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About Me

I have a big show coming up in August, the return of Roachella!:
I'm a rapper named CLEEN. I'm in a crew called Life for the Better. You can go to: www.lftb.net for more on THAT, but as for ME as a PERSON...
I've been told I'm funny (?).
Every Saturday, I get my head buzzed and go out for kung pao chicken.
Oh yeah, and in May 2004 I finished my first official cd, entitled 'Audiobesity'. It's OK I guess. The few people that have it seem to like it, I just wish more people had it. I also made myself a seperate music page: check it out here There's 3 brand new songs on there, as well as 2 old ones.
As far as my next solo cd goes, I finished it last Febuary: It's called 'Old Man Winter' due to my crankiness when I'm babysitting the younger members of my crew. I'm sort of like the den-mother of LFTB. Or wait, that should read den-FATHER...oh well, fuck it. And just for the record, the work-a-holic in me refuses to sit still. I'm already working on my next cd...
But until that's done, I made a cd with my homie PLURAL CLARITY . We call ourselves Thee Unseen Tekneeks. Here's the cover pic: It's title 'And onward goes this thing of ours...' refers to the fact that the songs were recorded in April of '04 and we never forgot how good they were. It just took a while for us to formally release them. But since Thee Unseen Tekneeks cd was a limited pressing (for now) it's not for sale at cdbaby.com as of yet. You can only get it at shows, but I'm working on changing that.
But in the meantime my 2 current cd's are now available at www.cdbaby.com!!!Go HERE to purchase 'Audiobesity', and HERE to get 'Old Man Winter'.
I also made myself a profile on GIZMO (it's a myspace clone), on BLOGGER just because the blogs I write on here aren't enough sometimes, and I pretty consistently add stuff to my FLICKR photo page. Check them out if you like...
Also, I'd like to do more shows, especially now that it's summer. So promoters interested in adding me to one of your show line-up's, get at me. I'm willing to travel.
Oh yeah one more thing, I hAtE iT WhEn fOoLS tYpE lIkE ThIs - reading that shit gives me a headache

My Interests

Let's see here: Going to concerts, the bunny from Donnie Darko, 'Disco Stu' from The Simpsons, Denny's waitresses, grafitti, getting born...oh, and watching the freaked out facial expressions my friends make when I tell them I have'nt seen any of the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, any of the 'Harry Potter' movies, or any of the 'Matrix' movies, or either one of the 'X-Men' movies and I have no intention to. Shit's hilarious.

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Anticon (all inclinations, especially Deep Puddle Dynamics and cLOUDDEAD), Hot Karl, Sage Francis, R.A. the Rugged Man, Buck 65, Sixtoo, Atmosphere, Styles of Beyond, Lexicon, The Game, Aesop Rock, Galapagos4 (Qwel, Robust, Maker, Mestizo, Meaty Ogre, etc...), Ugly Duckling, Edan, Dorian Three, Glue, Eyedea and Abilities, Saul Williams, System of a Down, Tom Waits, The Donnas, DJ Z-Trip, Deftones, Blood of Abraham, Kanye West, the White Stripes, early J5, Lupe Fiasco, Outkast, Rachel Kann, Nas, Chino XL, early Ras Kass, early Saafir, early Dilated Peoples, early Talib Kweli...get the picture? Good shit.

Go to my MUSIC PAGE and see a dope collage of the album covers I grew up listening to.
And if my TV ever goes out, I can just watch these...until Youtube yanks 'em off their site.
Bastards.

Movies:

Deep Cover, 187, Falling Down, Heathers, Training Day, Love and a .45, Taxi Driver, Style Wars, Se7en, Fight Club, Usual Suspects, Wildstyle, Prozac Nation, Miranda, Pumpkin, Buffalo '66 (pretty much any movie with Christina Ricci in it...after The Opposite of Sex. Nothing before that, I'm not R.Kelly), Novacain, Secratery, Goodfellas, Boondock Saints, 3 O'clock High, La Haine, anything directed by Stanley Kubrick or Larry Clark, Kill Bill (both volumes), City of God, live Hip-Hop DVD's like Product Placement, the 1st Anticon anniversary (the one at Slim's), and KEEPINTIME, any 80's movies (The Goonies, Just One of the Guys, Legend of Billie Jean, Wierd Science, any of the one's with John Cusack or Molly Ringwald...), Match Point, Capote, Walk the Line, The Departed, The Last King Of Scotland...

Television:

Married with Children re-runs, Friends re-runs, The Simpsons, Family Guy, WWE Raw and Smackdown, Curb your Enthusiasm, Chappelles Show (when it was on), those 'Popular' season dvd's (don't laugh), The Office, 30 Rock...

Books:

Anything written by Mick Foley or Saul Williams, 'The Dirt' by Motley Crue, 'the pelt' by Adam 'Dose One' Drucker, Adbusters magazine, Urb magazine (even though they dissed me), Fuck You Heros, Fuck You Too, 'Back in the Days' (80's Hip-Hop photo book), 'Martha Cooper: Hip-Hop Files' (another photo book), 'Post No Bills' by Shepard Fairy

Heroes:

Mick Foley

My Blog

Jay-Z

I didn't want to write this blog. Really, I didn't, but after a recent cd purchase...I felt like I had to. Over the years, Jay-Z didn't have a harsher critic than me. I started off just not liking the...
Posted by Cleen on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:37:00 PST

30

As far as birthday's go, for ME anyways, they've never been terribly significant.I didn't get a car on my 16th...And those that know me know I'm not a drinker, so I didn't get shitfaced on my 18th or ...
Posted by Cleen on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 03:35:00 PST

Twilight gridlock.

So, I had me a pretty busy day yesterday... I planned to go to the housewarming party for my homie Gadget, who had recently moved to Oceanside. Earlier in the day, he told me he got off work around 5p...
Posted by Cleen on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:23:00 PST

I'm not quite sure this is blog-worthy, but...

I had me a pretty full day yesterday. I came home from work Friday exhausted, so I went to my folks house for dinner cuz I haven't seen them in a while, and when I arrived home at about 6pm, I crashed...
Posted by Cleen on Sun, 11 Sep 2005 01:43:00 PST

Damn Karma monster is still looking for me...

OK, last night I went down to Crenshaw again for the comedy/music talent showcase my homie Curtis Arsenal throws every Tuesday. If you haven't already read it, peep my 'Karma monster wears a red banda...
Posted by Cleen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Fuck the House of Blues (from a fans perspective).

OK, I had a ticket for the sold out Common show tonight. The doors opened at 8pm, I got there at 7pm for a good spot. And they DID let us in at 8pm, but just like the last 4 shows I been to at the HOB...
Posted by Cleen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Digable Planets reunion show.

Like I posted earlier, the Digable Planets reunion show was tonight...and I can honestly say it was the closest thing to a perfect evening for me. Breakestra opened up the show, and they were great...
Posted by Cleen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Karma monster wears a red bandana.

What is it with me and Bloods? First a few months ago, I get my car washed by some Bloods for one of their dead homies. And I guess I didn't leave a big enough donation, cuz the next day, it rained.....
Posted by Cleen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Cleen vs. Lake Tahoe (I'm back, y'all...)

Yup, I'm back from hell. I didn't know there was so much snow in hell. (For those that don't know, a DJ/promoter named Shawn found me on here and asked me to perform at a club he throws up in Lake ...
Posted by Cleen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Finally, a girl that likes me for ME!

I haven't given her a name yet...what do you think? 88888888:::::8::::::::::::::::88888888888888888888 ________888_8:::888888:::::::::::::::::::::::::88888888888__ _888 ___________88:::::8888888...
Posted by Cleen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST