Tony Jr.
30 years old
Chicago, IL
Male
About
I moved down sowf after 16 years of living in the Chicago suburbs. I finished my last two years of high school there, got a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art and worked for about 4 years in the world of commercial/ corporate graphic design. After a series of incidents I interpreted to be irony/fate/destiny, I followed my heart and returned to Illinois in the spring of 2004.
Having been back in Chicago for 3 years now, its hard to imagine what took me so long to move back to the Midwest. I love the city and everything it represents for me: family & friends, a job I love, a dream I realized and a culture I'm proud of.
Other Music In Rotation:
+/-, Aloe Blacc, Arrah & the Ferns, Bell & Sebastian, Ben Folds, Breakestra, Built To Spill, The Ditty Bops, Mates of State, Modest Mouse, Postal Service, Josh Rouse, Stereolab
Hip Hop Is Alive + Well:
Adeem, Aesop Rock, Beatnuts, Biggie Smalls, Black Milk, BlackStar, Cage, Can Ox, Cap D, Common, Consequence, Cut Chemist, De La Soul, Dudley Perkins, El-P, Exit 1200, Fat Joe, Gangstarr, Ghostface, Jay-Z, Jean Grae, J. Dilla, Joell Ortiz, Juice, Kanye, Lupe Fiasco, Madlib, Mass Hysteria, Mike Relm, MF Doom, M.O.P., Mr. Lif, Nas, Non-Phixion, Pun, O-Type Star, Oh No, Perceptionists, Pharoahe Monch, Quasimoto, Rhymefest, RJD2, Rob Sonic, DJ Shadow, Skratch Piklz, Soul Position, The Surgeon General, Tony Touch, A Tribe Called Quest, Verbal Kent
My Favorite Directors:
P.T. Anderson, Wes Anderson, Darren Aronofsky, Fruit Chan, Brian De Palma, Sophia Coppola, Lucio Fulci, Vincent Gallo, Hirokazu Koreeda, Harmony Korine, Takashi Miike, Hayao Miyazaki, Michael Moore, Chan-wook Park, Guy Ritchie, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino
Books I've Read Recently:
A Cook's Tour, Blue Like Jazz, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Faces at the Bottom of the Well, Freakonomics, Getting To Scale, Jennifer Government, Memoirs of a Geisha, New York Ricans From The Hip Hop Zone, Often Wrong Never In Doubt
I'm Quite Fond Of...
alphabetized lists, Atlanta, authenticity, Berlin, character illustration, Chicago, cooking, digital video, exercising discretion, everything in its place, getting things finished, Good Night TV, graffiti, graphic design, hard work, hip hop bangers, IKEA, independent film, international travel, J-horror, keeping things organized, learning, live shows, Miami, the Midwest work ethic, New Era, New York, pleasure deferred, Puerto Rico, Puma, reading, riding bikes with my roommate, running 5k's, staying on task, streetwear, sushi, survival/horror video games, Tokyo, vinyl toys, weekend excursions out to the suburbs
On The Rare Occasion I Actually Go Out -- You Might Find Me Here:
Dark Room, Empire Liquors, Funky Buddha, Lakeview Broadcasting Company, Rodan, Sonotheque, Subterranean, Tuman's