I dig terrible action movies, baby makin' music, your mother's home cookin', cat fights, a good basement show, fake eyelashes and those who got "whoopins" as a child.
I mostly write about politics and play violin.
self-deprecation, being black, whiskey sours, Morning Sedition (RIP), the NYC subway system, not answering my phone, calling people back, sk8boarding, arguing with idiots, making you a mixtape, laughing, forgetting your mixtape at home, ramen noodles without the ramen "dust", foreigners, you, the resurrection of 80s fashion, music hunting, peeling dried elmer's glue off stuff, Cato Williams, giving into inevitable elitism that comes with owning a Macbook, being poor after having bought said Macbook, perusing Craigslist for Parisian apartments, unplanned parties, calculating the cost to build a sneaker collection, grape drink, part-time feminist, Playstation 2, remembering the time I got five whoopins in one day, Quentin Tarentino, the hunt for reciprocated love.
Aaron McGruder. Dr. Cornel West. DJs. Thinkers. MCs. Writers. Designers. Filmmakers. Drummers. Artists. People who light stuff on fire, boys who can "cut a rug", girls who "feel me", fans of Ann Coulter (so I can push them off a cliff).
love for film scores, 80s new wave, obscure funk from whenever, underground hip hop, 70s rock&roll, roots reggae, opera, indie pop... but more specifically...
A-M
2Pac, ABBA, A Certain Ratio, Aesop Rock, Air, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, A Tribe Called Quest, At the Drive-In, Augustus Pablo, Bad Brains, The Beatles, Beck, Billie Holiday, Bill Laswell, Billy Idol, Bjork, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Buddy Guy, Burning Spear, Chaka Khan, Charles Mingus, Common, Crystal Skulls, The Cure, Curtis Mayfield, Dawn Penn, David Bowie, Depeche Mode, DJ Shadow, Duran Duran, Erykah Badu, Fela Kuti, The Fixx, Fred Hammond, Gangstarr, Grace Jones, Hot Snakes, Hugh Mundell, Iggy Pop, Immortal Technique, Interpol, I-Wayne, James Brown, Japan, Jay-Z, J Dilla, Jeff Buckley, Jill Scott, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Jim White, Kudu, Led Zeppelin, Little Brother, Madvillain, Magnetic Fields, Mahalia Jackson, Manu Chao, Massive Attack, Medium Medium, Me'Shell Ndegéocello, M.I.A., MF Doom, Midnite, Morris Day and the Time
N-Z
NERD, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Notorious B.I.G., Paul Simon, Pavement, Pharrell, Pleasure Forever, Prefuse 73, Prince, Radiohead, RJD2, Sade, Snoop Dogg, Santogold, The Sonics, Slum Village, Stevie Wonder, Thomas Newman, Michael Jackson, Otis Redding, Rick James, The Pharcyde, The Smiths, 'Til Tuesday, T. Rex, Talking Heads, TV on the Radio, Toots & the Maytals, Outkast, Salif Keita, Kings of Convenience, Soul Position, SOS Band, The Streets, Tenacious D, The Stooges, Talk Talk, The Rapture, Tricky, Tina Turner, The Sunshine Will, Vast Aire, Queens of the Stone Age, Van Morrison, Tricky, Tiombe Lockhart, Tones on Tail, Tears for Fears, Wu-Tang Clan...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, Eternal Sunshine, Rockers, Waiting To Exhale, The Warriors, Se7en, Face/Off, The Color Purple, 8mm, Coming To America, Death Proof, Ghostbusters, Grosse Pointe Blank, Y Tu Mama Tambien, 21 Grams, 5th Element, Clay Pigeons, Edward Scissorhands, Willy Wonka, 28 Days Later, Muriel's Wedding, Say Anything, The Station Agent, Pulp Fiction, Saw, Annie Hall, The Lord of the Rings, From Dusk 'Til Dawn, Grapes of Wrath, The 'Burbs...
Arrested Development (RIP)
When the Nines Roll Over, Halfway Between the Gutter and The Sky, Color Purple, 25th Hour, Serpent Girl, Special Topics In Calamity Psychics, People's History of the United States, Wonder Boys, No More Prisons, The Best American Nonrequired Reading Series, God's Politics, Going All the Way, Good People of New York, Big Book of Racism, Rules of Attraction, Sex Lives of Cannibals, The Bible, Fahrenheit 451, Prep, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Basic Eight, Another Country, Rationale of the Dirty Joke, Fortunate Son: The Making of an American President...
The Little Rock 9Grace Jones (not Dolph Lundgren)