Yes, please. I listen to everything except for country past 1983. I'm not afraid to tell people what my guilty pleasures are, except I usually explain it in that weird-ass music journalist-type of way, with lots of references to, like, Big Mama Thornton, instead of saying, "Yeah, I said it. I like to listen to 'Up and Down' by the Vengaboys. What." But, I guess here's a list:
Aaron Neville, AC/DC, Aesop Rock, Afrika Bambataa, Air, Airborn Audio, Al Green, Al Green, Alan Hovhaness, The Album Leaf, Alias, Alison Moyet, The Allman Brothers Band, Amerie, Amos Lee, Amy Winehouse , Andrew Bird, Ani DiFranco, The Animals, Annie, Annie Lennox, Aphex Twin, Aphrodite, Apollo Four Forty, Apostle of Hustle, Apparat, Arcade Fire, Aretha Franklin, Art of Noise, At The Drive-In, Atmosphere , Azure Ray, The B-52's, B.B. King, Bad Brains, Bad Company, Bad Religion, Badly Drawn Boy, Bahamadia, Balkan Beat Box, The Band, Band Of Horses, Basement Jaxx, Bat For Lashes, Battles, Bauhaus, Bauhaus, The Beach Boys, Beastie Boys, Beat Happening, The Beatles, Beck, Beirut, Bell Biv Devoe, Belle & Sebastian, Ben E. King, The Beta Band, Big BrotherAnd The Holding Company, Big Daddy Kane, Big Mama Thornton, Bill Withers, Billy Joel, Bishop Allen, Biz Markie, Björk, Black Crowes, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Black Sheep, Black Star, Black Uhuru, Blackalicious, Bleubird, Bloc Party, Blondie, Bo Diddley, Bob Marley, Bouncing Souls, Bowerbirds, Broken Social Scene, Bruce Springsteen, Buck 65, Buddy Holly, The Budos Band, Built To Spill, Burial, Burl Ives, Burrito Deluxe, Busdriver, Buzzcocks, The Byrds, Cadence Weapon, Cake, Cam'ron, Camp Lo, Camper Van Beethoven, Cannibal Ox, The Cars, Cat Power, ccc, Chaka Khan, Chubb Rock, Chubby Checker, Chuck Berry, Citizen Cope, The Clash, Claude Debussy, Clipse, Cocteau Twins, Cody Chestnutt, Coldplay, Colin Hay, The Cure , Daft Punk, Damien Rice, Darby O'Gill And The Little People, Das Efx, David Bowie, David Garza, David Gray, Dead Prez, Death Cab For Cutie, Debbie Deb, Deftones, Depeche Mode, Diplo, DJ P, DJ Shadow, DJ Shadow, DJ Shadow, DJ Shadow, DJ Shadow, DJ Shadow, DJ Z-Trip, Doves, Duran Duran, Dusty Springfield, Echo & The Bunnymen, Elbow, Elliot Smith, Elvis Costello, Emiliana Torrini, The English Beat, Enigma, Eric B. & Rakim, Erma Franklin, Erykah Badu, Eurythmics, The Exploding Hearts, The Explorers Club, Faith No More, Faithless, Fiona Apple, Fionn Regan, Flaming Lips, The Flamingos, Fleetwood Mac, Flogging Molly, Four Day Hombre, The Frames, Frou Frou, Fugees, Funkadelic, Gang Of Four, George Harrison, George Michael, Gladys Knight And The Pips, Go Home Productions, Gomez, Gorillaz, Grizzly Bear, Guns N' Roses, Gustav Holst, Helmet, Hem, Her Space Holiday, Hey Mercedes, House of Pain, Houston, Howlin' Wolf, Hum, Human League, Ice-T, Ice Cube, Imogen Heap, Interpol, INXS, Iron & Wine, The Jackson 5, James Brown, Jamie Lidell, Jay-Z, Jean Grae, Jedi Mind Tricks, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, JJ Fad, Joanna Newsom, Joe Jackson, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, José González, Jude, Jungle Brothers, Junior Boys, Jurassic 5, The Kinks, The Kleptones, Kraftwerk, Kurtis Blow, Lady Sovereign, Lamb, Lateef The Truth Speaker, LCD Soundsystem, Led Zeppelin, Little Richard, Live, LL Cool J, Lou Reed, LTJ Bukem, Ludacris, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Lyrics Born, M.I.A., Madonna, Madvillain, Magnetic Fields, The Mamas & The Papas, Marvin Gaye, Massive Attack, Matt Costa, Matthew Good Band, MC Serch, MC5, Melvins, Menomena, Michael Jackson, Michael Penn, Mike Jones, Milosh, Ministry, Minus the Bear, Misfits, Modeselektor, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Morrissey, Mos Def, Muddy Waters, Murs, Muse, My Brightest Diamond, My Morning Jacket, N.W.A., Nas, Neil Young, Neko Case, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Buffalo, New End Original, New Order, New York Dolls, Newcleus, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nickel Creek, Nina Simone, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Notorious BIG, The Notwist, Onelinedrawing, Orbital, Otis Redding, Out Hud, Outkast, Patsy Cline, Patti Smith, Patty Griffin, Paul Duncan, Paul Mccartney, Paul Simon, Paul Weller, Pearl Jam, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Gabriel, Peter Tosh, The Pharcyde, Pharoahe Monch, Philip Reilly Stendek, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, PJ Harvey, Placebo, PM Dawn, The Pogues, The Police, Portishead, The Postal Service, The Presidents
