![[ Eli B. ] profile picture](https://profilesarchive.blob.core.windows.net/pictures/218/l/20270218.jpg)
+ antiques
+ art
+ asian culture
+ books
+ camping
+ chess
+ cinema
+ comedy
+ conspiracies
+ crate digging
+ d.i.y.
+ documentaries
+ ebay
+ fashion
+ graffiti culture
+ graphic design
+ green/sustainable design
+ haikus
+ haute couture
+ hip hop
+ interior design
+ ipod
+ live shows and concerts
+ macintosh
+ mafia culture
+ making beats
+ meditation
+ museums
+ music
+ my fam
+ outdoors, hiking, and exploring
+ outsider art
+ painting
+ parliament lights
+ photography
+ pirates
+ pixels
+ prismacolors
+ records
+ red wine
+ road trips/travel
+ seeking enlightenment
+ scrabble
+ sarcasm
+ scandals
+ skate videos
+ spraypaint
+ stencils
+ sushi
+ tattoos/ink
+ theatre
+ thrift stores
+ turntables
+ vector graphics
+ vegetarian
+ vintage pieces
+ writing
+ yo momma jokes
+ zen
+ zombies
------------------------------
- artists, graphic, interior, and industrial designers, and the like
- progressive magazines and musicians/bands
- people with something intelligent to say
- scrabblers/chessmasters
- rabble rousers and n'er-do-wells, riffraff, rapscallions, scalawags, scoundrels, miscreants, villains, desperadoes, midnight marauders, hustlers, roustabouts, also hooligans. no gypsies.
[ www.WiretapStudios.com ]
soundtrack [the short list]:
air + amon tobin + aphex twin + architecture in helsinki + atmosphere + beat junkies + beatles + beck + BIG BAND + biggie smalls + biz markie + black flag + black sheep + bloc party + brian eno + brian jonestown massacre + busta rhymes + cake + cars + chemical brothers + chromeo + CLASSICAL + common + the cure + daft punk + damian marley + dandy warhols + dead kennedys + dean martin + death from above 1979 + def jux + del + depeche mode + diplo + dj krush + dj shadow + dj spooky + DOWNTEMPO + EIGHTIES JOINTS + ELECTRONICA + EXPERIMENTAL + flaming lips + fugazi + future sound of london + GANGSTA RAP + gang starr + ghostface + g-love + gorillaz + gza + hendrix + herbie hancock + hollertronix + h.i.m. + HIP-HOP + the hives + HOUSE MUSIC + imogen heap + INDIE + interpol + inxs + james brown + janes addiction + jay-z + JAZZ + jeru the damaja + john coltrane + john legend + john williams + JUNGLE/Drum N' Bass + junior senior + killa priest + ladytron + looptroop + the mars volta + massive attack + me first and the gimmie gimmies + m.f. doom + m.i.a. + miles davis + minor threat + mobb deep + modest mouse + m.o.p. + mos def + nas + ninja tune + nine inch nails + nirvana + non phixion + nwa + odb + OLDIES/DOO-WOP + operation ivy + pet shop boys + pharcyde + pharohe monch + pink floyd + plaid + plug + polyphonic spree + portishead + prefuse 73 + prodigy + public enemy + PUNK + q-bert + radiohead + raekwon + rancid + redman + REGGAE/DUB/DANCEHALL + rjd2 + the roots + roots manuva + scissor sisters + sonic youth + sinatra + skillz + slick rick + SOUL/R&B + squarepusher + stereolab + stray cats + the strokes + sublime + system of a down + talib kweli + talking heads + tears for fears + tenacious d + tool + tribe called quest + tricky + TRIP-HOP + TURNTABLISM + u2 + the used + the vines + ween + the white stripes + frank zappa
audio lectures/comedy/spoken word: al franken + bill hicks + bill mahr + dave chappelle + david cross + eddie izzard + henry rollins + hunter thompson + jello biafra + lewis black + mitch hedburg + noam chomsky + paul mooney + saul williams----------------------------------
