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
Bands who read - send me an e-mail and I'll add you if I like your music. KEXP listeners. Smart and funny people.
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
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"
Not so much. I do like to rent series like Six Feet Under, Rome, Deadwood...
Card-Carrying Library Junkie. Funny enough, I feel like this is the one box too personal to fill in...
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