Traveling, traveling and traveling...then visiting every museum of modern or contemporary art in that city! Studying the works of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Henri Matisse, writing, discovering new music, beating A.D. at tennis, developing strategic marketing plans, wine tasting, interior design, shopping, my board and committee involvement in arts and civic organizations, ethnic cuisine, spending time with my family/friends/sorors, learning French and Amharic (which is soooo hard) and learning more about my Ethiopian, Somalian, Sudanese and Tunisian heritage (every African American should get DNA swabbed and ethnocharted)!
Heavy rotation in the Rover: Dwele, Lupe Fiasco, Raheem DeVaughn, Gaelle, Common, The Roots, Esthero, Miles Davis, Van Hunt, John Coltrane, Terence Blanchard, Aya, Wynton Marsalis, Anthony David, John Legend, Maxwell, Heavy, Portishead, Kenny Garrett...any old school Native Tounge, eclectic soul, underground hip hop (Mos Def, Talib Kweli, DJ Spinna, J. Dilla (was a genious!), Slum Village, K-OS, Kardinal, etc...)80's pop, 80's R&B, Down Tempo, Bhangra, Parisian Hip Hop, Ethiopian, everyone on my dad's label Stones Throw Records and of course Soulstice artists DJ Limelight, DaFilled, Blackberry Jam (shout out to my cousin C. Black),BeatRoom & my dad, funkmaster Tony Black................................................Copy and paste the link below to read my dad's Stones Throw Records interview: http://www.stonesthrow.com/funky16/revolution.html
The Human Stain, Downtown 81, Ocean's 11, Sleuth, The Italian Job, Something the Lord Made, Pan's Labyrinth, Crush Groove, Basquiat, all Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Funny Face, Sabrina, etc...) the total Spike Lee repertoire, Alfie, Lakawana Blues, Old Black movies particularly between 1930-1965 (Carmen Jones, Hallelujah!, The Emperor Jones, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, etc...) Buppy Films (The Wood, Brown Sugar, Love Jones, Best Man, etc...), Dave Chapelle's Block Party, 80's movies (Goonies, Dirty Dancing, Coming to America, The Money Pit, The Blue Lagoon, Can't Buy me Love, etc...), Old Disney Movies (The Parent Trap, Freaky Friday, etc) and anything by M. Night Shyamalan
The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, Most TV One shows, HGTV (House Hunters, Designed to Sell), All shows on FINE Living, Oxygen, MTV2, BETJ, VH1 Soul, TMC, NBC (THE OFFICE, THE APPRENTICE, 30 ROCK), The Twilight Zone classics (Nightmare at 20,000 Feet is the best episode) and most anything on BRAVO (I can't wait for Project Runway...Tim Gunn is back!)
Bible, The Tipping Point, The Covenant, Shaken and Stirred (Coming 2008), Don't Play in the Sun, From Good to Great, The Jungle, That's My Story and I'm Sticking to It, The Blacker the Berry, The Devil Wears Prada, any marketing/advertising related book
Christ, my best friend and husband Anthony for holding it down while earning his MBA full time, My Parents, My Grandfather (former Indianapolis City-County Councellor Elwood Black), My In-Laws, My sister April for being a great mom to lil D, Iman, Oprah, the Donald, Ethel Hedgeman Lyle, W.E.B. DuBois