Art, love, writing, music, people (who think, feel, and are touched in the head) myself (if I can ever catch up to me), disruption of the status quo.
Music
Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Fela Kuti, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Dzihan and Kamien, Jazzanova, Ani DiFranco, Madlib, J Dilla, Cinematic Orchestra, Quantic and Quantic Soul Orchestra, Peter Gabriel, Mr. Scruff, Nightmares On Wax, African Head Charge w/Prof. Stretch--"Drums of Defiance," Tricky (early), The Roots, Erykah Badu, Kweli, Jay-Z(the more I hear the more I respect dude), Leela James, Outkast, Telefon Tel Aviv, Prefuse 73, Attica Blues, Steely Dan, Wes Montgomery, Parliament/Funkadelic just to name a few. I've been a dj on radio and in club and other settings. The music I listen to and play is vast and varied. It runs the gamut from artists like Tibetan Buddhist nun Choying Drolma to Neil Young to Mos Def and all kinds of stuff between especially things Brazillian, jazzy and otherwise ethnocentric. When playing to party I usually spin a combination of funk, soul, downtempo, hip hop, house and breaks.
Movies
American Gangster, The Darjeeling Limited, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Crash, Leaving Las Vegas, The Last Temptation of Christ, Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever, American History X, Malcolm X, Slam, 25th Hour, Before Night Falls, A Home at the End of the World, The Crying Game, The Grifters, Once Were Warriors, Farewell My Concubine, Ghost Dog, Until the End of the World, Sankofa, Cinema Paradiso, Raise the Red Lantern, Amelie, American Beauty, Barton Fink, Fargo, Before the Rain, Farenheit 911, What the Bleep Do We Know?, City of God, Boogie Nights, Boyz N the Hood, Down By Law, A Face in the Crowd, Rabbit Proof Fence, The King of New York, Hoodlum, The Hudsucker Proxy, Mulholland Drive, Watermelon Man, One False Move, Devil in a Blue Dress, I [heart] Huckabees, Dead Presidents, Menace II Society, Monster's Ball, The Red Violin, Hoop Dreams
Television
Not so much these days.
Books
Of Water and the Spirit, Bloodline of the Holy Grail, Manchild in the Promised Land, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Shambhala: Sacred Path of the Warrior, When Things Fall Apart, The Wisdom of No Escape, The Power of Now, Jitterbug Perfume, ,said the shotgun to the head, She, The Dead Emcee Scrolls, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Native Son, Black Boy, Kissing God Goodbye, The Subject Tonight Is Love, I Heard God Laughing, The Essential Rumi, Siddharta, The Gift, Haruko Love Poems, Eight Men, There Are No Children Here, Amazing Grace (more later)
Heroes
My mom Janice Yvonne Jones and my sis Mildred Karen Stacia Cobb-Imuere...RIP my dears.
Mykljoans's Details
Status:
In a Relationship
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
born in Chicago, raised in L.A.
Body type:
6' 2" / Slim / Slender
Zodiac Sign:
Pisces
Education:
Grad / professional school
Occupation:
life
Mykljoans's Schools
Naropa University
Boulder, CO
Graduated: 2008
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Writing and Poetics
Mykljoans Check, check, check. Anyone still checkin' me here. I'm pretty much fb dedicated theez days. But holla if you feel me. Feel me? Posted at 10:18 AM Oct 10 view more
About me: I am a strange man in a stranger land. I love music and to dance to it. Love to play it for others to be moved by. I have a love/hate relationship with writing, mostly poetry. Love because the act of articulating experience in all its forms, manifest or merely imagined, has been such a gift to me. Hate because the same act has provided some of the most difficult insight to that which has troubled me so in this life.
I lived most of my life in California; mostly Los Angeles and 7 years in Santa Cruz before moving to Boulder, Colorado three years ago to pursue an MFA in writing and poetics. I've got two more units to finish before being officially done. During that time I lost both my mother and sister--dad was gone a long time ago. My mom at Christmas time '03 and my sister this past July. So I'm going through alot of soul searching, dirt digging and just plain fuckin' agony these days.
My friend Tracie calls me "a sweet soul." Sometimes I agree. Sometimes I think maybe I'm a little sensitive for this world. I pay attention to alot in it and have a hard time letting some of it go. I feel deeply. Lucky for me I have music and poetry/writing. Who knows where I'd be if not for them.
I've performed poetry, solo and with others, for crowds of up to 800 people, once as an opener for Saul Williams. Imagine that a sold out show for poetry! Been published in poetry journals such as Bombay Gin, Sliding Uteri, and internet zines such as www.mentalcontagion.com (August '06). I also have a blog at mykljoans.blogspot.com. I've dj'd on radio--KZSC, Santa--Cruz and for various size crowds of folks from house parties to the Boulder Theater. And I've co-hosted a national affairs show on Free Speech TV called Sourcecode.
