music production, collecting and spinning records
writing, reading, traveling, cooking, blazing nice nugs
playing football, soccer and poker.... did i mention earlobes, nipples, and toes?
Music
led zeppelin, coltrane, redman, hendrix prefuse73, theRoots, thelonious monk, portis head, heltah skeltah, boards of canada, marley, pink floyd, rakim, autechre, nas, cream, nina simone, porno for pyros, bjork common, miles davis, air, aphex twin, mr. bungle, tool, black moon, bogdan radzynski, marvin gaye, phonecia, faith no more, outkast, tomahawk, plaid, digable planets, aceyalone, de la soul, charles mingus, pixies, beatnuts, a perfect circle, rjd2, pharcyde, nirvana, kid koala, lauren hill, alice in chains, mos def, jane's addiction
squarepusher, cocoa brovas, lovage, deltron, dan the automator, the orb, primus and anything les claypool touches, dj craze, dj revolution, xmen, beatjunkies, invizible scratch piklez mostly qbert qbert qbert oh ya and qbert, dj shadow, dj krush, tha alkaholiks, method man, raekwon, ghostface, gza, rza, odb and those kids bangin on buckets and hubcaps outside the miami arena...
Movies
half baked, fear and loathing in las vegas, resevoir dogs, point break, wave twisters, ocean's eleven etc etc
Television
the simpsons, family guy
southpark, ren and stimpy. am i the only one that misses the smurfs?
Books
"The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose perfect oral exposition is possible in a few minutes! A better course of procedure is to pretend that these books already exist, and then to offer a resume, a commentary . . . More reasonable, more inept, more indolent, I have preferred to write notes upon imaginary books."
-- Jorge Luis Borges,
william burroughs, allen ginsberg, tom wolfe, aldous huxley, h.p. lovecraft, edgar allen poe, ralph waldo emerson, carl sagan, hunter s. thompson...
"Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I should advise would-be enemies to send me their grievances beforehand, with full assurance that they will receive my every aid and support. I have even secretly longed to write, under a pen name, a merciless tirade against myself."
Borges, 1970
Heroes
Han Solo, The Wonder Dog
and of course, Snoop Dogg
About me: i dig through dusty records for fun. i spit and curse and play cards for money. i blaze blunts and slam rum for my health. i'll smack a big, luscious booty just because i can. i sleep more than i write and i write more than i should. an admirer of all things beautiful: laughs, winks, and smiles... technic 1200's, vestax faders, and crates of wax... earlobes, nipples, and toes... some more laughter, a sunrise and then some much needed rest...
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.” *Arundhati Roy*