cinema: akira + alien + american movie + american pimp + animatrix + apocalypse now + art school confidential + a scanner darkly + back to the future 1-3 + barton fink + basquiat + before night falls + being john malkovich + belly + best in show + big fish + bladerunner + blow + boiler room + boogie nights + bully + the 'burbs + cable guy + capote + casino + cb4 + city of god + city of lost children + clockers + clockwork orange + confessions of a dangerous mind + corpse bride + cult classics + dark days + death to smoochy + the departed + donnie darko + dogtown and z-boys + domino + the doors + dumb and dumber + dune + eighties movies + eternal sunshine of the spotless mind + everything is illuminated + fast times at ridgemont high + fear and loathing in las vegas + fearless + fear of a black hat + the fifth element + the fisher king + for your consideration + frida + ghostbusters 1 and 2 + the good shepard + goonies + gummo + haggard + half baked + harold and kumar + hero + how to draw a bunny + human traffic + ichi the killer + idiocracy + infernal affairs + initial d + i robot + jackie brown + jacobs ladder + the jerk + kids + kill bill + king of new york + kingpin + kung-fu + the last temptation of christ + layer cake + libertine + liquid sky + lords of dogtown + lost highway + the machinist + mallrats + mean creek + memento + menace II society + minority report + monty python and the holy grail + munich + naked lunch + natural born killers + northfork + oceans eleven (the rat pack one) + office space + old school + outsiders + permanent midnight + pi + pinero + pirates of silicon valley + pirates of the carribean + platoon + pollock + pootie tang + predator 1-2 + princess bride + pulp fiction + pump up the volume + rize + road trip + rules of attraction + run lola run + run ronnie run + rushmore + salton sea + the sandlot + scarface + scratch + shaun of the dead + silent hill + sleepy hollow + snatch + spaceballs + spies like us + spun + steal this movie + style wars + suburbia + super troopers + swingers + talladega nights + this is spinal tap + thumbsucker + total recall + true romance + twelve monkeys + usual suspects + vertigo + virgin suicides + walk the line + wall street + wassup rockers + wave twisters + who killed the electric car
favorite genres:80's, indie, import, horror, really bad horror, japaneese and asian cinema (audition, suicide club, ichi, gozu, izo, battle royale, etc), sci-fi (real sci-fi, not the corny sci-fi channel nonsense), documetaries, gangster films, film noir, martial arts of all genres, pirate and zombie movies. also love old b/w films, and anything with Audrey Hepburn (breakfast at tiffanys, charade, sabrina, funny face, etc.).
directors: takashi miike + tim burton + david lynch + brian de palma + coppola + stanley kubrick + martin scorsese + larry clark + cohen brothers + mel brooks + richard linkletter + spike lee + hughes brothers + john landis + john hughes + john singleton + robert zemeckis + zucker brothers + harold ramis + hitchcock + andy lau
----------------------------------
'programming': adult swim + ali g show + aqua teen hunger force + chapelle show + colbert report + curb your enthusiasm + daily show + documentaries + family guy + fresh prince of bel air + futurama + kids in the hall + monty python + mr show + mystery science theatre 3000 + the office + PBS + real time with bill mahr + reno 911 + sealab 2021 + seinfield + simpsons + six feet under + sopranos + southpark + squidbillies + trailer park boys + twin peaks + the wire
[ i really only use my tv for movies, but these shows are great when i do see them... mindless tv = bad, pop culture and media however are key. ]-------------------------------
[ view a visual selection of my bookshelf here ]
books/authors: art books + beat authors + the bell jar + biographies + books about modern or retro interiors + buddist, taoist, and zen books + bukowski + catcher in the rye + chuck palaniuk + david sedaris + e.e. cummings + graphic design books and resources + the great gatsby + hunter s. thompson + the jungle + kafka + non-fiction and true crime + on the road + sun tzu: the art of war + tom robbins + tom wolfe + truman capote + the wu-tang manual by the rza
magazines: ADBUSTERS + beautiful decay + black book + computer arts uk + domino + dwell + juxtapoz + mass appeal + metropolis + metropolitan home + scratch + urb + vapors + vice + wallpaper
----------------------------------
- me
- you