This Week:
I dabble in so many things! Creative arts are what move me, I guess you could say. I have been developing my eye lately in film and photography. I enjoy all sorts of art whether its a traditional museum or the latest digital art installation at MOMA. Since moving to Berkeley I've developed a love for spoken-word poetry and hit up Slam Night at The Starry Plough weekly. I want to travel the world. I'm a vegetarian. I've found a love for urban cycling and ride my bike, Giu, everywhere. I also love to jog because it helps to clear my mind. I've recently decided that if I had to choose a traditional 4 year BA again I'd probably study Environmental Science possibly Anthropology or maybe even Photojournalism. I am nearly blind without my glasses. I drool on my pillow when intoxicated. My favorite color is green.
~Some LINKS to sites that I frequent:
We Make Money Not Art!
Gilles Peterson Worldwide
UTNE Reader: Think Ahead
Adbusters
BayVeg :)
My Vinyl Want-List
Photography in National Geographic
Eclectic, Artistic souls and people who are full of love for life. Feel free to message me if you are feelin'(or not *shrugs*)something on my page...
PUT YOUR I'D LIKE TO MEET SECTION HERE!
Changes may take up to 2 mins to show on your profileView All Friends | View Blog | View Pics
MOVE ALL HTML CODES (IMAGES/WIDGETS/SLIDESHOWS/VIDEOS) BELOW THIS CODE
I wake in the a.m. and blast my newest iPod mix, headphones on whenever I leave the house, home from school I spin my newest dusty LP or make a mix on the turntables, I never miss a Thursday radio show by Gilles Peterson on Radio One, I subsribe to 47 podcasts, I could say more but y'all know...
I pledge allegiance to no band, nor genre. A certain piece of music will mean more to me at one time then another. My music tastes are always expanding and ever changing. Like many others, music is my passion.
INTO: Dusty ol' Soul music, Reggae, Neo-soul, Art Rock, Brazilian, Dub, Jazz, Funk, Nu Groove, Latin, creative Electronica, (Some)Hip-Hop, Euro-Pop.
NOT INTO: Heavy Metal, most modern country, most Top 40, Rap, Circuit Dance-Pop,
If one was to peruse my record crates or scroll my iPod this is a sample of what you would come across:
Radiohead, TV on The Radio, Alice Russell, Quantic, Fat Freddy's Drop, Erykah Badu, Bjork, Breakestra, Antibalas Afro-Beat Orchestra, Aretha Franklin, Platinum Pied Pipers, Air, Nina Simone, Jamie Lidell, Saul Williams, Thievery Corporation, BajoFondo Tango Club, Sia, Sigur Ros, Ohmega Watts, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Madlib, Coldcut, Roisin Murphy, Meshell N'degeocello, Kid Koala, Miles Davis, Darondo, Bob Marley, 4Hero, RJD2, DJ Shadow, Al Green, Fiona Apple, Lauryn Hill, Amel Larriuex, Jimi Hendrix, Andre Benjamin, Death Cab, Gladys Knight, The Flaming Lips, Four Tet, DangerMouse, Jill Scott, De La Soul, K-os, The Mars Volta, Portishead, A Tribe, Sufjan, Toots, Jack White, Nightmares on Wax, The Avalanches, Sergio Mendes, Quincy Jones, Dizzee Gilespie, Azymuth, Beirut, Basement Jaxx, The Postal Service, The Quantic Soul Orchestra, Billie Holiday, Leela James, The Cure, Yesterdays New Quintet....
Musically people I aspire to be more like/look up to are: Gilles Peterson, Thom Yorke, Will Holland, Lauryn Hill, Bjork and David Andrew Sitek, amongst many others.
I Heart Huckabees, Amelie, Lost in Translation, Everything Is Illuminated, Punch-Drunk Love, Spirited Away, City of God, La Mala Educaci&&&&a mp;#035;035;035;243;n, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Magnolia, Run Lola Run, The Royal Tennenbaums, Requiem For A Dream, Waiting For Guffman, Maria Full of Grace, 21 Grams, A Very Long Engagement, Delicatessen, Pulp Fiction, The Rules of Attraction, Amores Perros, Spun, Being John Malcovich, Donnie Darko, Todo Sobre Mi Madre, Frida, The Sea Inside, Dark Days, Jesus Camp, Fight Club, Babel, Princess Monoke, La Vita E Bella, Adaptation, Monty Python, The Motorcycle Diaries, Millions, Blue Velvet, Plata Quemada and ta dah! The Science of Sleep!
TV doesn't turn on 'cause the music doesn't turn off...No, really when I do watch TV it's usuallly the nerdy shit like Discovery and The History Channel. I'm always open to suggestions. A friend of mine introduced me to "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia".....funny stuff.
Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone but only his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Without even a thought, my hero is most without a doubt my grandmother. Her wisdom, guidence and strength will forever keep me going. I owe my life to her. My Mother as well. Her strength and endurance amazes me. Other than that doesn't America have enough heroes already?