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DJ ARM 18's Interests
General
Music in its infinite forms but especially breaks, originals, covers, and versions.
Hip Hop through the lense of American urban history and sociology.
Supporting, Promoting, Producing the Lehigh Valley Hip Hop Scene.
Writing intellectual grafitti: posting the real sh*t in the netherworlds of cyberspace.
DJing parties that change your life. Mixing tapes that are the soundtrack to that change.
Music
LPs or muscians that bent my ear, blew my mind, warmed the heart: De La Soul is Dead; B Boys: Paul's Boutique; PE: Nation Of Millions and Fear; Cube: Amerikkka's and Death Certificate; Bad Brains: Rock for Light; ATCQ: People's Instinctive Travels, Low End, and Midnight; Coltrane's A Love Supreme; Getz' Au Go Go; Main Source: Breaking Atoms; Black Moon: Enta Da Stage; Nas' Illmatic; Wu: 36 Chambers; NIN: Pretty Hate Machine; Jane's: Ritual; Police: Ghost in the Machine; Clash: London Calling; Stevie: Innervisions; Soul II Soul: Vol. I; Joy Division / New Order; Kraftwerk; Pete Rock, Jay Dee dubs; Supercat: Don Dada; Lee Perry and the Upsetters; Luis Flores and the Ultimate Break Beat Series; Beatles' Abbey Road; Stones' Beggar's Banquet; Stone Roses; Cocteau Twins: Victorialand and Heaven or Las Vegas; Doors; Sade; King Magnetic and Jinx WLVR Promos; and various influential mixes from Cloud Nine, PS Chase, KG, Lars, and a few of my own like Smilin' 45s, Roll n' Rock, and When We Were Very Young...
Movies
Imprinted on my psyche: Wildstyle; Dead Poet's Society; The Warriors; Uncle Buck; Empire Strikes Back; McCabe and Mrs. Miller; Ghost in the Shell; Do the Right Thing; Mo' Better Blues; 24 Hour Party People
Television
Shows that shaped me: MTV when it had VJs, Miami Vice, Yo! MTV Raps, Video Music Box, Cheers, Northern Exposure, M*A*S*H, WKRP in Cincinnati
Books
Indelible Ink: LeRoi Jones: Blues People; David Toop: Rap Attack; Trica Rose: Black Noise; Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists; S.H. Fernando Jr's: The New Beats; Robert Caro: The Power Broker; Halberstam: The 50s and Summer of '49; Shaunnessey: One Strike Away; Robert Parker: Early Autumn; Walter Mosley: A Little Yellow Dog; John Irving: Garp, Hotel, Cider House, Owen Meany; Salinger: Catcher in the Rye; Joyce: Portrait of an Artist; Homer: The Illiad; Fitzgerald: Gatsby; TS Eliot: Four Quartets; Ellison: Invisible Man; Bill Waterson's Calvin and Hobbes; Berke Breathed's Bloom County; Peter Cross: Trouble with Trumpets; Keneth Grahame: Wind in the Willows; Cooper and Chalfant: Subway Art; Edmund Carpenter: They Became What They Beheld
Heroes
DJs: Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambattaa, Lady B, Ron Reese, Chinook, Sasquatch, Nube Nueve learned me.
Producers: Double Dee and Stenski, Bomb Squad, Dust Brothers, Sir Jinx, Pete Rock, JBs and ATCQ, Prince Paul and De La influence me.
Inspiration: My wife, Malcolm Little (X and SI's own!), Robert Moses, Fab Five Freddy, Tony Wilson, Mark Lytle, Holden Caulfield, Jesus Christ.
If you take a walk down the street and you look down. What do you see? Is it dirt, concrete, or maybe grass? Look closer do you see life. Look at the ant that is all alone. It’s by itself but it counts. What ever that ant might do counts. Let’s say that ant is a scout for food. Let’s say your out in the park with friends and family. You have been running around having fun and now its time to eat. But that ant has found your food and come back with his friends and family, they started to cover your food. So now no one will eat. So you all think it’s a good idea to go out to eat. You pick a place by almost random. You go in and sit down to order your food , while you are waiting the kids at the next table trying to see how much food they stick in there mouth at one time. One of them starts to choke you get grab him give firm heave and food pops out, the kid vomits all over this very pretty young lady . Cloths are wrecked but seeing you saving the kid was nieces thing she seen anyone do. Gives you her numbers. Turns out she rich you date for little bit and get married and have child of your own. This child grows up and comes up with the cure for the common cold. Oh sorry you don’t get it. If you stepped on the ant none of this would have happen. If one ant counts so much how can you not?
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