expressionism through it's many outlets and forms (see youtube vids on page), music, painting, listening to records while painting, watching oldish foreign films surreal in nature, while listening to records, while painting, all kinds of music, the art of Jamaican dub, early reggae('67-'70)
trashy garage r&r, music of Africa (Highlife, Afrobeat, Congolese Rhumba, guitars from agadez, Ect.), noisy crap, political science, comic books, photography, the 60's & 70's subcultures of bored teenagers (the birth of blah blah blah), world history, cultural anthropology (i once had a teacher what partook in a cannibal ritual...he ate a bit of his grandma, no shit), animals, cats. i like cats.
Music
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Dr. Who-Bi-Thursdays, dub club-Wednesdays, part time punks-Sundays @ the echo & punky reggae party-Fridays @ La Cita, downtown. these nights encompass some of what I'm into. I get inspired by all kinds of sounds from all over the world. Lately It's been this Northern African Tribal stuff.
that urinals 45 is great. the clean anthology .P.I.L., can, boredoms, Thee Headcoats, cherubs, family fodder (thanks benny), maximum joy, the pop group, i like all that funky punk rough trade/fast product type stuff, wire, Ian Dury, Eno, The Buzzcocks, The Slits, Kleenex, essential logic, Y pants, liquid liquid, Teenage Jesus & the jerks, Chatham, way too many to name this is ridiculous. some new stuff, love is all is great, no age, Qui, cause-commotion, broadcast, silver daggers, sometimes i go for the noise, Masonna, Merzbow, haters, the ruins, back to the old stuff...i dunno. The Minutemen, The Stranglers. those first Scars singles are good. (check out punky reggae vol.13!). The Velvet Underground. The Mekons, suicide, Alan Vega's "jukebox baby". Ever heard the 1st Flying Lizards record? no!? "Deciet" by this heat is brilliant, as is that crazy 'Lifetones' record. *__+ ..."I was born feet first! It shows in the way I think! I work down at the sausage plant, it makes my clothes stink!!" see, KILLDOZER new how to write a great song! All Scratch Acid & The Jesus Lizard. The Swans "filth" lp. that's a good one for listening to in traffic. Flat Duo Jets, Unwound. The Cows (the cows ruled the day) old stuff again. Swell Maps. Fire Engines. The Sods. The Homosexuals. The Germs. The Birthday Party. this is dumb...just check the punky reggae party playlists. ^__^ lemme talk some about J.A. sounds cause I like those music, yeh mon!.
This new Niney The Observer compilation has alotta RUFF stuff on it!! Blood & Fire! Anything by the Maytals (also the maytones, the bleechers, the tecniques, the pioneers, the wailers, the Ethiopians, alton ellis, Ken Booth, derrick harriot, derrick morgan, ect.) is top shelf, especially from the years 1968-'70. But the maytals made some of the most spirited, upfull reggae, bar none. first to use the term "reggay" (as it was then spelled). for other JA sounds, check out Gaz' TOP SKA comp on Trojan. Ethiopians "reggae power" on Trojan. y'know, real reggae is very rare today (actually, most of it is terrible). I'm also way into vintage Cuban & Brazilian music; the "Tropicalia" comp. on Soul Jazz Records is brilliant. The "Esmeralda" album by Jorge Ben (1974), or any recordings pre "Ben Jor" era, is so good. ask charlie bean. For Cubano, Chano Pozo, Machito, Cachao, Los Zafiros, Carlos Puebla, ect. soundtracks - I like Alfie (sonny rollins), Breakfast @ Tiffany's, Experiment In Terror (Mancini), The Wild One, The Russ Meyers films, Morricone, ect. everything I've heard by Lalo Schifrin is amazing. Alex North's work is a favorite, (A Streetcar Named Desire, the first soundtrack to use jazz.) Classical - Chopin, Ludwig Van, Johannes Brahms, Bach, Debussy, Ravel. Erik Satie on the toilet. as you can see I'm all over the place. thanks! Does anyone out there own a copy of "contact" by silver apples (the LP)?
