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James

somewhere that is soilent green we're living life instead

About Me

I wish I was invincible

My Interests

Hip hop. books. Marc Jacobs. Climbing things. Pyjamas. A nice word or two.

I'd like to meet:

The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting- Milan Kundera

Music:

Def jux baby! oh, and Co Flow, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Prefuse 73, Blockhead, Edan, Common, Nas, The Roots, Snoop (though sadly, less and less), Erykah Badu, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Janet Jackson, Billie Holiday, David Bowie, Ill Bill, Kanye, Interpol, Otis Redding, Lamb, Jill Scott, Ol' Dirty, Outkast, Biggie, Saul Williams, TLC, Dj Krush, Lil' Kim, Meth, Young Bloodz, Rage Against The Machine, Nina Simone, Joy Division, Wu Tang, Tears For Fears, De La, Mary J, J-Live, Latyrx, Missy, i could go on.

Movies:

Wong Kar Wai. Jean Luc Godard. Mr. Scorsese. Bladerunner. BIG. The Goonies, I love The Goonies. ooh, and Errol Morris Doco's

Books:

DON'T STOP READING BOOKS! I'm reading John Pilger, Granta, the new McSweeneys and some really old Quarterly Essay that some dude left on the Tram. Next on the agenda is Robert Fisk and Ela's Israel book. Otherwise I am usually reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jonathan Safran Foer, Dave Eggers, Roland Barthes, Chuck Palahniuk, Orhan Pamuk, Saul Williams, Harper Lee, Ursula Rucker, Elliot Perlman or Bret Easton Ellis.

Heroes:

and Ela

My Blog

it even rhymes

Arriving at the tip of sunset on a cold day in March all she wanted was understanding and influence. Some small peaceful incidence to kick her on the way, Give precedence to her in her persistent s...
Posted by James on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:57:00 PST

writings

Collecting scraps of flesh from idolslike Scraping together god from gold Hanging from they every wordlike They mean so little but they mean the world Swapping deity and dreams of geniouslike For ...
Posted by James on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:00:00 PST