Exotic Cooking ( I love the fusion of Eastern culinary tradition and soul/comfort food),linguistics(conversational in Spanish,phrasal in many other tongues),all of the arts, especially music, writing, and acting.I've acted in commercials, and onstage. Some of my written works have been published abroad, and in D.C where I lived for a while before moving back home to our great,albeit somewhat misunderstood town.I play sax and drums/percussion primarily but am trying to work some keyboard into my week. Many years ago I studied kung fu, and decided to get back into it this year, this time in the beautiful system of the Shaolin fighting style. The spiritual, bodily, and mental development it offers, I highly recommend to all.
#1)Someone truly willing to go the distance with an ever evolving man, on an ever evolving path in this life. Bruce Lee,Richard Pryor,Thurgood Marshall,Jack Kerouac,Prince,Anita Baker,Tina Turner,Ron Isley,The Sugar Hill Gang,Oliver Stone,Clint Eastwood,Sydney Poitier,Howard Hughes,Damon Dash,Salvadore Dali,Venus/Serena Williams,Matthew Henson,Amelia Earhardt,Guy Richie,Hank Aaron,John Elway,Muhammad Ali,Arthur Ash,Martina Navratilova,Steven Spielberg,Hugh Hefner,Harrison Ford,George Lucas,Ruben Hurricane,Che Gueverra,Dali Lama,Stephen Hawking,Christopher Walken,Joan of Arc,Chuck Yeager
My musical interests are all of the jazz greats from Julian "Cannonball" Aderly and Charlie"The Bird' Parker, to Billie "Lady Day" Holiday and the ever so luminescent late great Ms. Josephine Baker. I do however have many other influences from the genres of Funk, Rap, Reggae,Soul,Punk, Pop, 80's Glam Rock. Really diggin' everything from David Gray to Kanye.
Crash,Basqiat,Rabbit Proof Fence Amelie, Pappillon, Rainman, Gas/Food/Lodging, Night On Earth,Carlito's Way,Scarface,The Godfather, Spaghetti Westerns,Get Rich Or Die Tryin',Hustle and Flow, Underworld,Blade, Anythang Kung Fu, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane, Streetcar Named Desire,Beat Street,Crush Groove,Breakin', Purple Rain,Borat,Office Space,Friday,Dreams,Squid And Whale, Armageddon,Soul Food,ATL,Wind Talkers,Metropolis, Imitation Of Life, Buck And The Preacher,Team America,Zoolander, L.A Confidential,Memoirs Of A Geisha, A man that cried
Antique Roadshow,The Mclaughlin Group,Discovery,History,Nip Tuck,Chappelle Show,BET Movies,60 Minutes,Family Guy,Shark,House, Two and a half men,Prison Break,24,Lost, Knights Of Prosperity,Heroes. I pretty much know what I want to see and watch it (if I get the chance that week), the rest just simply fries the brain stupid,( well except for the daily and nightly news maybe).
Sacred Contract Awakening Divine Potential,Anatomy of the Spirit,Mutant Message From Down Under, The Awakening, All of Tony Hillerman's novels, Autobiography of Malcolm X,The Messianic Legacy, Autobiography Of Muhammad Ali, Soul Retrieval And The Mending Of Oneself Through Shamanistic Healing, Healing Energy Through Tao,A Confederacy Of Dunces,The Prophet, The Confessions Of Saint Augistine
Mom, Dad,Karen,Joan,Nikki Anyone in Healthcare and/or the pursuit of protection/healing/ spiritual progress,Harriet Tubman and all who helped us along the underground railroad,Dr. King,Malcolm X,Frederick Douglas, W.E.B Dubois, The Tuskegee Airmen,Amelia Earhardt,The Wind Talkers, F.D.R,Josephine Baker, Bob Marley,Dizzy Gillespie,Chief Joseph, William Wallace,Nasa,Neil Armstrong, Crew of Apollo 13,John Glenn,Chuck Yeager,Bruce Lee,Lance Armstrong,Stephen Hawking,Nina Simone,Coach Eddie Robinson