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Damien Willis

Radio DJ/Music Director/Columnist

About Me

I am the Music Director for KHQT-FM (Hot 103) in Las Cruces, NM. Hot 103 is a hip-hop station. I also write a weekly column for Pulse, the weekly entertainment feature in the Las Cruces Sun-News. Artists, fans, friends, family: Reach out!

My Interests

Writing Listening To Music Watching The News Collecting Music, Books, Memorabilia & Ephemera Cataloging Those Things I've Collected Learning To Blog Sharing Cool Things Trying To Get My New Company Off The Ground

I'd like to meet:

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Got Seven Minutes? You Should Watch This!

Music:

2Pac, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dave Matthews Band, Counting Crows, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Metallica, Berlioz, Etta James And Everything In Between

Movies:

Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas, Amelie, American Beauty, Life Is Beautiful, Blue Velvet, The Godfather Trilogy, Vanilla Sky, A Beautiful Mind, Pulp Fiction

Television:

24, Law & Order, Chuck, Kid Nation, The First 48, Rescue Me, Real Time With Bill Mahar, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, VH1 Storytellers, Iconoclasts, Live From Abbey Road, Austin City Limits, The Family Guy, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report

Books:

Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Rudolfo Anaya, Jimmy Breslin, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Ana Castillo, Denise Chavez, Kinky Friedman, Allen Ginsberg, Joseph Heller, John Irving, Jerzy Kosinski, Timothy Leary, Norman Mailer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Michael McClure, Michael Moore, Jim Morrison, Vladimir Nabokov, P.J. O'Rourke, Chuck Palahniuk, Stephen King, Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins, Henry Rollins, Mike Royko, Aram Saroyan, David Sedaris, Gary Snyder, John Updike, Luis Alberto Urrea, Kurt Vonnegut, Irvine Welsh, Lew Welch

Heroes:

My grandparents, My Dad, Bob Dylan, Hunter S. Thompson, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, Jack Kerouac, George Carlin, Andy Kaufman, Denis Leary, Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, Huey Newton, Sonny Barger, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Stanley "Tookie" Williams, Miguel Algarin, Rudolfo Anaya, Amiri Baraka, Ray Bremser, Charles Bukowski, Lenny Bruce, William S. Burroughs, Jim Carroll, Neal Cassady, Jerry Garcia, Neeli Cherkovski, Leonard Cohen, Gregory Corso, Sean Penn, James Dean, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Che Guevara, Woody Guthrie, Joy Harjo, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Herbert Huncke, Janis Joplin, Ken Kesey, Philip Lamantia, Norman Mailer, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Aram Saroyan, Jack Micheline, Henry Miller, Jim Morrison, Frank O'Hara, Richard Pryor, Lou Reed, Ishmael Reed, Luis Rodriquez, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Hubert Selby, Jr., Tupac Shakur, Patti Smith, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Banksy, Gary Snyder, Melvin Van Peebles, Tom Waits, Philip Whalen, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Jimmy Kimmel & Adam Carolla, Nelson Algren, Lester Bangs, Clive Barker, Paul Bowles, Ray Bradbury, Richard Brautigan, James Brown, Carlos Castaneda, Sandra Cisneros, Eldridge Cleaver, Gregory Corso, Miles Davis, Philip K. Dick, John Fante, Dick Gregory, John Clellon Holmes, Waylon Jennings, Chuck Palahniuk, Harvey Pekar, Iceberg Slim, Ralph Steadman, John Waters, Robert Crumb, Tom Wolfe, Malcolm X, Stan Brakhage, and everyone who lives (or has lived) outside the lines...

My Blog

Dubya Cuts A Rug!

Here's ya man Dubya doin' a jig in Liberia. He really gets into it when he decides to take his coat off!...
Posted by Damien Willis on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:18:00 PST

Man Misses Death By INCHES!

In this video, you can see a man miss DEATH by INCHES. Notice how it doesn't faze him!...
Posted by Damien Willis on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:32:00 PST

Baby Got Back!

THE classic Hip-Hop video of our time......
Posted by Damien Willis on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:32:00 PST

Worlds Smallest Electronic Calculator!

This is a commercial from the Seventies, advertising the "world's smallest electronic calculator" by Sharp. It could only add, subtract, multiply and divide, but WHAT A GREAT PRICE! (By th...
Posted by Damien Willis on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:13:00 PST

Sweet Child Of Mine...

This is a commercial for the V Network, a music video channel (like MTV used to be) in Asia. It's only a minute long, but the sitar has never sounded so cool......
Posted by Damien Willis on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:58:00 PST

Fox News (Tampa) Blooper...

These are the people to whom we turn for "Fair & Balanced" reporting--that we trust to promote family values and morality: Fox News. Watch this conversation about spanking go ALL wrong!...
Posted by Damien Willis on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:48:00 PST

Planned Parenthood Ad

I don't know what to make of this Planned Parenthood ad... There's promoting safe sex (which I'm all FOR)... And there there's taking it WAY, WAY too far....
Posted by Damien Willis on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:35:00 PST

Frankie & Johnnies Commercial

This is a fantastic commercial for a furniture store called Frankie & Johnnie's in New Orleans... They offer deeply discounted furniture, easy credit... and one helluva "chicken box" specia...
Posted by Damien Willis on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:27:00 PST

Unbelievable Stock Car Video

This takes a while to get going, but it's really cool when they finally get to the point.  It's footage from a stock car race where a driver gets into an accident and loses his tire... then ...
Posted by Damien Willis on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:21:00 PST

Low-Fi Living, Part 2

  Last week, I talked about a phenomenon that Rolling Stone magazine calls "the death of Hi-Fi."  In essence, a variety of factors are converging to yield a single, devastating resultmusic ...
Posted by Damien Willis on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:57:00 PST