“Believe me everyone wants their records to be popular.”
– Paul Oakenfold
DJ Paul Oakenfold has been a mainstay in the DJ scene for nearly 20 years. He exploded in popularity in 2001 due to his work on the film Swordfish. Since then his tours and albums have become better and much larger in scope. His latest album is A Lively Mind and, as usual, it features plenty of guest artists such as actor Brittany Murphy, uber-producer Pharrell Williams and old-school DJ legend Grandmaster Flash.
“I watch the President’s lips move and I say, Where did he get that lie?”
– Greg Palast
Greg Palast fights the good fight. He will find and report the truth at any cost to himself. His latest book is Armed Madhouse, which details his investigations into everything our government has pulled on our country and the world in the past few years.
INTO: Bicycling, ceramic animals, collecting old stuff, records, vinyasa, a good rhyming thesaurus, word masters, traveling.
NOT INTO: Mosquitos and casseroles.
MAKES ME HAPPY: My dogs Igby and Fred, sex, cuddles, autumn, making things.
MAKES ME SAD: Friends who live far away, the world we live in.
5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: My dogs, caffeine, iPhone, bicycle, paint.
VICES: Tattoos, olives, Jackie-Os.
I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Raping department stores and designing synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats. I also river dance the shit out of spiders from time to time.
“I really am trying to create a new genre.”
– Cut Chemist
Cut Chemist is part of the seminal hip-hop band Jurassic 5. But in the past few years he’s stepped back from the band to work on his solo album, The Audience’s Listening, which he’s releasing through Warner Bros.
