Kool Bob Love @ APT 6/30/08 profile picture

Kool Bob Love @ APT 6/30/08

aka Bobbito Garcia aka Make It Happen aka Soul Food Bob aka the Kool Water Man; formerly known as DJ

About Me


Stevie Wonder live at "Wonder-Full" 6/14/08 with DJ Spinna and Bobbito Garcia a.k.a. Kool Bob Love
http://www.bouncemag.com http://www.myspace.com/bobbitogarcia http://www.youtube.com/user/bobbitogarcia www.rushhourmusic.com..

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"it's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me . . . and i'm feeling good." nina simone.

job titles include DJ, writer, basketball player/performer/announcer, magazine editor at large, TV personality/creative producer, photographer, designer, consultant, actor, and dancer.i don't own a cellphone, and love getting up to flip over a vinyl record to hear the second side of an album.

My Interests

i'd love to have a chocolate chip cookie right now

I'd like to meet:

positive, progressive, independent and open-minded people, and the genius who invented odwalla mango tango juice

Music:

Rich Medina, DJ Spinna, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Nina Simone, Gil Scott-Heron, Labelle, Minnie Riperton, George Benson, Donny Hathaway, Level 42, Sting, Osunlade, Kenny Dope, Louie Vega, Tato Torres y YERBABUENA, Eddie Palmieri & the Harlem River Drive, Mongo Santamaria, Nicola Conte, Red Astaire, Syreeta Wright, Air (Embryo Records), DJ Sucio Smash, DJ Eli, DJ Eclipse, DJ Lord Sear, DJ Citizen Kane, DJ Roc Raida, DJ Premier, DJ Pete Rock, DJ Stretch Armstrong, Large Professor, Nas, Organized Konfusion, Public Enemy, Kool G. Rap, Common, the Roots, Treacherous Three, Run DMC, Ultra Mag, De La, Bran Nubian, Sy Smith, Nadirah Shakoor, Jill Scott, Patato y Totico, dead prez, Soul Searchers, James Brown, Antibalas, Daktaris, Myriam Makeeba, Hugh Masekela, Tony Allen, Fela, Jamiroquia, Brand New Heavies, Sade, Angie Stone, Donnie, D'Angelo, Dwele, Platinum Pied Pipers, Jon Lucien, Jiva, Build An Arc, Sharon Jones, Mos Def, Tito Puente, Cal Tjader, Chumbo Silva, Afrika Bambaataa, Kool Herc, Giles Peterson, Mad Mats, DJ Typhoon, Candela Recordings (Viejo San Juan), Lenar/Soul Fire Records, Cymande, Baby Huey, Black Heat, Lenny Kravitz, Incognito, Jhelisa, Ubiquity Records, Tru Thoughts Records, Kajmere Records, Reel People, Jag, De Lata, 4hero, Sean Escroffrey, Yoruba Records, GAMM Records, Raw Fusion Records, Stones Throw Records, ABB Records, Choklate, Motionlab, Randy Watson Experience

Movies:

"Yo Soy Boricua!" (documentary), "Palante, Siempre Palante!" (documentary), "Dave Chapelle's Block Party," "Hoosiers," "One on One," "Hoop Dreams," "And 1 Mixtape Vol. 1," "Coach Carter," "Sunset Park," "Style Wars," "Wildstyle," "Freshest Kids," "Freestyle," "Breath Control," "The Battle of Algiers," "Motorcycle Diaries," "Raising Victor Vargas," "Central Station," "City of God," "Black Orpheus (the original)," "Buena Vista Social Club," "Y Tu Mama Tambien," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Jails, Hospitals, & Hip Hop: The Movie," "Il Postino," "Hair," "Planet of the Apes," "Serpico," "Dog Day Afternoon," "Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3," "Prison Song," "Eddie Murphy's Raw," "Volver," "East of Havana," "Bling," "Bella," "Gunnin' For That #1 Spot," "La Misma Luna," "Maldeamores"

Television:

"It's the Shoes," "And 1's Streetball," "Summerball," "Global Invasion," not a TV person at all other than the shows i've worked on.

