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SAMIRA

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About Me

I feel like a misplaced person at times. I truly believe I was born in the wrong time, but in the right flesh. But who's to say; I might have been placed in this time to enlighten.

My Egyptian Name is Lapis (named for the Lapis Stone).
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"How long will we fill our pockets like children with dirt and stones? Let the world go. Holding it, we never know ourselves; never are airborne" (Rumi)"My mind is goin through them changes..." RIP Buddy Miles

My Interests

the Arts, Theology and all the beautiful colors of the world...nuff said"Space people. Universal lover."

I'd like to meet:

"...I am not of your world. But fear me not, I will do you no harm. Loan me your funky mind and I shall play with it. For nothing is good unless you play with it. And all that is good, is nasty!"("What Is Soul," Funkadelic).....NAMASTE "The Spirit in me meets the same Spirit in you".."Why do we add a negative self-image to a painful experience?" (Rumi)Has anybody EVER made you feel so DAMN PHONKY?!?!? I mean made ya dance 'til ya feet got dusty? Can't N O B O D Y make ya' do it like James Joseph Brown bka JAMES BROWN da GODFATHER of SOUL aka the hardest working man in showbiz. R E C O G N I Z E !!!!ALFONSO OLE'CORNBALL ASS...

Music:

"I'm HOTTT and I don't care who knows it...I got a job to do..." (PRINCE ROGERS NELSON)Music comes from everywhere; only a fraction of it remains with me after about 6 months...LOL. My main interests are ( IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER OR PREFERENCE except for the obvious...come on ya' know me)PRINCE and almost anyone that has ever jammed wit' him, PARLIAMENT/FUNKADELIC and pretty much EVERYTHING/ANYTHING that evolved from this ENTITY,Lonnie Liston Smith, the WOLF !!!, Betty Davis, Mobb Deep, CHAKA KHAN, Res, dead prez (F*&% the police ...it's time to get free!!!),Alice Coltrane, ISAAC HAYES,all Wu-Gambinos, Cosmic Slop Shop, Led Zeppelin, Xavion, Eddie Harris, Donnie Hathaway, Steveland Morris bka STEVIE WONDER!!!, Redman, Fudge Tunnel, Queens of the Stone Age, Heltah Skeltah,ANYTHING on Duck Down Entertainment, Boss Hog, Whild Peach, Pharoah Sanders,Malika Madremana, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, LaBelle, Bjork, Pain Teens, Laika, Six Finger Satellite, Sun RaGeorgia Anne Muldrow, Janis Joplin, Richie Havens, Nina Simone, CAPLETON, Mandrill, NAS, felix da housecat,Nubian Natty, Soundgarden, BDP (of course KRS-One the Teacha; who I STILL believe is the G.o.a.t.), the Gossip, Madlib, the Cramps, R A K I M!!Sizzla, Hugh Mundell, the Meters, Bongwater, Mandrill, Portishead, Nick Cave, ZAP MAMA,Course of Empire, MIDNITE, Cowboy Junkies, Sonic Youth, DILLA, Screaming Jay Hawkins,David Bowie, Brian Eno, Patsy Cline, NAS, Roberta Flack, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Cassandra Wilson,SHEILA E., Outkast, Jah Cure, SANTANA, FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI, JUNIOR P, India.Aire, Nina Hagen, Adam Ant, Lenny Kravitz,Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sa Ra, Lucky Dube, OZZY !!!, Vybz Kartel, Lutan Fyah, BUJU BANTON, Zero 7, Jon Lucien,Tony Allen, INXS, Rollins Band, Black Flag, Fishbone,Duran Duran, 8Ball and MJG, Alice in Chains, System of a Down, BLACK SABBATH !!!, Love & Rockets, Peter Murphy, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, GRACE JONES !!!,Mutabaruka, Leon Thomas, ANYTHING produced by DJ Premier, Amadou et Mariam, Herbie Hancock, Eddie Hazel, Andre Cymone, Just-Ice,Bad Brains, SIOUXSIE and the BANSHEES, the Creatures, J-Cruesoe, Mos Def, Rolling Stones,Voivod, the Big F, Oumou Sangare, Minnie Riperton, Dr. John, BLACK MERDA !!!, Mr. Tony Williams,24-7 Spyz, Roxy Music, Buddy Miles, Osibisa, Darondo, Cesaria Evora, Peter Tosh, PRINCE FAR-I,James Brown, Nona Hendryx, MU, Big Black, Kip Hanrahan, SLY Stone, Little Richard, Blu & Exile, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Joi Gilliam, and on and on it goes...The eras from 1973-1978 really make my booty shake. I especially enjoy world music (especially Afro Beat), REGGAE (Roots and Dancehall),Fusion, Avant Garde Jazz, Hardcore, Speed/Thrash Metal, FUNK,"...I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe; I was not offended. For I knew I had to rise above it all...OR DROWN IN MY OWN SHIT!" ('Maggot Brain' Funkadelic)"People don't dance no mo'...all they do is diss" (They Don't Dance No Mo' by Goodie mobb)"You don't drink like I drink, You don't smoke what I smoke, You don't think like I think, (and) You don't joke like I joke!" ('I Got a Thang',... Funkadelic)

REAL R&B (not that new shyte!!!), New Age, Alternative (remember that?), Hip Hop (until the untimely demise of Pac and Biggie), yet I have a new found "thirst" for Indie Hip Hop (this can quickly grow into an obsession)TELL THA TRUTH, DUBYA!!!!dem BLUES and 70's Rock. That is only the tip of the iceberg.

Movies:

"...I've seen things you people wouldn't believe, Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion I watched C-Beams glitter in the dark near ... the Tannh?user Gate All those... moments... will be lost in time Like tears in the rain... TIME TO DIE" (Ray Batty 'Blade Runner')HORROR FILMS, SCI-FI, MARTIAL ARTS FILMS (them cheesy dubbed kind...NOT ya boys Steven Segall and Jean-Claude; remember Black Belt Theatre?),BLAXploitation Cinema (at it's finest), Asian Cinema, Anime, Hentai!!!, Indie Films, old school porn (yes, I LOVE porn!), Documentaries, etc. Some of my favourites include ZOMBIE, SLASHER, and VAMPIRE flicks, B-Movies aka Cheesy ass cheese flicks,PURPLE RAIN, Psycho, Hellraiser (1&2 only), Chronicles of Riddick and Pitch Black, Baraka, 28 Days Later (they're INFECTED-NOT zombies), Alien and Aliens,A Nightmare on ElmStreet, TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (the ORIGINAL from 1974), Cidade de Deus aka CITY OF GODSnatch, FEAR and LOATHING in LAS VEGAS, Requiem for a Dream, Blade Runner, Donnie Darko, Christiane F, Fight Club, House of Flying Daggers, Natural Born Killers, (Malcolm)X, Curse of the Golden Flower, Blade Trilogy, the Deer Hunter, the WARRIORS!!!("Can you count suckas? I say the future is OURS!!!" Cyrus)...I think you get the picture

Books:

the Art of War-Sun Tzu, Zami...-Audre Lorde, Rasta Itations-Millard Faristzaddi, Anger-Thich Nhat Hanh, and a slew of other titles focusing on Anthropology, Sociology and numerous Religious practices of the world's people, Eastern philosophy and Enlightenment, True Crime and Non_Fiction

Heroes:

my MOM, my DAUGHTER, my alter-ego (she's a trip; you should meet her some time), all freedom fighters who 'chant down' the oppressors, philosophers from all corners of the world, and my Creator"As long as wordly possessions make you feel like you're whole I cannot love you...THAT'S THE TRUTH!!!"