Where to start? I love music, but will go into that elsewhere. I am a vinyl junkie; I have over 22,000 records. I love playing music for people, and have for a long time. Yes, I am a dj, although rusty as hell! I love the martial arts, and have studied many different forms. Mostly Japanese styles. I go out quite frequently, because nothing is worse than missing greatness. How many times have you heard, "We went to this party, and this person was there." Or, "This dj was there and he set the party off!" I am also a huge fan of movies, and watch many films. I tend to me a Film Noir person, but a good film is a good film. More on that below. I also read books like there is no tomorrow, and try to read more books than I read the year before. My best is 56, and I don't think I will ever reach that again. More on that later. And is there any food better than sushi? And Reggae On The River (ROTR!!) I am an all LA sports team fanatic. UCLA, Dodgers, Lakers, Kings, and as soon as we get a new NFL team, I will be a fan. College hoops as good as it gets, and I am MIA during March Madness.
Conscious headz who are good company. No drama.
There is so much good music out there, it's hard to narrow it down. (This list is going to keep growing contantly!) I try to see as many live shows as I can, and love so many different types, it's sick. A Genre list works for me. Hip-Hop: I try to listen to more concsious-vibe feelin' shit. I rarely listen to commercial hip-hop as most of it is wiggedy-whack!! You might see some artists that are played commercially, but 90% of it is their old stuff. This may take some time, so grab a drink, light a spliff and soak it in! Madlib, Jurassic 5, Dilated, The Pharcyde, Seven L & Esoteric, Del, Hiero, Freestyle Fellowship, Prince Paul, Beasties, early BEP, Pep Love, Chali 2Na, J-Live, Vitamin D, De La Soul, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Black Star, Aceyalone, Thes One, People Under The Stairs, The Visionaries, Globe Troddas, N8E, Motion Man and Kutmasta Kurt, Dan Nakumura (Dan the Automator), Handsome Boy Modeling School, Pep Love, Kool Keith, Alkoholics, Common, Cypress Hill, Gorillas, Fugees, Too Short, Method Man, Nu-Mark, Nu-Mark and Pomo, Cut Chemist, Dj Shadow, Ztrip, Dj P, Haul & Mason, Stet, Ugly Duckling, Tribe Called Quest, LMNO, Wu-Tang (Some), Key Kool, 2nd II None, Dj Quik (First 2 Records), Crown City Rockers, Cypress Hill, Das Efx, Digital Underground, Dj Krush, Sage Francis, Dj Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Dr. Dre (Up to the 90's), EX2, Father MC, Fu-SchnikensHeavy D, Early Ice Cube and NWA, Jaylib, Jay Z, The Roots, The Gift Shop, Xclan, J-Love, Dragon Ash, Kam, Kanye (Some, not all!), Kwame, Lords of the Underground, Lunar Heights, The Procussions, Mixmaster Mike, Money Mark, Kid Koala, Move.Meant, Nappy Roots, Muggs, Luniz, Souls of Mischief, Run DMC, LA Dream Team, Freestyle, Pretty Tony, Eric B and Rakim, Doug E. Fresh, Black Sheep, Masta Ace, MC Breed, Peanut Butter Wolf, The Boogie Boys, Rodney O & Joe Cooley, Egyptian Lover, Digable Planets, Naught By Nature, Xecutioners, Avalanches, Solesides/Quannum (Lyrics Born, Lateef, Latryx, Blackalicious, Gift of Gab, etc.), Ozomatli, Public Enemy, Slick Rick, Cocoa Brovas, Beat Junkies, Arkia Bamabaataa, Hashim, Cybortron, Newcleus, Planet Patrol, Twilight 22, Whodini, Kurtis Blow, Rockmaster Scott & The Dynamic 3, MC Shan, Grandmaster Flash, Gangstarr, Defari, Swollen Members, EPMD, Big Daddy Kane, BDP & KRS One, King Tee, Early Xzibit, Puma Strut, Strange Fruit Project, Nice & Smooth, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, 3rd Bass, Slum Village, Little Brother, Babu, Roots Manuva, Audio Two, Time Machine, Scatterbrain, The DOC, Ice T, World Class Wrecking Crew, Orbit (Re-Orbit), and just about anything on the Ubiquity Label.Reggae/Ska-Bob Marley of course, plus just about all of his sons. Damian, Kyman, Ziggy, etc. Beenie Man, Mr. Vegas, Dawn Penn, Ka'au Crater Boys, Jimmy Cliff, Tony Rebel, Mad Lion, Yellowman, Maxipriest, Eek A Mouse, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Toots and the Maytals, Israel Vibration, Diana King, Born Jamerican, Luciano, Scotty, Hepcat, Desmond Dekker, The Melodians...Soul/R&B/Jazz/Funk - The Rebirth, Breakestra, Guy, Aaliyah, John Lucien, Al Green, Ray Charles, Jimmy Smith, Fatback Band, The Blackbyrds, Lyn Collins, Young Holt Unlimited, Curtis Mayfield, Lenny Welch, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Minnie Riperton, Kool And The Gang, The Gap Band, The Dazz Band, Vicki Anderson, Aaron Hall, Alphonse Mouzon, Atlantic Star, Barry White, Blackstreet, Luther Vandross, Next, Brownstone, Deborah