Do you know what mental toughness is? Well, mental toughness is the ability to accept the fact that you're human and that you're going to make mistakes - lots of 'em - all your life. And some of them are gonna hurt people that you love very badly. But you have the guts to accept the fact that you ain't perfect. And you don't let your mistakes crush you and keep you from doing the very best that you can. – Billy Jack
Music
Fishbone, Bad Brains, Stevie Wonder, David Ryan Harris, Jimi Hendrix, Nina Simone, Rick James, Living Colour, Marvin Gaye, Billie Holiday, Thin Lizzy, Earth Wind & Fire, Sly & the Family Stone, Prince, Jesse Johnson, King Black Acid, Barry Hampton, Ray Frazier, Public Enemy, Gil-Scott Heron, Violent Femmes, 24-7 Spyz, Richie Havens, Queen, Baggage-Man, The Coup, Lifesavas, The Goats, Lou Rawls, Parliment, Funkadelic, Jeffrey Gaines, Mos Def, The Roots, Ricanstruction, Common, Rakim, David Bowie, Stan Campbell, Jon Butcher, Otis Blackwell, Jackie Wilson, Otis Redding, Donnie Hathaway, Curtis Mayfield, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, King's X, Mother Love Bone, Soundgarden, UTFO, Maggie's Dream, Limbomaniacs, Meat Loaf, AC/DC, Judas Priest, RUN DMC (r.i.p. Jam Master Jay)
Movies
Big Trouble in Little China, This is Spinal Tap, The Mack, Hustle & Flow, Super Fly, Foxy Brown, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Say Anything, Fist of Legend, Valley Girl, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Taxi Driver, Planet of the Apes (the original), Jesus Christ Superstar, Nothing But a Man, Young Frankenstein, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Casablanca, The Killing, The Wild Bunch, Carnal Knowledge, Modern Romance, Knightriders, The Warriors, Harold & Maude, Oldboy, Yojimbo, The Warriors, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens, Enter the Dragon, The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3, Blade Runner, Smoke Signals, Powwow Highway, Escape from New York, Cinema Paradiso (the short version), Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Hoop Dreams, Incident at Oglala, The Third Man, Once Upon a Time in the West, Fight Club (but I can't talk about Fight Club), The Apartment (and everything else by Billy Wilder), George Romero's zombie films, anything by Kinji Fukasaku (i.e. Battle Royale, Street Mobster), and a whole lot more.
Television
The Shield, The Wire, Barney Miller, Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids, NYPD Blue, Star Trek, All in the Family, Taxi, The Tick, Behind the Music, The Rockford Files, Starblazers, Batman, Frank's Place
Books
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Fahrenheit 451, I am Legend, To Kill a Mockingbird, Why I Hate Saturn, High Fidelity, If I'm So Famous How Come No One Has Ever Heard of Me?, Green Eggs & Ham, The School on 103rd Street, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, World War Z, Walter Mosely's Easy Rawlings mysteries, anything by Charles Bukowski, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Donald Goines, Powers, 100 Bullets, Dark Knight Returns (that's right...I read comic books! You got a problem with that?!?)
Heroes
My Mother, My Grandparents, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, The Black Panther Party, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Ghandi, Luke Cage, Batman, David Walker (the abolitionist, not me).
Welcome to official MySpace page of ..BadAzz MoFo (a.k.a. David Walker). Some of you know me as the creator and publisher of the pop culture magazine ..BadAzz MoFo, some of you know me as the former screen editor of Willamette Week, and some of you just know me for being the baddest of the bad motherf**kers alive (there was six of us left, but I shot five). Although I don't get around to publishing the magazine that often, you can visit the official BadAzz MoFo website, where you will find all sorts of interesting crap that I have written (you can also order back issues of the magazine and keep up to date on the insanity of my life). And while you're at it, check out my other website, Indie Film Journal.
Most of my time is now spent working on various film projects.
BLACK SANTA’S REVENGE is a short starring Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead, The Devil’s Rejects) that I wrote, produced and directed. You can buy it on DVD at the official BLACK SANTA’S REVENGE website.
DAMAGED GOODS is a feature length (un)romantic comedy that I wrote, produced and directed. It is now available on Special Edition DVD for $15 each.
There is more stuff that I do, but after a while it just sounds like I'm bragging, so I'll just shut up.
Who I'd like to meet: I already met her. She turned out to be insane.
See you at the Con! We will be signing copies of Arnold's new book, TASTY BULLET, and ACCELERATE, at the Image Shadowline table. Fri 7/24 3:00 - 4:PM, and Sat 7/25 5:00 - 6:PM. Table 2729 at Image Island. Please stop by.
Hi David! Say I wanted to tell you that you should check out my friend Lori's work, she is coming through Portland on Wednesday the 17th and I think you would like her stuff. She is a great Chicago filmmaker. Alas, Pippa and I will be in Chicago that date. The show is in the evening, at 9pm at PWNW,
"He's Here Everything's Gonna be Alright" “Now you can own the first 4 issues of the Classic Back Issues that inspired a generation of young readers and artists!”
THE “GET IT TOGETHER” COMIC IS HERE!!! Hip - Hop and Comics Fans! order your copy of Garland Watsons "Get it Together" Comic. Two Illustrated songs from T.W.I.L.I.G.H.T'S up and coming album that you can't miss!!! Thats two songs drawn according to the lyrics on the album ,two innovative artists packed in one! And it's only for $2.00!!!. Remember this is Getting you prepared for Garland Watsons full length book coming out on Bluphier publishing the last week of Februaury! Go to Bluphier. com, and look under Comics/Graphic Novels to see more about it!!! For all the Underground and Overground Hip-Hop heads This represents you!
Wassup Comments and Graphics
