Family, Friends, Days Off, Weekends, Texas Hold 'Em, Music that's funky and soulful, Mixing Records, Trainwrecking Records, Looking for Records, NBA, NFL, MLB, NCAA Hoops & Football, Traveling and seeing as much of the world as possible, Winter Music Conferences in Miami, Southport Weekenders, Bushmill's Irish Whiskey, Stella Artois, Budweiser, TiVo, Movies, Documentaries, French Roast, Single Women, Lunchtime Pick Up Games @ Mervyn's Park, Flag Football @ MHS, Okayplayer.com, Interfusions.com, Socom 3, Madden 2006, NBA Live, Staying Healthy, Staying Positive, Tao Readings, Golden State Warriors, San Francisco 49ers, Oakland Athletics, Burritos, Round Table Pizza, BBC Radio, Basement DJ Sessions, Records, Vaporizing, Los Cubanos, Milpitas, The City of San Francisco, Fuji Apples, Bananas, Harry's Hofbrau, Tommy's Joint, BBQs, Slider Burgers, Hiking, Eating Out on the Regular, Reading, Learning, Building, Going somewhere I've never been, San Jose Musuem of Art, Summit Rock, Bill of Fare, Hungry Hound, Breast Bites, Casual Lounges, No Dress Codes, Community Events, trying to improve as a person, taking it slow.
Old and New Friends.
I love music. I consider it one of my passions. I'm an avid record collector and a bedroom DJ. Currently, I'm feeling the likes of J-Dilla (RIP), Quantic, MadMats, Little Brother, The Roots, Alice Russell, Amy Winehouse, Quasimode, Jill Scott, Eryakah Badu, Common, De La Soul, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, DJ Spinna, Bobbito, Madlib, MF Doom, Mos Def, Nas, Jay-Z, Jneiro Jarel, Breakestra, Mark DeClive-Lowe, The Beastie Boys, Fat Freddy's Drop, Soil & Pimp Sessions, Rhymefest, Peven Everett, Blaze, Amarie, John Legend, Slick Rick, Public Enemy, Bugz In The Attic, Almost anything on GAMM Records, Mark Farina, Derrick Carter, Classic Music Company, Naked Music, OM Records, Stones Throw Records, Blue Note Records, Kenny Dope & Lil Louie Vega (MAW), ATCQ, Ghostface Killa, East Coast Boogiemen, Lawn Chair Generals, Sean Price, Miguel Migs, James Brown, Sade, Bob Marley, BBC Radio (Especially Worldwide with Gilles Peterson & Deviation with Benji B.), The Rebirth, Raphael Saadiq, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, EW&F, Cymande, Dwele, Dipset BITCH!, Eek-A-Mouse, Barrington, Levy, Hieroglyphics, Mr. Scruff, RJD2, Aceyalone, Freestyle Fellowship, Outkast, Franz Ferdinand, Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis, Anita O'Day, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Nostalgia 77, Dilated Peoples, Alchemist Produced Beats, J-Dilla, Rage Against the Machine, Triple PPP, LTJ Bukem, Bloc Party, Diplo and Low Budget, Rich Medina, Triple Threat DJs, Lyrics Born, DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, E-40, and everyone else that makes music that moves me.
Napolean Dynomite, Knocked Up, Pan's Labyrinth, City of God, Anchorman, There's Something About Mary, True Romance, Quentin Tarantino flicks, Sin City, Hoop Dreams, Zoolander, Old School, Half Baked, Office Space, Donnie Darko, Bubble Boy, Dark City, and all Tera Patrick movies.
Right now, it's all about The Wire. I'm addicted. Besides The Wire, I watch shows like Ninja Warrior, Unbeatable Banzuke, Planet Earth, Dexter, Weeds, Californication, Family Business (Mirna is HAWT!), Flight of the Conchords, My Name is Earl, The Office, NFL Replay, NFL Total Access, NBA Inside Daily, Everybody Hates Chris, The Boondocks, Robot Chicken, And 1 Mixtape Tour, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Family Guy, Miami Ink, American Chopper, American Idol, Road Rules/Real World Challenge, Rob & Big, The Real World, Inside the NBA, ESPN News, National Geographic Adventure, Chappelle Show, Reno 911, Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith, NBA TV, Warriors Roundtable, Curb Your Enthusiam, Seinfeld, Late Night w/ Conan O'Brien, World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker, The Sopranos, America Undercover, Taxi Cab Confessions, Samurai Champloo, Afro Samurai, The White Rapper, Extras, Entourage, SNL...
..The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, Into the Heart of the Sea: The Tradegy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick, Texas Hold 'Em For Advance Players by David Sklansky, The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky, Super System by Doyle Brunson, Anything written by David Sedaris, Life and Def : Sex, Drugs, Money, + God by Russell Simmons, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, Tao 365 by Ming-Dao Deng and leather bound books that smell of rich mahogany.
Those that are willing to give to others without expecting anything in return.