environment, media, news, photography, hip hop, multimedia, documentary, animation, graf
I'd like to meet:
a mermaid
Music:
where do i begin... all the hip hop, funk, soul and jazz I can get my hands on, plus all sorts of other music...
Some favourites include oz hip hop (especially SA... ok, I'm biased), Mos Def, Shadow, Premier+Guru, Lateef+Lyrics Born, Blakalicious, KRS-One, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, NWA, Beastie Boys, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, The Pharcyde, Wu Tang Clan, Diamond, Organized Konfusion, Talib Kweli, Jurassic 5, Planet Asia, T-Love, Bahamadia, Polyrhythm Addicts, Hieroglyphics crew, Company Flow, Breakestra, Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Mark B, Edan, People Under the Stairs, Ugly Duckling, The Roots, MF Doom, Akrobatik, Quantic...
Movies:
Once, Three Seasons, Chung King Express, Vertical Ray of the Sun, The Kite Runner, War Photographer, An Inconvenient Truth, City of God, Happy Feet (3D fanatic and good enviro message), Blood Diamonds (more stories like this need to be told), The Life Aquatic, The Pursuit of Happyness, V for Vendetta, Clerks I and II, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Blade Runner, The Tracker, Donnie Darko, The Piano, Rabbit Proof Fence, Run Lola Run, The Ring series (Japanese version), Underground, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The City of Lost Children, The Castle, Muriel's Wedding, Standing in the Shadow of Motown, Style Wars, Breath Control: History of the Human Beatbox, Freestlye: The Art of Rhyme, Scratch, The Matrix, Lord of the Rings...
Television:
Six Feet Under, Entourage, The Office (UK version), Love My Way, Sex in the City, Secret Life of Us (early days), The Chaser (CNNNN, War on Everything), Media Watch, Lateline, Australian Story (although always makes me cry).
Books:
The Weather Makers, Unsustainable, The Alchemist, The Tipping Point, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Atonement, The Plague, The Red Tent, the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, My Brilliant Career, The Quiet American, Catfish and Mandala, Love in the Time of Cholera, Crystal Woman, Life of Pi, Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Fat Man in History, Bliss, That Eye the Sky, in fact anything by Peter Carey or Tim Winton, the Lonely Planets...
Heroes:
My friends and family, Dalai Lama, David Suzuki, Tim Flannery, James Nachtwey, Eddie Mabo, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, David Attenborough, members of the IPCC, Martha Cooper, T-love, Apani B, Bahamadia, Medusa, Lauren Hill, Madonna, all those elevating hip hop culture in all forms, and those trying to make the world a better place...
