Music, Travel, Music, Futebol, Musica, Guinness + Newcastle & other good beers like PBR, these two soccer/futebol teams: Vasco Da Gama & the Chicago Fire
People who create, enjoy, and/or help to support various arts: especially independent and DIY music, art, film, theatre, literature, comics, and journalism.
Shows listed on the Calendar below are ones I may or may not get to see, but would like to, if I have the time, $, and energy....
I love music, it's a passion, I love listening, going to live shows,
and trying to play it myself ! Mainly into Punk/Indie and some random brazilian stuff, I sort of like a little bit of every style of music (some just a lot more than others)
Current listenings include:
and Antilles, IDA, Able Baker Fox, HWM, The Tired Eyes, HARAM, Karate, BOTTOMLESS PIT, the Weakerthans, Dinosaur Jr., Thurston Moore, the Unlovables, Shellac, Jawbreaker, J CHURCH....
Artists I listened to the most last week
(while at a computer: mostly at work):
SOME STUFF I LIKE:
1.6 Band, afghan whigs, air miami, all, against me, ALKALINE TRIO, all, ann berretta, ANTILLES, american steel, antenna, ARCHERS OF LOAF, avail, at the drive in, avoid one thing, babe the blue ox, bad brains, bad religion, zeca baleiro, the bats, bayside, the beatles, bear vs shark, beastie boys, bedhead, bikini kill, frank black, blur, bjork, BILLY BRAGG, blood brothers, bottomless pit, bouncing souls, boys life, BRAID, brainiac, bratmobile, --brian collin and vince --,the broadways, chris brokaw, burning airlines, the business, the butterfly effect, the butchies, the cardinal sin, camera obscurra, cap'n jazz, cat power, THE CHANNELS, charlie brown jr., check engine, billy childish, CHISEL, , christie front drive, cidade negra, city on film, the clash, colossal, combustible edison, converge, counterfit, crain, crimpshrine, CUB, the cure, the damned, dead can dance, del cielo, depeche mode, des ark, the descendents, ani difranco, DILLINGER FOUR, Dinosaur jr., discount, DRIVE LIKE JEHU, don caballero, bob dylan, EDSEL, elastica, emily, enemy you, erase errata, eric's trip, even in the blackouts, the evens, excuse 17, the eyelineres, the ex, the falcon, fifth hour hero, forget cassettes, FUGAZI, the gamits, gilberto gil, girls vs boys, go betty go, the gossip, government issue, grabass charlestons, grade, green day, the grifters, the groovie ghoulies, guided by voices, , juliana hatfield, haymarket riot, heavenly , helium, heroin, hey mercedes, the hollywood blondes, horace pinker, hot snakes, hot water music, IDA, the jam, JAWBOX, JAWBREAKER, JCHURCH, jesus lizard, JETS TO BRAZIL, july, june of 44, just a fire, J.ROBBINS, karate, kid abelha, kid dynamite, bb king, lasalle, THE LAWRENCE ARMS, leatherface, lenine, TED LEO & THE PHARMACISTS, the lillingtons, liquorice, luna, LUNGFISH, the makeup, mblanket, lois maffeo, man or astroman, bob marley, medications, the methodones, minor threat, minus the bear, modest mouse, morrissey, bob mould, murder by death, motion city soundtrack, MTX(The Mr. T Experience), NATIVE NOD, neds atomic dustbin, neurosis, new order, NIRVANA, none more black, North Lincoln, oasis, sinead o'connor, o rappa, operation ivy, paint it black, mike park, pavement, pilot to gunner, THE PIXIES, POLVO, poster children, pretty girls make graves, PROPAGANDHI, portastatic, the queers, the Ramones, rancid, lou reed, rem, the replacements, THE REPUTATION, retsin, the Reverend Horton Heat, rex, rise against, RITES OF SPRING, rodan, rorschach, roue, sarge, samiam, SCREECHING WEASEL, sebadoh, SEAM, the sea and cake, the secret stars, SHELLAC, slapstick, SLEATER KINNEY, SILKWORM, the simple ones, skank(from brasil), slint, sludgeworth, small brown bike, elliot smith, the smiths, the smoking popes, social distortion, SONIC YOUTH, the soviettes, the specials, the, state of ohio, steinways, the stray cats, stereotyperider, strike anywhere, streganona, joe strummer, sugar, SUPERCHUNK, SWEEP THE LEG JOHNNY, tacklebox, team dresch, the teen idols, the the, thin lizzy, this is my fist, this moment in black history, a tribe called quest, tsunami, tsunami bomb, tuesday, tuscadaro, uncle tupelo, the unlovables, unrest, UNWOUND, THE VAN PELT, caetano veloso, tom waits, the Weakerthans, wilco, the who, yo la tengo, neil young AND MANY MANY OTHERS that I can't think of now or haven't heard yet!
And I really like and own at least one release in one form or another from all of the above, I'm not just putting it here to look cool. I was just bored and had nothing better I wanted to do, so I filled all this stuff in. (what a life, huh !)
Some Favorites: Cinema Paradiso, Delicatesen, Cidade de Deus, Central do Brasil, Alphaville, Glengary Glen Ross, most of Hitchcock's movies, Clerks, 12 Monkeys, Brazil, Jim Jarmusch films, most Woody Allen Films, Fish Called Wanda, Nightmare Before Christmas, Terry Gilliam films, Krzysztof Kieslowski films, Wes Anderson movies and so many more one of my all time favorite (even though it's a "bad" movie) might have to be the Princess Bride !
Sometimes I watch the Daily Show w/John Stewart (more aptly named "the John Stewart Show"), IFC, when really bored I tune in to: those various music video channels; soccer if there's a good match on, SCIFI movies, twin peaks was great! that's about it, I usually don't watch much TV unless it's late and i'm too lazy to do anything else. I'd much rather put an album on, or play guitarOh yeah I'm addicted to "24" and I often find myself often watching reruns of Stargate SG1(something about that, maybe it's the whole McGuyver thing from my childhood, who knows)
I used to read a lot, I've slacked as of late, pretty much just read a few blogs, znet, various music pubs and zines, and mitch clem web comics old favorites: Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man-Joyce, Foucaults Pendulum-umberto eco, the brothers karamazov- Dostoevsky, brave new world-huxley, the plague-camus, Kerouac, Shakespeare, Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Howard Zinn, Asimov, Herbert(dune), Robert Jordan(wheel of time), cometbus
Not really "heroes" but more like people I highly respect for what they've done and/or created, and the way they've gone about doing so.
Ted Leo, Elizabeth Elmore, Blake Schwarzenbach, Lance Hahn, Mike Park, Billy Bragg, Ian MacKaye, j robbins, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Friends and past friends(of whom, too many I have, unfortunately, lost touch with), Most importantly my Parents, brothers and my Grandmother !