Another great comp from sound way! This label puts out top shelf stuff.
Guinean orchestras from '65-'80. Beautiful; especially The Bembeya Jazz National Orchestra music from the late 60's & early 70's. Also amazing is this comp. of Iraqi music. So sick! Makes modern Jamaican dancehall sound really soft by comparison. Completely hypnotic, yet hard, sonic Arab sounds! Haven't heard anything quite this bad ass in a while. (sublime frequencies).
Just got this awesome compilation of, well, look @ the cover!
Movies
Black Orfeus, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Withnail & I, All films by Mike Leigh (especially Meantime & Naked), Film Noir, M (all films with Peter Lorre!), Liliom, The Big Heat & Clash By Night (all directed by Fritz Lang), Sunset Blvd., The Killing, Streetcar Named Desire, The Maltese Falcon, Anatomy Of A Murder, Rumble Fish, Barfly, Divorce Italian Style, Fists In Pocket, 8 1/2, La Strada, Il Bidone, Satirycon, La Dolce Vita, Amarcord, Mondo cane, Night of the living dead, savage planet, Lolita, 10th victim...those films & cd's that sublime frequencies put out are completely mesmerizing. i just watched "life & debt". anyone vaguely interested in world economics should see it. "Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land" can be viewed in 10 parts on youtube. crucial stuff.
This is just such a great film. "With its dunderhead millionaires, erudite bums, dysfunctional families and beneficent providence, my man godfrey is the depression era comedy par excellence." - diane jacobs
"Seduced & Abandoned" is the follow-up to the classic "divorce Italian style". both films directed by the great Pietro Germi and are both set in Sicily sometime between the mid 50's & early 60's. "night of the iguana" is a great movie. Tennessee Williams & John Houston.
Crucial for anyone who really wants to know what is really going on with those shits in or out office is this talk given by Noam in Manchester. scary.
Television
The situationists believed that rediscovering play was the remedy for "the poverty of everyday life," the feelings of alienation amid abundance generated by Western consumer society. Above all, they wanted to smash "the spectacle," all those mass-media forms of entertainment such as television that enforce passivity rather than participation. -Simon Reynolds (Rip It Up & Start Again)
Books
"the painted bird" by Jerzy Kosinski. man that's a heavy book. If you haven't read Frankenstein yet, do it. angry youth comics has to be the foulest "literary" pleasure anyone could have. it's the best toilet reading, although sometimes i can't decide whether to @#$% my #$% with it or frame it. my old house mates used to ask me not to leave it around. it's that good! "blecky yuckerella" is really good stuff as well.
thank you mike watt for this book. minutemen lyrics & stories! "drove up from pedro...".
This guys art is amazing. It looks pretty innocent at first, but upon further study it's very twisted. The book itself is put together so well. You can find it at Wacko on Sunset. Culture Clash by Don Letts is the most entertaining book I have read this year. It's funny & filled with a lifetime's well of awesome punk & reggae anecdotes!
