music is what keeps me alive. i LOOOVE dancing and i need to get back on the floor sometime soon. some of my other interests are: people, social issues, photography... workin on becoming supastar DJ someday.
i would especially like to meet WOMEN who are: intelligent, confident, gorgeous, assertive, flirtatious, and wise-crackin', clever girls who enjoy plotting evil . . . who love music and love to dance . . . In general, i would like to meet: people who will inspire me, or make me laugh. those who have the courage to dream big dreams. people who are always striving to be better. people who make a commitment to positivity. people who are kind and loyal to those that they love. those who try to lift up the people around them. **With all that being said, i also enjoy smart-ass, bitchy, negative, trouble-makers. i'm a gemini -- i can never make up my fucking mind anyway!! Particular people i would like to meet: Sarah Shahi, Jennifer Walcott, DJ X, The Lama
FIGHT ON!
you are now entering a dubstep zone
WARNING: EXTREME BASS MAY DAMAGE SPEAKERS
let's freak the speakers
THE BINGES ROCKED MY WORLD!!! when are you coming back to l.a.?? If you love the rock and roll, you GOTSTA see these kids live!!!
why aren't we friends on last.fm?
last.fm is f*ing awesome!! discover new music! it's free internet radio with NO COMMERCIALS thank you
also check this out:
******************* Girl Talk: go dj, that's my dj!!
DJ A.D.D.!! on crack... dot com
if living in l.a. has taught me one thing, it's that hot sauce + fruit from the fruit cart man = YUMM.
the hood internet: ghetto ass hip hop with indie rock? why not!
and now, to change gears COMPLETELY:
band of horses: i am in LOVE with this album. Beautiful!
ray lamontagne. beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. listen by candlelight, headphones on, eyes closed...
THE KNIFE - "SILENT SHOUT!" - fans of bjork, siouxsie, goldfrapp, aphex twin: come hither
CSS - "CANSEI DE SER SEXY" - hot hot hot hot hot!!! if they were any more adorable my head would explode
JAMIE LIDELL - "MULTIPLY!!" -- he got soul, and he super bad
nelly furtado - "loose" - timbaland and nelly furtado go together like chocolate and peanut butter. not since my favoritest ever, Aaliyah, has there been such a great combination . . . the ENTIRE album is TIIIIIIIGHT. thank you Jesus!!
gnarls barkley - "st. elsewhere" - DUH.
spank rock - "yoyoyoyoyo" - music to F**K by
the gossip - "standing in the way of control" -- the gossip is the shit!! EVERY track on this album makes me tutu in my undies. a little bit. MORE COWBELL!!!!! please?
diplo - "fabriclive.24" --- "This is Sick!" - this guy is reading my mind. or perhaps we are simply sharing the UniBrain. he plays the randomest shit, and it ALL works, it's all funky and hits you in all the right spots. also check him out as part of the "hollertronix" duo:
hollertronix - "doing it real big" (the cornerstone player #054, disc 2)
hollertronix - "t5 soul sessions"
Diplo is the man behind the music for M.I.A., only the HOTTEST fukn joint to come out in 2005...'nuff said?
mylo - "destroy rock & roll" - this is for those sunny days with the top down.
DIRTY SANCHEZ - raunchy, campy, electro goodness. if you can ever catch them live, DO IT... it's an awesome, entertaining hot show.
asha bhosle - "the rough guide to asha bhosle." what an incredibly versatile, amazing voice.
***uni & her ukelele - "my favorite letter is u" - this is the most honest voice you will ever hear in your life. again, if you can catch this woman live, do it.
spoon - "gimme fiction"
if you see this man, drop what you're doing, and prepare for absolute mayhem! Rodolfo Juarez: ladies love him, guys adore him... why? the man is *Magic* on the turntables. --CD RELEASE:--"PRETEND YOU KNOW..."--cop that shit!! "black sabreena-eena"!!!
my favorite LA band right now is: helen stellar. catch them playing live around town... listening to them play makes me forget that i'm even standing there... just feel... the sound they create is one that you can just fly away on... you won't believe it's only three people creating this lush sound... and, Clif's drumming makes me happy in the pants. oh-kay??
