Low-end theories,films,well made food,mountain biking,listening parties,beauty and grace...
People who live artfully.
My favorite BASSIST. (POP) - James Jamerson,Paul McCartney,Larry Graham,Verdine White,Louis Johnson,Bernard Edwards,Carol Kaye,Sting,Rapheal Saadiq,Jimi,Family man Barrett,Robbie Shakespeare,Jermaine Jackson,Dennis Bovell,Leroy Brevit,Flabba Holt,Duck Dunn,Bill Wyman,Flea, John Entwhistle,J.Paul Jones,Prince,Bootsy,Adam Clayton,George Porter,Tina Weymouth,B.B. Dickerson,Tiran Porter,Kool Bell,Rocco Prestia,Peter Tork,Nathan East,Peter Cetera,Jerold Jermott,Brown Mark,Jim Felder,Mark Allen,Gabe Nelson,Brian Wheat and Chuck Rainey to name a few.(JAZZ) - Charlie Mingus,Ron Carter, Paul Chambers,Harley White Sr. (my pops), Milt Hinton, Jaco Pastorius,Percy Heath, Stanley Clarke,Jimmy Blanton,Rufus Reid,ERIK KLEVEN,Wellman Braud,Sam Jones,Reggie Workman,Walter Page,Bobby Rodriquez,Cachao,Bob Cranshaw,Paul Jackson,Sebastian Beto,Oscar Pettiford,Neils Pedersen,Charlie Haden,Chuck Isreal,Doug Watkins,Scott LaFaro,Fred Marshall, Ray Brown,Abraham Laborial Marcus Miller,Daryl Jones, Dave Holland,Victor Bailey,Artur Maia and John Clayton. It's the thing that makes the whole world swing...
Akira Kurosawa,Jim Jarmusch,Spike Lee, and Stanley Kubrick run things. My top 10 favorites are: 01. The Seven Samurai 02. City of God 03. Diva 04. 'Round Midnight 05. She's gotta have it 06. Purple Rain. 07. Hoosiers 08. The Unforgiven 09. Blazing Saddles 10. Spinal Tap 11. Being There 12. Hannah and her sisters 13. Manhattan 14. Kurosawa's Redbeard 15. Brazil 16. The Mack 17. Sweetback's bad bad badasss song 18 Hard day's Night 19. all those Bill Cosby/Sidney Poitier/Harry Belafonte joints 20. All those Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood joints 21. Bill and Ted's 22 .Mash 23 .Full metal jacket 24 .Black Orpheus 25. Repo man 26. Sly stone at woodstock 27. Nothin but a man 28. The Apostle 29. The Bad News Bears 1 and 2 30. Cotton comes to harlem 31. Pulp fiction 32. Stardust memories 33. Coffy 34.Smokey and the bandit 35 Sounder 36 Edward scissorhands 37 Papermoon 38 The Joy luck club 39 Midnite in the Garden of good and evil 40 Paris Blues 41 What's up doc? 42 The Wiz 43 Sonatine 44 Like water for chocolate 45 Big blue 46 Chocolat 47 Coolie high 48 Ray 49 The Harder They Come. 50 Countryman 51 all those Mifune/Kurosawa joints 52 Coal miner's daughter 53 Hustle and flow 54 Luckawanna Blues 55 brother from another planet
I tend to read music journals and essays. From Tape-op to National Geographic. From the New Yorker to the Pink section. I also like autobiographies.
Duke Ellington. Muhammad Ali. Kenny Stabler.