement. Each featured artist will customize one pair of AKA Blank Tagür sneakers along with one painting on canvas.
Black Cats Resident DJ Lil'e will be spinning the night away.
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The world is small,specially dc. I was at both of those shows. TOTR are coming again on June 28th with Ladytron at the Merriweather Post Pavillion. Any other good shows coming I should know about?
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