of The United States of America, Prince, Prodigy, The Promise Ring, The Psychedelic Furs, Public Enemy, Public Image Ltd., Pulp, Queen, Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, The Ramones, Ray Charles, Ray LaMontagne, The Replacements, Richie Havens, Rick James, Rick Ross, Rival Schools, RJD2, Roberta Flack, Rolling Stones, The Roots, Roy Orbison, Röyksopp, Run-D.M.C., Sade, Sage Francis, Salt-N-Pepa, Sam Cooke, Sam Philips, Sex Pistols, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, She Wants Revenge, Shiner, The Shins, Sigur Rós, Simon & Garfunkel, Sinéad O'Connor, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Sly & The Family Stone, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Snoop Dogg, Snow Patrol, Songs: Ohia, Sonic Youth, Soul Coughing, Soul II Soul, The Specials, Spoon, St Germain, Stevie B, Stevie Nicks, Stevie Wonder, The Stone Roses, The Stooges, The Streets, Sufjan Stevens, The Sugar Hill Gang, Sugarcubes, Suicidal Tendencies, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Supremes, T.I., Talib Kweli , Talking Heads, Tears For Fears, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Thea Gilmore, They Might Be Giants, Thom Yorke, Tina Turner, Tone Loc, Toots & the Maytals, Tori Amos, A Tribe Called Quest, Tricky, Tupac Shakur, TV on the Radio, U.N.K.L.E., U2, The Velvet Underground, Violent Femmes, VNV Nation, The Walkmen, The Who, Whodini, Willie Nelson, Wilson Pickett, Wolf Parade, Wu-Tang Clan, XTC, Yazoo, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yes, The Zombies, 12 Rods, 13 & God, 2LiveCrew
Movies
Amelie, American Beauty, Boondock Saints, Chasing Amy, Dress To Kill (Eddie Izzard), Fight Club, Garden State, High Fidelity, Labyrinth, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Lost in Translation, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Neverwhere, Office Space, The Princess Bride, Pump Up the Volume, Roger Dodger, The Royal Tennenbaums, Say Anything, Seven, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Star Wars Trilogy (first three),The Double Life of Veronique, Spider, Spirited Away, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Alice in Wonderland (Disney), Pirates of the Carribean, The Piano
The past couple of years I've gone down to catch CineVegas.
Television
Six Feet Under, Lost, Def Poetry, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Scrubs, Firefly, Arrested Development, Heroes, Chapelle's Show, Pushing Daises. A few reality shows.
Books
People on my bookshelf (not literally, of course): Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Carroll, Jeanette Winterson, Nick Hornby, Tim Powers, Billy Collins, Stephen Dobyns, Eavan Boland, Shane Koyczan, Marty McConnell, Anis Mojgani, China Mievelle, Haruki Murakami, Alan Moore, Phillip Pullman, Michael Chabon, Rainer Maria Rilke, Anne Sexton, Gwendolyn Brooks, Emma Bull, Sonya Sanchez, Ursula K. LeGuin, Gregory Frost, Jeff VanderMeer, Karen Joy Fowler, Cory Doctorow, Delia Sherman, Ellen Kushner, Mark Danielewski, Vladamir Nabakov, Albert Camus, Charlotte Bronte, Louise Gluck, James Tate, Flannery O'Connor, Angela Carter, Big Poppa E, Poppy Z. Brite, Steven Brust, Sonya Renee, Sylvia Plath, Buddy Wakefield, Derrick Brown, Beau Sia.
University Of Redlands
Redlands,California
Graduated: 2000
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: The Poetry of Belief: Writing & Religion
Clubs: Johnston College
1996 to 2000
Green Valley Hs
Henderson,Nevada
Graduated: 1996
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Art Club, Varsity Orchestra, Science & Technology Club
What do I write? I skew towards Urban Fantasy and Magical Realism, but I also like to play with prose poetry and a little Skiffy (er, Sci-Fi). I write (or have written) in almost any kind of media imaginable, from Music Journalism to Teleplays. In my writing, I like to try anything once, twice if I really like it.
I've also done a good bunch of slam/performance/spoken word poetry, along with the more "page" kind of poetry as well. I've been on 3 Las Vegas Slam Teams, been on tour, and performed in the U.S., Canada, and England.
I co-host a weekly open mic with Hannah Marisahl called The Seldom Seen Poets every Wednesday at 7pm at Sunrise Coffee Co.
Who I'd like to meet: You. Seriously. Tell me your story.
My hat goes off to you. Anyone who can bring people together to invoke thoughts, or feelings, or opinions is a Guardian of the Universe. And that My Dear is a beautiful thing.
