POETRY!! Making universe music, total silence sometimes, reading, writing, inspiration from the universe and ppl, listen to a lot of music, hanging out, travel, photography, going out to see shows, meeting new ppl, peppermint tea & a magazine @ a local bookstore, etc. Going to art galleries or museums...i like conversating. Chill at parks and write. I embrace life.
Jesus, Mos Def Ghandi, Henry David Thoreau, Moses, Don Cheadle, Quentin Tarantino, Cody Chesnutt/Martin Luther, Will & Jada, Phillip Michael Thomas, Nona Gaye, Naomi Harris, Rihanna, Selma Hayek, Rosalyn Sanchez, Fionna Apple, Tedra Moses, Megan Good, Nora Jones, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Alanis Morrisette, Cree Summer, Lisa Bonet, Amel Larrieux, Questlove, Les Nubians, Zap Mama and Rakim
The sound of music in Memphis air,SA-RA Creative Partners, J*Davey, Cassidy, Nas, The Last Poets, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Jimmy Smith (bad ass oragnist), Sun Ra, Ahmad Jamal, Femi Kuti, ATCQ, De La Soul, Kool Keith, El-Producto, Bob James Trio, Mike Jones, Paul Wall, Mikes Jones, Slimm Thug, Chamillionaire, Yo Gotti, UGK, Erykah Badu, Billie Holiday, Soulive, Medeski Martin, & Wood, O.D.B.(RIP), Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix, Martin Luther, Lauryn Hill, Tracy Chapman, DJ Shadow, DJ Green Lantern, Scratch Picklz, Alchemist, Lenny Kravitiz, T.I., 3-6 Mafia, 8 Ball & MJG (come on Im from Memphis...mayne!!), Mos Def, Young Jeezy, Young Buck, Mars Volta, RATM, Squarepusher, Scareface, Dr. Dre, Outkast, Apex Twin, Talib Kweli, Fishbone, Pink Floyd, Q-Tip, Common, The Roots, TV and the Radio, Living Colour (support black rock music dammit!!!), Pharcyde, Bjork, Luda, Portishead, The Bang Up, The Game, Led Zepplin, Willie Hutch (dat pimp ish), Al Green, Jill Scott, you pretty much get the picture...Bossa Nova and Jungle music is the ish too...got room for Drum-N-Bass?
BREAKIN, SIN CITY, Any Denzel, Spike Lee, Bruce Lee and Tarintino flick, Lost in Translation, Punch Drunk Love, Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Fahrenheit 911, The Professional, 25th Hour, The Boondock Saints, Snatch, Lock,Stock, and 2 Smoking Barrels, Ocean's 11 & 12, Star Wars, Erin Brockavich, Miller's Crossing (one of the Best Gangster flicks ever), Wildstyle, Brown Sugar, Italian Job, Taxi Driver, etc., etc.
House of Boateng, House, Bones, anything with Rihanna in it, the news and Sportscenter
Freedom Songs, Stupid White Men, Miseducation of the Negro, Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary, Paul Laurence Dunbar poems, nude photographs by Marc Baptiste(true art), Young Goodman Brown, How To Slay A Dragon & The Devil and Tom Walker
God, self, mom & dad, my big brutha, bruce lee, malcolm x, henry david thoreau, spike lee, my grandma (Mudea), paul mooney, nikki giovanni, richard pryor & denzel