Films, Directing Films, Shooting Films, Editing Films, Dancing, seeing cool bands and dancing, finding cute outfits for really cheap. Being active in my community when my time allows it, seeing art, making art, and if I can, buying art. Collecting cool black and white photos, paintings and photos by my friends. I also collect bags, purses, and babydoll t-shirts with cool stuff on them. I am most of the time thinking of a new idea. I like people to be straight up with me, so I can be straight up with them.
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Earth, Wind and Fire, Ozomatli , Bio Ritmo . I love full bands; I love horn sections in bands to me it completes the sound, I love Tommy Bateman and the Thunder Thieves. Erykah Badu , Lauryn Hill, Jill Scott, India Irie; I love all the soul hip-hop sistas with the funk grove and soultry sound they relax me, make me want to dance. Beastie Boys, Macy Gray, Los Fabulosos Cadilacs, Shonen Knife, Pizzicato Five, Shuggi Otis; I love it when music makes me happy and I have to use different genres to discribe one band or artist, I love the Octopus Project. Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, Prince all the sexy rockers are great, Will Fist Rocks! Albita, the Gipsy Kings, Luther Vandross, Al Green, Sade; I also love couples dancing salsa, merengue, two stepping, slow dragging those five artist are some of the few that are good for that. Classic jazz artist like Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Lady Day. Public Enemy is number 1, Arrested Development, the Fugees, Tribe Called Quest, Outkast, Mos Def (I'm in love with); I am usually down with rap/hip-hop that has a message or a really funky grove. I grew up on John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, The Ojays, The Beatles(Late Beatles), Richie Havens, Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young; I danced a lot to that old school music especially John Coltrane(A Love Supreme) modern/interpretative dance. The Cure, Res, White Stripes, Bjork; My taste in rock is harder to go into because in that category it depends on my mood, RADIOHEAD, RADIOHEAD, RADIOHEAD, I love Divorce, I was in love with and miss the Pink Sexies soooo much I want them back I was a big Bitter Pills fan. Oh by the way, did I mention that I dance.
Daughters of the Dust, Eve's Bayou, Party Girl, chungking express, Tango Lesson, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Zoolander(a guilty pleasure), In the Mood for Love, SIN CITY it is my new favorite. The rest of this list and some cool directors will be posted soon. Movies are a major part of my world. I watch a lot of them. I can't catch up.From "Paris Blues" a must see classic!
Arrested Development, House M.D., King of the Hill, The Simpsons, One Piece and That 70's Show.
The Secret
Rosa Parks. The Myth is that she was some tired black woman on a bus who decided one day not to move. The truth is she was an activist in an organization who was fighting against Jim Crow and they decided that a move needed to made. She volunteered to be the person who did not move from their seat when asked by the driver so white people could sit in the front with out having to look at any coloreds or maybe just to be hateful Assholes. Don't you love institutionalized racist oppression! The whole thing was organized and planned. The civil rights movement did not start by chance. I was lucky to have met her. Rosa Parks Josephine Baker Jack Johnson. Some of my wonderful teachers and mentors and womentors. Baldwin Lee Dr. Faye Harrison Linda Parris-Bailey Kevin Jerome Everson