lima beans, fine wine, the new rosemary and olive oil triscuts, extreme walking, fingernail clippers, tractor racing, orange juice, dyed poodles, cow tipping, soft jazz, and gangster parties.........
bands/producers/musicians/artists that rock my dirtay sock right into the hamper, and people I know or have met(REALLY NOT INTO ADDING PEOPLE I DON'T KNOW UNLESS YOU MAKE GOOD MUSIC, nothing personal). I do not add: metal, country, folk, grunge bands, or ish hip hop/R&B producers. I'm getting about 5 adds from bands/producers/dj's a day and it's starting to get really old. But, and I stress the but, if you sound anything like anyone I have listed in my music section, or play any genre I have listed, I wholeheartedly encourage you to place an add request.
upcoming DJ dates:
in general: dance rock, electro, indie, house, idm(slower more ambient side of), mashups, breaks(nu skool & Electro), rare groove, funk, some classic rock, a little jazz, 80's, underground hip-hop, and a lot of stuff that's just plain strange
latley(way outdated): Out Hud, Rex the Dog, Colder, i-f, the glimmers, tommie sunshine, freeform five, zdar, black strobe, godspeed you! black emperor, kraftwerk, m.i.a., the Juan Maclean, kaskade(but don't tell any of my friends), the hacker, tiefschwartz, poxymusic, mylo, PMT, the rakes, the fatbck band, mr. ozio, MSTRKRFT, Lady Sovereign, riton, barbara morgenstern, optimo DJ's, Bloc Party, DFA1979, the go team, I need to stop now or I'll be here all night. Also, feel free to suggest stuff to me if you think I might like it
in detail: Freq Nasty, Tipper, Aquasky and Masterblaster, Si Begg, Anthony Rother, Two Lone Swordsmen, Radioactive Man, Tim Wright, DJ Fixx. so many other names in breaks I like I couldn't list them all. Ellen Allien, model 500 & cybotron(Juan Atkins), both the pinga and nature labels are good (italian, not really breaks tho), ummm, raiders of the lost arp, little computer people (a.k.a anthony rother), Squarepusher, Autechre, Lusine Icl., Aphex Twin, Funkstorung, Dntel, Boards of Canada, Amon tobin, minor threat, beatles, fugazi, Death Cab, Coheed and Cambria, The Killers, Jeff Buckley(RIP), Radiohead, Placebo, Weezer, The God of Rock Jimi Hendrix, Stones, fleetwood Mac, the bravery, Stevie Wonder(I love him), George Clinton, Parliment, Sade, Al Greene, Marvin Gaye, some Isley Brothers, Amp fiddler, Maxwell, Ray Charles, rare grove matercuts series, and you need to get yourself some chromeo, Gangstarr, J-live, DJ Krush, Pete Rock, K-Os, Blackalicious, Sage Francis, The Streets, Chateau Flight, king britt, Ms. Dynamite, Alter Ego, John Tejada, Duplex 100, luciano, i-cube, Richie Hawtin, Akufen, Matthew Dear, Get Physical Records, great stuff records, fine records, gomma records, moonboutique records, underwater records, bochit and scarper, ok, again I need to stop here before I go on forever. Trentemoller, Morgan Giest, Disco D, Assault, Godfather, DJ Funk, Miles Davis, Theloinus Monk, Herbie Handcock, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Theviery Corp., Mad Professor, RAW(mostly plays ragga, but his dancehall sets are the best), Luciano, King Tubby, TOK. Please someone suggest some more good dancehall, playgroup, franz ferdanand, Ween, TV on the Radio, DFA, The Rapture, The Postal Service, Teebee, Polar, Saftey Scissors, International Pony, Explosions in the sky, The Mars Volta, etc., etc, etc.
by no means are these the only artists that I listen to, just a small few.
Just saw Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Prices, and you should really watch it, seroiusly, no, seriously, JUST FUCKING WATCH IT ALREADY, oh, sorry did I just internet yell at you, I'm sorry heres the website, and yes its on netflix Me and You and everyone we know(sundance, cannes winner, hipsters will be lovin this one), batman returns, Sid and Nancy, All Gone Pete Tong, The Life Aquatic and Wes Anderson is the man, except I didn't think bottle rocket was all that good............... then other good stuff: City of God, Human Traffic, sin city(I heart it), Raising Arizona(or anything else by the coen brothers), Pulp Fiction(or anything else by Quentin), Killing Zoe, Star Wars, some Woddy Allen movies(definately not all), I like some documentaries (Super Size Me, The Weather Underground, Fog of War, the yes men), Anchor Man, Run Lola Run, Amelie, breakfast at tiffanys, a thousand clowns, best in show, fight club, snatch, lock stock and two smoking barrels, american beauty, one flew over the cuckoos nest, strange brew, say anything, all the godfathers, scarface, adaptation, clerks(and everything else by Kevin Smith), ghost in the shell(1 &2), Akira, clockwork orange( and anything else by Stanley Kubrick), platoon(or anything else by oliver stone), vanilla sky, the matrix series, killing zoe, Momento, easy rider, Taxi Driver, Not a big fan of horror or action flicks, Virgin Suicides, princess bride, dopamine, entropy, punch drunk love, true romance, high fidelity, secretary, lost in translation, and so much more. I'm all about the Netflix, and I miss it badly.
I find one necessary to watch movies in the home. but will I ever have cable again, probably not.
I AM SCI FI TO THE MAX, I even read the monthly publication for it, http://www.analogsf.com/ , Authors that I adore: Frank and Brian Herbert, Robert Heinlen, Kurt Vonnegut, Kim Stanley Robinson, Greg Bear, Issac Asimov,Fredrick Ingles, Phillip Hose Farmer, Lois McMaster Bujold, William Gibson, john Steinbeck, Orson Scott Card, David Brin, Phillip K. Dick, Noam Chomsky, Gregory Benford, Ursula K. Leguin, Connie Willis, a lot of other Hugo and Nebula award winners, and many more. Books are the best ever, EVER!!!!
Mashed potatos.