Heroes
this will be very random but let me start with (in no order) the great sufi master hafiz, Satyajit Ray, marcel duchamp, nick cave, charles darwin, david lynch, Miki Leigh, kurt vonnegut, martin luther king, fela kuti, prince buster, u-roy, linton kwesi johnson, robert marley the tuff gong, krishnamurti, kahlil gibran, george orwell, stanley kubrick, duke ellington, count basie, charlie parker, coltrane, hermeto pascoal, lord kitchener, jackie mittoo, jimi hendricks, Serge Gainsbourg, baden powell, gilberto gil, joao gilberto, jobim, marcello mastroiani, the meters, stevie wonder, mark perry, can, the clash, the minutemen, sun city girls, peter tosh, noam chomsky, luis bunuel, fellini, truffaut, milos foreman, peter sellers, alex north, alberto sordi, mel brooks, the skatalites, franz kline, merzbow, john lydon, david yow, the MC5, glenn branca, the contortions, the boredoms, james brown, bowie, eno, the butthole surfers, stranglers, dick dale, the kinks, doo-rag, the slackers, tank girl, tommy mccook, leonard dillon, desmond dekkar, joe white, chano pozo, sabu martinez, ray baretto, machito, tito puente, cachao, willie bobo, john lee hooker, the maytals, winston rodney, justin hinds, lord creator, count machuki, king stitt, john & gaz mayall, joey altruda, tom waits, ras congo, curtis mayfield, don letts, alton ellis, marcia griffiths, ernest ranglin, rico rodriguez, roland alphonso, eddie bo, family man barrett, oskar kokoshka, max beckmann, george grosz, john hartfield, frida, all the dadaists like andre breton, tristan tzara & hogo ball, jenny holzer, francis bacon, andy warhol, robert rauschenburg, basquiat, francesco clemente, manuel ocampo, leon golub, max ernst, robert crumb, toshiro mifune, ennio morricone, nino rota, piero puccioni, roberto benigni, phil daniels, gary oldman, tim roth, malcolm mcdowell, perry henzell, jim jarmusch, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, fats waller, bo diddly, hasil adkins, slim harpo, howlin' wolf, muddy waters, sam cooke, roy orbison, link wray, gene vincent, eddie cochran, bob dylan, art blakey, dexter gordon, chico o' farril, cal tjader, joao donato, billie holiday, babs gonzales, DIZ, lambert hendricks & ross, dazareen & angelo moore, mark gonzales, mikey dread, the gun club, bad brains, iggy, sonic youth, borbetomagus, lee morgan, donald byrd, bobby hutcherson, sun ra, dexter gordon, thelonius monk, miles davis, otis redding, jimi hedrix, booker t. & the MG's, slim gaillard, sharon jones, tennessee williams, ray bradbury, rod sterling, ernest hemingway, henry miller, charles bukowski, norman mailer, billy childish, cymande, the last poets, krs one, madlib, de la, jungle brothers, dj premier, pete rock, dr. john, poets of rhythm, antibalas, cut chemist, shadow, tomas, cokni, hier, daz, dj dusk(r.i.p.)...&
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In a Relationship
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Straight
Hometown:
Rome, Italy
Zodiac Sign:
Aries
boss harmony's Companies
Dub Club Echo Park, Ca. US DJ/Promoter Rocksteady, Early Reggae, Roots, Dub
Every Wednesday
Punky Reggae Party Downtown L.A., Ca. US DJ/Promoter Punk, Post-Punk, Ska, Reggae
Every Friday
Dr. Who Hollywood, Ca US DJ/Promoter Soundtrack, Exotica, Boogaloo, Funk, Garage R&R
1st & 3rd Thursdays
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NEW NIGHT! BAMBOO @ THE BAR ON BRONSON & SUNSET!
Dr. Who is a night Dina & I started with the intention to play records that range in styles from samba to soundtracks, African to afro-Cuban, 50's exotica to 60's psychadelia, ect. Every 2nd & 4th Thursday of the month @ The Bronson Bar!
Dub Club is A HEAVY MOTHER OF A ROOTS REGGAE/DANCEHALL night.
Then there's the punky reggae party on Friday nights.
This is a woodcut print i made depicting the intense, dramatic struggle of everyday life on earth.
Tommy Rock A Shacka & Ash In L.A Sunday, Februar 7th! ready for some BIG TUNES courtesy of some of the world's top Jamaican music collectors and selectors!!! This event is not to be missed!
Tommy Rock A Shacka (D & B Far East Records, Rock A Shacka), with one of the deepest collections of early Jamaican music in the world, is coming across the Pacific to DJ for the first time in Los Angeles...all the way from Japan!
Ash "Aquarius" is coming from halfway around the world as welll.......bringing a selection of heavy tunes across the Atlantic from London!
