Photography and Music! I always have a interest in the art community. Art is my passion and photography is my love, my life, my everything. Music is my pulse, the blood that flows through my veigns. Other than that, I just have a plethorah of amusing tidbits that just keep me happy.
Anyone who would be willing to sit down with a drink and a smoke, listen to some good music and talk about ... well ... anything.
If I had my way, I would love to sit down with ... Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Rabindranath Tagore, Hayao Mizaki, Man Ray, Dorthea Lange, Laurence Fishburne, Morgan Freeman, The Dali Lama, Rufus Thomas, Nan Goldin, Yasumasa Morimura, Nikki S. Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, my biological parents (I am adopted) and all my other family members that I may or may not know about.
FUNK!!!
SOUL!!!
BLAXSPLOITATION!!!
Funk & Soul is the way to go! Can groove it? Then get down and proove it!
As you can tell, I love Heavy Funk, Northern Soul & Rare Groove. In fact, I dig it so much, I actually sideline as a DJ (aka THE REVEREND PIMP) with a group called FUNKDEFY. We perform in Columbus, OH. Check out the music MySpace:
FUNKDEFY...
http://www.myspace.com/funkdefyohio
OK ... now you know just ONE of my musical interests. I am a huge fan of that heavy riff called Rock & Roll. Not your mainstream, run-of-the-mill crap! My favorites are...
Orange Goblin, The Heads, Electric Wizard, Fu Manchu, Nebula, QOTSA, Men Of Porn, The Desert Sessions, Fatso Jetson, UFO Mammut, High On Fire, Roachpowder, Dozer, Nashville Pussy, The Sword ...
Is my rock selection too heavy for you? Well, I love just about everything. Here is some other favorites of mine...
Blues, Jazz, Funk & More...
RL Burnside, T-Model Ford, Paul Wine Jones, Junior Kimborough, Jimmy Smith, Thelonious Monk, Jimmy McGriff
Gotta Love the Old School...
Atomic Rooster, Toe Fat, Budgie, Bowie, Tubeway Army, Kiss, Hawkwind, Pink Floyd, 13 Floor Elevators, Seeds, Eric Burdon, The Animals, WAR, Grand Funk, Hendrix, Band Of Gypsies, Buddy Miles, The Electric Flag, Beatles, Savoy Brown ...
ANIME!!!
Yeah, I am an anime freak ... love all of the movies that Studio Giblih put out. I got my start young ... I used to watch Star Blazers & Robotech when I was a kid. Now it is Ghost In the Shell and The Boondocks.
My other guilty pleasure is Blaxsploitation, Samurai and Kung Fu flix. I just can't help myself. At least once a week I am watching Zatoichi. Every week when I DJ at FUNKDEFY I throw on some sweet Blaxsploitation on the big screen ... Foxy Brown, Human Tornado, Black Mama/White Mama, Super Fly ... you get the drift.
So, apart from the Anime, I love Sci-Fi, Action and movies that make you laugh and think all at the same time ... I will let you ponder about that.
Right now, I have been hooked on Lost, Doctor Who (thank god the ultra cheese is back!) Family Guy ... oh hell, Adult Swim ... Simpsons, and some other off the wall shows on the cable pay-them-up-the-ass service.
I am actually reading Magazines right now....
Wax Poetics, B&W Magazine, Newtype USA, and a couple others at random.
Those who show genuine kindess and compassion for others.