Sport, arts, music, travel, film, food, girls; not in that particular order.
Anyone with spirit, ideas and 'summat' positive to say.David Choe - www.davidchoe.comEduardo Recife - www.misprintedtype.comDaisuke - www.myspace.com/dieartworkwww.wadadameanslove.com
The holy triumvirate (Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, JB), their progeny D'Angelo, Roy Ayers, Donny Hath, Curtis 'Futureshock' Mayfield', Sam Cooke, MIZELLS MIZELLS MIZELLS, Sly Stone, Funkadelic, Prince, Lewis Taylor (slow but true reality!), Leon Ware (butter), Gil Scott Heron, Uncle Bill Withers, Barry White, Jon Lucien, David Axelrod, Charles Stepney, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans, Nina Simone, Betty Carter, The Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra ("People must know the unknown in order to survive."), Lonnie Liston Smith, Mary Lou Williams, Trane, Miles, Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, Horace Silver, Gary Bartz, Andy Bey, Leon Thomas, Oscar Brown Jr, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Sun Ra, Serge Gainsbourg, Theo Parrish, Moodyman, Roy Davis Jr, Kerri Chandler, Francois K, Carl Craig, Larry Levan, Leroy Burgess, Tee Scott, My girl Lady T Marie, Mantronix, Marley Marl, Paul C, Diamond D, J Dilla, MF Doom, Eric B & Rakim, Coldcut, MoS Def, GANGstarr, the Roots & extended Illadelphia peoples, RZA, Neptunes, Led Zeppelin, DJ Shadow, ATCQ, King Tubby, chief Interpreter Gilles Peterson, Chaser don Paul Bradshaw, Fela Kuti ('Water No Get Enemy' sewha!!), Mulatu Astatke, Shuggie Otis, John Martyn, Nick Drake, Scott Walker, Herbert, Peven Everett, Osunlade, Henrik Schwarz, Strata East, Black Jazz biz, MADlib, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Bjork, Grace Jones, Kate Bush, Arthur Russell, Flaming Lips, Milton Nascimento, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Antonio Adolfo (baaad man), Cesar Camargo Mariano, CoxONE Dodd, Duke Reid, MAssive Attack/Wild Bunch, David Holmes, Jneiro Jarel, 4Hero, Spiritual South, Bugz family, PEven Everett, Dwele, MAW, Blaze, Loose Ends, Freeez, Mantronix, Franck Roger, King Britt, Jazzanova, Mitsu, Hajime Yoshizawa, SLeepwalker, Soil & Pimp sessions, Mitsu, Mark De Clive-Lowe, Eska, Bembe, IG Culture and anyone else with the seed of art plus the strength of self to see it thru
Spike Lee works (Do the Right Thing/Mo Better Blues), Jarmusch (Night On Earth, Coffee & Cigarettes), Being John Malcovich, 21 Grams, Oldboy, Amores Perros, Seven, Memento, Narc, American History X, Platoon, American Beauty, The Usual Suspects, Glengarry Glen Ross, Sideways, Punch Drunk Love, Cinema Paradiso, The Princess Bride, Wildstyle, Wild At Heart, Motorcycle Diaries, I Am Cuba, City Of God, When We Were Kings, Dark Days, The Princess Bride, Lost In Translation, In The Mood For Love, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Anchorman,Dumb & Dumber, Withnail & I, The Station Agent, Swingers, Beverly Hills Cop, Lethal Weapon, Trading Places, Raw, The Big Lebowski and most Coen Bros. stuff, The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Back To The Future trilogy, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, The Shining, Enter The Dragon, Space is The Place, Friday, Superfly, The Mack, Sin City, Dead Man's Shoes, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Un Coeur en Hiver
A last resort! Unless it's live sport, vintage British comedy like the Office/Peep Show, or classic B-movie (nice women, crap acting) However, well into my Question Time too, must be said.HOLD UP. Discovered Curb Your Enthusiasm proper. Larry David is the don. Seeeeeeeen.
All Kerouac works (esp. 'Lonesome Traveller' and 'On the Road'), Ginsberg, Gregory Corso 'Mindfield', Dylan, Bukowski, Hemingway, Lester Bangs' 'Psychotic Reactions', Hunter S. Thompson, the 'Chronicles of Narnia', 'The Prophet' by Khalil Gibran, 'Wild Swans' Jung Chang, 'The 39 Steps', 'The Hobbit', Oscar Wilde wit and wisdom, Greg Tate's 'Flyboy in hte Buttermilk', Khaled Hosselini's 'the Kite Runner', Val Wilmer's 'As Serious As Your Life', Nina Simone autobiography, Chasin The Trane by J.C. Thomas, 'The Fight' Norman Mailer, Quincy Jones 'Q', Mark Twain's 'Huck Finn', 'Birth of the Cool' by Lewis Macadams, James Baldwin 'Sonny's Blues', 'No Logo' by Naomi Klein, words, words, words...
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