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Haze

Make my funk the P-Funk, I wants to get funked up

About Me

I'm a hip hop writer for XPress Magazine , a Customer Service Representative at an office job, and an MC/percussionist/token alcoholic in a band called Upskirt Shazaam .

My Interests

Music:

What I'm listening to at the moment -
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Common - Finding Forever
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
13th Son - Our Lives
Funkola - Funkola

Favourite music -OutKast, The Roots... 1988-1995 Hip hop... Most music from Native Tongues, Syllabolix, Aussie hip hop, Stones Throw, Rhymesayers, Definitive Jux, Quannum, Rawkus
Also... J Dilla, DJ Shadow, A Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, Aesop Rock, El-P, Pharoahe Monch, De La Soul, Eric B & Rakim, Pharcyde, Atmosphere, Hilltop Hoods, Company Flow, MF Doom, Madlib, Downsyde, RJD2, Brother Ali, Sage Francis, Delta, Nas, Notorious BIG
Jazz, funk, soul, reggae... Miles Davis, Parliament Funkadelic, James Brown, Bob Marley, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane...
All Time Top 5 Albums -

OutKast - ATLiens
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Nas - Illmatic
J Dilla - Donuts

GangStarr - Moment of Truth

Movies:


The Godfather
Dr Strangelove
2001: A Space OdysseyAguirre, the Wrath of God
Akira
Amelie
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Back to the Future trilogy
Big Lebowski
Blade Runner
Brazil
Citizen Kane
City Lights
City of God
Clockwork Orange
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Donnie Darko
Dr Strangelove
Drunken Master 2
Duck Soup
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
F For Fake
The Fountain
Garden State
Ghost in the Shell
The Godfather 1 & 2
Goodfellas
Ikiru
Lawrence of Arabia
Leaving Las Vegas
Life of Brian
Modern Times
Network
Once Upon a Time in America
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Rashomon
Requiem for a Dream
Royal Tenebaums
Rushmore
Se7en
Seven Samurai
Shaun of the Dead
Shawshank Redemption
Taxi Driver
The Third Man
This is Spinal Tap
2001 A Space Odyssey

Television:

The Sopranos
Deadwood
Arrested Development
Scrubs
Futurama
Family Guy

Books:

Jack Kerouac - On The Road
George Orwell - 1984
Charles Bukowski - Post Office
Also -
Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Bukowski - Factotum
Bukowski - Women
Burroughs - Naked Lunch
Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Huxley - Brave New World
Kafka - Metamorphosis
Kerouac - Big Sur
Puzo - The Godfather
Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Hunter S. Thompson - Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces

Heroes:


Jack Kerouac

My Blog

A sad day for film

July 30 saw two of film's most unique artists pass away, Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni. The two European directors lived full lives, passed away at 89 and 94 respectively, and sl...
Posted by Haze on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:34:00 PST

Stem Cells

The big debate in WA has recently been the Catholic Church's attack against parliamentary members who may vote in favour of a stem cell legislation; suggestions that they no longer partake in Communio...
Posted by Haze on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 10:13:00 PST

Bell Tower

When Geoff Gallop had his breakdown, wouldn't it have been ironic if he had climbed up the Swan Bell Tower that he so strongly opposed and started sniping people off like Charles Whitman? When all was...
Posted by Haze on Wed, 30 May 2007 06:32:00 PST

Goldfish

We have a pet goldfish at work. I feel sorry for him. He has it easy since we hardly ever give him any work to do, but then again he never gets to leave the office. I hope it is true that goldfish hav...
Posted by Haze on Mon, 28 May 2007 09:52:00 PST

2001

I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey roughly once a month. On my most recent viewing it occurred to me, Dave Bowman and Frank Poole are men on a year long trip to Jupiter, and they see the supercomputer HAL ...
Posted by Haze on Wed, 23 May 2007 07:59:00 PST

The world's new oldest profession

I'm a Customer Service Representative; corporate newspeak for the person who deals with unhappy customers. It's a safe position; as long as people are complaining, the job will exist. In 10,000 years ...
Posted by Haze on Mon, 21 May 2007 07:26:00 PST

In the office

I sit here wondering what would happen if I picked up the computer, ripping cords and network cables from the office's cardiovascular system, and smashed it against floor in an explosion of wires and ...
Posted by Haze on Sun, 20 May 2007 06:51:00 PST

National Emo Kid Beatdown Day

Adz posted this in a bulletin Personally I believe that the intentions of this day are respectable, however shouldn't every day be National Emo Kid Beatdown Day? Shouldn't we feel disappointed ...
Posted by Haze on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:56:00 PST

Save Toby

This guy is a genius. A sick fuck, but a genius nonetheless: www.savetoby.com
Posted by Haze on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:24:00 PST

Kill the radio

Working in an office full time, I expected the worst thing would be that soul crushing feeling of staring into the abyss of a life of subservient employment. Instead, I rediscovered commercial radio. ...
Posted by Haze on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:33:00 PST