Art, Jazz Music, Graphic Design, History of Cultures, Travel, Martial Arts (Kendo/Eskrima), Gardening
Old friends, new friends, people who dig art, design, jazz music.
I'm mostly a Jazz head - No smooth jazz please; Brand New Heavies, Groove Collective, Rage against the Machine, Metallica (up to "Justice For All" album and earlier- not into the stuff after), John Mayer, Bob Marley (of course), Steel Pulse, Lately: Been diggin' Matisyahu, Yo Yo Ma's "Silk Road ensemble" projects and his Bach Cello series, Spanish/Classical guitar stuff. Online radio- BBC UK, WBGO (Newark, NJ) jazz, KTUH (UH Manoa), NPR.
Groups i've been in (or still playing in):
Sugarfish, El Toupe', Dread Ashanti, Bob Jones & Hardrive, Eight-o-Eight, Plush Nugget, Kamakaze Kong, SugahDaddy 'ehawaiianrocknad, Dr. Boogie Nights Ensemble, Ooklah the Moc
+++++ UPCOMING SHOWS +++++
Big fan of the Shaw Bros. Kung Fu flicks (5 Deadly Venoms), Jet Li old school movies; Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrells; Snatch; Pulp Fiction; Big Trouble in Little China; Excalibur; Lord of the Rings trilogy; The Green Mile; Sixth Sense; Kill Bill vol.1&2.
Don't watch too much TV, but dig stuff on PBS, National Geograhic, History Channel, Discover - You get the drift.
Standards: Tolkien (Simarillion), Hagakure, Books on Graphic Design;
Charlie Parker, Ninoy Aquino, Bruce Lee