DJing, filmmaking, photography, Japanese history, appreciating beauty and art (in all their forms), causing trouble and getting away with it, drunk driving golfcarts at top speeds in the midst of the witching hour, touching the void, sensations of every kind, drinkin' smokin' and all types of ill shit.
Mifune Toshiro...the greatest on screen swordsman, period.
...courses through my veins. Broken beats and deep, dirty bass fortify my soul. Low tempos that make you drop your center of gravity. Music to make babies to. I lace my beats like alleys and streets, I weave them like spider's webs.
The innate sensuality shared between a guitar and a voice.
The concept of "The Pulse" and the ambivalence of rhythm...it's never about the notes that are played, it's all about the ones that are not.
any samurai movie, most notably: Samurai Assassin, Sword of Doom, Goyokin, Yojimbo & Sanjuro, the Samurai trilogy.
Also, i like movies that have little or no samurai in them, such as City of God, Amelie, Holy Mountain, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, Brazil, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, and Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, just to name a few.
with friends like these who needs tv?
Bella Fuegas
I like to read Basho from time to time. also, James Clavell's "Shogun" is pretty sweet. i read more comic books than anything: Cerebus, Lone Wolf and Cub, Dark Knight Returns, Akira graphic novel. Recently read 100% and was blown away.
Warriors of Light and Love. Breathers of Truth and Wisdom. Anyone who has accomplished anything through their own means...kudos to you.