painting, stenciling dots on everything, creating weird visual texture, breaking the rules, being a rock star, making little scratchy sounds, adding effex to already weird noises, knobs and buttons, fire, clean dirt, the smell of spraypaint, blurry photos, avacados, cute girls
creative expressionists. musicians that do it for the love. artists following your passion. entertaining weirdos.AnD BaNdS tHaT NeEd PoStEr AnD AlBuM DeSiGn! LeT's TaLk!
LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC! dj remixes! home-made mix tapes! Garage bands!DJ Shadow, Cold Cut, Thievery Corp, Krueder and Dorfmeister, Dan the Automator, Handsome Boy, Deltron, Gorillaz, United Future Organization, Red Snapper, Amon Tobin, Bonobo, Squarepusher, Radiohead, Flaming Lips, Postal Service, Frank Black (even better live than Pixies,) Soul Coughing, the Mars Volta, the Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, Funki Porcini.....
Local and festival Live faves:
Eleven Eyes, KJ Sawka, Maktub, Signal Path, Cozy, The Very Foundation, The Bent Vue, Jacob Fred Jazz Odessey, Das Rut, Scott Law Band.
Latest Vinyl Score: the fifty 7" 45rpm's that i left in my truck and melted. oops. before that: Amon Tobin: Verbal (prefuse 73 remix), Boom Bip (venetian snares mix, buck 65 mix)
My Band Website: surrounded by ninjas!
willy wonka, better off dead, strange brew, waking life, bill & ted's excellent adventure (but bogus journey was stupid and totally unbelievable..."station"...what's that crap?) what the bleep do we know, napoleon dynamite, space balls, princess bride...
i don't own a t.v.
Some Favorites: The Alchemist, The Four Agreements, The Artists Way, Birth of the Beat Generation, Nova Police, every book with big pictures. currently reading: The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, by salvador dali.
Marcel Duchamp (father of dada, french inellectual), Andy Warhol (pop artist, icon), DJ shadow (turntablist/producer), Christo (installation artist), Lori Anderson (new wave performance artist), The Beat Poets (Jack and crew,) Nick Bantok (wrote and illustrated the griffen and sabine trilogy.) anybody who is innovative and creative, pushing the envelope for their time, inspiring others and provoking thought.