i am DJ HARSH – a.k.a. leila – and i am 21 and a fourth-year student at UCLA. i study anthropology because i dream of becoming a barista. i love music and i love art. i spent years running away from my love and almost went to school to study biotechnology. science is important to me but i could not pretend to be okay with bringing dinosaurs back. that is not okay. instead, i became an acerbic dilettante, as God intended.

as i get older, less stuff makes sense. the only thing that has ever made sense to me is music. creating it is hard and kind of scary, and i’m honestly not all too naturally-inclined to it, so i mostly consume it in mass amounts. i respect musicians more than anyone. i also hate musicians and all artists because we think we are better than everyone even though we are not. still, it takes commitment to make something that most people will never witness. i love people who have a love of the game.

my most listened to album is ‘Two of Me’ by the band Momma. i am good at having opinions on things. music- listening is not a distraction to me, it’s a conscious act, and something i do as a hobby, as a chore, to test my patience and cleanse myself of dopamine overload. music reminds me that the world cannot be wholly cruel, because i get joy from this medium. when i listen to music i meet God. i am trying to stream less and download more so that i own what i love. i defend this medium because it is one of few standing arts that ties the world together. i love music because i dream of community. i hope you like my radio show. it ultimately means nothing and is honestly an inconvenience to do, but i will do it anyway because it makes me happy.

thank you for reading. i hope i can change the world but i mostly hope i inspire you to change the world or whatever. also fuck AI music.