Cox, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ella Fitzgerald, TLC, Eric Benet, Freddie Jackson, Parliament Funkadelic, Ohio Players, Heather Heddley, James Ingram, Janet Jackson (Early), Des'ree, Michael Jackson (Early), Sy Smith, The Jackson 5, Quincy Jones, Jill Scott, Jodeci, Joss Stone (1st Album), Zapp, Warrior, Wild Orchid, Stylistics, Dramatics, The Mills Brothers. John Coltrane, Keith Sweat, Koffee Brown, Les Nubians, Gerald Levert, Lionel Richie, Marvin Gaye, Mary J. Blige, Monica, Musiq, Rashaan Patterson, New Edition, Oleta Adams, Prince, BBD, Sade, Sunshine Anderson, SWV, Tamia, Stevie Wonder, Tevin Campbell, The Commodores, Rufus, Tower Of Power, Lakeside, Isley Brothers, Issac Hayes, Hot Chocolate, Billie Holiday, Noelle Scaggs, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, Anita Baker, Keb Darge, Erykah Badu, Chaka Kahn, Etta James, Evelyn Champagne King, Roberta Flack, Troop, Basic Black, Lucy Pearl, Tony Toni Tone, Howard Hewitt, After 7, Alicia Keys, City High, Mystic, Lenny Williams, Smokey Robinson, Soul For Real, War, Soul II Soul...Rock/Alternative/Metal/Punk: Tool and more Tool! (No Perfect Circle though!) Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Elvis, Offspring, The Ramones, White Stripes, Social D, Sublime, Dirk Diggler (You Got The Touch), Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Audioslave, White Zombie, Doobie Brothers, Cheap Trick, Kansas, Metallica, Primus, System Of A Down, Sponge, Phish, Incubus, 311, Lit, The Eagles, Queen, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Kansas, Beatles, Santana, AC-DC, Van Halen, Judas Priest, Ozzy, Bad Religion, David Gray, Stone Temple Pilots, Weezer, A.F.I., Ann Marie Montade, U2, Boston, Brett Dennen, Boston, CKY, Everclear, Foo Fighters, Probot, Tenacious D, Helmet, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Jimmy Buffet, Lenny Karvitz, Living Colour, Pennywise, Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Pink Floyd, Face to Face, Danzig, Samhain, Smashing Pumpkins, Bloodhound Gang, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Vines, Van Morrison...This List is a constant WIP (WORK IN PROGRESS)
Memento, Star Wars (1st 3 are much better than the last 2), Yojimbo, Rashomon, Seven Samurai (Just about every Akira Kurosawa ever made), The Indiana Jones Movies, The Incredibles, Saw, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lethal Weapon Movies, Being John Malkovich, Rear Window, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Full Metal Jacket, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, Resevoir Dogs, Keepin Time, Scratch, Shaolin Soccer, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, To Catch A Thief, Vertigo, The Princess Bride, Braveheart, Duck Til Dawn, El Mariachi, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Desperado, The Shining, Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Menace II Society, Enter The Dragon, Top Gun, Ninja Scroll, Army Of Darkness & Evil Dead Movies, Last Samurai, The Usual Suspects, LA Confidential, The Matrix, Product Placement, Ghost In The Shell, Akira, My Neighbor Totoro, Big Fish, Dogma, Willow, Gladiator, Nightmare Before Christmas, Blade, The Sixth Sense, Princess Mononoke, Punch Drunk Love, Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Saving Private Ryan, The Last Dragon, Unforgiven, The Goonies, Scarface, Good Fellas, The Godfather, Billy Jack, Spiderman, Breath Control, Wild Style, Beat Street, The Harder They Come, A Clockwork Orange, North By Northwest, Battle Royale, Requiem for A Dream, Kids, Game of Death...Work In Progress
Band of Brothers, The Dave Chappelle Show, College Hoops and just about any sports games. Boxing, Pride and UFC, South Park, Beavis & Butthead, The Sopranos, many Animal Planet, Discovery and History Channel shows.WIP
Catcher In The Rye, Franny & Zoey, Raise High The Roof Beam; all J.D. Salinger. The Bible (It's a good read, I am far from Religious), Microserfs (Copeland), If Chins Could Kill: Confessions Of A B-Movie Actor (Bruce Campbell), Tell No One (Coben), Almost all Stephen King, Tom Clancy, and Thomas Harris. Last Night A Dj Saved My Life, Red Harvest (Hammett), To Have and Have Not (Hemingway), La Bete Humaine (Zola), Sole Provider (All About Nike), The Bhagavad-Gita, Brighton Rock (Greene), The Forged Coupon (Tolstoy), The Basketball Diaries (Carroll), Black Hawk Down (Bowden), Band Of Brothers (Ambrose), The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Series (Adams), Sanctuary & Requiem For A Nun (Faulkner), Love By The Glass (Gaiter & Brecher)This is what came to the top of my head and will keep growing.