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DJ Michele

NITE LIFE Every Friday Nite @ 9pm on KEXP-kexp.org

About Me

I make stuff out of sound waves: documentaries, radio shows, music...

I make stuff out of sound waves: radio shows, documentaries, music...

My Interests

Radio O Radio, Going out to shows, Cooking, Gardening, Reading, Yoga, Vegetarian food (esp Italian, Thai, Indian and Japanese), Sailing, Camping, Comedy, Movies, Travel, Writing

I'd like to meet:

Bands who read - send me an e-mail and I'll add you if I like your music. KEXP listeners. Smart and funny people.

Music:

Hip-hop, rock, trip-hop, Brit-pop, electronic, punk, soul, electronic soul, acoustic, funk, vintage jazz, classical, Latin, Brazilian, soundtracks. Anything soulful and/or circulatory. Linton Kwesi Johnson (Dread Beat and Blood), Morphine (Cure for Pain), Halou (Separation and Wholeness), Goldfrapp (Supernature), The Gossip (Standing In The Way of Control), Morcheeba (Who Can You Trust?), Thievery Corporation (The Richest Man In Babylon), Lyrics Born (Later That Day), Pixies (Surfer Rosa), Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited), Bauhaus (The Sky's Gone Out), Verve Remixed collections, DJ Shadow (In Tune and On Time - Live), Nina Simone (singles), Portishead (Roseland NYC Live), Martina Topley-Bird (singles), Natural Calamity (Peachhead), Ted Hawkins (The Next Hundred Years), Curtis Mayfield (Superfly Soundtrack), St. Germaine (Boulevard), Bowie (The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars), Jesus and Mary Chain (Psychocandy), Love and Rockets (Earth, Sun, Moon and Express), Dead Kennedys (Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables), Kosheen (Resist), Funkadelic (Maggot Brain), Billie Holiday (singles), Duke Ellington (singles),Ruben Gonzalez (Introducing Ruben Gonzalez), Air (The Virgin Suicides Soundtrack), Joao Gilberto (Samba De Bencao), T Rex (Electric Warrior), MC Solaar (MC Solaar), Handsome Boy Modeling School (singles), Howlin Wolf (The Original Folk Blues), Tom Waits (Small Change, Heart of A Saturday Night, Nighthawks at The Diner), Louis Armstrong (singles), Johnny Cash (singles), Nick Drake (Pink Moon), PJ Harvey (Is This Desire), NWA (singles), Digable Planets (Reachin), Yo La Tengo (I Can Hear The Heart Beating as One), Tribe Called Quest (People's Instinctive Travels and The Paths of Rhythm), Chaka Khan (singles), Prince (Controversy, Purple Rain), Ennio Morricone (singles), Velvet Underground (Velvet Underground)... Too many to mention. More music stuff on my KEXP DJ Page:http://kexp.org/programming/djpage.asp?DJID=319

Movies:

Juno, Pulp Fiction, American Beauty, The Big Chill, Almost Famous, Running With Scissors, Fight Club... I can't get enough of documentaries... Fave music documentaries are "The Legacy of Otis Redding", "The Making of London Calling", "End of The Century: The Ramones". Fave Documentaries: "Born Into Brothels", "Dogtown and Z-Boys", "When We Were Kings"

Television:

Not so much. I do like to rent series like Six Feet Under, Rome, Deadwood...

Books:

Card-Carrying Library Junkie. Funny enough, I feel like this is the one box too personal to fill in...

Heroes:

Albert Einstein, Bettye Lavette, Beth Gibbons, Sharon Jones, Ben Franklin, Elizabeth Peyton, Gandhi, Otis Redding, Rosa Parks, Aretha Franklin, Tom Dowd, MLK Jr, Leslie Cockburn, David Milch, Curtis Mayfield, PJ Harvey, Joan of Arc, Underdog

My Blog

It’s All Happening...

"Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid." - Goethe Hey, it was a fantastic day. KEXP took over the neighborhood of Ballard. I was there from 9am-1pm then took a rest and went back to spin at ...
Posted by DJ Michele on Sat, 10 May 2008 01:21:00 PST

Album Spotlight - The Beatles White Album

Midnight Album Spotlight: The Beatles' "White Album"May 7th, 2008 .. --> by DJ Michele, Nite Life -->Hi, my name's Michele Myers and I spin the show Nite Light every Friday night at 9pm on KEXP. And e...
Posted by DJ Michele on Wed, 07 May 2008 11:59:00 PST

Existential

"I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it" - Stephen Wright, comedianHey Guys, This Friday in my neighborhood of Ballard KEXP is taking over! Since they are the neighborho...
Posted by DJ Michele on Tue, 06 May 2008 09:41:00 PST

Friday Night Radio Show

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."   Babatunde Olatunji The Big News is: I'll be spinning on Friday night for fre...
Posted by DJ Michele on Sat, 03 May 2008 12:57:00 PST

Afternoon Show (Link to listen to radio show)

  "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank Hi Guys, I'm off to hang in the sun so here' s today's afternoon show! See you Fri...
Posted by DJ Michele on Fri, 02 May 2008 06:11:00 PST

Album Spotlight - The Black Keys - Attack and Release

Attack & Release" href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vZGVwdHMud2FzaGluZ3 Rvbi5lZHUva2V4cC9ibG9nLz9wPTU2Njg=" rel=bookmark>Midnight Album Spotlight: The Black Keys - Attack & ReleaseApril 30th, 20...
Posted by DJ Michele on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:24:00 PST

Rolling Stone Picks KEXP As One of Top Five Stations in the Nation

  See, my mom's not the only one who thinks so! http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/20200609/the_125plus_ people_places_and_things_ruling_the_rock__roll_universe/prin t...
Posted by DJ Michele on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:24:00 PST

Dimension (Show and Documentary Links)

"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with yo...
Posted by DJ Michele on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:38:00 PST

Guilty Pleasure (show link good until May 1)

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.  ~Soren Kierkegaard ************************************************************ ***** It was a great day. Spent the af...
Posted by DJ Michele on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:33:00 PST

Album Spotlight - Lyrics Born! Later that day...

Later That Day" href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vZGVwdHMud2FzaGluZ3 Rvbi5lZHUva2V4cC9ibG9nLz9wPTU1NDI=" rel=bookmark>Midnight Album Spotlight: Lyrics Born - Later That DayApril 16th, 2008 .. -...
Posted by DJ Michele on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:19:00 PST