design. drawing. yapping. [parenthetical asides]. wordiness. poking fun at myself. Snapping snappies, changing my mind---as in metamorphosizing. technique, craftsmanship, and style. contradiction. idiosyncracies. strangeness. repair. weathering and patinas. solid wood panel doors. seeing the shit you didn't see before, and looking at something for the first time. poetic misreadings. mixed metaphors. puns both good and bad. going all walkabouts with my new york fam. vigourous assaults on the dance floor, aka shaking my funky white ass. love me some clever shit. thingliness. opposable thumbs [got to be the coolest damned thing ever]. people watching. musing. indulging my curiosities. backgammon. chess. cards. picnics. london. leaving the country [and always coming home to new york---ahhhh] and I cannot for the life of me believe how bad is that man dennis bergkamp. and thierry henry. Arsenal. love seeing a thing done well. in short--the creative process and self-expression.
smart, funny, stylish types. maybe a few weirdos. designers. poets. philosophers. thinkers. technicians. those who exploit their unique talents. hell, those who exploit their common talents. you know, exploiters. they're good like that, running around taking advantage of situations and whatnot. so yeah, them. i'd like to meet them.
here's the spectrum: lester flatt & earl scruggs------Jay-Z. For more hip hop its the mighty Mos, Common, Talib Kweli, Eric B & Rakim, Gang Starr, Del the funky homosapien, Run DMC, De La Soul. Flesh it out some more with Prince, James Brown, and my all time favorite STEVIE WONDER. Sweet soul from Marvin Gaye and Al Green. otis redding. Really just about any soul music from the 70s. Motown. turntable cats like DJ Shadow and James Lavelle doing that whole trip-hop thing so well. Blackalicious. Stephane Pompougnac. Thievery Corporation. Dimitri from Paris. Handsome Boy Modeling School. the Gorillaz. Hook'em like Bukem. oakenfold. sasha&digweed [especially that first renaissance collection...god damn] Bran Van 3000, Scissor Sisters. The Beatles. Bjork. U2 [minus all that pop mart crap] Smashing Pumpkins. Jazz like Ella, Nina, Coltrane, Miles, Monk, Charlie Parker, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones. more bluegrass from Ralph Stanley, Alison Krauss, Bill Monroe. Stevie Ray Vaughan, Clapton. and oh yeah, my brother plays a mean-ass blues guitar.
Coen Brothers, Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton, Rushmore, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Memento, Blazing Saddles, American Beauty, Fight Club, Crouching Tiger, Trainspotting, Lock Stock and Two smoking barrels, City of Lost Children, Empire Strikes Back, Blade Runner, the Matrix, The Jerk, Manhattan, LA Story, Sling Blade, Seven, Royal Tenenbaums, What The %..@! Do We Know, Stand By Me, Breakfast Club, Smokey and the Bandit, Hero, Sin City, house of flying daggers, andy goldsworthy rivers & tides, shawshank redemption, bagdad cafe
barclays Engish Premier League, def poetry jam, deadwood, that 70s show, sopranos, mythbusters, six feet under, weeds, good times, sanford & son, entourage
camus, italo calvino, antonio damasio, matter and memory, things fall apart, heideggar, whitman. poetics of space. brilliant orange. the crossing. phillip k. dick. brave new world. autobiography of malcolm x. light in august. grapes of wrath. wuthering heights. a tale of two cities. great gatsby. frank miller is a serial art genius. love those illustrated francis ching books before he got the font computerizationalized. calvin and hobbes collections. Harry Potter. and my new fav is How To Survive A Robot Uprising. Magazines---Surface, Metropolis.
ze frank