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artistic collaborators including but not limited to: photographers, models, philosophers, geniuses, jazz musicians, financial investors, fashion designers, promoters, club/restaurant/gallery owners, female vocalists who might front my rock band, video artists, filmmakers, editors, and more simply put, the frighteningly talented ones who leave beauty in their wake as if it were merely an afterthought.
the music in my head miles davis, zappa, shit you've never heard of that was recorded before you were born. honorable mentions: zakir hussein, l.subramanian, l.shankar, steve coleman, brian blade, dave holland, keith jarrett, john coltrane, nusrat fateh ali khan, edie brickell, the outfield, men at work, d'angelo, leela james, interpol, gang of four, pink floyd, the baka forest people, tribe called quest, the roots, quasimoto, mos def, fila brazilia, metaprofessor, photek, the orb, gil scott heron, brian eno, mad professor, future sound of london, steel pulse, talking heads, the minutemen, joe henderson, john scofield, fugazi, the police, peter gabriel, U2, the pixies, nels cline, bill frisell, jaco pastorius, kurt rosenwinkel, brad mehldau, james brown, bob marley, duran duran, tortoise, mercury program, jonah smith, van halen, allan holdsworth, wayne krantz...
the movies i make myself eyes wide shut, la femme nikita, fight club, buffalo 66, the shining, donnie darko, a clockwork orange, american beauty, memento, slacker, stalker (tarkovsky), naked lunch, city of lost children, cidade de deus (city of god), blood and concrete: a love story, brazil, bladerunner, naked, fear and loathing in las vegas, true romance, the spanish prisoner, stop making sense, the wall, never cry wolf, fantasia, 2001: a space odyssey, ferris bueller's day off, the perfect storm, the virgin suicides, lord of war, amelie, the departed
i love to read (thanks mom!): the music of life by hazrat inayat khan, all william burroughs (junky, the place of dead roads, naked lunch), a winter's tale, the wind-up bird chronicle (haruki murakami), the archaic revival, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, a confederacy of dunces, all philip k. dick (do androids dream of electric sheep), portuguese-english dictionary, oxford english dictionary, games people play, narcissus and goldmund, godel, escher, bach: an eternal golden braid, prometheus rising, journey to ixtlan (carlos castaneda), a wrinkle in time, 1984, tao te ching, the new astrology, into the wild, into thin air, science textbooks
frank zappa