people. inspiration. music. djing. reading. writing. art. physics. metaphors. going out to clubs. dancing. slams. working out. sports. tkd. muay thai. bjj. piercings. tattoos. irezumi. road trips. kicking it. the world.
"It's so cold in Tower that everything - the air, the sounds revolving around us, the racks of CDs - feels white, snowed in. People pass by, moving on to the next register, and the high-set fluorescent lighting that renders everyone flat and pale and washed out doesn't affect Lauren's skin, which looks like ivory that's tan, and her presence - just the mere gesture of her signing the receipt - touches me in a way I can't shrug off, and the music rising above us - 'Wonderwall' - makes me feel doped and far away from my life. L___ is something I really haven't come across in a long time and I follow it now in Tower Records and it's getting hard to shake off the thought that Lauren Hynde is part of my future. Outside, I put my hand on the small of her back, guiding her through the sidewalk crowd to the curb on Broadway. She turns around and looks at me for a long time and I let her."
- Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis
anything and everything... tech house. detroit techno. glitch. idm. nujazz. broken beat. deep breaks. deep house. progressive house. acid house. GLO-ish DnB. downtempo. hip-hop. motown. swing. 2 step. turntablism. spoken word. digital hardcore. punk. DJ Shadow. DJ Krush. Nujabes. Fat Jon. Midicronica. Gorillaz. LTJ Bukem. Primal Scream. Vince Watson. Akufen. Juan Atkins. UNKLE. Diplo. Death in Vegas. Tom Middleton. Prince. Garbage. Esthero. Sia. MINMI. Massive Attack. Everything but the Girl. Sneaker Pimps. Amon Tobin. Kid Koala. Boards of Canada. Nick Warren. James Zabiela. Chloe. Swayzak. John Tejada. Josh Wink. The Doors. Pink Floyd. Joe Satriani. Incubus. Saul Williams. Mos Def. Rakim. Outkast. The Pharcyde. Jeru the Damaja. Five Deez. People Under the Stairs. Blackalicious. Erykah Badu. Jill Scott. Cyne. Thelonious Monk. Billie Holiday. Smokey Robinson.
...er, yeah. done for now.
The Wall. Boogie Nights. Sideways. Swingers. The Endless Summer. Scratch. Pi. American Psycho. Fight Club. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I Heart Huckabees. The Royal Tenenbaums. Hackers. Contact. Fire in the Sky. Battle Royale. Sonatine.
"Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye." - Bill Hicks
Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller). On the Road, Desolation Angels (Jack Kerouac). Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse). L'etranger (Albert Camus). The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Kafka On the Shore (Murakami Haruki). Physics, Twelve Scenes from 12am (Lisa Asagi). Glamorama, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis). Nadja (Andre Breton). The Motorcycle Diaries (Che Guevara). Notes from Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky). Carl Sagan. Joseph Conrad. Aldous Huxley. Jean Genet. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Yukio Mishima. whatever else I can get my hands on, too.