I live by the following 3 creeds:
"If I'm still alive in the morning, then I'll know I'm not dead."
"I'm pursuin these broads, everyone I ain't tryin to fuck, I wanna feel female presence and conversation a touch."
"When a man get off work he gotta smoke somethin, he gotta drink somethin."
I'd like to meet:
I apologize to you if I don't seem real eager to jump into a forced, awkward intimate situation that people like to call dating. I don't like the feeling. You're sitting there, you're wondering, "Do I have food on my face? Am I eating? Am I talking too much? Are they talking enough? Am I interested? I'm not really interested. Should I play like I'm interested? But I'm not that interested, but I think she might be interested. But do I want to be interested? But now she's not interested." So now, all of sudden I'm starting to get interested. And when am I supposed to kiss her? Do I have to wait for the door? 'Cause then it's awkward, it's like "Well, good night." Do you do like the ass-out hug? Where you hug each other and your ass sticks out because you're trying not to get too close. Or do you go right in and just kiss 'em on the lips or don't kiss 'em at all? It's very difficult trying to read the situation and all the while you're just really wondering, "Are we gonna get hopped enough to make some bad decisions?" Perhaps play a little game called "Just the Tip," just for a second, just to see how it feels."
Music:
The Meters, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway, Eric B & Rakim, Outkast, KRS-One, Dead Prez, Digable Planets, Jackson 5, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Pharcyde, Souls of Mischief, James Brown, A Tribe Called Quest, ESG, 2 Live Crew, Uncle Luke, Jeru the Damaja (The Sun Rises in the East), !!!, 2Pac, Biggie, Jimmy Cliff, Lee 'Scratch' Perry & the Upsetters, The Roots, Common, The Kinks, ¡MAYDAY!, Rage Against the Machine, The Stooges, Iggy Pop, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Dresden Dolls, Elliott Smith, The Faint, Evolver, The Fall, 13th Floor Elevators, De La Soul, Aretha Franklin, The Spinners, Joe Battan, Ray Barreto, Tito Puente, Brand Nubian, The Clash, Gang of Four, Swell Maps, The Rapture, LCD Soundsystem, Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Band of Gypsys, Regina Spektor, Joni Mitchell, Joanna Newsom, Bad Brains, Art Brut, The Au Pairs, Beck, Black Flag, T.Rex, Beach Boys, The Beatles, Bloc Party, The Go! Team, Sereena Maneesh, The Gossip, Gorillaz, Hot Chip, Flaming Lips, Nasty Nas, Pixies, Arctic Monkeys, Guided by Voices, Organized Konfusion, Pharoah Monch, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, BlackStar, Velvet Underground, Joy Division, Liars, The Libertines, Chromeo, Hector Lavoe, The 5 Dimension, Fela Kuti, Erykah Badu, The Ramones, Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd., Weezer, Gangstarr, 101'ers, Sexor Suicide, The Shit, The Grundle Wipes, the Shrills, Buzzcocks, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Television, Can, Camp Lo, Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Talking Heads, Blondie, Debbie Harry, Cachao, Ibrahim Ferrer, Celia Cruz, Beny More, jens Lekman, Bobby Dylan, Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Charles Mingues, Cat Stevens, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cody Chestnutt, Cocteau Twins, Commodores, Cream, White Shoes & The Couples Company, The White Stripes, The Strokes, Van Morrison, The Who, The The, Yes, Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Metallica, Jean Grae, Jeff Buckley, Pantera, Sepultura, Slayer, Nine Inch Nails, The Doors, Primus, Goodie M.O.B., Gnarles Barkley, Trick Daddy, TV on the Radio, Of Montreal, Wolf Parade, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Tony Touch, Jefferson Airplane, Magazine, Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Melle Mel, Ice T, Ice Cube, N.W.A., Dr. Dre, Snoop,
Movies:
What I'm trying to tell you is it takes a lot of the good old American green stuff to make one of these things. You've got your camera you got your film, you got your lights, your sound, your lab costs, your developing, your synching and your editing. Before you turn around you spent maybe thousands on a movie. But if you make a good one there's practically no end to how much money you can make. But you got to get the people in the theater. You need the big dicks, the big tits & how do you keep them in the theater after they've come? With beauty...and with acting. I understand you've got to get them in the theater. You got to keep the seats full, but I don't want to make a film where they show up, sit down, jack off and get up and get out before the story ends. It is my dream, it is my goal, it is my idea to make a film that the story sucks them in and when they spurt out that joy juice they just got to sit in it. They can't move until they find out how the story ends. I want to make a film like that. And I understand they have to make films, I've made them myself that are a few laughs, everybody fucks their brains out and that's fine, but it's my dream to make a film that is true and right and dramatic.
Television:
I was an Associate Producer at NBC Morning News. I was a kid, twenty-six years old. Anyway, they were building the lower level on the George Washington Bridge, and we were doing a remote there. Except nobody told me! 10 after 7 in the morning, I get a call, "Where the hell are you? You're supposed to be on the George Washington Bridge!" I jump out of bed, throw on my raincoat over my pajamas run down the stairs I get out in the street I flag a cab I jump in I say, "Take me to the middle of the George Washington Bridge!" the driver turns around he says, 'Don't do it buddy' he says, 'You're a young man you got your whole life ahead of you!' I'm going to blow my brains out right on the air, right in the middle of the seven o'clock news. It'll get a hell of a rating, I'll tell you that, a fifty share easy. We could make a series out of it. Suicide of the Week. Hell, why limit ourselves? Execution of the Week, the Madame Defarge Show! Every Sunday night, bring your knitting and watch somebody get guillotined, hung, electrocuted, gassed. For a logo, we'll have some brute with a black hood over his head. Think of the spin-offs, Rape of the Week, Terrorist of the Week! Every week we throw some Christians to the lions! Fantastic! The Death Hour! I love it! Suicides, assassinations, mad bombers, Mafia hitmen, murder in the barbershop, human sacrifices in witches' covens, automobile smashups. The Death Hour! A great Sunday night show for the whole family. We'll wipe fucking Disney right off the air!
Books:
Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-Up of 9/11 by Barrie Zwicker, The New Pearl Harbor by David Ray Griffith, The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation & the Anatomy of Terrorism by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Empire's Workshop: Latin America, The United States & the rise of the New Imperialism, A People's History of the United States, Chain of Command, Behold a Pale Horse, Guns Germs & Steel, Black Power, Soul on Ice, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Monster, 1984, John Brown (the one W.E.B. Dubois wrote), Cuba Confidential, Letters to a Young Contarian, The Alchemist, The Prophet, anything written by Cornel West, Seymour Hersh, Jose Marti, and of course my ole boy Franzie Poo Kafka.
Heroes:
Tita & Tata, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, Salvador Allende, Camilo Cienfuegos, Jose Marti, and without question Hal Gapson..
