• Playing the friggin' bass: Currently I play with Tommy Guerrero, The Kehoe Nation, Bing Ji Ling, and my own projects TopRockerz and Ben Wa. Previous band affiliations:Limbomnaniacs, MCM and the Monster, Buckethead's Giant Robot. Other past and present co-conspirators include Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker, Scientist, Brain, M.I.R.V., Larry Lalonde, Adrian Young, DJ Disk and Kenny Brooks.
• Supporting alternative economies, like Fair Trade.
• Things, places and people Japanese
• The sexy romantic allure of a good game of ping pong, the tango of sports.
• Consumer Consciousness: Buying less crap in general, but when I do buy some crap I want that crap to support people and ideas that reflect my values. (Ya, I used the word values, punk!) And no, I'm not perfect at it either, but I'm trying. I mean, what's the point in complaining about the criminals in power if you stumble off to the liquor store and buy a brand of beer that donates to their "party"? Every dollar votes, and here are just a few ways I'm dealin' with it (and if you have any other ideas let me know):
There are also some great resources for conscious consumption right here on Myspace. Check out:
Sustainable Style Fairganic
Music
Ivo Paposov and his Wedding Band, M.I.A., Massive Attack, Robots in Disguise, Electrocute, Thievery Corporation, James Brown, Siouxie and the Banshees, Parliament/Funkadelic, Portishead, Miles Davis, Cibbo Mato, Prince, The Chemical Brothers, Bilie Holliday, Devo, The Avengers, Scientist, The Sex Pistols, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Zappa, N.I.N, Black Flag, Beck, Black Uhuru, Augustus Pablo, Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Michelle Ndegleocello, Bob Marley, Gil Scott Heron, Tower Of Power, Robin Trower, Prince, Bootsy Collins, The Sugarhill Gang, Duke Ellington, Motown and The Funk Brothers including the great James Jamerson, Grandmaster Flash, Fela Kuti, Gene Kelly, Polkacide, Jaco Pastorius, Buzzcocks, Mad Professor, Sly Stone, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The (English) Beat, The Specials, Bad Manners, Slim Gaillard, Fear, Carl Stalling, Ennio Morricone, Linton Kwesi Johnson, ZAPP!, F.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., Crystal Method, Death in Vegas, Bjork, The Orb, Eric B and Rakim, Run DMC, King Tubby, Jimi Hendrix, WAR, The Time, Marvin Gaye, Tito Puente, Charles Mingus, Earth Wind and Fire...
Movies
Network, Being John Malcovich, The Glass Menagerie (with John Malcovich), Dr. Strangelove, Eraserhead, Napoleon Dynamite, ExistenZ, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Big Lebowski, The Freshest Kids, Slacker, The Kids are Alright, Seconds, Blue Velvet, Manufacturing Consent, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Barton Fink, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Clerks, Edward Penishands (no, really, excellent character development and pertinant plot ramifications), The Yes Men, Boogie Nights, Apocalypse Now, Citizen Kane, Stranger than Paradise, Mystery Train, The Hustler, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, Paths of Glory, The Revolution will not be Televised, Blade Runner, Alien, Videodrome, Touch of Evil, Lolita, Midnight Cowboy, Naked Lunch, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Being There, The Dead Zone, Wall Street, Straw Dogs, Bowling for Columbine, Wild Style, Crumb, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (it's so damn now) The Elephant Man, Ed Wood...
Television
The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, NOW, and this episode of Frontline
Books
Fiction: Mark Leyner, Henry Miller, Bukowski, Martin Amis, Paul Bowles, Allen Ginsberg, Irvine Welsh, Wiliam S. Buroughs, Joseph Conrad, Hunter S. Thompson, Celine, The Beatitudes.
Non-Fiction: No Logo by Naomi Klein, Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Culture Jam by Kalle Lasn, The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Consumer Boycotts by Monroe Friedman, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast, Adbusters Magazine, The National Green Pages published by Co-op America, and anything by Richard Dawkins...
Heroes
Lt. Ehrin Watada, Medea Benjamin, Amy Goodman, Barbara Lee, Cynthia McKinney, John Conyers, Bill Moyers, Helen Thomas, Edward R. Murrow, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins.
Ok, first of all, I'm not a Libra. If this were the middle ages, or I lost the use of my frontal lobes I might consider being a Libra. But... I have a smattering of brain cells left, so I cannot claim to be a Libra, a Taurus, a Goat, a cricket, a sea cucumber, or any other critter that crawls across some crazy calendar. Bloodletting, witch burning and astrology haven't exactly passed the test of time in my book. I'm into the no-muss no-fuss atomic clock. There's gotta be a way to remove that Libra crap from my profile...
Ok, now back to fun(BTF). Here are some things that have been on my mind lately: puppy dogs, long walks on the beach, a hot fudge sunday for two with only one spoon, spooning in general, snorkles, fireworks on Christmas, what the fuck a sea cucumber is, the Shibuya train station, actual physical withdrawal from the ramen in Tokyo, the word esophagus, witty girls, exoskeletons, girls from Florida who post pictures of their asses on Myspace and have 22,345 friends, how a simple thing like a shwarma from Ali Baba's on Haight Street can turn my bowel into a biological Weapon of Mass Destruction, Yeti love, cynical twits, eating a pork rind about every 10 years to make sure I still don't like them, apricot butt balms and other stuff girls buy in them lotion shops that make their buns smell like fruit smoothies, fruit smoothies, the word epiglottis, my intention to dance drunk and naked on the the table at my own seance, the wistful melancholy feeling that comes over me when I realize I may never be able to deliver the phrase "Up your nose with a rubber hose" with the same rabid fervor as I did in my formative years, the corresponding realization that I displayed intense insensitivity as a child by hurtling those stomach-pumping threats to everyone on the playground, and finally, the twelve-step cult I will undoubtedly join someday in a vain attempt to rid myself of the guilt I am now suffering from thinking about the last two items.
Back by popular demand! The Limbomaniacs' debut release Stinky Grooves featuring Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker, and T-Bone from Trouble Funk is now available for download. Visit www.myspace.com/limbomaniacssf to get funked up.
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Damned cool to see you on MySpace! Sorry I didn't stick around after the Kehoe show at Slim's where Mr. Mirv joined you to do a mini-Limbomaniacs segment. I had to run, otherwise I woulda said "HIYA!"
I've got a few videos in the E.P. archives I may be sharing soon, including some crusty footage of Chronic Mind at KFJC studios way back when....
wow...ur 103 years young...i must have missed a birthday somewheres. sorry to have missed you today for our stroll thru the cemetary. it was beautiful. you must join us sometime soon!
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