Blimps, basement parties, candy-girl, fire escapes, views, water-towers, clean and dirty fingernails, hands, old jordans, getting money, photography, broth, calling 1800-LURK and 1800-SHANK, possibilities, Alexander McQueen, Spicys, Crooked teeth,Dutty Wining, Tuna Melts, the throwback at noon, Jallabanting, making people laugh, the summer, Queens, the Bronx, and the melting tar in Brooklyn streets, Brooklyn in general, Red Hook, Diners, being loud, being quiet, black people, drawing, dancing, swimming, CACOONS, 99 cent dreams, dollar vans, people who clap when they laugh, meeting those who have what it takes, crackheads, the smell of new sneakers, loafers, my cousin marc jacobs, being tender-headed, queef control, queeficle the musical, the coochameter, Painting nightmares, Haitians, the tin man, Italy, The Sopranos, Greece, writing, Etch-a-sketch, gold, details, people with interesting odors on the subway, running fast, soccer in the rain, patterns, parmesan cheese, pasta, Russians who get good grades, poetry that isn't corny, beating the system, good weaves, not-so-good weaves, going from ashy to nasty to classy, bridges, finishing something, Mariah Carey's sweat beads, Missy Elliott's evaporating lard, facial hair, biblical sunglasses, Coney Island, the wonder wheel, the cyclone, the huge man who runs the cyclone, Obesity, Middle America, ridiculous missions that never get carried out, songs/smells that remind you of something, Stepping up our game, Pec-Deck's, Spicy's, geography, and neighborhoods.
Karl Kani at the Salvation army.
The lovely Lauryn Hill, The Fugees, Lou Reed, Red hot chili peppers, Nas, Biggie, Jay-Z [Reasonable Doubt], Geto Boys, Grandmaster Flash, Freeway, Beanie Siegel, SWV lol, old LL, Busta Rhymes, Roxy Music, Wu-Tang, Talking Heads, Bone Thugs & Harmony, Common, Erykah Badu, Billie Holiday, Tribe Called Quest, Kanye West, The Roots, Ella Fitzgerald, Dead Prez, Mary J. Blige, Johnny Cash, Joss Stone, Alice in Chains, the Flaming lips, R kelly-yea i said it, Maxwell, Mobb Deep, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Anthony Hamilton, Sam Cooke, Tom Waits, Otis Redding, Tracy Chapman, MOS DEF, Iggy pop...and on tha reggae tip fresh out the basement-- Bogle, Barrington Levy, Sizzla Kalonji, Tanya Stephens, Beres Hammond, Elephant Man the energy god, Bob Marley, Freddie McGreggor, Damian Marley, Ghost [now or never], Richie Spice [Earth a run red, youths are so cold], T.O.K, IWayne, Raah! Raah! wha guan lighht it up.
Little Miss Sunshine was the answer, A Bronx Tale, Bambi-(gets it poppin), BELLY, Breakfast Club, Boyz in the hood, Cinima Paradisio, City Of God, Crooklyn, Chinatown, Carlitos Way, the Devil wears Prada, Dave Chappele's Block Party, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ghost, Juice, Kill Bill 1&2, Million Dollar Baby, Rosemary's Baby, Sister Act 1&2, Sophie's Choice, Training Day.