Currently listening to:: Foals, Talking Heads, Dog Faced Hermans, Vic Chesnutt (North Star Deserter with A Silver Mt. Zion), a lot of Nigerian and Ghanian Highlife music (especially this compilation of Nigerian Highlife called "Azagas and Archiblogs"), Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Richard Youngs, Pauline Oliveros, John Zorn - Bar Kohkba, Sun Ra
All time likes include:: The Ex, Aesop Rock, A Silver Mt. Zion, Nina Nastasia, Beirut, Akron/Family, Sonic Youth, tons of African music: Tony Allen, Fela Kuti, the Ethiopiques series, highlife, afrofunk etc., Dirty Three, Antibalas, The Daktaris, Gang of Four, Mum, Labradford, Aix Em Klemm, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Shellac, Black Eyes, Alastair Galbraith, Peter Jefferies, A Minor Forest, John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, Talib Kweli, Black Star, Lync, Dog Faced Hermans, The For Carnation, Slint, Blonde Redhead, The intima, Badawi, Rachels (esp. "Music for Egon Schiele), PJ Harvey, The Daktaris, Cat Power, Johnny Cash, John Fahey, Charles Mingus, My Bloody Valentine, Manu Chao, Laika, Joy Division, Gangstarr, Faust, Can, early Tortoise, Gastr Del Sol, early klezmer music, gypsy brass band, Laddio Bolocko, Angels of Light, Edith Frost, Gang Gang Dance, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, The Magnetic Fields, New Order
Portland favorites:: Au, Ohioan, Grails, Ghost to Falco, Nice Nice, The Kissing Book, Alela Diane, Dat'r, Evolutionary Jass Band, Tara Jane O'neil, Lifesavas, Autopilot, Strategy, Sleepyhead, Loch Lomond, Laura Gibson, Horse Feathers, Golden Bears, Pt. Juncture WA, Yellow Swans, Small Sails, Ethan Rose, many many more that i can't think of right now
Movies
Fiction:: Harold and Maude, Jacob's Ladder, The Big Lebowski, Amores Perros, Emir Kusturica (Black Cat White Cat, Time of the Gypsies, Underground), Jan Svankmajer (Alice, Faust, Conspirators of Pleasure), The Brothers Quay, Christopher Guest (Best in Show, Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman), The Celebration, The House of Yes, Magnoila (except that one part where they're all singing that one damn song in unison. you have to admit Tom Cruise's part is about the only worthwhile one he's ever done), Amelie, Monty Python (Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Meaning of Life), Me You and Everyone We Know, Hal Hartley (Flirt, Trust, Surviving Desire, The Unbelievable Truth), Chronically Unfeasible, Burnt By the Sun, Safety of Objects, Happiness, City of God
Documentaries:: Gaza Strip, War Photographer, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Hearts and Minds, Grizzly Man, The Aristocrats, Dark Days, The Future of Food, The End of Suburbia, The Fog of War, King of Kong
i haven't really seen any good movies lately...suggestions are welcome.
Television
nope, not really. Flight of the Conchords rules though.
Books
there's a journal of six weeks of this recording project where just about everything went wrong. its about the funniest thing ever:: Mixerman
Fiction:: Kafka on the Shore and Wind Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, The Road by Cormack McCarthy, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, Kurt Vonnegut (esp. Cat's Cradle and Player Piano), Milan Kundera, Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Nonfiction:: The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen, Ivan Illich (esp. Tools for Conviviality), Eduardo Galeano, Richard Manning (A Good House, Against the Grain, his essay, The Oil We Eat, is also excellent), Botany of Desire and The Omnivores Dilema by Michael Pollan, The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler, Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast, The Final Empire by Wm H Kottke, Coming Home to Eat by Gary Paul Nabhan, Wild Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz, Biopiracy by Vandana Shiva, Wendell Berry (The Unsettling of America, and esp. the essay The Idea of a Local Economy), Crass Art and Other Pre-Post-Modernist Monsters by Gee Vaucher (a collection of her collage and other art), The Power of Babel by John McWhorter (a natural history of language), Jared Diamond
12.23.07 Francesca Woodman an amazing photographer who died much too young.
3.13.08 TED an online video archive with a bunch of talks and lectures about a bunch of interesting stuff. World Passport an online podcast with many many volumes and series of music from all over the world. tons of highlife and afrobeat.
Who I'd like to meet:
solid human beings. thinkers, doers, inspirers, conspirers.
i know. im sorry kid.. i left without a proper goodbye. Well, you could always come here and say hi. I can call you when im settled with a home and phone etc.
jesus! that sounds funky... hope you're not in pain. i had a crazy infection/rash thing on my leg over the summer, out of nowhere... started as a bug bite & just got huge & drippy & nasty. that sounds so yummy... anyways, take care.
i've been listening to those tim hecker albums you gave me religiously! that stuff is so great! just as good as anything eno's done for sure!
also, i found a gem on one of those african compilations--it was this group called Jingo and the song is "Fever" off of the African Funk compilation....if you don't know what I'm talking about, dig it out and listen to it coz it's amazing!
yay! :) i hope your birthday was a success. sorry we got there so late. that's what happens when you're sharing a dime with someone else. we should keep this monday ritual at La Merde. it suits all of us.
Hey I seeee your birthday is coming up. What cha gonna do about that? Love that you came to my show. Hopefully it was better than Primestar Baby! Your a great friend!
