Interests? The things that I like, eh? Well I spend almost all my time doing three things. Music. Reading. Sleeping. Other things I like. Inspiring. Thinking. Laughing. Absurdity. Fun. Meditation. Writing. Any artistic endevors for that matter. I need to work out. I've also recently been getting in to smells. .
Music:
Those that know me and my love affair with music would probaly refer to me as a connoisseur. This being said I could go on forever about music I like. So lets limit it to a few genres and some spotlight artist.
Underground Hip Hop: Aesop Rock (Morrison), Saul Williams (Dylan), Blackalicious (Beatles), Latryx, Roc Raida, Lyrics Born, Jean Grae, Immortal Techniqe, Don Johnson's Big Band, Atmosphere, Company Flow, Deep Puddle Dynamics, Q-Bert, Themself, Jurrasic 5, Eyedea, Buck 65, Boom Bip, Prefuse 73, Freestlye Fellowship, Weathermen, Brother Ali, DJ Vadim, Insane Clown Posse, Kid Koala, Myka Nyne, Arsonist, Sage Fransis, Josh Martinez, Cut Chemist, Offwhyte, Typical Cats, Qwel, Caural, RJD2, Dragnaslimdublin & The Beatcave Hermit, East Flatbush Project, Kool Kieth, Pigeon John, Princess Superstar, Mr. Dibbs, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Paul Barman, Mike Ladd, Justin Warfield, DJ Shadow.
Alt Country/New Folk: Ani Difranco, Pine Valley Cosmonauts, Neko Case, Ben Harper, Will Oldham, Boxharp, Souled Amreica, Smog, Wilco, Ryan Adams, Okkervile River, Rosie Thomas, Bob Boyd, Guy Clarke, Clothesline Revival, My Morning Jacket, Iron & Wine, Her Space Holliday, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Lambchop, Handsome Family, Gourds, Eugene Chadbourne, Dar Williams, Dispatch, Souther Culture on the Skids.
Dnb/Jungle: Squarepusher, Hive, Roni Size, DJ Marky, Amon Tobin, Aphex Twin, Pendulum, Concord Dawn, Black Sun Empire, Congo Natty, Venitian Snares, XRS, Fusion Forum, Optical, Sayag Jazz Machine, DJ Die, Dj Zinc, Fluoroscopic Kid, Aphrodite, DJ Scud, DJ Hype, Freaky Flow, DJ Abstract, D-Kay, Photek, Shy FX, Future Loop Foundation, Krushed & Sorted, Drumagick, Autchre, L Double, Ganja Kru, Dillinja, Animals on Wheels, Landslide, Third Eye foundation.
IDM/Experimental: Rude Ass Tinker, Bit Meddler, DNTEL, Sweet Trip, Headphone Science, Bliss Repair, DJ Spooky, Freight Elevator Quartet, People Lke Us, Wobbly, Tipsy, Wagon Christ, Four Tet, Cex, Sweet Robots Against The Machine, Boards of Canada, John Oswald, Andrew Coleman, Bogdan Raczynski, Ken Ishii, Mouse on Mars, Nobukazu Takemura, Wizards of Ooze, Buffalo Daughter, Two Lone Swordsmen.
All Rock (Hard, Soft, Post, Prog, Funk, Classic): Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Opeth, Beck, Mars Volta, Tool, Primus, Violent Femes, A Silver Mt Zion, Type-O Neagative, The Doors, White Zombie, Sigour Ros, Ben Folds Five, Danzig, Coldplay, Damien Rice, The White Stripes, Led Zepplin, Counting Crows, Dave Matthews Band, Ween, Moldy Peaches, Black Keys, Soul Coughing, Sonic Youth, Flogging Molly, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pearl Jam, Hum, Grandaddy, Old Man Gloom, Dimmu Borgir, Credance Clearwater Revival, Do Make Say Think, Deicide, Explosions in The Sky, Sublime, Sepultura, Joe Satriani, Modest Mouse, Mr Bungle, Octopus Project, Minor Threat, Frank Zappa, Sex Pistols, Cibo Mato, Bob Dylan, NIN, Maryln Manson.
Downtempo/Acid Jazz: Erik Truffaz, Grover Washington Jr., Moby, Youngblood Brass Band, Adventure Time, Bugge Wesseltoft, Sidsel Enderson, St Germain, Combustible Edison, Massive Attack, Sun Ra, DJ Food, DJ Krush, Toshinori Kondo, DJ Me DJ You, Dusted, Morcheeba, Red Snapper, Nils Petter Molvaer, Mr Scruff, Poets of Rythm, Syrup, Cinematic Orchestra, Kruder & Dorfmiester, Theivery Corporation, Tosca, Woob, Tricky, Air, Rob Dougan, Zero 7.
Other Dance (Big Beat, House, Trance, Nu-Breaks, 2step, Electroclash, Bass): Fatboy Slim, Todd Edwards, Shpongle, Dinosaur L, Propellerheads, Hallucinoge, Appollo 440, DJ Assault, Adult., Daft Punk, Crystal Method, Dabyre, Mr Ozio, Ladytron, Acen, Peaches, Infected Mushroom, Dot Allison, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Tiga, Faze Action, Aba Structure, Stress Assassin, Sabres of Paradise, Groove Armada, Prodigy, Techno Animal, Dust Brothers, Plump DJs, Kevin Yost, UNKLE, Plastikman, Jackle & Hyde, Jedi Knights, Freq Nasty, Aux 88.
I was going to go in to other stuff like: Latin, Island, World, Reggae, Mainstream Hip Hop. Old Counrty, Pop, Blues, Jazz, Turntablisim, Classical, and Funk, but I think enough is enough allready. Maybe later.
Books:
Ah, my other passion. My brain gets overloaded with information from books so I've set up a way to prevent from blowing my circuits. I cycle between reading really heady stuff like philosophy, science fact, self-help type material, psychology, and spirituality, to brain-bubble-gum. Including mostly pulp science fiction & fantasy.
Some of my favorite authors include:
Philosophy/Spirituality/Psychology: Richard Brodie, Tich Nacht Hann, Sarte, Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennet, The Dali Lamma, Daniel Pirsig, Howard Bloom, Samuel Ramos, Simone De Beauvoir, Susan Blackmore, Aristotle, Alan Watts, Carlos Castaneda, Wittgenstien.
Science: Robert Wright, Brian Greene, Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkings, Issac Azimov, Natalie Angier, John Gribbin, Buckminster Fuller, Albert Einstien.
Science Fiction/Fantsy/Horror(Pulp & Serious): Piers Anthony, Kurt Vonegut, Douglas Adams, Iann Banks, frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein, Ramond E Feist, Clive Barker, Madeleine L'Engle, Mary Stewart, HP Lovecraft, Anne Rice.
Poetry:Walt Whitman, Saul Williams, Alan Ginsberg, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, William Buttler Yeats.
Novels/Classics: Herman Hess, Steinbeck, Janet Fitch, Herman Melville, Augusten Burroughs, Barbara Kingsolver. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Mark Twain. Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde.
Comics: Cat Garza, Scott McCloud, Tex, Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth.
Herman Hess's Novels speak to me like no other. They make me want abandon humanity and its trapings, pick up and drive away aimlessly allowing myself to get lost in insanity and consumed by a creative fire that will not stop intill it burns itself out. Needless to say, like acid, I can only take him in small doses.
My favorite book of all time is The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. I first read it when I was 10 and have read it 5 times sense. It is the only book I have read more than twice. I am starting on my third time reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance by Robert Pirsig, right now.