This special event will be hosted by TerryLee and the Rocksteady Lounge at a SUNDAY edition dance party in the big room!
Local DJs will do warm-up sets...your resident selectors Nina & Viktor , Rocksteady Chris, Boss Harmony, and Bigger Boss!
Mark your calendars for Sunday, February 7th! 9 pm, 21+, $5 door
Akbar 4356 Sunset Blvd (at Fountain) in Silver Lake
this will be very random but let me start with (in no order) the great sufi master hafiz, Satyajit Ray, marcel duchamp, nick cave, charles darwin, david lynch, Miki Leigh, kurt vonnegut, martin luther king, fela kuti, prince buster, u-roy, linton kwesi johnson, robert marley the tuff gong, krishnamurti, kahlil gibran, george orwell, stanley kubrick, duke ellington, count basie, charlie parker, coltrane, hermeto pascoal, lord kitchener, jackie mittoo, jimi hendricks, Serge Gainsbourg, baden powell, gilberto gil, joao gilberto, jobim, marcello mastroiani, the meters, stevie wonder, mark perry, can, the clash, the minutemen, sun city girls, peter tosh, noam chomsky, luis bunuel, fellini, truffaut, milos foreman, peter sellers, alex north, alberto sordi, mel brooks, the skatalites, franz kline, merzbow, john lydon, david yow, the MC5, glenn branca, the contortions, the boredoms, james brown, bowie, eno, the butthole surfers, stranglers, dick dale, the kinks, doo-rag, the slackers, tank girl, tommy mccook, leonard dillon, desmond dekkar, joe white, chano pozo, sabu martinez, ray baretto, machito, tito puente, cachao, willie bobo, john lee hooker, the maytals, winston rodney, justin hinds, lord creator, count machuki, king stitt, john & gaz mayall, joey altruda, tom waits, ras congo, curtis mayfield, don letts, alton ellis, marcia griffiths, ernest ranglin, rico rodriguez, roland alphonso, eddie bo, family man barrett, oskar kokoshka, max beckmann, george grosz, john hartfield, frida, all the dadaists like andre breton, tristan tzara & hogo ball, jenny holzer, francis bacon, andy warhol, robert rauschenburg, basquiat, francesco clemente, manuel ocampo, leon golub, max ernst, robert crumb, toshiro mifune, ennio morricone, nino rota, piero puccioni, roberto benigni, phil daniels, gary oldman, tim roth, malcolm mcdowell, perry henzell, jim jarmusch, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, fats waller, bo diddly, hasil adkins, slim harpo, howlin' wolf, muddy waters, sam cooke, roy orbison, link wray, gene vincent, eddie cochran, bob dylan, art blakey, dexter gordon, chico o' farril, cal tjader, joao donato, billie holiday, babs gonzales, DIZ, lambert hendricks & ross, dazareen & angelo moore, mark gonzales, mikey dread, the gun club, bad brains, iggy, sonic youth, borbetomagus, lee morgan, donald byrd, bobby hutcherson, sun ra, dexter gordon, thelonius monk, miles davis, otis redding, jimi hedrix, booker t. & the MG's, slim gaillard, sharon jones, tennessee williams, ray bradbury, rod sterling, ernest hemingway, henry miller, charles bukowski, norman mailer, billy childish, cymande, the last poets, krs one, madlib, de la, jungle brothers, dj premier, pete rock, dr. john, poets of rhythm, antibalas, cut chemist, shadow, tomas, cokni, hier, daz, dj dusk(r.i.p.)...&
NEW NIGHT! BAMBOO @ THE BAR ON BRONSON & SUNSET!
Dr. Who is a night Dina & I started with the intention to play records that range in styles from samba to soundtracks, African to afro-Cuban, 50's exotica to 60's psychadelia, ect. Every 2nd & 4th Thursday of the month @ The Bronson Bar!
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