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phil

So where were the spiders while the fly tried to break our balls?

About Me


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My Interests

getting out on my bike and exploring the world
cooking, esp if it involves meat and/or a grill
eating, which i enjoy a ton more than cooking (go figure!)
fixing things around the house
vegging out at the Echo Park lake
wasting a ton of money at elf cafe... mmm

I'd like to meet:

Amy Winehouse...mmmm
and Barack, if he can show me how to do that Chicago-style dance

Music:

*hip-hop - old school and G-funk, basically anything done with skill and soul. i'm a big fan of talib kweli and common.
*the 70s soul that the aforementioned hip-hop samples
*Ronnie Hudson & the Street People
*60s/70s mod and soul
*1st wave ska and rocksteady (exceptions made for hepcat and the slackers)
*anything by fela kuti or seu jorge
*"hippie music" - stuff like Canned Heat, etc
*assorted- le tigre, radiohead, massive attack, the police, blah blah blah...

Movies:

frida, real women have curves, american psycho, secretary, the business of strangers, memento, the usual suspects, amelie, dirty pretty things, yes i am an audrey tautou fan, lost in translation, vintage james bond films

Television:

THE BOONDOCKS!, weeds, project runway, daily show, colbert report, south park, flavor of love, cowboy bebop, family guy.

Books:

The Anarchist's Cookbook... yes!!!

Heroes:

my parents, frida kahlo, che guevara, my cousin mario, my friends kwame and alfredo, laurence fishburne was my hero up until he signed up for those shitty matrix sequels...

My Blog

ahh... biking

on friday, i did the usual... midnight ridazz with friends. good times. we got lost in park la brea en route to the ride. i've forgotten what a maze it can be in there. especially when it's dark and 9...
Posted by phil on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:52:00 PST

today

today it rained. couldn't have been a better day for it as far as i'm concerned. something like the cliché of washing away... washing away bad experiences, pride, ego, self-consciousness... baggage. c...
Posted by phil on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:58:00 PST