Kid Swelter
My blogs
| Location | Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
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| Introduction | A kid at heart, writer, image maker, t-shirt designer, movie addict, book devourer, gadget fanatic, obsessive snapshotter, computer-obsessive, dabbler in music creation, mashing and mixing, self-proclaimed evangelist for Africa, occasional traveller, tai chi practitioner, and all-round enthusiast about anything that doesn't require too much effort. |
| Interests | Illustration, design, image-making, writing, photography, creating videos, books about everything, comics, blogging, music - electronica, jazz, ambient, classical, indie, the works, Africa, safaris, travel, New York, the Maldives, China, tai chi, t-shirt design, Apple computers, composing music using loops and samples, vegetarian food, Buddhism, comparative religion |
| Favorite movies | Garden State, The Royal Tennenbaums, Japanese Story, Broken Flowers, The Big Lebowski, Lost in Translation, A History of Violence, The Life Aquatic, Rushmore, The Limey, Paris Texas, Fargo, Heaven, The Graduate, Infernal Affairs, Bond movies, Hong Kong action flicks, Imagine Me Imagine You, Blade Runner, The Thin Red Line, Mulholland Drive, Pulp Fiction, Green Card, About A Boy, martial arts movies, and a bunch of sweet romantic movies like Notting Hill and Two Weeks' Notice, Clint Eastwood westerns, Castaway, okay pretty much anything! |
| Favorite music | Jazz, electronica, classical, ambient, indie, Motown, and pretty much anything else. |
| Favorite books | The Global Soul by Pico Iyer, The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell, Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers, Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson, The Power Book by Jeanette Winterson, Life After God by Douglas Coupland, The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving, Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje |