art, international hip hop culture, resistance, revolution & liberation:
live music/ art shows,
standing in a bboy stance (just because), the philippine islands, brown skin ladies (word to blackstar), dancing/bboying, dried mango with chile powder, beauty, manifesting inner visions like stevie, studying, acting a fool, conversations of substance/talking story/talkin shit, crate digging, fierce prose, playing the holy games of hoop & soccer/football (with the futbolistas!!), meaningful photojournalism, using my press pass to meaningfully photograph nba games, concerts, etc, activism, comedy, truthseeking, graphic design/illustration, getting my nerd on, family/friends/allies -my boy octavio is NICE on the canvas:
history/indigenous knowledge, spirituality, unconventional wisdom, transcendent experiences, creative collaborations, clowning on commercial culture, kpfk/dfr radio 90.7 fri 10-1am!, some freaky grown folks stuff (ha i'm not going to front), travel (most recently the philippines & cuba), kali (philippine martial arts), studying warrior arts/philosophies, and my spiritual/physical health in our commodified world...WHUT
I'm always down to get to know old & new school peoples who are driven & in touch with their purpose but make time to wild out & kick it...that I can exchange insights, skills, stories, photos, dranks, recipes, drank recipes, mixtapes, books and art with...and those that also feel compelled to actively work towards a more just world and lifestyle by putting theory to practice, & other walking contradictions. However you probably will not get added if you don't try to introduce yourself first (those that are socially challenged and/or street teaming).
soul, jazz, funk, reggae/ska/rock steady/dancehall/lover's rock, breaks, old school. fly music, so put me on to some... indie hip hop like: m.i.a., co-deez, native guns, bambu, kiwi, my man allakoy, sin, underground economy, de la soul, j5, tribe, crown city rockers/raashan ahmad, ghostface, madlib, MF DOOM, breakestra, edan, dj zeph, murs, hiero, quanuum, mystic, pharcyde, sa-ra, jay dee (RIP), kanye west, asheru & blue black, mass influence, always the okayplayer artists like the roots, kweli , mos, common.of course i support dj crews like the root down selectas, the beat junkies, triple threat, the foundation funkcollective selectas, and my boys the enigmatic DJ NONPHENOM and the seed planting MC MYGRAINE! can't forget the lyrical spirituals of my bigger little brotha VESKONE! of course there's also the buddhist infused verbal savagery of EXPLIZIT! and lastly the unpolished, unwritten but hype regardless drunken freestylings of MYSELF!
frida, fahrenheit 9-11, baadasssss!, motorcycle diaries, why we fight, network, the corporation, the yes men, harold and kumar go to white castle, up in smoke, fear and loathing in las vegas (rip hunter thompson), ong-bak, city of god, high fidelity, a night at the roxbury, coming to america, bamboozled human traffic, better off dead, romper stomper, slam, hoop dreams, wild style, wattstax, dogtown & z-boys, emerald forest (despite the bad acting), 2001, tron.
don't watch much but i (did) like the chapelle show, the daily show/colbert report, the ali g show, lakers/raiders games, real time, chris rock performances, documentaries, when pacquiao rumbles, ufc, the world cup/football
lots, not enough for pleasure though. anything by my boy noam chomsky. sujatha fernandes' new book "cuba represent!..." is amazing, but i may be biased because it features my hip hop photography from cuba: recently paulo coelho's "eleven minutes" and assata shakur's autobiography.
my family & ancestors. freedom fighters and the nameless many who try to righteously endure despite the foul. the yes men.