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DJ JESTER THE FILIPINO FIST's Interests
General
pork chops 'n applesauce, airstreams, running, Sriracha on everything, Deloreans, scuba diving in pools, a firm buttocks, and being the first in my family to slam dunk:
Music
shabba ranks, extreme, michael penn, jeff healey band, musrat fateh ali khan, etc.
This is me and GRAND BUFFET live in San Francisco early 2006:
...Here is Kid Koala, P-Love, and me live on the BBC:
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Here is me and Lederhosen Lucil doing a duet at our final performance at the legendary TACO LAND:
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Here I am on a KENS 5 commercial (well, sort of...look closely at the box of remotes):
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People always ask where they can buy my cds. Well, never fear..You can buy them all right here!!! Click on an image below to purchase.
River Walk Riots Out of print!!
Movies
and
Television
the Office (the AMERICAN version), Rost (the JAPANESE version), Freaks & Geeks, Family Ties, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Reading Rainbow, the Boondocks, Wonder Showzen
Books
stuff by Jack Kerouac, Lewis Carroll, Malcolm Gladwell, Leo Tolstoy, Albert Camus, Chuck Klosterman, Mark Twain, Dylan Thomas, Truman Capote, Dave Eggers, Alice Walker, David Foster Wallace, TS Eliot, Franz Kafka, Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman, and Bob Dylan Chronicles Vol. 1 is pretty damn good. Just kidding...My mama never taught me how to read!
The University Of Texas At San Antonio
San Antonio, TEXAS
Graduated: 2000
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: American Studies Concentration: Culture Studies
Clubs: PDP, Paisano Student Newspaper
1994 to 2000
Columbia H S
West Columbia, TEXAS
Graduated: 1994
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: Major Badass
Clubs: PDP
1992 to 1994
Subiaco Academy
Subiaco, ARKANSAS
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Major: Theatre
Minor: Dance
Clubs: Religious Activities, Blue Arrow, Basketball Manager
About me: Texas-bred collage artist, Mike Pendon aka DJ Jester the Filipino Fist, has always been an anomaly. The black sheep of four kids from hard-working immigrants, Jester spent most of his childhood entertaining himself in the suburban outskirts 50 miles south of the air-conditioning capital of the world, Houston. Jester headed for the Hill Country in the mid-1990's to attend the University of Texas at San Antonio. After years of on-again/off-again collegiate studies, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies while working in local record stores when people still bought music. When he wasn't overseeing as Arts Editor of the school newspaper or freelancing for Houston's now-defunct Urban Beat Magazine, Jester was manager/rapper of a band called Bucketfunk. Post-graduate panic led him to a crossroads so he accepted a job offer from Boca Foods, an all natural soy-based burger company as driver/server for the Boca Burger Mobile. His six month adventure led him all over North America. He met girls. He grilled burgers. He had fun. However, the two most important meetings on that journey were in Boston when he met like-minded turntable wizard, Kid Koala and San Francisco's Aquarius Records. Jester had no idea those two forces behind him would lead to international press, distribution, touring across N. America (this time as a DJ) not to mention throughout Europe, the UK, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. Never really having a permanent home, Jester spent a few years on couches bouncing between San Francisco, Austin, and San Antonio depending on where he could find work. This led to more local press, which led to more gigs throughout Texas. Along with Lederhosen Lucil aka Krista L.L. Muir, they founded the annual Waltz Across Texas, a yearly jaunt through his home state hitting cities other djs would rarely touch (i.e.--the small art town of Marfa). This eventually led to a gig with Grand Buffet, two dudes from Pittsburgh who saw the world the same way as Jester so he went on tour with them as their dj opening sold-out shows for Of Montreal and a then little-known act, MGMT.
In 2008, the Filipino Fist is still a conquerer of cities throughout Texas and beyond, host of his annual SXSW closing party at Emo's, award-winner (URB Magazine Next 100 2003, Houston Press: 2005 Best DJ To Skip Town and Make a Career and San Antonio Current: Best DJ 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008), avid runner, and alternative to your oh-so-boring dj sets. If you are ever in San Antonio, you can catch him co-hosting a very successful dance party every First Friday called GET BUSY.
Jester has acclaimed mix-cds (i.e., River Walk Riots, Heavily Booted, and Secret Love) and a few side-projects (i.e., Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine, DJ Jester & Quad Rod). If you want to buy some DJ Jester merchandise, scroll down on the left. If you are a mom and pop store and want to carry DJ Jester cds in your store, e-mail bobo@midheaven.com.
Find Jester on YouTube
DJ Jester has gotten love from
Spin,
GQ,
The Wire,
Paper Magazine,
Future Music,
Flyer Magazine,
CMJ New Music Monthly,
Turntable Lab,
Pitchfork,
XLR8R,
Metro.Pop,
URB,
Beautiful/Decay,
Tokion,
Mixer,
Hyphen,
Giant Robot,
Signal to Noise,
While You Were Sleeping,
Pulse!,
Scion,
Backwash,
New York Press,
Badazz Mofo,
Blaze Magazine,
The Village Voice,
The Asian Reporter,
Williamette Week,
The Stranger,
The Portland Mercury,
Grrl Scouts: Work Sucks,
Houston Press,
San Antonio Express-News,
210 SA,
San Antonio Current,
The Paisano,
Austin American-Statesman,
Austin Chronicle, and the
Dallas Observer.
For booking, interview requests, or just want to take Jester to a free lunch, send a MySpace message here.
And YES...J e s t e r DOES play weddings and private parties.
MEANWHILE, WATCH THIS:
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Who I'd like to meet: You!
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