I LOVE working with CHILDREN'S music! It's really how I make my living here in Japan. I love learning from other musicians how to look and understand other artists. I also love using the latest computer software to edit & arrange sound/music files to create new sounds for myself and my radio audience. The radio jingles I use on radio are usually my own (Yeah GO ACID PRO!!!)
I'd like to meet more non R&B & hiphop artist. Though I have had many chances to meet some majors (Kevin Lyttle, Wayne Wonder, Kid Capri ect), there are many non R&B/reggaed artists that my listener audience like listening to. For example Earth, Wind & Fire, Billy Joel. I'm looking for a chance to interview them as well, live on air! By the way, I'm looking forward to meeting brother SPEECH!! Of Arrested Development this December 2007!
As a radio DJ, born & raised in NY, I LOVE IT ALL!!! Especially the music that reflects living in NY. On FREEWAVE radio, Tenjin FM radio (www.freewave777.com), I've played all music types and genres particularly what WBLS radio (www.wbls.com) play in NY. BLS lists the old-school artists everyweek on their page. Most of which is a weekly education for me. And the artists sound beautiful!
I HATE the violence in the American movies, but I love the humanity of Robin Williams in "What Dreams May Come", Brad Pitt's "Legends of the Fall" and such movies that help us to see ourselves.
Speaking of ourselves, I would have to say that the best TV drama I've seen to this day is ABC's LOST. WOW!!! What a journey into our own lives through tv!
I've read the Illiad, Odyssey, most of Plato and Aristotle's work, the Bible, Liberation Theology and lots of Japanese living in Fukuoka, Japan. Perhaps the books I've benefited from most are "The Oxford-Handbook for Teaching ESL" and "What's Going On In There? A medical exploration into the first 5 years of childhood developement".
My dad, Jesus, Martin King, Malcom X, Muhammed Ali, Babe Ruth, Ghandi, Sista Teresa and my son, Tynell Timothy Dickens who is now a US Marine! Son, your dad is PROUD of you boooyyiii!!!!!!!