Music:
DJ's Valtron, Kutmah, Coleman, B+, AbcentMnded, Gaslamp Killer, 4x4 Traktor and music of Flying Lotus, Femi kuti, Fela Kuti, Tony Allen, , Raw J dilla beats.....Axelrod arrangements, Sonic Youth strings, fugazi fuzz, yo la tengo,CAN, poets of rhythmn, the rebirth, bear vs. shark, tv on the radio, common, ice cube, erykah badu, jill scott, sa-ra creative partners,metric, dakah,orlando julius....raphael saadiq.....postal service,willie colon, ruben blades, royce da 5'9.....M.I.A, poets of rhythm, DJ SHADOW, prefuse 73, JAZZ, roy ayers, Ima robot, Roy haynes, Wes Montgomery, MANDRILL, LOU RAWLS,detroit grand poobahs, letta mbulu, Galt McDermottt, Dorothy Ashby, devendra barndhart, serge gainsbourg, KMD, masters of illusion!!, miriam makeba, jose feliciano, Primal scream, BAND OF BEES, Ghostface, DJ PREMIER, guru, herbie hancock, freddie hubbard, bill evans....jr.gong,junior reid, bounty killer, sister carol, stones throw records......vinyl, tapes, mix cds....tapes....mp3's...singing, girls that sing....random rhythmic sounds....my favorite of all time are velvet underground, janis joplin and some Nico...them talking head dudes are kinda talented too!!
Movies:
beat takeshi films,old school and black and whites!!!, blaxploitation, kurosawa films, some john wayne flicks most clint eastwood westerns, old war movies, David lynch's movies, quentin tarantino's works,frank and cindy by gj eckenhart...bionicfilms.com.....um scorsese,wes anderson flicks, the network, thanks for smoking, old boy...random indy's and foreign movies....baraka....those weird ones like baraka that end in atsi...eg. konnayaqatsi?!24 hour party people, aunt mamie(real old school), sonatine,thanks for smoking, man bites dog!!, repo man, waking life.....gummo!!
Television:
KILL YOUR TELEVISION
BEFORE
Books:
everybody poops, life of pi, art of war, soul on ice, lord of the flies, rich dad poor dad, fast food nation, the omnivores dilemna, white teeth, their eyes were watching god, the alchemist, steal this book, fouceaults pendulum, old man and the sea, biography of janis joplin...think and grow rich..siddharta,...dostoyevsky's the gambler......animal farm ...freakonomics...(read that book Please!!)....how capitalism underdeveloped africa!! I read....even books that turn out to be lame!!
Heroes:
My Mom, Rick James, Noam Chomsky.