The Groove. The Dance... the unexpexted, the spontaneous, the comforting, the relaxing, the crazy, the lazy, the maybe, the sunlight. Being Me. and being you. Nature, dreams, and anything that has to do with the arts.
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Coltrane, Miles, Wayne Shorter, Jaco pastorius, james brown, ornette coleman, eric dolphy, Mingus, funkadelic, hendrix, jackie mclean, zeppelin, bob dylan, Yes, keith jarrett, charlie parker, diz, clifford brown, freddie hubbard, Dexter, Prez, ben street, larry grenadier, John Patitucci, Common, Nas, ravi shankar, johnny hartman, Kool Keith, paul hindemith, andrew hill, richard davis, ron carter, sam rivers, lucky thompson, bobby hutcherson, larry goldings, james spaulding, bob cranshaw, reid anderson, ethan iverson, kenny barron, fred hersch, lee konitz, lee morgan, grant green, Booker Little, mal waldron, Billie Holiday, ben webster, Wu-tang, the roots, aaron parks, derrick hodge, lionel loueke, omer avital, erykah badu(Sexxy), jill scott, joni mitchell, johnny cash, frank sinatra, de la sol, joe martin, talib kweli, jaleel shaw, gretchen parlato, robert glasper, marcus and e.j. strickland, mos def, Gangstarr, Afrika Bambatta, Herbie's the man Hancock, Bob marley, bill frisell, dave binney, dan weiss, charlie haden, buddy miles, Frank Zappa, santana, john mclaughlin, traindodge, mars volta, bill evans, mccoy tyner, Freestyle fellowship, Digable Planets, O.C., scarface, jimmy smith, larry young, christian mcbride, victor wooten, eivind opsvik, miguel zenon, bill mchenry, chris cheek, tony malaby, kevin hays, bill stewart, dangerdoom, joe lovano, horace silver, Prefuse 73, dave douglas, myron walden, victor feldman, tommy flanagan, billy higgins, cedar walton, chick corea, stanley clarke, ray brown, Tony williams, Elvin jones, D'angelo, squarepusher, king crimson, allman brothers, kurt rosenwinkel, ben monder, beatles, Sly and the family Stone, Thelonius Monk, Roy Hargrove, Hip-Hop Orchestra, reagan Youth, joshua redman, woody guthrie, radiohead, bjork, stravinsky, mozart, beethoven, brahms, scriabin, poulenc, rachmaninoff, satie, ravel , Debussy, Bach, mettalica- cliff burton, steve reich, lee hoiby, woody shaw, duke ellington, peter bernstein, ornette coleman, pat metheny, mark turner, madlib, jim hall, brad mehldau, black sabbath, deep purple, cream, grand funk, gil-scott heron, a tribe called quest, al green, donny hathaway, sam cooke, slick rick, marvin gaye, earth wind and fire, stevie wonder etc.
The Good the Bad and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More, A Fistful of Dollars, Amelie, Borat, Shawshank Redemption, Quentin Tarantino's movies, Chinatown, Royal Tenebaums, The Life Aquatic, The Life of Picasso: Magic-Sex-Death, Napolean Dynamite, Little Miss Sunshine, Sleepers, RainMan, The Hustler, High Society, The Blues Brothers, Repo Man, The Godfather, Trainspotting, Clerks, (kevin smith movies) Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels, any movie about jazz: Straight No Chaser, Stanley Kubrick films, V for Vendetta, independent and foreign films, avant garde dali films- un andolou chien, Meshes of the Afternoon, Kung fu movies(bruce lee) American Beauty, Belly, Hero, Office Space
yeah, sometimes..
Currently reading Dharma Bums/ Scarlet Letter. A few others i read and liked: Murakami's Norwegian Wood, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, Grapes of Wrath, Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Candide, The Golem, Tao Teh Ching, Demian, Galapagos, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Beneath the Wheel, The Stranger, A Clockwork Orange, The Autobiography of Miles Davis, Beneath the Underdog (Charles Mingus), Footprints- A biography of Wayne Shorter, The Metamorphosis, The Mysticism of Sound and Music
My Dad, Wayne Shorter, Jaco, John Patitucci, Carl Jung, Miles, Herbie, Sal Dali, Picasso, Magnum P.I., Macho Man, Jim Belushi, Nas, Henry Miller, Raphael the ninja turtle