Music, travelling and meeting new people, people watching, walking, driving fast in cities with narrow streets, art, architecture, Amsterdam, good wine & good food with new/old friends.
old and new friends, thinkers, doers...no drama please!
Good Music!!! Music that has thought put into it, makes you think and just plain moves your soul...Miles, Coltrane, Dizzy, Herbie Hancock, Prince, Raul Midon (He's the next Stevie Wonder!!! Keep an ear out for him...www.midon.com), Carl Craig, Derrick, Kevin & Juan (The Holy Trinity!!!), Manuel Gottsching (E2 E4), Detroit & Chicago are where it's at!!! Ron Trent, Chez, Larry Heard, Kenny Larkin, Mad Mike is the mutha fukin man!!! Derrick Carter, DJ Rolando, Francois K, Laurent Garnier, David Alvarado, Vikter Duplaix, Kirk DeGiorgio (As One), Jazzanova, '70's funk & soul, Roy Ayers, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, lots of dubbed out goodness like Lee Scratch Perry and King Tubby, Maurizio and the Basic Channel crew, Can't forget the D&B crew first and foremost my boy DJ Slant, Fabio (smoothest son of a bitch out there!!!), Grooverider, Calibre, London Elektricity, Photek...if you got something I need to hear, turn me on and educate me damn it!!!
City of God, Bus 174, Control Room, Outfoxed, F/911, La Dolce Vita, Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones, Requiem for a Dream, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, In Like Flint, Big Fish, Donnie Darko, Star Wars, the first Matrix, Ninja Scroll, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Pink Floyd live at Pompeii, Ghost Dog Way of the Samurai, Kill Bill I & II, Pulp Fiction, Fifth Element, Dave Chapelle's Block Party, Lucky Number Sleven...
Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Monkey Dust, IFC, Sundance, Food Network, PBS, This Old House, The Woodwrights Shop...
George Orwells "1984" and "Animal Farm", Chuck Palahniuk's "Diary" and "Invisible Monster" were some twisted, crazy books, Hagakure "Way of the Samurai, The Recording Engineers handbook, All of my studio manuals...
Laurent Garnier, Mad Mike Banks, Carl Craig, Frank Lloyd Wright, Salvador Dali, Quincy Jones, Larry Heard, my last boss Bill Swann and my girl Tatiauna Miller, my brotha from anotha motha Pierre, my boy Luis Baro, my uncle Brian, Gran & Gramps, Grandma & Jim and of course...YOU!!!