.. Marbles My Homie Made
Art as Survival. music. live music. glass art. painters and mixed-media artists who barely get by on art as a career-- not because of the money, but because the other stuff they used to do to survive was stupid. D.I.Y. gotta make it happen yourself. entrepeneurialism. learning.
more amazing people. i am surrounded by so many. it blows my mind how many great people i know, but never enough! please, introduce yourself, new potential friend.
this list will barely scratch the surface- and in no particular order... anything Mike Watt related, Petra Haden and anything related, Wesley Willis (and Fiasco), TinderBundle, Ween, the Ziggens, Shapeshifters, Frank Jordan, the Peekers, Bargain Music, Dr. Dog, 3rd Grade Teacher, the Prix, Gomez, Beta Band, 2Mex, De La Soul, the Pixies, Chali2na (J5, Ozo too), Blackalicious, Latyrx, Jeff Buckley, My Morning Jacket, Tenacious D, Stevie Wonder, Lyle Lovett, Los Lobos, G Love, the Refused, Weakerthans, Kostars, DJ Hoppa, Sublime, Monsieur Leroc, Relish, the Applicators, Spider, so much reggae (from Bob to Half Pint to Tenor Saw to Tosh to Barington to Jimmy Clif to Mishka... on and on), Meat Puppets (and Eyes Adrift and Volcano), Secret Hate, Lauryn Hill (the first one), Hammerbox, Juliana Hatfield, Radiohead, Soul Coughing, lots of the old crooners, Magic Bullet Theory, Flaming Lips, Haiku D'eTat (and all related- Mikah9, Aceyalone Abstract Rude, Freestyle Fellowship, etc...), Adam Hirsh Project, Feist, Broken Social Scene, the Teeth, The High Strung, Capitol Years, National Eye, The Mars Volta, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Stooges, JSBX, Chainsmokers, Spearhead, Oingo Boingo, Dramarama, Atmosphere, Visionaries, Motion Man, The Smiths, Beatles, Tom Waits, American Music Club, Barenaked Ladies, Awol One, Radioinactive, Existereo, Life Rexall, Die Young, Akuma, Circus, Andre Afram Asmar, Transducer, LA Jae, Daddy Kev, Deeskee, Pigeon John, Dulok Shaman, Nobs/Eibol/Gyro, Mos Def, Talib, Roots, Cody Chestnutt, Hank III and Assjack, and a bunch of CDs in Sparkle's collection that i'll have to thumb back through for reference.
wow this list now too, suckin up the brain power at myspace- here goes... Buena Vista Social Club, American Beauty, Almost Famous, Amelie, Crouching Tiger, Stories Tales Lies & Exggerations, the Jerk, CB4, Renaissance Man, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Magnolia, Rushmore, Hoosiers, the Contender, love all the Michael Moore stuff, American Movie, and some other stuff.
sports. a lot of sports. especially when i have a personal stake in it or its my home team or i get to argue with the tv screen with someone else's opinion about a team or a player. all of the above on politics too. and poker shows. MXC. shows that are lists about music. VH1 Love the 70s-80s-90s series. the Hip Hop Show on KJLA.
dont have the attention span to read. i try, but then i forget.