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José

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My Interests

Watching clips of international schlock television on YouTube, mysticism , design and designers , Los Angeles, mysteries, sunny days, overcast days, Pierre Hardy shoes , and escaping New York.

Music:

Clara Hill, Chikita Violenta, Hot Chip, Clara Hill, Jazzanova, Vampire Weekend, Kathy Diamond, Austin TV, Asobi Seksu, Deftones, Feist, Broken Social Scene, Kudu, The Fiery Furnaces, The Duke Spirit, Phyllis Hyman, Tamar-Kali, Minnie Riperton, 4Hero, Esthero, Emmanuelle Parrenin, Cymbals, Pizzicato Five, Pillows, Capsule, Cornelius, Yaphet Kotto, Françoise Hardy, Sylvie Vartan, Kahimi Karie, ROXY MUSIC!!!!!, Laura Nyro, Fela Kuti, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Sondre Lerche, the Mars Volta, TV on the Radio, The New Pornographers, old dance music, Sonic Youth, Sleater-Kinney, Missy Elliot, Mary J. Blige, Marisa Monte, Rita Lee, Os Mutantes, Cat Power, Seu Jorge. Of course there are more bands and people that are more random,....

Movies:

Mulholland Drive, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, All About Eve, pretty much every Pedro Almodóvar film, as well as anything by Michelangelo Antonioni, or also anything by Wong Kar-Wai, meanwhile, I'm all about Brick, Clean, Lost Highway, Mysterioius Skin, Clean, Barbarella, the Women, Giant, Working Girl, Permanent Midnight, Sixteen Candles, Querelle, the Venus Wars, Taboo American Style, A History of Violence, The Panama Deception, Bolivariana Venezuela, Hugo Chavez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Why We Fight, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Life and DebtLayer. ...

Television:

Dirt, Nip/Tuck, Mobile Home Disaster, Mad Men (new season coming in July!!)

Books:

Serious Adverse Effects: An Uncensored History of AIDS by Celia Farber, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Iserbyt, Tough Choices by Carly Fiorina

Heroes:

Myself, my friends, my family.
Dr. Francis Cress Welsing
Oh, and Alexyss, of course.

My Blog

A new vid from Little Dragon...

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Posted by José on Wed, 07 May 2008 01:27:00 PST

So Pissed that this is still on import!! More Hercules...

In the age of the Internet, why is this still a reality? Why can’t shit just be available in all markets? The gig is up, record industry peoples. Stop playiin!...
Posted by José on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:06:00 PST

House Music is Returning!!

The new video of my favorite favorite song right now, "Blind" by Hercvles & Love Affair. The vocals are by Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons. ...
Posted by José on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:28:00 PST

The most amazing new musical

You must must must go see Passing Strange. I’m not a big musicals person, even though I did go to see Xanadu back in October--which was awesome. This is better. Go. Go soon. The musical tells th...
Posted by José on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:34:00 PST

Amy Winehouse better watch her back...

A rival record label over in the UK has come up with the Pepsi to Amy Winehouse’s Coke. Meet Duffy, the blonder, more sober, more Christian answer to Amy’s troubled Jewish soul. Very cute,...
Posted by José on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:16:00 PST

Obama v. Hilary: Predicition

Obama's got the primary. The delegates in the party are gonna hand him the candidacy. I think he'll be president if he goes up against McCain. McCain cannot get his shit straight. He's not the conserv...
Posted by José on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:25:00 PST

I looove Breaking Bad

I spent my summer getting hooked on AMC's Mad Men. I was both surprised and skeptical that the network had another new drama lined up to fill its slot for fall. Breaking Bad, with its story of a subur...
Posted by José on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:16:00 PST

How not to get fat...

If you look at most of the photos I have posted on my profile--none of them very new, maybe a couple of years old--you might notice me looking slightly on the side of chunk. My dad did, and it was the...
Posted by José on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:50:00 PST

The Korean Spa in Queens...

My life has changed since going here once. It's a five-story structure in College Point, Queens, close to the Bronx and overlooking the Whitestone Bridge...very suburban. You take the 7 out to Norther...
Posted by José on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:40:00 PST

Grammys: Kanye + Daft Punk

Genius....
Posted by José on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:17:00 PST