JVB - ProfilesArchive

About Me

My second book called Monsters And Robots is out now. It is the follow up to Robots And Dinosaurs They have 24 paintings each. You can get them here if you want.

I do art , have a screenprinting company, run a record label . I'm one of the founding members of the Division Avenue Arts Cooperative and co-direct the music committee. I book and go to a whole ton of shows. I go to the bar alot. I'm working on opening a bar.
LABEL - frictionrecords.net - myspace.com/frictionrecords
VENUE - thedaac.org - myspace.com/thedaac
Note: please do not contact me about your band here, This is for my art.
ART - frictiongoods.com/jvb/
This is what My paintings look like:

My Interests

Making lists of things that I like.

I'd like to meet:

Ben Shaafsma

Music:

All of the bands on my label, I wouldn't have put them out otherwise! 25 Suaves, 31 Knotts, Adam and the Ants, The Advantage, Appleseed Cast, At The Drive In, Avail, Bad Brains, Barkmarket, Bauhaus, Bear Vs Shark, The Beastie Boys, Beck, Birth, Black Sabbath, Boris, David Bowie, Brainiac, The Building Press, The Butthole Surfers, Cave In, Charlevoix, Cheap Trick, The Clash, Nels Cline, Clutch, Coalesce, Coheed and Cambria, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Craw, The Cure, Miles Davis, De La Soul, The Descendents, Deerhoof, Devo, Eric Dolphy, Don Caballero, Drive Like Jehu, Electric Wizard, Enon, Envy, Evergreen Terrace, fIREHOSE, Forstella Ford, Fugazi, Funkedelic, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hella, Helmet, Jimi Hendrix, Holy Mountain, Hot Water Music, High On Fire, Iron Maiden, Isis, Jawbreaker, Jesus Lizard, Journey, Joy Division, Judas Preist, June Of 44, Keelhaul, Kid Commando, Tim Kinsella, Knife Skills, Kyuss, Lazer Crystal, Les Savy Fav, The Liars, The Lillingtons, Lingua Franca, The Lounge Lizards, Love and Rockets, Lungfish, LSDudes, Mastodon, McLusky, Medeski Martin & Wood, The Melvins, old-Metallica, Ministry, The Minutemen, The Misfits, Mogwai, Mos Def, Naked Raygun, New Order, No Things, North Lincoln, Pavement, Pelican, Pennywise, PIL, The Pixies, The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower, Propaghandi, Public Enemy, Q And Not U, Radiohead, Run DMC, Rush, Russian Circles, RZA, John Scofield, Sensual Armed Forces, Shellac, Shiner, Shotmaker, Slayer, Sleep, Small Brown Bike, Jimmy Smith, Snapcase, Soul Coughing, Soundgarden, Still Remains, Stnnng, The Sword, Talking Heads, These Arms Are Snakes, Thunderbirds Are Now!, Today Is The Day, Tortoise, Trenchmouth, UI, Unwed Sailor, The Verve, Victims Family, Voltage, Wire, Witch, Yes, Yaphet Kotto, Yo La Tengo, Your Black Star, .

Movies:

Starship Troopers, Forbidden Zone, Terry Gillium, Peter Jackson, Wim Wenders, Yuen Wu Ping, Jim Jarmush, Kubrick, Woody Allen, David Lynch, Sidney Lumet, Spielberg, Coen Brothers, Jean-Peirre Jeunet, Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson (what ever happened to that guy?), Michael Moore, Tim Burton, Tim Robbins, Ghost World, Donnie Darko, Run Ronnie Run, Fight Club, Anchorman, Godfather, Shakes The Clown, American Beauty, American Movie, The Three Amigos, Star Wars, 28 days later, 24 hour party people, Tarantino (like the movies, hate the guy), Monty Python, Scarface, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Warriors.

Adam Sandler and Kevin Smith are not funny to me.

Television:

Six Feet Under, Freaks and Geeks, Simpsons, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The West Wing, Sopranos, Twin Peaks, The Prisoner, South Park, Chappelle's Show, Jon Stewart Show, Surreal Life, Monster Garage, Ken Burns.

Heroes:

Ben Shaafsma