Being a student of life...writing stuff...swimming...taking photos...dancing...collecting and making art...working on my proper grammar...one day I'll have to write something clever here, but for now this is all you get.
Good peeps! Nothing but. Seriously, I want to know people who don't have the time to waste on putting people down. I'd much rather lift folks up and know others that do the same. People who can enable greatness. People who could care less about the scene, but also realize why and why not such a scene is important. Those who wish to document the world in art, writing and music. People with the same deep hunger for life in the raw that I possess, those who long to intimately know the world in which they live, hold an argument without getting angry or derailing their train of thought, Lovers of food, music, and good vintage clothes. Those for whom beauty is equally realized on the inside as well as out. Those who resist labels, boxes, steven spielberg maroon five mtv pop medercrity...Those who are sexy as hell and know it, lovers of dancing to james brown wednesday night at the ruby room, drinkers of drinks with the bartender at cafe van kleef, those unashamed to love multiple incongreuous genres, those who do not dwell in the city of the dead, lovers of anne sexton, ursula rucker, raymond carver, denise levertov, lester bangs, jonathan lethem, jack kerouac, nina simone, and booker t and the mgs, to those who dig these lovely things I salute you !
Lately: Antipop Consortium, Menomena, Adonis, Arthur Brown, EL - P, Kitchens of Distinction, The KLF, Madlib, Debussy, John Cage, Joni Mitchell, Too Short, Mozart, Feist,Sufjan Stevens and most of other alternachristian rockers, nearly all and any music in the COLDWAVE genre, Leonard Cohen, Slick Rick, Eric B and Rakim, Joanna Newsom, before and after the fame, all of her music, good stuff,Joe Bataan, Why?, Miles Davies, John Coltrane, Brad Melhdau, Ulrich Snauss, almosy anything from the ANTICON collective, Miles, Larry Levan garage disco mixes, Satie, Brian Eno, Slick Rick, early CLASH, carlos gardel, The New York Dolls, Phillip Glass, Eric B. and Rakim, DJ Shadow, Cat Power, Bob Dylan, Nina Simone and ELO...ahhh, and I like Ska, have since I was a youngun stuff like Desmond Dekker, The Specials and Bad Manners...
Thumbs Up! on www.vbs.tv , The Deadliest Catch, Battlestar Galactica, The Office, Adult Swim...side that, most TV is lame...though not less or more than most films...
The poetry of Carolyn Forche particularly her collection The Country Between Us, The Neal Pollack Anthology Of American Literature, The Fortress of Solitude by Jonothan Lethem, also Motherless Brooklyn by the same guy; Pimp, the story of my life by Iceberg Slim; Selected Poems by Denise Levertov; Cranial Guitar by Bob Kaufman; The Unbearable Lightness Of Being by Milan Kundera; Anne Sexton, Rimbaud, James Baldwin, Irving Welch, Christopher Hitchens, Trotsky, Paul Krugman, Rachel Swan, Lester Bangs, V.Vale, Alan Moore, Foucalt; David Cross; A Confederacy Of Dunces; The Ego Trip Book Of Rap Lists; The Ego Trip Book Of Racism...A quote: "Putyoureardownclosetoyoursoulandlistenhard. - Anne Sexton
...my dad, folks with soul, and well...I will elaborate on all this in better more elegant yet concise fashion at some point in the near future.