Photography, graphic design, music production, DJing; I'm slightly obsessed with sneakers and t-shirt designs. Love to play and watch soccer and volleyball; miss skateboarding longingly.
Apparently Monie Love... ...she keeps it real despite the fact that our culture's putting out garbage right now...
DJ Shadow, Handsome Boy Modeling School (Dan the Automator in particular), The Cinematic Orchestra, Tricky and Massive Attack. Really solid, sexy, blunted trip-hop and lounge-inspired teardrops on your ear. Right now, I think Zero 7 is really killing the game, although Air is pretty solid as well.MF Doom is becoming Kool Keith V2.0, which is money. The Roots, Common, Mos Def, the Beastie Boys, all things Wu-Tang, The Pharcyde, Northern State, Haul & Mason, Jazzy Jeff, John Legend, D'Angelo, Aesop Rock, Stones Throw...like the opening skit on Things Fall Apart "hip-hop has become disposable." I hate the state it's in, but all you can do is try and effect it yourself. Diplo and Hollertronix-- you can only hope to contain them.Everyone on the Austin scene. Slow Motion Music, all the Scion affiliates (Mel & Chicken George), Nicknack and Blaze, World Association & DJ Crown, KJV & DJ Snaps, Jamon, Jason Jenkins, Spettro, Kunal, Holiday, Mike Swing, Gibb, Tats, Berlin, Kurly-Q, Lance Cashion, Licksamba, Boogie Monster, Kurupt...so much talent in such a speck of a city.Lately ...And You Will Know Me By the Trail of the Dead has been in my CD player a lot. Gary Clark Jr.: local kid who plays the blues happy hour at Continental Club every Wednesday-- HIS MUSIC IS THE TRUTH-- 4 REAL. Love all the post-punk revival that's been dropping of late. David Bowie, Kings of Convenience, Rufus Wainwright, Ben Folds, The Strokes, The Hives, The Clash, Depeche Mode, Mars Volta, Oliver Future, John Pointer and Boombox, Bob Schneider, Badly Drawn Boy, , Jane's Addiction, Jellyfish, Tom Petty, Grandaddy, My Chemical Romance, The Verve: still think Beck's Sea Change was one of the coolest albums ever...who knew his writing had so much depth? Radiohead will always be king. Anything with Mike Patton's name on it's bound to be dope.Love house music that can transcend it's subgenres and help make a bigger statement about the artist's outlook on the world or his/ her place in it: it's about the jock, the crowd, and journey they take together. When it's done well, every song can unveil a new layer or emotion-- the best part of spinning house. Chris Lum, Soulwax, Tiga, Inland Knights, Steve Bug, John (Muthafuckin) Digweed.
Anything Wes Anderson has to do with (period.) Kubrick (fuck what you think about it, Dr. Strangelove is one of the funniest movies ever shot), anything written by Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich.) David Fincher makes some of the most visually stimulating frames the screens have seen. Darren Aronofsky is a badass. Anime and Adult Swim rank up pretty high (and help you from taking the world too seriously when you need it.) The Graduate, Dogtown & Z-Boys, Michael Moorer films, Spike Lee joints. Anything that I watched when I was a kid: The Outsiders, the original Batman movie, Eddie Murphy standup. Serpico made me a Pacino fan for life.
All things Philip K. Dick-- the guy's brilliant. Will Self, Mario Puzo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Howard Zinn, Americo Paredes, Berke Breathed. Still, admittedly, love comics-- graphic novels are especially tasty. Addicted to Vice Magazine for taking the forefront as the most unbridled outlet of crassness the modern world has ever known. Trying to get back into poetry (a nasty result of my kid sister's blossoming skills with prose.)