Books:

"Albizu Campos/Puerto Rican Revolutionary," "Where'd You Get Those? New York City's Sneaker Culture 1960-1987," "All About Love," "The Kite Runner," "The Alchemist," "Siddhartha," "Heaven Is A Playground," "The In-Your-Face Basketball Book," "Big Game, Small World," "When I Was Puerto Rican," "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life," "Subway Art"

Heroes:

Ramona Eliza Garcia-Zayas-Ortiz y Ramon Garcia-Ortiz (RIP), Pedro Albizu Campos (PR Revolutionary-RIP), Roberto Clemente (PR Baseball Legend and Activist-RIP), Stevie Wonder, Earl "The Goat" Manigualt (Playground Basketball Legend-RIP), Crazy Legs, Rich Medina, Rosie Perez, Richie Perez (PR Activist-RIP), Rita Moreno (PR Actress, first entertainer to ever win a Tony, Grammy, Emmy, and Oscar), Gordon Parks, and You (for reading this far!)

My Blog

I’m In A New Movie! Plus APT 6/30, Happy Feet 7/6

Check me out in the basketball documentary "Gunnin' For That 1 Spot" which comes out in theaters nationally this Friday! Here's the trailer:http://www.bouncemag.com/2008/06/24/adam-yauch-baske tball-do...
Posted by Kool Bob Love @ APT 6/30/08 on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:52:00 PST

YOU OWN TOO MANY SNEAKERS . . . DONATE SOME!!! HERE'S HOW . . .

Hoops 4 Hope game in Africa. Peep 42 gold who's playing shoeless. You can help . . .Read info on these non-profit organizations below, all of which collect sneakers for needy, sometimes shoeless, kids...
Posted by Kool Bob Love @ APT 6/30/08 on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:21:00 PST

Live Recorded "Wonder-Full" Set

"Wonder-Full" w/ DJ Spinna and Bobbito Garcia live recorded set in San Francisco 2006:http://wonderfull.imeem.com/music/dtCKbktC/dj_spinna_bo bbito_wonderfull_san_francisco_2006_1of4/
Posted by Kool Bob Love @ APT 6/30/08 on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:06:00 PST

PRESS BIO

Bobbito Garcia's Biography:Manhattan, NYC native Bobbito Garcia a.k.a. Kool Bob Love is a Co-Founder/Editor at Large of Bounce magazine, and the critically acclaimed author of "Where'd You Get Those? ...
Posted by Kool Bob Love @ APT 6/30/08 on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:41:00 PST

links to recent interviews

http://www.sneakerfreaker.com/feature/2007-best-sneakers/4/h ttp://formatmag.com/features/other/bobbito-garcia/http://www .kixandthecity.com/2007/10/22/wkatc/http://www.sitv.com/blog s/whatshot/2007/08/2...
Posted by Kool Bob Love @ APT 6/30/08 on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 08:22:00 PST

My favorite spots in

-Cemi Underground, 112th St. and Lexington. The greatest Boricua-owned boutique in the World! I LOVE THIS STORE! Buy Books, DVDs, Art, T-Shirts, even name belts. Check www.cemiunderground.com for the ...
Posted by Kool Bob Love @ APT 6/30/08 on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 04:06:00 PST

THE MOST IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW I'VE SHARED IN A WHILE

http://www.baobabconnections.org/country/?id=10105&country=3 3&PHPSESSID=fffe58114facc76fcddaba6f0dca33a7
Posted by Kool Bob Love @ APT 6/30/08 on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:12:00 PST

listen to one of my sets, recorded live in houston, tx, 2006

www.stackcache.blogspot.com, click on radio mix ..3
Posted by Kool Bob Love @ APT 6/30/08 on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:26:00 PST