variety & options, visual stuffs like:
Audrey Kawasaki
Tim Hawkinson
Daniel Firman
& various visual propaganda:
Banksy
street art (More Banksy)
???
sonic dissonance, sonic harmony, mnemonic, extant, celebrant, brilliant, Berlin, hopping on a plane, train or automobile and breaking out of this city whenever I can, effective ways to learn other languages, subcultures, defying gravity, electronics, deja vu, meeting someone in a dream, then meeting them in person after, yummy food that's easy to prepare, good wine, budget travel, mechanical quantums, no religion, bootleg DVDs from China that cost $2, why cheap CD-R's suck, when sun-rays pierce through grey clouds, Asian furniture, how camoflauge never goes out of style (at least one other good military contribution besides the Internet)
transcendence, transmigration, overcoming stagnation, the present situation, counterparts, parallel universes, alternate universes, alternate current/direct current, electronics, technology, emerging technologies, perception, energy - both kinetic and potential, building up, breaking down, tweaking...
I'd like to meet:
But as for people who are actually still alive: counterparts that will - and
to - inspire.
You know - the good kind of exchange.
Music:
funky, soulful, noisy, rhythmic,
chaotic, classic, ethnic, electric, eclectic....
For some of the stuff that rocks
my speakers and headphones:
Aesop Rock, Alex Smoke, Amadou & Mariam, Aphex Twin, Arthur the Geniuses, Bad Brains, Bjork, Black Ghosts, Black Sabbath, Booka Shade, Brian Eno, Broken Social Scene, The Budos Band, Buraka Som Sistema, Cesaria Evora, DJ Shadow, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, EBB, Eric B. & Rakim, ESG, Glass Candy, Haale, Holly Golightly, The Go! Team, Hall & Oates, Home Video, Hot Chip, Irma Thomas, Iron & Wine, Jim Guthrie, Joe Bataan, Johnny Cash, Jose Gonzalez, Juan Luis Guerra & 4.40, Kenna, Kings of Convenience, Kraftwerk, Kudu, LCD Soundsytem, Lee Perry & the Upsetters, Lhasa de Sela, Lila Downs, Madlib, The Mars Volta, M.Ward, M.I.A. Mad Professor, Madlib, Manu Chao, Mellowdrone, Ministry, Modest Mouse, Mr. Scruff, Natacha Atlas, Neko Case, Nick Drake, Nouvelle Vague, Ojos de Brujo, Orishas, Osunlade, PJ Harvey, Polvo, Postal Service, Prefuse 73, Prince, Radiohead, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Sade, Sam Cooke, Santogold, Si*Se, Tears for Fears, Tiefschwarz, Trentemøller, TV on the Radio, VETO, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zap Mama...and then some....
Movies:
Pan's Labyrinth, Hero, In the Mood For Love, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I Heart Huckabees, Baraka, Blade Runner, City of God, City of Lost Children, Metropolis, The Secretary, Amelie, Life Is Beautiful, Henry & June, Blade Runner, Back To The Future 1 & 2, Terminator 1 & 2....Matrix...Waking Life...Whale Rider..Wargames, Tron...
Television:
Heroes...whenever it gets back on the air.
Books:
Dictionary. Generally, I dig
non-fiction - or fictionalized non-fiction. Memoirs too, like: , The Lover, Girl,Interrupted and Kicks Is Kicks by Delle Brehan (when I
saw the cover to this - I thought - "Oh - soooo cheezy.", Yes - it looks trashy, but how can
you go wrong with the autobiography of a dominatrix in the 1950s?). Some Augusten Burroughs too. Also - for
my psycho-spiritual, quantum physical, believe-in-miracles itchies:
The Holographic
Universe by Michael Talbot. And then there's Shel Silverstein. There are a lot
of books I want to read. I need to get my eyes and head out of too much information (i.e. something not non-fiction...aghh)
In and out of
Heroes:
My home-boys Petey P., RB and The Buck Man
And for DJing:
