music- making it, listening to it, studying it, writing about it (for ChicagoInnerview, AltPress.com , CHIRP ), seeing it live and just generally keeping up. i also enjoy watching all kinds of films, taking pictures and following baseball.
real people. no fakes. and dime after a blacktooth grin.
P*O*S, cage, dosh, why?, aesop rock, el-p, sole, cLOUDDEAD, themselves, 13 and GOD, subtle, atmosphere, sage francis, grand buffet, mac lethal, awol one, the streets, kano, the mitchell brothers, professor green, example, lady sovereign, audio bullys, dizzee rascal, spankrock, beans, ETC... mastodon, high on fire, big business, darkest hour, ISIS, black dahlia murder, pig destroyer, rwake, skeletonwitch, genghis tron, the red chord, bible of the devil, lamb of god, deftones, pantera, down, shadows fall, dillinger escape plan, early man, pelican, lair of the minotaur, ETC... old favorites: reverend horton heat, clutch, supersuckers, the jesus lizard, scratch acid, motorhead, helmet, ween, johnny cash, john coltrane, miles davis, split lip rayfield, hank III, los straitjackets, fugazi, jon spencer blues explosion, pegboy, naked raygun, big black/rapeman/shellac, dead steelmill, the arrivals, apocalypse hoboken, screeching weasel, bjork, portishead, basement jaxx, cassius, anything wu-tang, nirvana, melvins, mudhoney, tad, alice in chains, soundgarden, green river, ETC...
Star Wars, Lord Of The Rings, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Ghost Dog, Belly, Bad Lieutenant -->, Falling Down, Swingers, Old School, Orange County, Igby Goes Down, Waking Life, Hype!, Fugazi's Instrument, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, MirrorMask, Pan's Labyrinth, Blow, Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan, Scratch, just to name a few...
The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Six Feet Under, Sopranos, The First 48
any one i can finish.
Ryan Russell, photographer-->
Glen E. Friedman, photographer -->
Charles Peterson, photographer -->
Mike Skinner aka The Streets
the one and only Gary Wilson