Distance running, biking, dancing, roller skating (I know...old school), travelling, camping, hiking, art, You Tube, MySpace, and all odd things that pique my interest.
Intelligent, passionate, real people and a few others: Martin Scorcese, Michael Eric Dyson, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Bill Clinton, KRS One Zap Mama, Donald Trump...
Hip-Hop, World Music, Reggae, Chicago & Baltimore House Music, Movie Scores.
Movies by Martin Scorsese, Hitchcock, Francis Ford & Sophia Coppola, Spike Lee, Alan Pakula, Orson Welles, Fellini, Krzystof Kieslowski, Andrei Tarkovsky, Pedro Almodóvar...
LOST, CSI-Miami, Heroes, NBC Evening News with Brian Williams, Late Night with Conan O'brian
Like Water for Chocolate, Good to Great, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The Auto Biography of Malcom X, If Beale Street Could Talk, Arrow of God, The Invisible Man, The Bible, Things Fall apart, Their Eyes are Watching God, The Farming of Bones, The DaVinci Code...
No man before God, but people of significant influence are Grandpa Murphy, Shawn Bell, My Parents, my cousin, my sister and some of the local thugs who now rest in peace. Jan Wiener, the original 'Fighter', Muhammed Ali & all people who stand up for their own truth.