songs: talib kweli - "get by", bill withers - "use me", betty davis - "game is my middle name", leslie & the ly's - "gold pants", dilated peoples - "back again", spoon - "i turn my camera on", sidestepper - "in beats we trust", natasha bedingfield - "these words", fiona apple - "waltz (better than fine)", the gorillaz- "dare", goldfrapp - "let it take you" and "ooh la la", nada surf - "always love", kanye west, death cab for cutie, mike doughty - "haughty melodic", those damn amerie songs, damian marley - "welcome to jamrock", the gorillaz - "feel good inc.", the white stripes - "my doorbell", fall out boy - "sugar, we're goin' down", lady sovereign - "cha-ching (cheq 1-2 remix)", the bloc party "banquet" dance remix
current favorites: mylo, lady sovereign, M.I.A., le tigre, peaches, matisyahu - "live at stubb's," tiefschwarz - "misch masch"
recent loves: mouse on mars - "radical connector", the cornerstone player ..054: disc 2: dj mix by hollertronix, modest mouse - "good news for people who love bad news", jay-z - "the black album"
foundations: salt-n-pepa - "black's magic", soul II soul - "keep on movin"
back in rotation: the system -"don't disturb this groove", digable planets - "blowout comb", cocteau twins, fugees - "the score"
some all-time favorite albums: basement jaxx - "remedy", dj x - "club 2000", eat static - "abduction", paul oakenfold - "tranceport" --- YES, mutherfuckers, Paul Oakenfold. bite me.
i could not live without my iPod. i have improved the sound quality of my earbuds enormously with these magical devices by SlicSound: www.slicsound.com.
Documentaries are #1 on my list right now. all this information you won't see anywhere else . . .
the following documentaries are incredible:
the corporation
loose change
sicko
an inconvenient truth
control room
born into brothels.
also see:
uncovered: the whole truth about the iraq war
iraq for sale: the war profiteers
wal mart: the high cost of low price
enron: the smartest guys in the room
who killed the electric car?
why we fight
dvd's that i play regularly: the sweetest thing, the queens of comedy, weird science, real genius, office space, secretary, cruel intentions, wild things . . .
all-time favorites: dune, ghost in the shell, the scent of green papaya, wild orchid
recent faves: R. KELLY'S TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET, the 40 year old virgin, lost in translation
TV MELTS YOUR BRAIN! KILL YOUR TELEVISION! i haven't had t.v. ever since we moved to l.a., which is three years now, and i'm SOOOO glad i made that decision. disconnect yourself from that crack!! if there's something you really want to see, you can just get it on DVD. it's amazing, when you don't have 400 tv options to choose from at any moment, you actually find yourself having time to do things like reading and art. and you find yourself able to think clearly again, and less panicked from watching the constant "if it bleeds, it leads" sensationalist coverage of what passes for "news" today in our corporate-owned & controlled media.
when i do watch shows on dvd, a few that i got into were: the L Word, the Wire, South Park of course...
If i could recommend one book for you to read right now, it would be "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins.
I can't seem to read only one book at once. I was reading four books for a while, lately it's gone up to six... i suppose i should finish one before i start another but, it must be the a.d.d., i like switching back & forth... ANYWAY!
Currently reading: "Do You!" by Russell Simmons
"Creative Visualization" by Shakti Gawain
"FIASCO: The American Military Adventure In Iraq" by Thomas E. Ricks.
"Path of Empowerment" by Barbara Marciniak.
"Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization" by Graham Hancock.
"The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz.
"The Seat of the Soul" by Gary Zukav.
"Becoming Like God: Kabbalah and Our Ultimate Destiny" by Michael Berg.
"The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century" by Thomas L. Friedman.
"The Coming Global Superstorm" by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber.
I recently re-read "1984" by George Orwell, for the first time since high school, and it completely freaked me out, how much it applies to today's world... it seems that Karl Rove/Rumsfeld/Cheney & Co. read this book as a MANUAL on how to take control... "Doublespeak", anyone? BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!!
"I Robot" by Isaac Asimov.
and finally, "Your Best Life Now" by Joel Osteen.
Recently read and recommended: "A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah
"Love Is A Mix Tape: Life And Loss, One Song At A Time" by Rob Sheffield
"The Wal-Mart Effect" by Charles Fishman
"Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War" by Evan Wright.
"The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels & Demons" by Dan Brown.
"The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho.
All-time favorites: "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse.
"The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran.
NEWS: NPR streamed .., The Nation magazine, Rolling Stone actually has excellent politcal reportage, and The Christian Science Monitor. --don't be scared, it's not religious. it's just news reporting and writing the way it should be. they tell you not only what's happening, but also give you a context for the events, give you the history behind the issues, the implications for the future . . . and they don't sensationalize, don't try to keep you in a state of fear all the time to make you think you have to tune in every two minutes. the philosophy is that the truth empowers people to make better decisions. www.csmonitor.com. You can also add their headlines to your customized Yahoo! News homepage. Word.
mother teresa, martin luther king, jr, gandhi, nelson mandela, oprah
currently i have to give props to bono, angelina jolie, al gore, oprah etc. for the work they are doing and attention they are bringing to their causes. it's nice to see that not everyone has to be selfish, self-obsessed, and willing to float obliviously through their lives on the privileges they were born with. it gives me hope to see people taking advantage of their fame to try to do some good.