I have been DJ'ing for a few years and also organising events and working at a number of outdoor events/festivals.Some events I have worked on include Push Over 2006 and 2008, Our Backyard 2007, Big Day Out 2008 and V Festivsl 2008.
Music, Film, Art, Comics/Graphic Novels, Reading... anything creative, anything with passion, anything with soul.....
Muhammad Ali, Jill Scott, Prince and everybody else in my music list...
My Favorite music
Styles include but are not limited too: Soul, Jazz, Blues, Neo-Soul, Hip Hop, Urban, Trip-Hop, Funk, 70's, 80's, 80s New Wave, Electro (proper electro - NOT the cheesy house people are calling electro), Techno (as in proper techno - i.e Jeff Mills - not what people call cheap dance music ), Hard Trance, Deep House, Tribal House, RnB (not the RnB you hear on the radio these days), World Music, Metal and Alternative.Artists include but not limited too: NINA SIMONE, INDIA.ARIE, JILL SCOTT, GAELLE, ERYKAH BADU, GOAPELE, ALICE RUSSELL, AYA, ALICIA KEYS, JEAN GRAE, ELLA FITZGERALD, BILLIE HOLIDAY, DINAH WASHINGTON, RAY CHARLES, SADE, BETTY DAVIS, ESTHERO, STEVIE WONDER, CURTIS MAYFEILD, MARVIN GAYE, THE COMMODORES, THE ROOTS, MOS DEF, TALIB KWELI, DEAD PREZ, ALI FAKRE TOURE, COMMON, TUPAC SHAKUR, SNOOP (death row days), THE FUGEES, PRINCE, MADONNA, PORTISHEAD, MASSIVE ATTACK, MORCHEEBA, KORN, METALLICA, A PERFECT CIRCLE, LAMB, RADIOHEAD, ALICE IN CHAINS, FAITH NO MORE, LOVAGE, THE KNIFE, GOTYE, ROYKSOPP, GOLDFRAPP, SIA, CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA, QUANTIC SOUL ORCHESTRA, ROISON MURPHY, THE SHINS, BJORK, THE RAPTURE, MAXIMO PARK, JEFF BUCKLEY, POP LEVI, INFADELS, WHITE ROSE MOVEMENT, HOT CHIP, TEGAN & SARA, THE PRESETS, NOIR DESIR, YANN TIERSEN, FEIST, MANSUN, P.J HARVEY, KLAXONS, AIR,POP LEVI, LADYTRON, MORRISSEY, THE CURE, DEPECHE MODE, THE DOORS, BLOC PARTY, GRANDADBOB, HOOVERPHONIC, NOUVELLE VAGUE, EMILIE SIMON, ZERO 7, SARAH BLASKO, THE SMITHS, THE BEATLES, DONOVAN, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS, MODEST MOUSE, TORI AMOS, THE BEATLES, KATE BUSH, EARTH WIND & FIRE, THE GAP BAND, EVELYN CHAMPAGNE KING, UNDERWORLD, N*E*R*D, SHAZAAM DANCE TROUPE, EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL, JEFF MILLS, RONI SIZE REPRAZENT, DERB, GURU, VITALIC, MISS KITTIN, FELIX DA HOUSECAT, DIMITRI FROM PARIS, JAZZY JEFF, CARL COX, MOLOKO, ROISIN MURPHY, JACKSON 5, WETMUSIK, MODULAR LABEL, KITSUNE, RICHIE HAWTIN, UMEK, VALENTINO, DJ RUSH, KAI TRACID, A*S*Y*S, HENNES & COLD, MISSY ELLIOT, DAN THE AUTOMATOR, DJ KRUSH, DJ SHADOW, OLIVER LIEB, HAWTIN/SLAM, TECHNASIA, AIR, DAFT PUNK, MC SUPERNATURAL, DJ Q-BERT, DJ CASH MONEYi think that should cover at least some of the greatest artists in the history of music
My Favorite Movies
in no particular order...and i do believe this is a list of movies people should watch at least once before they die....The Godfather, Dave Chappelle's Block Party, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Scarface, The Science of Sleep, Paris Je'Taime, Amorres Perros, Requiem For A Dream, Four Rooms, Night On Earth, Coffee and Cigarettes, Garden State, Goodfellas, Pi, Bronx Tale, Chocolat, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Urotsukidoji, Ninja Scroll,
Casino, Life is Beautiful, Sin City, V For Vendetta, Anatomy of Hell, Irrerversible, Paris Je'Taime, Oldboy, The Saddest Music In The World, The Warriors, A Clockwork Orange, Quills,
City Of God, The Motorcycle Diaries, Amelie, Spellbound (hitchcock), Un Chien Andalou...And now for the classic 80's/90's movies that I will admit to enjoying on a rainy Sunday afternoon...The Last Dragon, Salsa, Hamburger, Private Resort, Heavenly Bodies, Girls Just Want To Have Fun, Tuff Turf, Mischief, Shag, House Party One and Two, Valley Girl, Kid N Play's Class Act, Breakdance aka Breakin' and Breakdance 2 - Electric Boogaloo, Krush Groove, Beat Street, Born Invincible...i should stop while i am ahead...I also love old school kung fu flix and documentaries on DJ'ing, Music and Dancing - breaking and krumping..My favourite actors are Natalie Portman and Gael Garcia Bernal and my favourite directors are Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorcese, Alfonso Cuaron, Michel Gondry, Jim Jarmusch, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and John Waters
My Favorite T.V Shows
Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Seinfeld, The Family Guy, Spongebob Squarepants, American Dad, The Simpsons, He-Man & The Masters of the Universe, She-Ra, Fat Albert, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, All American Girl, Samurai Champloo, Little Britain, Black Books, Sugar Rush, Freeks N Geeks, Undeclared, Mighty Boosh, Nathan Barley, Darkplace, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Robot Chiken, Harvey Birdman, Living Single, In Living Color, Mad TV, The L Word & Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
Lost Girls, Sin City, V For Vendetta, Buffy & Angel comics, anything by Voltaire, Shakespeare, De Sade, Khalil Gibran, Wilde, Alan Moore, Frank Miller
Muhammad Ali, Nina Simone, Salvador Dali, Voltaire...my hereos are those that live their dream, speak their mind and are not afraid to share their opinions with others.