I used to live in Africa. Now I teach children. Soon I will be returning to the austere life of a student in NYC.
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haggling in the market, donkey cart rides, military checkpoints, military checkpoints with drunk soldiers, fuel shortages, journalistic integrity, the fulani and their cattle, tribal scaring, motorcycles, surfing strange breaks, jebus, zum zum (to the moon), getting lost, staying lost, being on the river, chasing monkeys, the beaches of Sierra Leone, obtaining visas, Peace Corps, toilet paper, juju's, brewing local wine, mud huts, the rainy season, cameras, Germans, dengue fever, Africa, bumsters, malaria dreams, pygmies and the strange drugs they hoard, cypro, the Nigerian airforce and customs, spontaneous handstands, bushtaxis, clean water, bushbabies, the Gambia, climbing trees, drinking palm wine until i go blind, snowboarding, and bottle openers
fierce invalids home from hot climates...
Fela Kuti, morning prayer calls, Steve Earle, songs about robots, Portishead, the Pixies, Bob Dylan, the sound of rain on a grass roof, Radiohead, the theme song from the original Super Mario Brothers, Salief Keita, Thievery Corp, Public Enemy, Slick Rick, Baaba Maal, Alphadio Dario, Tricky, Jurassic Five, the Lost Boys, Dead Prez, Floggin Molly, the Doors, the Roots, the Bryn Mooser Experience, Modest Mouse, David Bowie, Buena Vista Social Club, Lupe Fiasco, Tumi and the Volume, DJ Shadow, Grooverider, Honey White, Simon and Garfunkel, NOFX, Mos Def, Outcast, Gorillaz, Groove Armada, Pink Floyd, Rage Against the Machine, Violent Femmes, Tinariwen, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, the Dropkick Murphy's, Neil Young, Billy Holiday, Underworld, Manu Chao, Massive Attack, Amadou & Mariam, Sun Ra, the Beatles, Joni Mitchell, desert blues, Propagandi, Trent Reznor, S.E. Rogie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Zepplin and anybody who can beat box
Werner Zerzog films, Elephant Man, Abaraka, Zoolander, Cool Hand Luke, Run Lola Run, the Beach, Enter the Dragon, the Graduate, Old School, Fight Club, Dead Man, Metropolis, surf movies, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Eraserhead, Dr. Strangelove, The Last King of Scotland, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Desperado, Zorba the Greek, Kill Bill, Basquiat, Endless Summer, Indiana Jones, Fight Club, Vertigo, Emmanuel in Space, Tsotsi, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Office Space, Donnie Darko, M.A.S.H., Sahara, Fear of a Black Hat, City of God
anything with Bill O'Rielly, Nancy Grace, Glen Beck and Sean Hannity... or at least a guest appearance from Anne Coulter
the unbearable lightness of being, zorba the greek, on the road, a hitchhikers guide to the universe; anything by tom robbins, eugene ionesco, murakami, ben okri, kurt vonnegut, jean genet, becket, hunter s. thompson, evelyn waugh; wanderings in west africa, fight club, fear and loathing in las vegas, catch 22, do androids dream of electric sheap, vile bodies, lonely planet africa, king leopolds ghost, things fall apart, how to become a circus performer in a week, puular dictionary, the norton shakespeare, culture matters, the alchemist, the electric coolaid acid test, the dead sea scrolls, the tempest, on the beach, war and peace, the state of africa, the koran, zen and the art of motorcycle maintenence, the great gatsby, no logo
yoshimi because she battled the pink robots from outerspace... the bansang boys because they fought the good fight and won... and chester because he's crescent fresh...