film and making movies. movies at the ritz. live music.drinking til i like myself. sleeping. having good conversations with interesting people. reading good books.playing guitar and/or harmonica, avoiding the general public
Wesley Snipes, Spike Jonze. Craig Ferguson, Bob Dylan but only if it could be back in the day (pre 66) before it all got to him, . Jack Kerouac maybe, John Steinbeck definetly...Woody Guthrie, Barack Obama. id like to play apples to apples with flavor flav, bobby brown, old dirty bastard (R.I.P), and rose from the golden girls. I want to chill with this motherfucker right here...
Right now its all about the Reverend Al Green... but usually its Bob Dylan (pre 66), Woody Guthrie, lead belly, Wutang Clan, Nas, Bob Marley, Toots and the Maytals, i have a very unique relationship with the Misfits, Joe Cocker, Curtis Mayfield,Cake, James Mothafuckin Brown, Radiohead, Miles Davis,Thelonious Monk,RJD2, Mos Def, The Kinks, Billy Bragg, Grateful Dead (old dead not that new corporate shit), Rakim, Beastie Boys, Robert Randolph ,Nina Simone, Cymande,Jackson 5, Flaming lips, the gizmos, Neil Young, Blind Willie McTell, ARTCTIC MONKEYS etc, etc.
Cool Hand Luke, The Hustler (Paul Newman is that bull), Oh Brother Where art thou (Coen Brothers are true visionaries) old skate videos Video Days, alphabet City,lost in translation, The Royal Tennenbaums, Rushmore, Children of Men, Traffic, the rules of attraction, Punch Drunk Love,Brick, I Heart Huckabees, Jesus' Son, City of God, Se7en. eternal sunshine, the graduate,harold and maude, L.A. Confidential, Adaptation, the list goes on and on....you can tell alot about someone by the movies theyre into...
Currently i have a very unhealthy addiction to VH1 reality series, the office,true life,Next (siiiikkkee!!!)venture brothers,freaks and geeks, inside the actors studio, i shouldnt be alive, going tribal,etc... conan obrien is my motherfuckin homeboy-he would fuck jay leno up in a fight, oooh i hate that jay leno... oh yeah Golden Girls is tight too. television sucks...
Im all about Stienback, Cannery Row and Grapes of Wrath are my favorite books of his. I also really like the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald,Rule of the Bone by Russel Banks. Chuck Pahlunick, Brett Easton Ellis, T.C. Boyle (tortilla curtain is one of the best books i have ever read)
John Stienback. the way he writes is so sad and funny and beautiful.He gave a voice to all those people America forgot during the great depression. Woody Guthrie, Paul Newman is an incredible actor, probably one of my favorites. Spike Jonze because he started out as a punk skater kid makin skate videos and now he creates these intense intellectual movies.hes got a uniqe vision and i really repect his work. Wilford Brimley because without him millions of seniors with diabetes wouldnt know how to get their medication. Ol' Dirty Bastard, Joey Ramone (watch end of the century and youll see why), Flavor Flav, Jon Stewart, The A-Team (specifically Mr. T), and george w. bush cause i hate that fresh air shit and not being under water. Bush could you please speed up global warminng a little more because breathing is overrated. big up G-Dub i owe ya one....oh and this guy is a true Hero: Stephen Colbert. not only is he one of the funniest motherfuckers out there but 20 years from now when America looks back on what was goin on in the world and all the neconservatives are telling us that everyone supported this administration we'll have the 2006 white house commencment dinner to show us how it really was. BIG big up Mr. Colbert